Oslo Freedom Forum 2024: Financial Freedom Track Livestream The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is hosting the seventh annual Financial Freedom track at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum.

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Oslo Freedom Forum 2024: Financial Freedom Track Livestream

The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is hosting the seventh annual Financial Freedom track at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum.

SimpleX Chat v5.8: Private Message Routing "Private message routing is, effectively, a 2-hop onion routing protocol inspired by Tor design, but with one important difference - the first (forwarding) relay is always chosen by message sender and the second (destination) - by the message recipient. In this way, neither side of the conversation can observe IP address or transport session of another."

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SimpleX Chat v5.8: Private Message Routing

SimpleX Chat is a free and open-source messaging platform that has no user identifiers and is private by design. Available on Android, iOS, Linux, ...

Ark Labs Launched to Maintain Open Implementation & Build Services for the Ark Protocol "Until now, Ark has been a theoretical solution to bitcoin’s scaling issues. But with the launch of Ark Labs, we’re making Ark a reality. You can find a working Ark implementation on GitHub today (let us know if you’d like help firing up your own Ark Service Provider or wallet!) and we’ve already started work on the first Ark-based services."

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Ark Labs Launched to Maintain Open Implementation & Build Services for the Ark Protocol

Ark Labs will oversee the upkeep of an open-source Ark protocol, which is now accessible for anyone to use in developing an Ark Service Providers (...

Oslo Freedom Forum 2024 - Day 2 Livestream "This year’s theme, Reclaim Democracy, emphasizes the pivotal role every individual — speaker and participant alike — plays within the global movement for freedom and democracy."

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Oslo Freedom Forum 2024 - Day 2 Livestream

The 16th annual Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) event is taking place from June 3 to 5, 2024, at the Oslo Konserthus in Oslo, Norway.

Michael Saylor to Pay a District Record $40M Settlement in D.C. Income Tax Case "Florida remains my home today, and I continue to dispute the allegation that I was ever a resident of the District of Columbia. I have agreed to settle this matter to avoid the continued burdens of the litigation on friends, family, and myself," Saylor told The New York Times.

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Michael Saylor to Pay a District Record $40M Settlement in D.C. Income Tax Case

MicroStrategy founder and Executive Chairman Michael Saylor agreed to a $40 million settlement with the District of Columbia, according to the atto...

Labelbase v2.2.0: Derive Addresses Feature "This new feature allows you to seamlessly derive Bitcoin addresses and label each one directly, simplifying your workflow and improving the organization of your address data."

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Labelbase v2.2.0: Derive Addresses Feature

Labelbase is a label management service for Bitcoin transactions and addresses. It supports BIP-329, a format for unifying label data. The goal of ...

Trump's Presidential Campaign Partners with OpenNode to Accept Bitcoin Donations "The Trump campaign’s adoption of our solution is a powerful proof-point of how political campaigns and nonprofits across the country can seamlessly accept Bitcoin donations," said OpenNode.

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Trump 47 Fundraising Committee Partners with OpenNode to Accept Bitcoin Donations (UPDATED)

Trump 47 Committee, a joint fundraising committee authorized by Donald J. Trump for President 2024, is now accepting Bitcoin donations via Bitcoin ...

Oslo Freedom Forum 2024 - Day 1 Livestream The 16th annual Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) event is taking place from June 3 to 5 in Oslo, Norway.

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Oslo Freedom Forum 2024 - Day 1 Livestream

The 16th annual Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) event is taking place from June 3 to 5, 2024, at the Oslo Konserthus in Oslo, Norway.

Block 846214: Important News of the Week No Bullshit Bitcoin has covered the space for nearly five years now without succumbing to the siren call of clickbait, ads, ref links, or tracking. We are a small operation in order to keep costs down. If we raise one bitcoin we can continue our ops this year. Check out our fundraising campaign on Geyser to learn more.

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Block 846214: Important News of the Week

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Amethyst v0.87.2: DVMs and Gossip Model - "This version adds support for Data Vending Machines for content discovery. You can request a job by simply navigating to the 4th tab and choosing one of the DVMs." - "It also starts our support for the Inbox/Gossip model. The relay setup screen has been rewritten to support the many types of relays Amethyst will start to use. Please add your relays as you see fit."

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Amethyst v0.87.2: DVMs and Gossip Model

Amethyst is a free and open source Nostr client for Android.

