Block 823762: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support to Tobin Harding
- Operation Triangulation: 4-Year Campaign That Backdoored iPhones
- Barry Silbert and Mark Murphy Resigned from Grayscale's Board
- MicroStrategy Picked Up 14620 BTC to End The Year
- Wasabi Wallet's CTO Leaves to Focus on 'Next-Gen Bitcoin Anonymity Technology'
- Whirlpool Unspent Capacity Surpasses 10000 BTC
- Brink Received $150K from Tim Draper to Fund Bitcoin Open-Source Developers
- Argentina's Milei Wants People to Declare Their Crypto Holdings for Lower Tax Rate
Updates and releases
- libsecp256k1 v0.4.1 Released
- Peach Bitcoin v0.4.0: New Offer Creation Flow & More
- Geyser Launches: What's Hot This Week
- BTCPay Server's LNBank Plugin Is Being Phased Out Following Second Critical Vulnerability
- Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC) v0.4.1: NIP-47 Extensions
- Core Lightning v23.11.2 Released
- BTCPay Server v1.12.3: Bug Fixes
- Alby Extension v3.6.0: NWC Connector
- Envoy v1.5.0-beta: Full Taproot Support
- Blink Wallet v2.2.209 Released
- Mutiny Wallet v0.5.0: Fedimint & Multi LSP Initial Support
- Economically Unspendable Bitcoin UTXO Calculator
- Unleashed.Chat: Uncensored AI Models with Live Nostr Data
- NDK v2.3.2: One-liner Relay Authentication, Easy Media Uploads & More
- GrapheneOS v2023123000: Android Auto Support
- Loan Shark: Non-custodial, Bitcoin-only Borrow and Loan Tool
- Electrum v4.5.0-beta: Send Transaction Change to a Lightning Channel
Research and guides
Mining stats
- Next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment is estimated to happen in ~5 days.
- The current network's hashrate (7-day SMA) is at ~519 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- Lightning network capacity is back at 5040 BTC. The number of Lightning nodes increased by 0.5%, too.
Nostr stats
- More than 4000 new users joined the Nostr protocol last week.
