BDK v0.28.1: Patch Release "This patch release backports (from the BDK 1.0 dev branch) a fix for a bug in the policy condition calculation and adds a new taproot single key descriptor template (BIP-86)."

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BDK v0.28.1: Patch Release

Bitcoin Dev Kit (BDK) is a modern, lightweight, descriptor-based wallet library written in Rust.

Ilya Lichtenstein and Razzlekhan Pleaded Guilty to Bitfinex 2016 Heist and Money Laundering Conspiracy "Lichtenstein pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit money laundering, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison. Morgan pleaded guilty to one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, each of which carries a maximum penalty of five years of in prison."

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Ilya Lichtenstein and Razzlekhan Pleaded Guilty to Bitfinex 2016 Heist and Money Laundering Conspiracy

A married couple from New York City pleaded guilty to money laundering conspiracies arising from the hack and theft of approximately 120,000 bitcoi...

Fitch Downgraded U.S. Long-Term Debt Citing Structural Concerns About U.S. Budget Deficits “The repeated debt-limit political standoffs and last-minute resolutions have eroded confidence in fiscal management,” said Fitch.

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Fitch Downgraded U.S. Long-Term Debt Citing Structural Concerns About U.S. Budget Deficits

Fitch Ratings cut the United States’ long-term foreign currency issuer default rating to AA+ from AAA.

Umbrel Nostr Relay App Now Syncs Your Private Relay with Public Relays "Now you can sync your private relay on Umbrel with public relays, and back up past and future Nostr activity, even if the connection between your client and your private relay goes down."

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Umbrel Nostr Relay App Now Syncs Your Private Relay with Public Relays

Nostr Relay is powered by the open source nostr-rs-relay project - a Rust implementation of Nostr relay.

Tether Bought 1529 BTC in Q2, Holds More US Treasuries Than Australia Tether Excess Reserves increased by 850M to reach $3.3B as it revealed $72.5B overall exposure in US T-Bills. The company also increased its Bitcoin holdings to more than 54000 BTC.

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Tether Bought 1529 BTC in Q2, Holds More US Treasuries Than Australia

Tether Excess Reserves increased by 850M to reach $3.3B as it revealed $72.5B overall exposure in US T-Bills. The company also increased its Bitcoi...

Coracle v0.3.0: Faster Feeds, Better Navigation, NIP-89 App Store "After just over a month of no updates, Coracle 0.3.0 is now available!"

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Coracle v0.3.0: Faster Feeds, Better Navigation, NIP-89 App Store

"Coracle is a web client for the Nostr protocol focused on pushing the boundaries of what's unique about nostr, including relay selection and manag...

Peach Bitcoin v0.2.12: LNURL/BTC Swaps Peach Bitcoin is a KYC-free P2P Bitcoin marketplace operating in Europe. Open Beta available on Android and iOS.

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Peach Bitcoin v0.2.12: LNURL/BTC Swaps

Peach Bitcoin is a KYC-free P2P Bitcoin marketplace operating in Europe. Open Beta available on Android and iOS.

Lightning Loop v0.26.0-beta: Sweep HTLCs to Addresses Generated from xPub "This new feature enables loop out and autoloop out operations to sweep htlcs to addresses generated from an extended public key."

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Lightning Loop v0.26.0-beta: Sweep HTLCs to Addresses Generated from xPub

Lightning Loop is a non-custodial service offered by Lightning Labs that makes it easy to move bitcoin into and out of the Lightning Network.

Following Scrutiny in Kenya and Europe, Worldcoin Says It Will Let Interested 3rd Parties Use Its ID System Kenya suspended Worldcoin activities, while the project also has fallen under investigation in France, UK, and Germany. Worldcoin says it will continue rolling out operations in "all the parts of the world that will accept us" and admitted that it plans to sell collected data to interested parties.

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Following Scrutiny in Kenya and Europe, Worldcoin Says It Will Let Interested 3rd Parties Use Its ID System

Kenya suspended Worldcoin activities, while the project also has fallen under investigation in France, UK, and Germany. Worldcoin says it will cont...

