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The Online Safety Bill, now at the final stage before passage in the House of Lords, gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services. No amendments have been accepted that would mitigate the bill’s most dangerous elements.

Bity, the operator of 45 Bitcoin ATMs in Switzerland, is moving ahead with a complaint against Financial Market Supervisory Authority (FINMA) for lowering the limits on Bitcoin ATM transactions that require users to reveal their identity.

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) added a new bounty to its recently announced Bitcoin Bounty Challenge to encourage new wallets to add BIP47 support.

Coinbase chief executive Brian Armstrong told the Financial Times that the SEC made the recommendation before launching legal action against the Nasdaq-listed company last month for failing to register as a broker.

Adopting Bitcoin 2024 conference is set to take place on January 26th - 28th in Cape Town, South Africa.

Spiral, an independent, bitcoin-focused entity within the Block ecosystem of companies, had quite an eventful quarter.

"PayPal has locked our account with almost $4000 in donations after we added the GrapheneOS Foundation bank accounts on 2023-07-27."

"The Human Rights Foundation is launching with this initial set of 10 bounty challenges. More bounties might be added as we go. An individual or team who fully solves any of the 10 challenges will be eligible to receive a bounty of 2 BTC."

"The Kolektiva raid should be an important alarm bell for everyone hosting decentralized content. Police raids and seizures can be difficult to predict, even when you’ve taken a lot of precautions."

Elizabeth Bisbee, head of investigations at Chainalysis Government Solutions, testified that she was 'unaware' of scientific evidence for the accuracy of Chainalysis’ Reactor software used by law enforcement.

Alyssa Hertig is working on LNDK which aims to implement BOLT 12 functionality externally to LND.