Japanese DMM Bitcoin Exchange Hacked for 4503 BTC (UPDATED) The attack likely involved using a poisoned address to trick at least one keyholder into unknowingly signing over 4503 BTC to the attacker.

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Japanese DMM Bitcoin Exchange Hacked for 4503 BTC (UPDATED)

DMM Bitcoin, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, said "unauthorized 4503 BTC (~$305 million) leaked" out of its wallets. The attack likely involved...

GrapheneOS v2024053100: Duress Password and PIN Duress password is a special type of password used in situations where a user is forced to provide access under threat or coercion. In this case, it triggers the wiping of hardware keystore keys to make all OS data unrecoverable, wipes eSIMs, and shuts down the device.

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GrapheneOS v2024053100: Duress Password and PIN

GrapheneOS is an open-source, privacy and security-focused mobile operating system based on the Android Open Source Project (AOSP).

Wasabi Wallet v2.0.8: Custom Coordinators, Tor Bridges, Repo Transfer & More Wasabi Wallet release version 2.0.8 introduces GUI support for custom coinjoin coordinator selection, connection via Tor bridges, support for TailsOS and WhonixOS, and the “exclude coins from coinjoins” feature, and more.

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Wasabi Wallet v2.0.8: Custom Coordinators, Tor Bridges, Repo Transfer & More

zkSNACKs, the default coordinator in Wasabi Wallet's coinjoin implementation, shut down the service today. However, the wallet now allows users to ...

Gemini Earn Users Receive $2.18M of Their Assets in Kind, Winklevoss Call Genesis 'Old-fashioned Financial Fraud' - In order to ensure successful resolution, Gemini has also contributed $50 million to the Earn users’ recovery. - "It’s important to note that the Genesis bankruptcy was not a crypto problem. It was old-fashioned financial fraud compounded by a lack of regulatory clarity," Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss said.

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Gemini Earn Users Receive $2.18Bn of Their Assets in Kind, Winklevoss Call Genesis 'Old-fashioned Financial Fraud'

On Wednesday, initial Earn distributions - approximately 97% of the digital assets owed Gemini Earn users by Genesis as of the suspension date (Nov...

Corny Chat v2024.05: UI Improvements, NWC Support Corny Chat is an open source audio space built on Jam that integrates Nostr and Lightning. A publicly running instance of Corny Chat is accessible at cornychat.com.

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Corny Chat v2024.05: UI Improvements, NWC Support

Corny Chat is an open source audio space built on Jam that integrates Nostr and Lightning. A publicly running instance of Corny Chat is accessible ...

Geyser Introduces Goals, Removes Milestones "Goals are a great way to motivate and inspire others to donate by showing what happens when a certain threshold is reached."

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Geyser Introduces Goals, Removes Milestones

"Goals are a great way to motivate and inspire others to donate by showing what happens when a certain threshold is reached."

Japanese DMM Bitcoin Exchange Hacked for 4500 BTC "Please be assured that we will procure the equivalent amount of BTC equivalent to the outflow with the support of the group companies and guarantee the full amount."

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Japanese DMM Bitcoin Exchange Hacked for 4503 BTC (UPDATED)

DMM Bitcoin, a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange, said "unauthorized 4503 BTC (~$305 million) leaked" out of its wallets. The attack likely involved...

Bitcoin Keeper v1.2.7 Released This release enables file based communication for all supporting devices, adds action cards for Canary Wallet, enhances Health Check UX, and introduces one time backups for all Assisted Keys.

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Bitcoin Keeper v1.2.7 Released

Bitcoin Keeper is an open source, mobile multisig bitcoin wallet with inheritance features. Available on iOS and Android.

New 'Opt-In' Version of Chat Control Mass Surveillance Bill Is Making Way Through the EU Council If a user does not consent to the scanning of their private photos and videos, they could still use the service for sending text messages but would lose the ability to share images and videos.

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New 'Opt-In' Version of Chat Control Mass Surveillance Bill Is Making Way Through the EU Council

"The highly controversial indiscriminate child sexual abuse regulation (so-called chat control) could still be endorsed by EU governments after all...

Bitcoin Optech #305: Light Client Protocol for Silent Payments This issue covers a proposed light client protocol for silent payments, summarizes two new proposed descriptors for taproot, and links to a discussion about whether opcodes with overlapping features should be added in a soft fork.

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Bitcoin Optech #305: Light Client Protocol for Silent Payments

This issue covers a proposed light client protocol for silent payments, summarizes two new proposed descriptors for taproot, and links to a discuss...