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Mt. Gox, a defunct Japanese bitcoin exchange, has started to repay creditors in bitcoin and bitcoin cash on July 5, ending a 10-year long wait for some users to get their money back.

OpenSats awarded long-term support to Yuki Kishimoto for his contributions to the nostr ecosystem.

Bitcoin Core developers introduced a new security disclosure policy for publicizing security-critical bugs. This policy aims to establish a standardized process for reporting and disclosing vulnerabilities and improve transparency and security within the Bitcoin ecosystem.

The vulnerability, a signal handler race condition in OpenSSH’s server (sshd), allows unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) as root on glibc-based Linux systems, posing a security risk. This issue affects sshd in its default configuration.

OpenSats, a non-profit organization that supports the development of free and open-source software and projects, has announced its 5th wave of Bitcoin grants for 10 more Bitcoin projects.

"Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK," announced Wikileaks.

Bitcoin and freedom tech focused non-profit OpenSats announced long-term support (LTS) for two more developers - Cashu protocol developer Calle and Damus and Nostr developer William Casarin.

EU member states could not reach an agreement on chat control today. The Council Presidency removed the vote from the agenda because it lacked a sufficient majority.

"If you are running an LND release older than this, your funds are at risk! Update to at least v0.17.0 to protect your node."

"If Chat Control is endorsed by Council now, experience shows there is a great risk it will be adopted at the end of the political process," writes Patrick Breyer of The European Pirate Party.

The First Report on Encryption by the EU Innovation Hub for Internal Security argues that Bitcoin’s Lightning Network and other layer 2 solutions, as well as other widely used encryption-based tools present new challenges (and opportunities) for law enforcement investigations.

Bitcoin miner Bitfarms announced on Monday that it has adopted of a "poison pill" strategy to guard against a potential hostile takeover by rival Riot Platforms. This move aims to maintain the integrity of its previously announced strategic alternatives review process, the firm said.