Block 840075: Important News of the Week

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News

• BitBlockBoom 2024 - Livestream Recording
• Bitcoin ASIC Manufacturer Auradine Raised Another $80M in Series B Round
• Norway Wants to Curb Bitcoin Mining with Europe's First Data Center Regulation
• OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for Nostr Developers Stuart Bowman and hzrd149
• FISA Section 702 Reauthorization Bill Allowing NSA to Force US Businesses Serve as Surrogate Spies Advances to Senate
• India Bitcoin Conference 2024 To Take Place on September 20-22 in Goa
• Craig Wright Discontinues Tulip Trading Case in Major Win for Bitcoin Developers
• US Government Rejects Calls To End Assange Case, Submits 'Non-Assurances' For Extradition
• AntPool & Bitmain Acting as 'a Pool of Pools' - Report

Updates and releases

• Boltz Backend v3.5.0 & Boltz Web App v1.3.2 Released
• RGB v0.11.0-beta5 Has Been Released
• Satoshi 7B: Open-Source Bitcoin-Centric Large Language Model
• eNuts v0.4.0-beta: Scan & Paste LNURLs
• BTCPay Server v1.13.1: Bug Fixes
• Labelbase v2.1.0: Introducing Attachments
• Bitcoin Core v27.0: BIP324 v2 Transport On by Default, New mempool.dat Format & More
• Wasabi Wallet v2.0.7.1: New Interface, Trezor 3 Support, Full RBF Detection
• Phoenix Wallet iOS v2.2.4: Swap-in Failures Fix
• Mutiny Wallet v0.6.5: Atlantis Federation Fix
• UmbrelOS v1.1.0: Terminal, Beta Program, UX Improvements & Bug Fixes
• RaspiBlitz v1.11.0: Enabling NVMe PCIe Hats, New Documentation & More
• Unleashed.Chat v0.1.20: Nostr Feed Queries
• BlueWallet v6.6.2: UI Improvements & Bug Fixes
• Bitcoin Keeper v1.2.3: Fee Insights, Multiple Mediums for Signers, Hide & Delete Wallets
• BDK v1.0.0-alpha.9: Updated Dependencies, Chain Module Improvements
• tbDEX v1.0: Open Source Liquidity and Trust Protocol
• Cashu Nutshell v0.15.3: Improved Mint Crash Resistance
• Braiins Pool Lightning Payouts Now Available to All Users

Research

• Bitcoin Optech #298: Cluster Mempool Analysis with 2023 Transactions

Mining stats

• The Bitcoin network has entered its 5th epoch following bitcoin halving which occurred on block height 840000. The event has prompted extremely high network fees, and miners are reaping record block rewards as a result.
• The average network's hashrate (7-day SMA) has jumped up to ~636 EH/s.
• The next Bitcoin difficulty adjustment is expected in ~600 blocks or approximately 4 days.

Lightning stats

• Lightning network capacity has gone up to 4700 BTC in recent days.

Nostr stats

• Nostr 'real' user count is on a growth spurt and nearing 1 million, per primal.net stats. The protocol also surpassed 200 million of events written by over 35 million pubkeys.