New KYC/AML Compliance Protocol Proposed by Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Ethereum founder collaborated with surveillance firm Chainalysis to produce a paper on 'regulated privacy' using Privacy Pools. In the proposal, privacy service users would generate zero-knowledge proof to prove their funds are associated with approved sets of past deposits.

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New KYC/AML Compliance Protocol Proposed by Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum founder collaborates with surveillance firm Chainalysis to produce a paper on 'regulated privacy' using Privacy Pools. In the proposal, pr...

New KYC/AML Compliance Protocol Proposed by Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Ethereum founder collaborated with surveillance firm Chainalysis to produce a paper on 'regulated privacy' using Privacy Pools. In the proposal, privacy service users would generate zero-knowledge proof to prove their funds are associated with approved sets of past deposits.

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New KYC/AML Compliance Protocol Proposed by Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin

Ethereum founder collaborates with surveillance firm Chainalysis to produce a paper on 'regulated privacy' using Privacy Pools. In the proposal, pr...

RGB v0.10 Becomes Stable "It's been 5 month since the first alpha of RGB v0.10 - and today we are thrilled to make the stable release of the RGB command-line tool and runtime library for desktop and mobile integration."

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RGB v0.10: Stable Release

"RGB is confidential and scalable client-validated smart contracts for Bitcoin and Lightning. It embraces the concepts of private and mutual owners...

El Salvador to Bring Bitcoin Education in Public Schools as Part of Curriculum in 2024 The Ministry of Education of El Salvador and the nonprofit, nongovernmental organization Mi Primer Bitcoin partnered to add Bitcoin education to public school curriculum by 2024.

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El Salvador to Bring Bitcoin Education in Public Schools as Part of Curriculum in 2024

The Ministry of Education of El Salvador and the nonprofit, nongovernmental organization Mi Primer Bitcoin partnered to add Bitcoin education to pu...

Mostro v0.8.0 Released Mostro is a Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform on Nostr, developed by the creators of LNp2pBot.

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Mostro v0.8.0 Released

Mostro is a Lightning Network peer-to-peer exchange platform on Nostr, developed by the creators of LNp2pBot.

LNp2pBot v0.9.0: Typescript Support LNp2pBot is an open source telegram bot that allows people to perform no KYC trades with other people on Telegram using the Lightning Network.

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LNp2pBot v0.9.0: Typescript Support

LNp2pBot is an open source telegram bot that allows people to perform no KYC trades with other people on Telegram using the Lightning Network.

Ronin UI v2.3.0: New Pairing Page "We are happy to announce the release of Ronin UI v2.3.0. This time it's a smaller release as we want to continue making smaller and more stable releases more often instead of large ones."

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Ronin UI v2.3.0: New Pairing Page

Ronin UI is an easy to use user interface for privacy-focused, free and open-source RoninDojo Bitcoin node.

Mutiny Node v0.4.16: Pending Payments, Nostr Contacts Sync

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Mutiny Node v0.4.16: Zap Feed & Nostr Contacts

Mutiny Node is an SDK behind Mutiny Wallet.

FASB Votes To Introduce New Fair Value Accounting Rules For Bitcoin Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) unanimously voted to approve long-awaited accounting rules for bitcoin and other digital assets. New rules will require fair value measurement - aka highs and lows. Expected publication date is by the end of the year.

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FASB Votes To Introduce New Fair Value Accounting Rules For Bitcoin

Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) unanimously voted to approve long-awaited accounting rules for bitcoin and other digital assets. New ru...

Nostr.com Domain is for Sale for $5 Million "The sale must be to the right person/project/company who will use it for something great," said its current owner Ben Arc.

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Nostr.com Domain is for Sale for $5 Million

"The sale must be to the right person/project/company who will use it for something great," said its current owner Ben Arc.

