Block 827827: Important News of the Week

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News

26+ Bitcoin Companies Sign a Letter to FinCEN Against Proposed Surveillance Rules
OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support to René Pickhardt
Trezor Warns of Unauthorized Email Impersonating Trezor Sent via Its Third-Party Email Provider
Bitwise Becomes First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF to Disclose BTC Holding Addresses
Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode
Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024 Conference - Day 1 Livestream
Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town 2024 - Day 2 Livestream
iOS v17.4-beta Introduces Permissioned Alternative Marketplaces in the European Union

Updates and releases

BoltCard Tools Terminal App v1.0.2 Released
RoboSats v0.5.4-alpha: Enhancements & Bug Fixes
Whirlpool GUI v0.10.4 & CLI v0.10.17 Released
Aqua Wallet v0.1.19: Open-Source Code, Dark Mode & More
Formstr v1.0: Complete UI Overhaul
Primal Android v0.90.1: Integrated Lightning Wallet
Samourai Atomic Swaps Are Now In Public Beta
BitKit v1.0.0-beta.98: Pay to Lightning Addresses, In-App Support & More
Breez SDK Core v0.2.14 Released
SeedHammer v1.2.0: Seed-First UI, Engrave Wallet Titles & More
Clark Moody Dashboard v2.0-beta: Sign In with Nostr, Themes & More
Boltz Web App v1.3.0 & Backend v3.4.0: Taproot Swaps
BTCPay Server v1.12.4: Bug Fixes & Improvements
Unleashed.Chat v0.1.10: Import Git Repositories
Damus v1.7.2: New Full-text Search Engine & Other Improvements
Mutiny Wallet v0.5.7: Payjoin Support, NWC Improvements

Research

Bitcoin Optech #286: btcd Consensus Failure Disclosure, LN Changes, BINANA

Mining stats

Bitcoin's hashrate (7-day SMA) is increasing again. It is currently at ~516 EH/s.
Next mining difficulty adjustment is expected to occur in 748 blocks or ~5 days.

Lightning stats

There are ~7 BTC more on the Lightning network compared to last week. The number of Lightning nodes has increased by 91, while the number of active channels remains relatively unchanged, according to mempool.space.