Block 849183: Important News of the Week
News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.
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News
- LND Versions Prior to v0.17.0 Vulnerable to LND Onion Bomb DoS Attack
- EU Council Withdraws Vote on Chat Control But Negotiations Will Continue
- OpenSats Announced Long-Term Support for Calle & William Casarin
Updates and releases
- Bitcoin Core v27.1: Bug Fixes & Performance Improvements
- Trezor Introduced Safe 5 Signing Device
- umbrelOS v1.2: Wi-Fi Support, Revamped Live Usage
- Tails v6.4: Random Seed on USB Stick to Strengthen Cryptography
- Braiins Launched Mini Miner BMM 100
- Envoy v1.7.0: Buy Bitcoin, Redeem BTCPay Vouchers & More
- Bisq v1.9.16: Improved Network Resilience & Stability
- Amethyst v0.88.0: Performance Mode & Performance Improvements
- BitAxe Supra: 4th Major Revision with BM1368 ASIC from Antminer S21
- Phoenix Wallet Android v2.2.4, iOS v2.2.6 Released
Guides and research
- Bitcoin Optech #308: Discussion of PSBTs for Silent Payments
- How to Use Electrum Plugin for Joinstr
- Brollups: Bitcoin-native Rollup Design
Mining stats
- Bitcoin mining difficulty had a relatively small 0.05% downwards adjustment.
- The network's hashrate (7-day simple moving average) is currently at ~598 EH/s.
Lightning stats
- Capacity of the Lightning Network has grown to 5124 BTC.
Nostr stats
- The Nostr protocol has registered over 5000 new users last week.
