Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, December 11th, 2024

What's new

• Microsoft shareholders vote against Bitcoin treasury strategy. Microsoft's board opposed the proposal, citing volatility as a key concern and noting that management "already carefully considers this topic." The company reportedly holds $78.4 billion in cash and marketable securities.

• Coincheck becomes second exchange to go public on Nasdaq. Coincheck, Japan's second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, is set to list on NASDAQ today. The company will merge with Thunder Bridge Capital, making it the second cryptocurrency exchange to go public in the United States, reports The Block.
• MicroStrategy may be added into NASDAQ-100 index. The company's inclusion in the index would mark a significant milestone and trigger passive capital inflows. Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) would need to purchase an estimated $2.1 billion of MSTR shares to align with the index's weighting.

• Relai raises $12 million series A funding round. The self-custodial app dedicated to buying and selling Bitcoin has secured $12 million in a Series A funding round led by Ego Death Capital. This investment elevates Relai's post-money valuation to $72 million, per the company's CEO Julian Liniger.
• MARA acquires 11,774 BTC for $1.1 billion. The company announced that it acquired additional bitcoin at an average price of $96,000 per coin, increasing its total holdings to 40,435 BTC as of December 9, valued at approximately $3.9 billion.
• Bitcoin reserve discussions reach Russia. A new proposal to add bitcoin to the country's national reserves was reportedly made by Anton Tkachev, a State Duma member from the New People party. According to RIA Novosti, this initiative aims to find alternatives to traditional financial systems amid increasing international pressures.
• El Salvador and Argentina partner to regulate 'crypto industry.' Juan Carlos Reyes, El Salvador’s chief crypto regulator and president of the Comisión Nacional de Activos Digitales (CNAD), along with Roberto Silva, president of Argentina's Comisión Nacional de Valores (CNV), signed an agreement to collaborate on cryptocurrency regulation.

Use the tools

• Zeus wallet v0.9.3 features enhancements and new functionality, including an improved channels UI with reserves, a new invoice setting to display requested amounts on the payment request view, and ZEUS Pay UX improvements.
• BTCPay Server v2.0.4 is a minor release shipping several new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
  • Boltz BTCPay plugin v2.1.3 patch includes some UI fixes for the status and wallet page.
• Alby Hub v1.11.3 hotfix disables auto-linking of Alby Account as part of the default onboarding experience.
• Meme Amigo by lemon is a Gifbuddy.lol companion app (and PWA) that lets you create memes on the go and easily add them to notes on Nostr.

• Zapstore v0.1.7 enables app downloads in the background, adds full-screen images for apps, displays non-updatable apps due to certificate mismatch issues, and more.
• Nowser v0.0.3, a Nostr key management and signing app for iOS and Android, adds a built-in relay for remote signing, bookmarks support, and more.
• Voyage v0.17.1, a lightweight Nostr client for Android, has been released.
• Jumble.social, a Nostr client focused on browsing relay feeds, has been adapted for smaller screens.
• SATOSH.EE, a website offering customers gift cards, exclusive discounts, a lucrative Loyalty Program, added 'Loyalty' menu and updated its FAQ page.

• Regulated Bitcoin and Lightning-payments startup Strike introduced multiple DCAs with different amounts along with bi-weekly buys.
• SimpleX Chat v6.2.0 adds servers operated by Flux to improve metadata privacy in the SimpleX network, business chats, improved user experience of chats, as well as improved iOS push notifications.

Other stuff

• Matthew Mezinskis has published a Base Money Update for Q3, 2024.

• The Pubky project shared an article explaining eclipse attacks and the censorship-resistance features of Mainline DHT.
• The Fishcake published a post recapping one year of experiences operating a Lightning node using Eclair.
• Atlas21 has authored a straightforward guide for using a Bitcoin desktop wallet.
• Ungovernable Misfits released the first-ever interview with the team behind Ashigaru Wallet.
• What Bitcoin Did aired an episode discussing the Samourai Wallet case, featuring Roger Burlingame, the defense attorney for William Hill, and Zack Shapiro of the Bitcoin Policy Institute.

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