Releases Sentrum: Daemon for Monitoring Watch-only Bitcoin Wallets sentrum is a daemon that monitors the Bitcoin blockchain for transactions involving your wallets and sends notifications in different configurable channels.
News Lightspark Gets Debanked by Bill.com Lightning infrastructure service provider Lightspark revealed it had issues with its fiat financial services provider.
News FBI Issues Warning Against Using 'No-KYC Cryptocurrency Money Transmitting Services' In a move against what's deemed the best practices in Bitcoin security, the Federal Bureau of Investigations issued a warning to Americans against using 'cryptocurrency' services that are not registered as money services businesses (MSB) or do not perform KYC surveillance on their users.
Releases Envoy Wallet v1.6.2: Improved UI/UX for Larger Displays, New Domain & Bug Fixes "In Envoy v1.6.2 we've focused heavily on improving the user experience for those of you running larger text or display sizes, fixed a bug around transaction cancellation using RBF, and migrated to our new domain, Foundation.xyz."
News PayPal Proposes Scheme To Selectively Mine With ESG Compliant Miners The paper proposes routing transactions to whitelisted 'green miners' using low fees and a 'locked' BTC reward in a multisig payout address.
Releases Primal Introduces Top Zaps to All of Its Nostr Clients Primal is a free and open source nostr client focused on seamless user experience. Available on Android, iOS and the web.
Releases Sparrow Wallet v1.9.0: Remove Whirlpool Client & Soroban-related Features Sparrow is a free and open source desktop Bitcoin wallet focused on security and privacy.
Releases Finney by Nunchuk: Bitcoin Wallet for Families "Finney lets your family hold the reins, ensuring complete financial autonomy and security. With Finney, one can enlist one’s own family to hold a backup key, or backup keys, instead of relying on a trusted third-party," said Nunchuk in a blog post.
Guides How to Migrate Samourai Wallet & Implications for Whirlpool Users Privacy and freedom tech advocate Seth For Privacy shared some key insights on implications of yesterdays indictment for Samourai Wallet and Whirlpool users.
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.