News Five New Editors Added to Oversee Bitcoin Improvement Proposals After public discussion, Bryan “Kanzure” Bishop, Jon Atack, Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Olaoluwa “Roasbeef” Osuntokun, and Ruben Somsen have been made BIP editors.
Releases Strike Launches Services in Europe As of today, the Strike app is available to eligible customers in Europe. Strike users in Europe are able to hold their cash balance in EUR, trade bitcoin, and transact globally using the Bitcoin and Lightning Networks.
News EU Parliament Adopts New Financial Surveillance Rules for Service Providers The EU Parliament approved a new AML package that will come into effect in 3 years. The new rules contain enhanced customer surveillance measures for financial institutions and EU wide limit of 10000 EUR on cash payments for obligated entities.
News Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Prosecutors are alleging Samourai Wallet laundered over $100 million in criminal proceeds.
Releases Bitcoin Optech #299: Weak Blocks Proof-of-Concept Implementation This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to relay weak blocks to improve compact block performance in a network with multiple divergent mempool policies and announces the addition of five BIP editors.
Releases nos2x v2.3.0: NIP49 Support nost2x is a signer extension for signing Nostr events on web apps without having to give them your keys.
Releases Zeus v0.9.0-alpha1 Rolls Out to Community Sponsors ZEUS is a mobile Bitcoin/Lightning wallet and remote node manager for LND and Core Lightning. ZEUS is built on TypeScript and React Native. It runs on both Android and iOS.
Releases Sparrow Wallet v1.8.6: Wallet Search Improvements, Mix from Postmix & More Sparrow is a free and open source desktop Bitcoin wallet focused on security and privacy. v1.8.6 comes with wallet search improvements, all open wallets summary, option to mix from the Postmix account, support for importing a Samourai backup file, and more.
News El Salvador's Chivo Wallet Source Code & VPN Access Leaked Hacker group CiberInteligenciaSV leaked snippets of Chivo wallet's source code and VPN access information.
News Block Announces 3nm Bitcoin Mining Chip & Development of Full Bitcoin Mining System Block unveiled plans to offer both a standalone 3nm Bitcoin mining chip, and a comprehensive mining system developed by the company, with contributions from the mining community.
Releases Blockstream Green Desktop v2.0.4: BIP39 Passphrase Login & More Blockstream Green is a multi-platform, feature-rich Bitcoin, Liquid and Lightning wallet.
Releases NDK v2.8: 'Fast and Steady' NDK is a Nostr Development Kit that makes the experience of building Nostr-related applications, whether they are relays, clients, or anything in between, better, more reliable and overall nicer to work with than existing solutions.