Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, July 31st, 2024
Good Morning, Bitcoin is your daily news roundup featuring key stories, project updates, releases, guides, research, and other topics related to Bitcoin and freedom tech. Stay informed and empowered as we explore the latest happenings in the Bitcoin world.
GM. Today is the last day of July 2024. Here’s what you might have missed.
What's new
- Bitcoin mining difficulty has risen by 10.51% today, reaching a new all-time high of 90.67T.
- The Russian State Duma has passed two bitcoin-related laws:
- The first law legalizes cryptocurrency mining in Russia starting November 1, 2024, permitting registered legal entities and individual entrepreneurs to mine, while unregistered individuals can only operate within energy consumption limits.
- The second law, effective September 1, 2024, establishes an experimental regime granting the Bank of Russia the authority to permit authorized companies to conduct cross-border settlements and digital currency trading.
- Thai police have arrested a gang of five Russian men accused of abducting and assaulting a Belarusian couple in Phuket, Thailand, and forcing them to transfer approximately $900,000 worth of cryptocurrency before releasing them.
- Some Blockstream customers are reportedly targeted by a new phishing email campaign.
Use the tools
- Blockstream Green mobile v4.0.31 is now live on both Android and iOS. It includes updated Breez SDK, fixes for Lightning accounts, improved channel closure UX, and new swap notifications to reduce closures.
- umbrelOS v1.2.2 brings support for Turkish, Hungarian, and Ukranian languages, along with bug fixes and security enhancements.
- Torq v2.0.3, an advanced Lightning node management software for operating large routing nodes, has been released. It comes with support for the latest LND and CLN versions, new and improved workflows, and more.
- Super Testnet has launched a new website for tracking RoboSats stats.
- Liquid Web Wallet is a proof-of-concept for a browser-based Liquid web wallet.
- lnp2pbot v0.10.9 is the latest version of the peer-to-peer trading Lightning network Telegram bot.
- Lume v4.0.15 aims to make the Nostr client run on Linux and Windows again.
Going from 0 to a shared Lightning Node in 2 minutes
— shocknet ⚡ (@ShockBTC) July 30, 2024
Paste one line into an old laptop or small VPS, and connect anyone you know to it instantly
Nostr based accounts completely eliminate the fussy networking
Automatic channels from top LSP's @ZeusLN @voltage_cloud @1sats_ln pic.twitter.com/MzuQoE4Mjg
Other stuff
- Bitcoin educator BTC Sessions uploaded a guide on setting up and using a Proton Bitcoin Wallet on both desktop and mobile.
- Alby Hub supports six different Lightning backends: LDK, LND, Greenlight, Phoenixd, Breez SDK, and Cashu mints.
- Here's a quick interview with Jordi Montes, a man who delayed Donald Trump’s speech at Bitcoin 2024 Nashville.
- What else did we miss? DM us on Nostr.
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