Block 825636: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- Nigeria's Central Bank 'Softens' Its Stance, Permits Bank Accounts for Bitcoin Companies
- FCA's 'Consumer Protection' Regulations Make Centralized Exchanges Unusable for Retail Bitcoin Savers in UK
- SEC's X Account Gets Hacked, Makes a Fake Bitcoin Spot ETF Announcement
- Spiral Grants Support to Fedimint Developer Joschisan
- SEC Approves 11 Bitcoin Spot ETF Applications (Updated)
- Bitwise Will Donate 10% of Its Bitcoin ETF Profits to Brink, OpenSats and the Human Rights Foundation
- VanEck To Donate 5% of Its Bitcoin ETF Profits to Support Bitcoin Core Developers
Updates and releases
- BDK v1.0.0-alpha3: LocalChain Hard-wired Genesis Block & More
- Amethyst v0.83.5: Flare.pub Support & More
- FiatLink: A Lightning-Fiat Standard For Bitcoin On and Off Ramps
- Mercury Layer Has Been Released
- Payjoin (PDK) v0.13.0: Improved Taproot, V2 & Receiver Error Handling Support
- Unleashed.Chat v0.1.4: API Key Auth, Nostr Mode Improvements
- Bitcoin Victoria Falls: New Bitcoin Circular Economy in Livingstone, Zambia
- Bitcoin Connect v3.2.0-alpha Released
- Geyser Launches: New Fundraisers and Initiatives
- Electrum v4.5.0 Released
- Blink Plugin for BTCPay Server Released
- Nostr Image Host: Upload & View Images Without API Key
- Mutiny Wallet & Node v0.5.3: Nostr Contact Search, Fediminint Fixes & More
Research
- Bitcoin Optech #284: LN Anchors & v3 Transaction Relay, LN-Symmetry Research Implementation
Mining stats
- Bitcoin network's hashrate (7-day SMA) continues to increase and currently is at ~532 EH/s.
- Next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment is expected to occur in ~923 blocks or approximately 6 days.
Lightning stats
- Lightning network capacity tumbled below 5000 BTC, while the Lightning node count increased by nearly 100 this week, per mempool.space.
Nostr stats
- Nearly 4000 new users joined the Nostr network this week.
