Block 804962: Important News of the Week

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News

• ProtonMail Complied with 5957 Data Requests in 2022
• Bitcoin Atlantis Conference To Take Place in Madeira on March 1-3, 2024
• Tornado Cash Developers Charged with Money Laundering and Sanctions Violations by US Govt
• New Tornado Cash Indictments Run Counter to FinCEN Guidance - Coin Center
• Oman Is Set To Invest Over $1.1Bn In Privately-Owned Bitcoin Mining Facilities
• DoS: Fake Lightning Channels
• Nodal Power Raised $13 Million Seed Round to Mine Bitcoin at Landfills
• New Spiral Grantee Michael Haase; Vasil Dimov's Grant Gets Renewed
• Vulpem Ventures Awarded Open Source Development Grant to Burak
• U.S. Department of the Treasury, IRS Released Proposed Regulations on Sales and Exchanges of Bitcoin for Brokers

Updates and releases

• Amethyst v0.74.3: Private DMs and Group Chats, UI Improvements & More
• Nostur v1.5.0: Music Streams, Relay Feeds & More
• BitBanana v0.6.6 Released
• CLBOSS Is Being Maintained Once Again
• Wasabi Wallet v2.0.4: Faster Wallet Load, RBF, CPFP & More
• Electrum v4.4.6: Security Upgrade
• Hardware Wallet Interface v2.3.1
• Pulsar: Private Nostr Chat App That Protects Metadata
• BitBox App v4.39.0, Firmware v9.15.0: Miniscript Support, Security Update & More
• Core Lightning v23.08: Satoshi's Successor
• Tor Launches Proof-of-Work Defense for Onion Services
• BitAxe Ultra: 3rd Major Revision Based on BM1366 ASIC
• Zaplocker.com: Non-Custodial Lightning Address Server with Base Layer Support
• Iris v0.2.2: Note Previews, Quick Zaps & More
• Joltz Launched Bitcoin Rewards API
• Thunderhub v0.13.21 Released
• Spring v0.1.0: The Nostr Browser
• Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) v0.10.0: Improved Performance on Low Resource Signers
• Nix Bitcoin v0.0.97 Released
• Amber v0.0.6: New UI & Fixes
• Highlighter Extension v0.2.1: Create Nostr Highlights Anywhere on the Web
• Snort.Social Has Been Redesigned
• Nostree v0.1.2: Linktree Style Nostr Client

Guides and research

• Bitcoin Optech #265: Fraud Proofs for Outdated Backup State

Mining stats

• Bitcoin mining difficutly has adjusted upwards by more than 6% and reached a record 55.62T.
• The 7 day (MA) hashrate has surpassed 400 EH/s.

Lightning stats

• The Lightning network capacity has gone up by more than 60 BTC this week and is currently reaching 4758 BTC.
• The number of network nodes and channels declined by approximately 1% as there are over a 100 nodes and 700 channels less compared to the week before.

Nostr stats

• The number of Primal users increased by over 3000 during the last 7 days, per Primal.net.
• Per nostr.band stats, active daily users writing events went up to 8500 in the recent days, while the number of active weekly users dropped slightly below 20000.