NDK v0.8.0: Data Vending Machines Support & NDK-React v0.1.1 Released NDK is a nostr development kit that makes the experience of building Nostr-related applications, whether they are relays, clients, or anything in between, better, more reliable and overall nicer to work with than existing solutions.

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NDK v0.8.0: Data Vending Machines Support & NDK-React v0.1.1 Released

NDK is a nostr development kit that makes the experience of building Nostr-related applications, whether they are relays, clients, or anything in b...

Blockstream Jade v1.0.21: Better Navigation and Readability "The new Blockstream Jade UX brings major improvements including: - Better navigation & readabilty on Jade; - More intuitive SeedQR scanning flows; - Direct links to Bitcoin self-custody help content."

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Blockstream Jade v1.0.21: Better Navigation and Readability

Blockstream Jade Firmware is a free and open source software for Jade signing devices.

MicroStrategy Acquired 467 BTC in July, Prepares to Raise Up To $750M More The company now holds 152,800 BTC, and its latest filings hint at more upcoming bitcoin purchases.

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MicroStrategy Acquired 467 BTC in July, Prepares to Raise Up To $750M More

MicroStrategy now holds 152,800 BTC, and the company's recent financial filings hint at more upcoming bitcoin purchases.

Amber v0.0.2: Nostr Event Signer for Android "With it you can have your nsec on only one application and use your npub on every other android application."

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Amber v0.0.2: Nostr Event Signer for Android

Amber is a Nostr event signed that lets you have your keys on only one application.

Nodeless Is Now Open Source: Receive BTC & Lightning Payments Without a Node Nodeless allows you to accept Bitcoin and Lightning payments in your online store, charity or fundraiser, all without all the complexities of managing a lightning node. The payments get sent directly to one's cold storage or lightning address.

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Nodeless Is Now Open Source: Receive BTC & Lightning Payments Without a Node

Nodeless allows you to accept Bitcoin and Lightning payments in your online store, charity or fundraiser, all without all the complexities of manag...

Someone Used Rewards Bug on Stacker.News to Withdraw 20M Sats "The bug led rewards to payout 86743171000 sats rather than the intended 8774 sats ... 867 bitcoin in rewards."

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Someone Used Rewards Bug on Stacker.News to Withdraw 20M Sats

"The site went down after midnight last night following our recent changes. The root cause was a bug in rewards introduced by upgrading our ORM," k...

Coinbase Is Still 'Looking Into How To Best Add Lightning' After saying that Coinbase will integrate Lightning back in April, CEO Brian Armstrong repeated that the largest exchange in the United States is still evaluating options for its forthcoming Lightning integration.

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Coinbase Is Still 'Looking Into How To Best Add Lightning'

After saying that Coinbase will integrate Lightning back in April, CEO Brian Armstrong repeated that the largest exchange in the United States is s...

BTCPay Server v1.11.1: Bug Fixes

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BTCPay Server v1.11.1: Bug Fixes

BTCPay Server is a free and open-source Bitcoin payment processor which allows you to accept bitcoin without extra fees or intermediaries.

The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance 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.

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The U.K. Government Is Dangerously Close to Eroding Encryption and Normalizing Mass Surveillance

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 in...

Minibits v0.0.7-alpha: Offline Send + Receive "New coin selection allows you to send coins without connecting with the mint. Transactions complete when the receiving wallet gets back online. Give it a try!"

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Minibits v0.0.7-alpha: Offline Send + Receive

Minibits is an e-cash wallet with a focus on performance and usability. Cash is issued by mints and backed by Bitcoin via the Cashu protocol and Li...

Bitcoin Optech #262: LN Spec Meetings & Blind MuSig2 Signing Safety "This week’s newsletter links to transcripts of recent LN specification meetings and summarizes a thread about the safety of blind MuSig2 signing. Also included are our regular sections..."

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Bitcoin Optech #262: LN Spec Meetings & Blind MuSig2 Signing Safety

"This week’s newsletter links to transcripts of recent LN specification meetings and summarizes a thread about the safety of blind MuSig2 signing...