Block 841254: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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The first week of the 5th halving epoch marks an unprecedented period in the history of Bitcoin, privacy, and open-source software. As illustrative as it was of potential challenges Bitcoin may encounter this epoch, it also serves as an important reminder of why so many people are so passionate about Bitcoin and freedom tech - a hope for a more fair, free and secure future built on open standards.
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News
- Biden Signs Reauthorization of Expanded FISA 702 Warrantless Surveillance Program After It Passes Senate
- OpenSats Receives $1M Donation From The Reynolds Foundation
- Africa Bitcoin Conference 2024 to Take Place on December 9-11 in Nairobi, Kenya
- Block Announces 3nm Bitcoin Mining Chip & Development of Full Bitcoin Mining System
- El Salvador's Chivo Wallet Source Code & VPN Access Leaked
- Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses
- EU Parliament Adopts New Financial Surveillance Rules for Service Providers
- Five New Editors Added to Oversee Bitcoin Improvement Proposals
- PayPal Proposes Scheme To Selectively Mine With ESG Compliant Miners
- FBI Issues Warning Against Using 'No-KYC Cryptocurrency Money Transmitting Services'
- Lightspark Gets Debanked by Bill.com
- Phoenix Wallet to Stop Serving US Customers on May 3rd
- Custodia Bank Appeals District Court Decision Denying It Fed Master Account Access
- zkSNACKs Coinjoin Coordinator is Now Blocking US Residents and Citizens
Updates and releases
- Bisq v2.0.3: Fixes & Improvements
- Nix Bitcoin v0.0.106: Updates & Removed Plugins
- Gossip v0.10.0: Nostr Connect Signer, Whitelist Support for Relays, SpamSafe
- Blossom Drive: Store & Retrieve Data on Public Servers Using sha256 Universal ID
- Aqua Wallet v0.1.50: Send to LNURL Pay & Lightning Addresses, BIP21 Unified QR Support
- LND v0.17.5-beta: bitcoind 27 Compatibility Hot Fix
- Liquid Wallet Kit (LWK): Liquid Wallets Made Easy
- NDK v2.8: 'Fast and Steady'
- Blockstream Green Desktop v2.0.4: BIP39 Passphrase Login & More
- Sparrow Wallet v1.8.6: Wallet Search Improvements, Mix from Postmix & More
- Sparrow Wallet v1.9.0: Remove Whirlpool Client & Soroban-related Features
- Zeus v0.9.0-alpha1 Rolls Out to Community Sponsors
- nos2x v2.3.0: NIP49 Support
- Strike Launches Services in Europe
- Finney by Nunchuk: Bitcoin Wallet for Families
- Primal Introduces Top Zaps to All of Its Nostr Clients
- Envoy Wallet v1.6.2: Improved UI/UX for Larger Displays, New Domain & Bug Fixes
- Sentrum: Daemon for Monitoring Watch-only Bitcoin Wallets
- Labelbase v2.1.1: Self-Hosted Labelbase Only
- SimpleX Chat v5.7.0: Quantum Resistant End-to-End Encryption
Research and guides
- Bitcoin Optech #299: Weak Blocks Proof-of-Concept Implementation
- How to Migrate Samourai Wallet & Implications for Whirlpool Users
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty has gone up by 1.99% to 88.10T.
- The network's hashrate (7-day SMA) is currently at ~639 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- Lightning network capacity has gone up from 4702 BTC last week to 4752 BTC today.
- The number of active Lightning nodes has surpassed 13000 again.
Nostr stats
- The number of Nostr accounts has surpassed 1.4 million, per primal.net stats.
- According to nostr.band stats, the protocol now has over 26 million pubkeys writing events, over 5 million profiles with a bio, over 2 million profiles with a contact list, 860k profiles that have both a bio and a contact list, as well as 254k profiles with a Lightning address.
