Releases

"As we start 2024, we anticipate a significant increase in network participants for Bitcoin on-chain and the Lightning Network. We’ve made some updates to our platform to prepare for this influx," announced Voltage in a blog post.

This week’s issue describes a proposed contract for trustless miner feerate futures, links to a coin selection algorithm for LN nodes providing dual funding liquidity, details a prototype for a vault using OP_CAT, and discusses sending and receiving ecash using LN and ZKCPs.

Here are some the latest Bitcoin grassroots projects and initiatives launched via the Geyser bitcoin crowdfunding platform.

Blockstream Green is a multi-platform and feature-rich self-custodial Bitcoin and Liquid wallet.

Mostro Web is a super early version of a web client for the Mostro P2P System.

Strike is expanding its suite of Bitcoin products and services into Gabon, Ivory Coast, Malawi, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zambia.

Keystache is a desktop app that enables you to keep all of your nostr keys in a single application rather than pasting your nsec into every application you install on the desktop. Available on Mac devices, with Windows support coming soon.

Core Lightning is a lightweight, highly customizable and standard compliant implementation of the Lightning Network protocol.

Tails 6.0 is the first version of Tails based on Debian 12 (Bookworm) and GNOME 43, and it brings new versions of most of the software included in Tails as well as several important security and usability improvements.

Plebeian Market is the self-sovereign marketplace of the Internet, powered by Bitcoin and the Lightning Network for payments and by Nostr for resilience.

Envoy is a free and open source mobile Bitcoin wallet and a companion app for Passport signing device. It can also be used a standalone Bitcoin mobile wallet.

Cypher.space aims to become a bitcoin-only self-hosted Wordpress and Shopify alternative for setting up a free bitcoin blog or webshop with value-for-value donation and checkout procedure tools.