Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, November 13th, 2024

What's new

• OpenSats announced long-term support for m1sterc001guy. m1sterc001guy is the main maintainer of the Fedimint Lightning Gateway, crucial for linking federated communities to the Bitcoin Lightning network and ensuring smooth payments.
• Singapore-based Genius Group (GNS) shifts to Bitcoin treasury strategy. The AI company said it will commit 90% of its current and future reserves to bitcoin, starting with an initial $120 million purchase.
• MARA added 6210 BTC to its reserves in Q3. The bitcoin miner now holds 26,747 BTC, having mined 2,070 BTC and bought 6,210 BTC, 4,144 of which were acquired with funds from a $300 million convertible notes offering at an average price of $59,500 per coin.
• Italy to water down its 42% cryptocurrency capital gains tax proposal. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's government suggested amending the budget to cap the tax increase at 28%, reduced from the initially proposed 42%. The current rate is 26%, writes Bloomberg.
• ECB economists soften wording in the latest anti-bitcoin paper. The last paragraph now reads: "Current non-holders should realise that they have reasons to worry about Bitcoin and legislation favoring it" instead of "Current non-holders should realize that they have compelling reasons to oppose Bitcoin and to advocate for legislation against it, aiming to prevent bitcoin prices from rising or to see Bitcoin disappear altogether," along with a few other changes.

• Revolut to roll out its cryptocurrency exchange across Europe. The London-based digital bank is expanding its Revolut X platform across 30 European countries, as announced on Wednesday. Launched in the UK in May for professional traders, the app will enable bitcoin and altcoin trading to users in 30 European countries. Revolut has over 40 million customers globally.
• Bitkey partners with Blockchain.com and Azteco. Bitkey customers will now be able to buy and sell bitcoin through Blockchain.com and will have access to redeem Azteco bitcoin vouchers via Bitkey app, was announced in a blog post.
• Breez partners with Mexican Bitcoin neobank Yopaki. Yopaki offers the ability to buy and sell bitcoin and other financial instruments. The app users also get access to automated channel management, resources to learn about Bitcoin (powered by Jippi), and the ability to earn sats by playing the Mexican game, Lotería.
• Mullvad VPN cancels remaining PayPal subscriptions to collect less user data. "This does not affect the time remaining on your account, it will just not be renewed automatically. We removed subscriptions in order to store less data about our customers," said the company.
• Mutiny team is developing OpenSecret. OpenSecret is a backend solution for app developers that turns private encryption on by default to safeguard sensitive data. By ensuring that only users can access their data, OpenSecret aims to enhance security for both users and developers. The official launch is scheduled for 2025.

"Our socials have switched over to OpenSecret. When the wallet officially shuts down at the end of the year, won't be using Mutiny anywhere anymore," said Tony Giorgio on stacker.news.

• Interested users can join the waitlist to get early access.

• The company also introduced Maple AI, a private AI chat built with OpenSecret. A private beta is available here.

Use the tools

• Liana wallet v8.0 introduces support for Taproot descriptors on BitBox02 devices and includes a new installation process with setup templates and examples. Additionally, the wallet's syncing state display has been reworked.
• Krux v24.11.0, an open-source firmware for building DIY Bitcoin signing devices, adds an experimental tamper detection tool, a Flash Map tool for visualizing the regions of device memory, fixes a vulnerability related to the import of Python modules from an SD card, adds a WonderWM simulator, provides a Japanese translation, and includes a few other reliability and quality-of-life improvements.
• Nunchuk Android v1.9.54, iOS v1.9.58, and Desktop v1.9.40 now support COLDCARD as an inheritance key, add the option to 'send all remaining' for batch transactions, along with various fixes and improvements.
• Blitz Wallet added Money Badger's Pick n Pay integration.

• BlindBit Wallet is a work-in-progress BIP-352 silent payment wallet that runs as a daemon. It is written in Go and supports receive and send functionality. "Still in early testing, only use with funds you can afford to lose," warns the developer.
• Fully Noded - Server v0.0.0.5 is now available for testing.
• tick-tock-tui is a TUI app for handling Bitcoin data provided by Mempool REST API incl. blocks, fees and price converter.

• Knox (beta) is a Nostr CLI tool that acts as a secure bunker for sharing credentials. It supports encrypted storage and can run independently across multiple devices.
• Zap.store is now just Zapstore. "The premium domain renewal is too expensive, so I'm moving it to zapstore.dev for years to come. The middle dot is also confusing for pronunciation," said the developer.
• Cashu.me web wallet now can display the USD price when paying a Lightning invoice from a BTC mint (must be turned on in the settings), and its QR scanner now supports BIP-21 unified addresses.
• Signal adds Zoom-like video calls for groups. Users can now join a Signal group call by simply sharing a link. The update also adds a raise hand button, emoji reactions, a dedicated calls tab, more options to view call speakers and participants, as well as updated call settings

"All of these features are available in the latest versions of Signal for Android, iOS, and Desktop. Update Signal to try them out," said the project.

• CalyxOS v6.1.0 is a November security update for Pixel 6 to 8a devices. Pixel 9 builds will be released later this week.

Other stuff

• Atlas21 published a simple guide on how to securely store a seed phrase.
• Charlie Spears published a post with key takeways from the OP_NEXT Bitcoin Scaling Conference.
• Julian Figueroa shared a new short film called "What Is Bitcoiner?" Watch it and zap it here.

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