Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, August 27th, 2024

GM, and happy Tuesday, sovereign individuals. So many incredible projects are being bootstrapped by incredibly talented, burned out, and underpaid devs. We're doing our best to catch up with it all. Keep pushing forward, speak your truth, and never stop.

What's happening

• Telegram Founder Pavel Durov charged on 12 criminal counts in France. Paris Prosecutor Laure Beccuau announced that Telegram founder Pavel Durov faces 12 charges, including facilitating illegal online transactions, unauthorized cryptology services, enabling organized crime, and obstructing justice.
  • The United Arab Emirates is closely monitoring the case of Pavel Durov. The UAE has requested that the French government urgently provide all necessary consular services. It is noted that Durov holds Emirati citizenship and resides in Dubai.
• Simply Bitcoin banned on YouTube. A popular Bitcoin education channel is now unavailable on the world's largest video content distribution platform following four years of building, hundreds of hours of work, and adherence to community guidelines.

• Former China's second-richest man sentenced to six years in Singapore. Dutch national Yang Bin, 61, was sentenced by a Singapore court to six years in prison and fined S$16,000 for running a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme. His company, A&A Blockchain Innovation, falsely claimed to own 300,000 mining machines, promising a 0.5% daily return but used new investors' funds to pay earlier investors.
• Semler Scientific buys additional 83 BTC. This latest purchase brings the medical device company's total bitcoin holdings to 1,012 BTC acquired for approximately $68 million.
• No vulnerabilities to disclose in Bitcoin Core this month. Developer Antoine Poinsot announced that there are no vulnerabilities affecting Bitcoin Core to disclose this month as per the previously published schedule.

"We will publish vulnerabilities fixed in Bitcoin Core version 24.0.1, if any, next month. Make sure to upgrade," he added.

Use the tools

• Mempool v3.0.0 features integration with Mempool's new Mempool Accelerator™ service, adds Mempool Googles™, as well as RBF timeline visualizations, CPFP and Effective Fee calculations in block visualizations, a Liquid Network audit tool to verify holdings vs liabilities, a new Wallet Balance widget for embedding into external sites, and more.
• Zeus v0.9.0 is here. It features new LSP service, hardware wallet and CLNRest backend support, layout improvements, a new camera, and more.

🚀 Excited to share a preview of our new feature coming in @ZeusLN v0.9.0! 🎉

With the LSPS1 implementation, you'll soon be able to request channels in advance directly within the ZEUS app. Watch the demo below to see it in action. ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/z2qaLQnYeI

— Shubham Kumar (@shubhamkmr04) August 2, 2024

• Alby Hub v1.6.0 brings a major update to Alby Hub's transaction processing code. It now supports internal keysend payments and NIP-47 notifications for internal payments, aiming to improve Alby Hub's isolated apps feature and the ability to host subaccounts for friends, family, merchants, podcasters, and more.
• Boltz Client v2.1.3 fixes a memory leak and a regression introduced in v2.1.2 release. This update comes with support for magic routing hints and two new commands for sending and receiving using the client's wallets.
• Nix Bitcoin v0.0.112, a collection of Nix packages and NixOS modules for easily installing full-featured Bitcoin nodes with an emphasis on security, updates CLBOSS to v0.13.3.
• SimpleX Chat v6.0.3 is the latest release for the security-focused messenger without user identifiers of any kind.
• Keychat app v1.16.3 fixes a bug in the reset session and brings support for eCash issued by multiple Cashu mints (v1) as message stamps.
• Envoy v1.8.2 refines the Envoy user experience, improving the new Buy Bitcoin feature and adding the ability to import a SeedQR seed as your Envoy mobile wallet seed.
• Blitz Wallet v0.2.6-beta introduces a Point of Sale (POS) system, enabling merchants to accept Bitcoin and Liquid payments. It also upgrades the integrated ChatGPT model from version 3.5 to 4.0, decreases memory load of contacts, adds VPN configuration files, and includes encrypted messages in the database for better privacy and security. Furthermore, it improves the Liquid payments experience, implements better seed phrase handling, and more.

Blitz using ecash for micro payments any amount under 1k sats is ecash over it is liquid and after 100k sats you get your own lightning channel and become 100% non custodial.

In other words you can now use blitz to zap people on nostr instantly and not wait to open a channel 👀 pic.twitter.com/evN2NEVIQL

— Oliver Koblížek | LNHANCE 🍩 (@Stromens) August 23, 2024

• Core Lightning v24.08rc3 is the third release candidate for CLN v24.08.
• Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) v1.0.0-beta2 delivers user-facing changes, such as re-enabling single descriptor wallets and renaming LoadParams methods to be more explicit. Wallet persistence has also been simplified, and blockchain clients no longer depend on bdk_chain.
• Experimental releases of GrapheneOS for the Pixel 9, Pixel 9 Pro and Pixel 9 Pro XL can already be installed with the web installer on the project's staging site. Once releases are no longer experimental, they will be available on the standard web installer as well, reports final.
• ezdvm v0.1 allows anyone to easily run any Python code behind a DVM on Nostr.

Other stuff

• Katzenpost is a free and open source software project dedicated to researching and developing mix network protocols.
• Alex Gleason delivered an excellent keynote at Nostriga 2024 on how to bootstrap communities on the actual global town square, which is Nostr.

• Be sure to check out Layer3.news - a powerful Nostr-based AI news summary tool by perspective.

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