👉 Block 841254: Weekly Digest
Important news of the week without the bullshit.
News
- Biden Signs Reauthorization of Expanded FISA 702 Warrantless Surveillance Program After It Passes Senate
- OpenSats Receives $1M Donation From The Reynolds Foundation
- Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024 to Take Place on December 9-11 in Nairobi, Kenya
- Block Announces 3nm Bitcoin Mining Chip & Development of Full Bitcoin Mining System
- El Salvador’s Chivo Wallet Source Code & VPN Access Leaked
- Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses
- EU Parliament Adopts New Financial Surveillance Rules for Service Providers
- Five New Editors Added to Oversee Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
- PayPal Proposes Scheme To Selectively Mine With ESG Compliant Miners
- FBI Issues Warning Against Using ‘No-KYC Cryptocurrency Money Transmitting Services’
- Lightspark Gets Debanked by Bill.com
- Phoenix Wallet to Stop Serving US Customers on May 3rd
- Custodia Bank Appeals District Court Decision Denying It Fed Master Account Access
- zkSNACKs Coinjoin Coordinator is Now Blocking US Residents and Citizens
Updates and releases
- Bisq v2.0.3: Fixes & Improvements
- Nix Bitcoin v0.0.106: Updates & Removed Plugins
- Gossip v0.10.0: Nostr Connect Signer, Whitelist Support for Relays, SpamSafe
- Blossom Drive: Store & Retrieve Data on Public Servers Using sha256 Universal ID
- Aqua Wallet v0.1.50: Send to LNURL Pay & Lightning Addresses, BIP21 Unified QR Support
- LND v0.17.5-beta: bitcoind 27 Compatibility Hot Fix
- Liquid Wallet Kit (LWK): Liquid Wallets Made Easy
- NDK v2.8: ‘Fast and Steady’
- Blockstream Green Desktop v2.0.4: BIP39 Passphrase Login & More
- Sparrow Wallet v1.8.6: Wallet Search Improvements, Mix from Postmix & More
- Sparrow Wallet v1.9.0: Remove Whirlpool Client & Soroban-related Features
- Zeus v0.9.0-alpha1 Rolls Out to Community Sponsors
- nos2x v2.3.0: NIP49 Support
- Strike Launches Services in Europe
- Finney by Nunchuk: Bitcoin Wallet for Families
- Primal Introduces Top Zaps to All of Its Nostr Clients
- Envoy Wallet v1.6.2: Improved UI/UX for Larger Displays, New Domain & Bug Fixes
- Sentrum: Daemon for Monitoring Watch-only Bitcoin Wallets
- Labelbase v2.1.1: Self-Hosted Labelbase Only
- SimpleX Chat v5.7.0: Quantum Resistant End-to-End Encryption