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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.

OpenSats granted support for developing Peer Storage backups for Lightning channels, Secp256k1.swift, Blitz Wallet, NLightning, eNuts, Gonuts, and Bitcoin Fees projects.

The development comes at a time when the mining landscape has grown more competitive following the recent Bitcoin halving.

"OpenSats is pleased to announce that Hodlbod has been granted long-term support for his ongoing contributions to advancing the nostr ecosystem," announced OpenSats.

Arthur Hayes, Co-Founder of BitMEX & CIO at Maelstrom, venture fund managed by his family office, announced a grant program to support open-source Bitcoin developers.

Today, a verdict was handed down against Craig Wright in the COPA vs CSW trial. Judge Mellor ruled that Wright’s behavior warrants a referral to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for a possible criminal investigation on charges of perjury and forgery of documents.

OpenSats, a non-profit organization that supports open-source Bitcoin and freedom tech projects, announced its fifth wave of Nostr grants today.

A judge has granted a delay in the trial of Tornado Cash developer Roman Storm in the United States. Meanwhile, in Europe, fellow Tornado Cash developer Alexey Pertsev must prepare for his appeal in prison after a Dutch court denied his bail request.

Relai, a Swiss-based app for buying bitcoin directly to self-custody, announced that all users must verify their accounts by October 31, 2024.

The co-founder and former chief technology officer (CTO) of Paxful Inc., Artur Schaback, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to fail to maintain an effective anti-money laundering (AML) program.

Bitcoin exchange and derivative trading platform BitMEX pled guilty to violating the Bank Secrecy Act by "willfully failing to establish, implement, and maintain an adequate anti-money laundering (AML) program."

William Lonergan Hill, co-founder and developer of Samourai Wallet, made his first public court appearance in the US Department of Justice’s (DoJ) case against Samourai Wallet developers.