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"Through a seemingly innocuous change to the definition of “electronic service communications provider,” the bill vastly expands the universe of U.S. businesses that can be conscripted to aid the government in conducting surveillance."

The bill aims to extend Bank Secrecy Act requirements including know-your-customer rules to miners, validators, wallet providers and others.

LNbank is a plugin for BTCPay Server to use the internal Lightning node in custodial mode: It allows server admins to open up the Lightning node and give users access via custodial layer 3 wallets. All users of BTCPay Server's LNbank plugin are urged to upgrade to to v1.8.9 as soon as possible.

Tether has frozen coins held in crypto wallets sanctioned by the U.S. Office of Foreign Asset Controls, the company announced.

"Ledger Live is phoning out data on assets you hold in your hardware wallet the moment you access Ledger Live. It's also sending out tons of other info about your computer and device," wrote @rektbuildr.

Unconfiscatable Conference brings high profile speakers from the world of Bitcoin to discuss the technology with emphasis on both scalability and privacy. It takes place in Las Vegas on December 7-8, 2023.

"President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been granted a special license allowing him to temporarily step down from his presidential role to pursue a second term in the country's upcoming elections on February 4, 2024."

The Unconfiscatable Conference brings high profile speakers from the world of Bitcoin to discuss the technology with emphasis on both scalability and privacy.

Unidentified governments are surveilling smartphone users by tracking push notifications that move through Google's and Apple's servers, a US senator Wyden warned on Wednesday.

21 Ninja provides various empirical data on Bitcoin’s P2P network.

Next TAB conference will take place on October 23-26, 2024 in Atlanta, GA.