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The acquisition will see Qala rebrand as Btrust Builders with a new focus on providing training in open-source Bitcoin software development. Btrust is a non-profit fund established by Block’s founder Jack Dorsey and the American rap star Jay Z.

BTCPay Server will work with Spiral and Lightning Dev Kit (LDK) to help brick-and-mortar businesses accept non-custodial lightning payments on mobile.

Baltic Honeybadger 2023 is the 5th edition of the European Bitcoin-only event held in Riga, Latvia.

Baltic Honeybadger 2023 is the 5th edition of the European Bitcoin-only event held in Riga, Latvia. It discusses the most important, popular, and controversial topics in Bitcoin.

The District of Columbia Court of Appeals might have paved the way for bitcoin exchange-traded funds by siding with Grayscale in a lawsuit against the Securities and Exchange Commission which had denied the company’s application to convert the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust to an ETF.

"On a smaller scale, closing channels is common to maintain capital efficiency. In July we did a larger operation without advance notice and caused quite a stir. We wanted to get ahead of it this time," River said.

"Under the proposed rules, the first year that brokers would be required to report any information on sales and exchanges of digital assets is in 2026, for sales and exchanges in 2025."

Vulpem Ventures, a company behind Fuji Money, Marina Wallet for Liquid, and Nigiri Bitcoin, awarded a $25000 grant to Burak for his work on the Ark protocol.

Spiral announced new grantee Michael Haase and renewed grant for Vasil Dimov.

Nodal Power, a Utah-based company that develops and operates renewable energy power plants, announced that it has raised $13 million in funding to aggressively mitigate methane emissions at landfills.

"In my experiments, I was able to create hundreds of thousands of fake channels against victim nodes (owned by me), with all kinds of adverse effects. In some cases, funds were clearly at risk of being stolen due to the victim node’s inability to respond to cheating attempts," Matt Morehouse wrote.

"After rigorous regulatory discussions that started back in 2019, the government of Oman eventually found bitcoin to be in line with Islamic law, accepting the modern innovation into Oman's deep-rooted traditions."