Block 803931: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- KYC Mining Pools Have More Than 50% of Bitcoin Hashrate
- How Current Got To Keep Zaps on Its iOS App on Apple Store
- Orange Pill App Raised $250K In Pre-seed Funding
- OpenSats Issued Long-term Support Grant to Josi Baker
- July Mining Updates: Marathon, CleanSpark, Iris, Hive, Bitfarms, Core Scientific & More
- BitGo Raised $100M Series C Round at $1.75Bn Valuation
- Spiral Renewed Grant to Mogashni Naidoo from Bitcoin Design Community
- OpenSats Announces Second Wave of Grants for Bitcoin and Nostr Projects
- Argentina's Leading Presidential Candidate Vows to Shut Down Central Bank if Elected
Updates and releases
- w3.do: Free URL Shortener Powered by Nostr
- Imp Chat Mobile App To Bring Private Group Messaging to Nostr
- Nodeyez v23.07 Released
- Libwally Core v0.9.1 Released
- Zeus v0.8.0 Mainnet Alpha Opened to Community Supporters
- Njump: Static Nostr Gateway
- Bitcoin Tribe v2.2.1: Border Wallets
- Lightning Terminal v0.10.5-alpha Released
- Clams v1.8.2: UI Improvements
- Stacker.News Adds Anon Accounts, Just-in-time Funding
- Liquid Federation Open Sourced Its Functionary Code
- Phoenix Android v2.0.0: Splicing, Dual Funding & More
- You Can Now Install Geyser As Progressive Web App
- Trezor Suite v23.8.1: Coinjoin for Model One
- Lume v1.2.0-beta: New UI and Onboarding Process
Guides and research
- Bitcoin Optech #264: Expiration Dates to Silent Payment Addresses & BIP for Serverless Payjoin
- GrapheneOS Guide: How To Reclaim Your Mobile Privacy and Security
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty is expected to adjust upwards by approximately 5% in 455 blocks or sometime in the next three days.
- The Bitcoin hash rate (7 day moving average) is currently at ~390 EH/s, per mempool.space.
Lightning stats
- The Lightning network capacity has decreased further, down from 4769 to 4697 BTC today.
- The total number of network nodes has dropped down by a 100 since last Saturday, while the number of channels has decreased by 0.8% or more than 450 channels.
Nostr stats
- The number of Nostr users has surpassed 550k this week, according to Primal.net estimations.
- According to nostr.band stats, there currently are more than 8000 daily active users publishing events and nearly 22k weekly active pubkeys writing events on the network.
