Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, September 17th, 2024

GM. Today is Tuesday, September 17th, 2024. The case against Bitcoin privacy is set to proceed today. We'll keep you updated with all the developments. Free Samourai.

What's happening

• Block template similarities between mining pools. 0xB10C shared a follow-up analysis on potential mining pool centralization, confirming earlier findings that some of the major pools are effectively acting as the same entity.
  • "These pools together have about 37.6% of the network hashrate. However, it's far from proven that the same entity is behind pool these," added the analyst.

• Debt-free budget for El Salvador in 2025. During El Salvador's 203rd independence celebration, President Nayib Bukele announced the country's fiscal independence. For the first time in decades, the new General Budget will be self-financed without external debt. The budget will be submitted to the Legislative Assembly on September 30. The 2024 budget gap was $338 million on total spending of $9.1B When Bukele took office in 2019, the deficit was $1.2 billion, reports CoinDesk.

"This is a historic moment for El Salvador. We will no longer spend more than we produce annually. The benefits of this approach will be immediate and will grow each year, contributing to a more robust economy and a financially independent nation," Bukele said.

• Bhutan holds 13,029 BTC from Bitcoin mining operations. Chain surveillance firm Arkham Intelligence is tracking the kingdom's holdings here.
• MicroStrategy to issue $700 million of convertible senior notes. The company plans to use the proceeds to redeem $500 million in senior secured notes with a 6.125% yield maturing in 2028. The remaining funds will be used to buy more bitcoin and for general corporate purposes.
• Florida man to serve 47 years in prison for robbing bitcoiners. Remy St Felix received a 47-year prison sentence for leading a crew in violent home invasions targeting Bitcoin and cryptocurrency owners, and stealing $3.5 million through force and SIM-swapping with 13 co-conspirators.

Use the tools

• Keeper Desktop v0.1.1 has been released. It is a secure, cross-platform desktop app for using hardware wallets with the Bitcoin Keeper mobile app. Available on Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Keeper Mobile v1.2.15 has also been released. It comes with ability to use Canary Wallet for the Recovery Key, flexibility to delete vaults while having sats in them, and UX improvements.
• Keychat App v1.19.7 chat app comes with ability to import existing nSec, and now allows the creation medium groups.
• Nix Bitcoin v0.0.113 is out with the latest package updates.
• Alby Go v1.5.0, a simple lightning mobile wallet interface and a companion app for Alby Hub, comes with an onboarding help screen, fiat currency picker, ability to copy transaction details, and more.
• Nodana is a hosting service dedicated to Bitcoin and Lightning software. Check it out here.

• sats.mobi is a Bitcoin Lightning wallet on Telegram with built-in point-of-sale functionality, Scrub function, and NFC card management.
• WoT Relay v0.1.10 brings an option to run relay without syncing from other relays.
• Mullvad VPN added support for DAITA on Linux and MacOS. The team also added Multihop feature to its iOS app.
• Marti Malmi added cashu.me wallet to beta.iris.to. "When you sign in as a new user, you're all set to send and receive zaps without configuring anything. It sets [npub]@npub.cash as your lightning address," said the developer.
• Fedimint v0.4.2 has been tagged.

• Coinos.io web wallet enabled Nostr Wallet Connect (NWC aka NIP-47) support.
• Bringin, a financial application serving users across Europe, now let's its users connect their Blink account.
• Lightning Terminal v0.13.4-alpha includes updates to the integrated versions of LND v0.18.3-beta and Loop v0.28.7-beta.
• Blitz Wallet bounty for a react-native package for the Liquid Wallet Kit (LWK) has been fulfilled. "Wallet app developers now have the option to use the new LWK-RN in their iOS and Android builds, when building a mobile wallet that is Liquid and Lightning interoperable," announced the Liquid Network.

Other stuff

• Mein Coffee is a 700 GH/s Bitcoin mining coffee warmer by GekkoScience. Check it out here.
• SUPERMAX wrote an article titled "Nostr Revolution: Possible Solutions to the Mathematical Impossibilities of Voting Systems." It explores how problems of democracy can be the solutions on Nostr.
• Amethyst developer Vitor Pamplona has been working on bringing transient NFC accounts to the app.

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