Bitcoin Optech #267: Bitcoin TX Compression, Privacy Enhanced Co-Signing

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Bitcoin Optech #267: Bitcoin TX Compression, Privacy Enhanced Co-Signing

This week’s newsletter describes a new technique for compressing Bitcoin transactions and summarizes an idea for privacy-enhanced transaction cos...

Support for Mercury Wallet To Be Discontinued As Developers Focus on Mercury Layer "Services will remain available for a 3 month period which is the duration of a statecoin. Look out for production release of Mercury Layer."

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Support for Mercury Wallet To Be Discontinued As Developers Focus on Mercury Layer

Mercury Layer is a Layer 2 protocol for Bitcoin that enables the self-custodial transfer of coins (UTXOs) without on-chain transactions.

10101 iOS v1.2.5: Non-Custodial Synthetic USD Using DLCs on Lightning Network 10101 (Ten-Ten-One) is an open-source, non-custodial on-chain and off-chain Bitcoin wallet infused with CFD trading using discreet log contracts (DLC). The app will be available on iOS and Android and is still in closed beta.

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10101 iOS v1.2.5: Non-Custodial Synthetic USD Using DLCs on Lightning Network

10101 (Ten-Ten-One) is an open-source, non-custodial on-chain and off-chain Bitcoin wallet infused with CFD trading using discreet log contracts (D...

Btrust Acquires African Bitcoin Talent Development firm Qala "The acquisition was completed on September 1, and the deal’s financial terms remain undisclosed."

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Btrust Acquires African Bitcoin Talent Development firm Qala

The acquisition will see Qala rebrand as Btrust Builders with a new focus on providing training in open-source Bitcoin software development. Btrust...

Breez SDK Core v0.2.3: Dynamic Fee Selection According to LSP & More Breez SDK enables mobile developers to integrate Lightning and bitcoin payments into their apps with a shallow learning curve.

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Breez SDK Core v0.2.3: Dynamic Fee Selection According to LSP & More

Breez SDK enables mobile developers to integrate Lightning and bitcoin payments into their apps with a shallow learning curve.

RoninDojo v2.0.2: Hotfix - "Starting around Sept 1st, we began seeing a few reports that Ronin install resulted in indefinite "spinning" during installation via the UI." - "We began working on and testing the hotfix immediately upon identification, and thanks to some of the community members in our telegram chat, we were able to successfully push out this release quickly. Which we are extremely grateful for the help!"

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RoninDojo v2.0.2: Hotfix

RoninDojo is an Installation Assistant and Administration Tool for Samourai Wallet's Dojo, Whirlpool, Indexer, and more.

Nutstash Wallet Browser Extension Released "The Nutstash Wallet Extension is a FireFox and any other chromium-based browser extension that allows users to embed the Nutstash wallet app into their browser for easy access to their financial information."

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Nutstash Wallet Browser Extension Released

Nutstash is a custodial lightning wallet for your browser. The extension embeds the Nutstash wallet app within their browser. Available on Chromium...

BTCPay Server Partners with Spiral and LDK to Develop BTCPay App "Aiming to replicate the success and impact of the BTCPay Server for e-commerce payments, the BTCPay App is laser-focused on brick-and-mortar business."

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BTCPay Server Partners with Spiral and LDK to Develop BTCPay App

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

libsecp256k1 v0.4.0: New Ellswift Module "This release adds a new ellswift module that implements ElligatorSwift encoding for public keys and x-only Diffie-Hellman key exchange for them."

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libsecp256k1 v0.4.0: New Ellswift Module

libsecp256k1 is an optimized C library for ECDSA signatures and secret/public key operations on curve secp256k1.

Fountain v0.8.0: Music Podcasts, Player & Performance Updates Fountain 0.8 is live on iOS and Android. Key upgrades include music podcasts (still in beta), player updates, and performance upgrades.

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Fountain v0.8.0: Music Podcasts, Player & Performance Updates

Fountain is a Lightning-powered value-for-value podcasting app where listeners and podcasters get rewarded for the value they provide for others. A...