Block 805900: Important News of the Week

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News

• River To Reduce Its Lightning Node Capacity Further by 48%
• Grayscale Wins Appeal Against SEC Overturing Its Decision on Bitcoin ETF
• Baltic Honeybadger 2023 Day 1 Livestream

Updates and releases

• BTCPay Server v1.11.3: Brush Ups and Minor Fixes
• Vendata.io: Nostr Client to Interact with Data Vending Machines
• Stacker.news Added Lightning Prisms, Toasts, Clearer Withdrawal Options
• Zaprite Platform Upgrades: Payment Links, New Receive Integrations, Subscription Plans & More
• NDK v0.8.21: The Protocol Is the App Store
• Floresta v0.5.0 Released
• Mutiny Wallet v0.4.14: Web and Android Feature Parity
• Nayuta Wallet Android v0.2.0: LNURL Pay QR Code Support
• Joinmarket v0.9.10: RBF Fee Bumping, Improvements & Bug Fixes
• Sparrow Wallet v1.7.9: Wallet Accounts Summary Dialog & More
• Peach Bitcoin v0.3.0: Open Source Code, Full Wallet Functionality, GroupHug & Global South Expansion
• Bitcoin Tribe v2.2.3: Additional Border Wallet Functionality

Guides and Research

• RoboSats Is Decentralizing: How To Become RoboSats Federation Coordinator
• Nucleus: Capital-efficient Multipeer Lightning Payments
• Household Electricity Costs to Mine 1 Bitcoin at Home Globally - CoinGecko Report
• Bitcoin Optech #266: LN Fake Funding, Covenant Mashup

Mining stats

• The next difficutly adjustment is expected to happen in the next 4 days or 500 blocks.
• The 7 day (MA) hashrate dropped down from ~400 EH/s to ~382 EH/s this week.

Lightning stats

• The Lightning network capacity dropped by approximately 15 BTC this week, followed by a small decline in network nodes and channels.

Nostr stats

• The number of Nostr users has grown by more than 5000 in the last 7 days, according to Primal.net.
• Per nostr.band stats, the number of daily active Nostr users has bounced back above 10000, while the number of weekly active users remains steady above 22000.