By EZ in Daily Roundup — Aug 21, 2024

Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, August 21st, 2024

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GM. Today is Wednesday, August 21st, 2024, otherwise known as The Bitcoin Infinity Day. It celebrates Bitcoin as the ultimate currency, with all value denominated in BTC. 8/21.

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What's happening

El Salvador to launch Bitcoin certification for public servants. The government of El Salvador plans to enhance the skills of 80,000 employees through a detailed Bitcoin certification program focused on strategic management and public policy. The National Bitcoin Office (ONBTC) is said to provide the training and certifications.

"These education projects are very low time preference commitments to the long term success of El Salvador and its bitcoin (& tech) policy. For we have yet another major announcement to make soon on education that will make you go WOW," said Stacy Herbert, Director at The Bitcoin Office.

Spiral renewed grant to Vasil Dimov for the fifth time. Vasil will use it to continue his work on reviewing pull requests for Bitcoin Core and Stratum V2.
Voltage to deprecate Flow v2.0. "Starting September 1st, we will no longer issue new channels from our API. Channel closures will commence on November 1st. Anyone with a channel to the LSP (including ones in Mutiny Wallet) should send out their funds and do a cooperative close at their earliest convenience," announced Voltage CEO and Founder Graham Krizek.

"We aren't just leaving the Lightning Network without solutions. We are working on a radically new system that will produce a far superior experience. We've gained years of insights into how people use Lightning and what matters most. We're shifting our Flow 2.0 resources to create the most advanced Lightning system in existence. We'll share more as we have it," he added.

Use the tools

Floresta v0.6.0, a fully-validating Bitcoin node powered by Utreexo, with an integrated Electrum Server, is now available for testing. This release introduces libflorestad, enabling easy Floresta integration by any wallet or application, enhanced JSON-RPC, BIP-158 compact block filter integration, an embeddable library for the daemon, Signet support for PoW fraud proof, extensive testing, and more.
- Full details about the update are available here.
SeedSigner v0.8.0 brings additional legacy signing support, various quality-of-life improvements, explicit support for PSBTs with OP_RETURN, limited support for Electrum seeds, and much more.
Wherostr is now available for download on the App Store and Google Play. It is a Nostr-based social media client that lets you discover and attach geographic coordinates to notes.
LDK v0.0.124-beta has been tagged.
Tor Browser v14.0a2 has been released with important security updates to Firefox.
GrapheneOS v2024082000 is the latest update for an open-source, privacy and security-focused mobile operating system.