Good Morning, Bitcoin - Thursday, October 3rd, 2024

What's happening

• OpenSats has announced long-term support for Dusty Daemon, recognizing his pivotal role in developing Lightning Network specifications and designing and implementing Splicing. With this support, Dusty will expand the Splicing implementation throughout the Lightning ecosystem and begin developing Splice Script.
• Nigeria sues traders over 'unlicensed USDT and Naira' trades. The Nigerian government has filed lawsuits against four traders and several firms for operating without authorization in the Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market (AFEM). They are accused of publicly negotiating USDT to Naira exchange rates, thereby violating Section 29(1)(c) of the Foreign Exchange (Monitoring and Miscellaneous Provisions) Act, which criminalizes any foreign exchange negotiations that are not legally permitted.
• Proton Management denies Swan Bitcoin accusations. In a written response filed on Monday, Proton Management denied allegations made by Swan Bitcoin, asserting that Swan never engaged in a genuine mining business.

"Rather," Proton stated, "as Swan admits in its complaint and publicly, what Swan has called its mining business is really just a separate entity called 2040 Energy, which is fully funded by Tether."

• Proton Management has also requested the dismissal of the case.
• The Miner Mag has published an unredacted version of the original lawsuit by Swan Bitcoin. It originally hid details indicating that Tether controlled the board of directors of the joint venture.
• Telegram updates transparency report. In 2024, Telegram responded to over a dozen U.S. law enforcement data requests, potentially revealing the IP addresses or phone numbers of more than one hundred users, reports 404 Media. Pavel Durov added that his company has been disclosing user information since 2018.
• Chat control removed from EU Council agenda this week. Despite the removal, a spokesman for the EU Council stated that Hungary "continues to actively hold talks with all member states." Consequently, the proposed regulation could be reintroduced to the agenda at any time in the near future.
• Search and rescue operation by NC Bitcoin Community. North Carolina's Bitcoin community is launching a search-and-rescue mission on October 4 to support western areas affected by Hurricane Helene. These areas have received limited state and federal assistance, and the community aims to provide much-needed support.
  • The organizers are accepting donations in both bitcoin and fiat.

Use the tools

• Diamond Hands wallet beta launched. The app supports all basic Lightning wallet functions and can be tested with real sats. It also integrates Bolt Link and a 'sats4ads' functionality, making it a unique wallet that pays its users directly in a self-custodial manner.
• JAM v0.3.0, a web interface for JoinMarket, adds an easy way to quickly freeze and unfreeze UTXOs, review eligible or selected UTXOs before sending, and fixes a couple of other issues.
• Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) v1.0.0 5th beta is here. This release changes the bdk_wallet transaction creation to enable RBF by default, updates the bdk_esplora client to retry server requests that fail due to rate limiting, and adds the use-openssl feature to the bdk_electrum crate.
• Nunchuk Android v1.9.52 and iOS v1.9.55 versions ship with decoy wallet functionality, a revamped Security PIN, the ability to mark used addresses, export transaction history as PDF, and more.
• LN Markets has released several new user settings, including account migration and recovery via email.
• Gossip v0.12.0, a performant and security-oriented desktop client for Nostr, introduces bookmark support, per-relay feeds, friends-of-friends scores in avatars, improved spam filtering, an updated emoji picker, and more.
• Comet Notes is a note-taking app for Nostr users, available on Linux and macOS.
• HiveTalk v0.0.3 is the latest release of the free and open-source Nostr and Lightning-enabled browser-based app for real-time video calls.

• Corny Chat v2024.09, an open-source audio space built on Jam that integrates Nostr and Lightning, now supports file uploads, recurring scheduled events, kind1 notes, and more.
• zap.store CLI v0.1.0 now allows developers to pass icons and images for their apps and supports uploading larger APKs.
• Ghost Relay is a new Nostr relay implementation for ephemeral events. "It deletes events right after they have been 'queried' by a user. Useful for very specific applications where no traces are desired," said the developer.
• pitiunited has published a PPE Relay, a paid relay that accepts notes on a pay-per-event basis.
• Citrine v0.5.1 updates dependencies and introduces error logging when attempting to stop or start the server.
  • "If you are coming from version 0.4.4 or lower you will need to first export the database, uninstall the app and install the new version," notes the developer.

Other stuff

• Amir Taaki introduced DarkIRC - an anonymous P2P chat 'without identities and message links.' Check it out here.