Block 844148: Important News of the Week

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News

• Spiral Renews Grant for Summer of Bitcoin Initiative
• Tornado Cash Developer Alexey Pertsev Sentenced to 64 Months in Prison in the Netherlands
• IBEX Pay Suspends Services in the United States
• bitcoin++ ecash Edition to Take Place on October 10-12 in Berlin
• US Senate Votes to Kill SEC Bitcoin Accounting Policy in a Historical Vote

Updates and releases

• Block Is Looking for Mining Development Kit (MDK) Beta Testers
• Cashu.me v0.1: Modern Ecash Experience in Your Browser
• Aqua Wallet v0.1.52: Custom Fees for Bitcoin
• Utreexod Beta Is Now Available for General Public Testing
• Mutiny Wallet v1.7.0: On-chain Fedimint Support & More
• RoboSats v0.6.1-alpha: Android App Returns Stronger Than Ever
• Sparrow Wallet v1.9.1: Testnet4 Support
• New on Geyser: Bitcoin Explorama, BitFables, Smart Child Kenya & More
• Bitcoin Optech #302: Utreexod Beta, Proposed Extensions to BIP119
• Damus v1.8: New Video Player & Emoji Selector
• Minibits v0.1.7-beta: Multiple Currency Units, Improved UX & Navigation
• Wasabi Wallet v2.0.7.2: Coinjoin Directly to Another Wallet
• BitEscrow Launches Developer Playground & New Website
• Canaan Launched Avalon A1566 Bitcoin Miner
• Specter Desktop v2.0.3: More Languages for Mnemonics & Fixes
• Stack Wallet v2.0.0: Frost Multisig & Taproot Support
• Silentium: Proof of Concept for Silent Payments Light Wallets

Mining stats

• The network's hashrate (7-day SMA) is currently at ~585 EH/s.
• Next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment is expected to occur in ~3 days.

Lightning stats

• Lightning network capacity has grown to 4920 BTC, per mempool.space.

Nostr stats