Block 792688: Important News of the Week

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News

• New Spiral Grantee: Amiti Uttarwar
• Black Market for Worldcoin Credentials Pops Up in China
• Lead Developer of GrapheneOS Steps Down, Citing 'Recent Swatting Attacks'
• Bali To Crack Down On Using Bitcoin For Payments
• Biden's 30% Tax on Bitcoin Mining Appears Dead Under Debt Ceiling Deal
• Swan Changes Custodians, Promises Multisig Cold Storage For Clients In Coming Months
• BitMEX Renews Rene Pickhardt’s Bitcoin Developer Grant
• PyPI Is Working To Minimize Stored User Data Following DOJ Subpoena
• Texas Anti Bitcoin Mining Bill Failed To Become Law While Miners Got A New Tax Incentive
• European Central Bank Releases CBDC Research
• Tether Invests in Energy Production and Sustainable Bitcoin Mining in Uruguay
• Blixt Wallet and Tesnet App Suspended and Then Reinstated Back to Google Play Store
• Border Searches of Cell Phones Require a Warrant, Rules US Federal Judge in a Historic Decision
• EU’s Proposed Cyber Resilience Act Raises Concerns for Open Source and Cybersecurity

Updates and releases

• Bitcoin Keeper v1.0.4: Whirlpool For iOS
• Amethyst v0.52.2: Sensitive Content (NIP-36)
• Samourai Dojo v1.20.0: Dojo Tracker Optimizations
• ThunderHub v0.13.19 Released
• Agora Social: New Smart Search
• Alby Wallet Webhooks for Developers & ZapSplitter
• Advanced Nostr Search
• Fountain v0.7.0: New Podcast Library, Performance Upgrades & Live (beta)
• Nunchuk Desktop v1.9.19: Inheritance Claiming
• AgoraDesk App v1.1.4 Released
• RoboSats v0.5.1-alpha: CLN, Reworked Lnproxy, Exact Amounts & More
• Ride The Lightning v0.14.0-beta Released
• Scaling Lightning: Testing Toolkit for the Lightning Network
• Umbrel Introduces Prebuilt Home Server, Specifically Engineered For umbrelOS
• Stack Duo v1.0.7 Released
• Nostur v1.0.44: App Store Release
• Lnscribe: Backup Lightning Channel State with Inscriptions
• Wavlake: Value for Value Music with Lightning
• Electrum v4.4.4: Minor Bugfixes
• Joltz: Bitcoin Rewards as a Service
• The Bitcoin Legacy Project: Explore Bitcoin History
• nsecBunker: Nostr Keys Delegation
• BTCPay Server v1.10.0: Formbuilder UI, Custom Roles, Lurking Wife Mode
• Tor v0.4.8.1-alpha: Onion Service Proof-of-Work
• BTC Warp: Light Node Syncing with zkSNARKs
• Walletano: Easy To Use Lightning Web Wallet
• Mutiny Node v0.3.6: NWC, Performance Fixes
• Nix Bitcoin v0.0.92: Removed Spark Wallet, Deprecated CLBOSS
• Arti v1.1.5: Onion Services, RPC, and a Security Patch
• Full-RBF Peering Bitcoin Core v25.0 Released
• Gitern: A SSH-based Multitenant Git Host by k00b Has Been Open Sourced
• Snort v0.1.9: Trending Posts, New DM Styles & More
• Zaps Are Now Live on Primal

Research and guides

• A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Modifying Open Source Projects
• A Collection of Resources Related to Covenants
• Lightning Payments: When Are They Too Small To Secure?
• Bitcoin Optech #253: Managed Joinpool Protocol
• Scaling & Anonymizing Bitcoin at Layer 1 with Client-side Validation

Mining stats

• Per mempool.space, Bitcoin mining difficulty adjusted upwards by 3.4% and reached a new all time high of 51.23T.
• Bitcoin simple 7-day moving average hashrate is currently hovering around its new highs at ~368 EH/s.

Lightning stats

• Total Lightning Network capacity has lost approximately 17 BTC last week, reaching 5385 BTC. The total node count has slightly increased, while the channel count has decline by approximately 0.6% or more than 300 channels, per mempool.space.