Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, October 29th, 2024

GM. It is Tuesday, October 29th, 2024. Here are some of the latest stories and updates to kickstart your day.

What's happening

• Ledger has raised over $90,000 for open-source Bitcoin development. Brink, a non-profit dedicated to supporting open-source Bitcoin development, said that it's ongoing partnership with Ledger has resulted in over $90,000 so far. Ledger is donating $5 to Brink for each Ledger Bitcoin hardware wallet sold.
• Metaplanet now holds 1,018 BTC. The Japanese investment firm Metaplanet purchased 156.78 BTC on October 28, increasing its total Bitcoin holdings to 1,018.17 BTC, valued at approximately $68 million. This move makes Metaplanet Asia’s second-largest corporate Bitcoin holder, just behind Boyaa Interactive International, which holds 1100 BTC, reports TFTC.
• Emory University holds $15.1 million in Bitcoin shares via Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust. A private research institution in Atlanta has revealed it holds nearly 2.7 million shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Mini Trust, worth approximately $15.1 million, according to an SEC filing on October 25, 2024.
• FutureBit miner solves a solo block. A solo miner using their own hardware and custom software found block 867760, raking in 3.161 BTC rewards.

"Bitaxe as well as solo blocks FutureBit devices have found years before were mostly found on solo pools like ckpool. This is the first time in a long time an independent solo block has been found by a single piece of hardware hosting their own node and stratum pool," said the company.

• PlebLab x ZBD Hackathon II at TabConf recap. Co-organized by ZBD and sponsored by Fulgur Ventures and the Open Source Justice Foundation, the hackathon ran from October 16 to 24. The top projects of the hackathon include:
  • Best Hack Overall: Frostr. The project uses FROST cryptography for t-of-n remote signing and key rotation on Bitcoin and Nostr. It comes with a desktop app called Igloo, the Frost2 x web extension, and the Bifrost TypeScript library. This solution flexibly secures user keys for both Bitcoin multi-sig and Nostr across devices, even if one share is compromised.
  • DL Chess. It uses adaptor signatures with Taproot to support betting on chess games through an oracle and the lichess API, leveraging Bitcoin's scripting abilities for secure and transparent gameplay.
  • Pepe.vote is a community-driven digital art museum focused on Pepe-themed images. It uses Nostr events for voting, enabling polls without monetary transactions, offering a novel, transparent, zap-free polling method on Nostr.
  • Tajfi. It is a Taproot Assets wallet using Nostr authentication for enhanced privacy and custody. It anchors vUTXOs to Bitcoin UTXOs, enabling seamless asset management and decentralized financial autonomy via Nostr-based PSBT marketplaces.
  • Discreet Luck is a Bitcoin prediction market using DLCs and Nostr. It integrates Bitcoin with Polymarket's liquidity, improving user experience by offering instantly-fillable bets without centralized exchanges.

"Will have the all the videos for each project out very soon on PlebTV," added PlebLab.

• Bitdeer releases SEALMINER A2 with 16.5 J/TH efficiency. A Bitcoin mining and colocation provider unveiled SEALMINER A2, featuring an efficiency of 16.5 J/TH and a hashrate capacity of 226 TH/s. The company also said that the SEAL03 ASIC is on track to tape out in Q4 2024, featuring a chip efficiency of 10 J/TH.

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— Bitdeer (@BitdeerOfficial) October 24, 2024

• Sazmining is starting a modest-sized bitcoin mine in a small Norwegian fishing town. The operation will take place in a 350-square-meter facility with an energy capacity of 2.6 megawatts (MW). It is set to go live on December 1.
  • Earlier this year, Norwegian lawmakers moved to restrict Bitcoin mining as part of new data center regulations. Sazmining CEO Kent Halliburton views this as an educational phase, with Sazmining's new facility poised to highlight the benefits of Bitcoin mining.
• LABITCONF 2024 to take place this week. The Latin American Bitcoin conference will on November 1-2 in Costa Salguero, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tickets are available here.

Use the tools

• Robosats v0.7.1-alpha pre-release is available for testing. It brings multiple performance improvements, better and faster web notifications, and several bug fixes.
• Blitz Wallet 0.3.2-beta delivers multiple bug fixes and improvements.
• Kyoto v0.4.0, a simple, memory-conservative, and private Bitcoin client for developers to build wallet applications, introduces a new HeaderCheckpoint constructor from height, ability to add a TrustedPeer while the node is running, and few other enhancements.
• Some of the latest Zaprite updates include an auto-pay feature, Merchant X credit card integration, UI updates, and the removal of Mutiny Wallet from available connections.
• Lightning Terminal (LiT) v0.13.6-alpha includes a hotfix that updates the application version of LiT, which was unchanged in v0.13.5-alpha.
• NodeGuard v0.15.7 fixes outputs for sweep transactions.
• Nos.social v1.0.0 launched in Australia and New Zealand with an updated onboarding flow designed to aid new users, among other improvements.
• Mullvad VPN has added defense against AI-guided traffic analysis (DAITA) to its Android app. This feature is now supported on all Mullvad-supported platforms.

• Noskey library added ability to generate Pubky keys, allowing users to generate Nostr keys, Bitcoin keys, and Pubky keys for use in multiple protocols.
• Pubky Arcade is a turn-based game without a central server utilizing the Pubky protocol.

Other stuff

• Awesome Pubky is a curated list of Pubky resources, libraries, tools, and applications.
• k3tan released the Ministry of Nodes Bitcoin Nodebox video tutorial series for 2024.
• DarthCoin put together a simple guide for getting started with Walletano, a web-based Bitcoin and Lightning wallet.

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