Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, July 24th, 2024
Good Morning, Bitcoin is a daily news roundup covering key stories, project updates, releases, guides, research and other Bitcoin and freedom tech-related topics.
StatechainJS: Like Ecash but If Operator Goes Down You Can Recover Your Sats
StatechainJS is 'a vanilla javascript implementation of a statechain client and an operator.'
Liana v6.0: Minscript for Jade
Liana is a Bitcoin wallet that uses miniscript output descriptors, with extensive use of relative timelocks (OP_CSV). It features a timelocked recovery path for all your coins and can be used for inheritance, decaying multisigs and generally safer backups.
Polar v3.0.0: Lightning Terminal Nodes with Taproot Assets Channels
Polar is a tool for creating one-click Lighting networks used in local app development and testing. Available on Windows, Mac, and Linux.
Lightning Labs Launches Taproot Assets on Lightning Network
"Lightning is now the global, interoperable financial layer," announced Lightning Labs.
Satimoto App to Shut Down on September 1st
Satimoto, a privacy-friendly electric vehicle charging app that utilizes Bitcoin over the Lightning Network to stream micro-payments, has announced it will disable services starting September 1, 2024.
OpenSats Grants Long-term Support for fiatjaf
OpenSats announced long-term support for Nostr developer fiatjaf.
Understanding Bitcoin Adoption in the United States: Politics, Demographics & Sentiment
"One might be tempted to think that Bitcoin ownership is a kind of identity that reflects political orientation. We found that not to be the case. Bitcoin owners are politically just like the rest of America: mostly moderate, with smaller conservative and liberal contingents."
Foundry Launches Initiative to Support Open-Source Bitcoin Developers
Bitcoin miners on the KYC mining pool Foundry USA can now donate funds towards open-source Bitcoin developers through non-profits like Brink and OpenSats. Foundry and Core Scientific have already donated 1.4 BTC to kickstart the program.
Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Good Morning, Bitcoin is a daily news roundup covering key stories, project updates, releases, guides, research and other Bitcoin and freedom tech-related topics.
Nostr Web Services (NWS): Enable TCP on Nostr
Nostr Web Services (NWS) replaces the IP layer in TCP transport using Nostr, enabling a secure connection between clients and backend services. Exit nodes are reachable through their nprofiles, which are combinations of a Nostr public key and multiple relays.
OpenSats Announced Sixth Wave of Bitcoin Grants
OpenSats granted support for developing Peer Storage backups for Lightning channels, Secp256k1.swift, Blitz Wallet, NLightning, eNuts, Gonuts, and Bitcoin Fees projects.