Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, November 6th, 2024

GM. Here are some of the latest stories and updates you may find useful.

What's happening

• Donald J. Trump elected as 47th President of the United States as bitcoin reaches new USD all-time high. Donald J. Trump has officially secured a victory, becoming the 47th President of the United States. He is set to begin his second term on January 20th, 2025. Bitcoin's price surged nearly 8% to a record high of $75,345 following the election results.
• Disclosure of hindered block propagation due to stalling peers in Bitcoin Core v25 and earlier. . In versions before Bitcoin Core v25.1, an attacker can cause a node to not download the latest block. The issue is of medium severity. The issue was reported and fixed by Greg Sanders, and mitigation was introduced in Bitcoin Core v26.0 and backported to v25.1.
• Bitcoin Dev Mailing list at lists.linuxfoundation.org is no more. The list moderator, Bryan Bishop, said that the list, including archives, has been removed. Earlier this year, the list was migrated to Google Groups, prompted by the Linux Foundation’s decision to stop hosting email lists as of the end of 2023.
  • You can still access the archive (including lightning-dev) using old URLs via bitcoin-dev mailing list archive link redirector at gnusha.org/url.

• Nairobi Bitcoin Lightning Developer Bootcamp 2.0 is set to take place on December 3-6, 2024. It is a four-day deep dive into the Lightning Network development taking place in Kenya. Learn more and sign up here.
• Bitcoin++ mempool edition to take place on May 7-9, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Ticket prices will increase on January 1, get yours here.

Use the tools

• Boltz Web App v1.5.0 adds BOLT 12 support for Submarine Swaps (swapping into Lightning), the ability to fetch BIP-353 with DNSSEC prover, and new integrations with BancoLibre and StashPay. It also includes support for Ledger and Trezor, among other improvements.
• ZEUS v0.9.2-beta2 is now available for testing. It includes fixes for external account signing.
• rust-nostr v0.36.0 brings numerous improvements to Relay and RelayPool performance, adds a NostrSigner trait, and features better method and struct names. It also introduces LocalRelay and allows it to be easily served as a hidden onion service with the embedded Tor client. Read more about it here.
• Electrs v0.10.7 introduces support for testnet4, enables LTO in release builds, and stops mempool sync when the bitcoind mempool is not yet loaded.
• BullishNuts v0.2.41 adds buttons for viewing mint info.
• Lume v24.11.4 ships with an improved dark mode and the ability to enter a custom relay for relay feeds.
• Strike has launched automatic withdrawals.
• Bitcoin education app Jippi is raising funds for the development of Tribe Clash—the world’s first Pokémon GO-inspired Bitcoin education game. It will let you create or join a tribe and battle for dominance over a city with your friends by solving Bitcoin quizzes and capturing Bitcoin beasts in 21 real-world territories. The winning tribe with the most beasts and territories at the end of the game wins $30,000 in BTC.

Other stuff

• João Thallis gave a short introduction to nix-bitcoin at NixCon2024.

• Charmaine Ndolo posted to Delving Bitcoin about her recent paper on payment censorship in the Lightning Network despite encrypted communications.
• Atlas21 published a guide on how to create a multisig wallet with Electrum.
• benny b wrote a comprehensive introduction to the DLC Dev Kit's API.
• Bitcoin Design Newsletter issue #67 is here.
• BTC Sessions released the second tutorial for Ashigaru Wallet, covering Ricochet transactions, coin control and labeling features, Stonewall and Stowaway coinjoins, and more.

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