Cake Wallet to Integrate Lightning Network Support with Breez SDK "With the partnership between Cake Wallet and the Breez SDK, Lightning is ready to play in the crypto world. It opens Lightning to millions of crypto users with nearly $3 trillion worth of liquidity across the currencies available on the Cake Wallet app."

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Cake Wallet to Integrate Lightning Network Support with Breez SDK

Lightning infrastructure solutions provider Breez has announced a partnership with multicoin Cake Wallet to incorporate Lightning payments.

Ginger Wallet: Wasabi Wallet Fork with 'Compliant' Coinjoins Ginger Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet for desktop. It is a fork of Wasabi Wallet with an unchangeable default coordinator that sends all CoinJoin input transactions to a chain surveillance partner.

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Ginger Wallet: Wasabi Wallet Fork with 'Compliant' Coinjoins

Ginger Wallet is an open-source, non-custodial, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet for desktop. It is a fork of Wasabi Wallet with an unchangeable defa...

Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp in $200M Deal Robinhood Markets Inc. will acquire the European cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp Ltd. for $200 million as part of its strategy to expand beyond the US market. The deal is anticipated to close in the first half of 2025.

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Robinhood to Acquire Bitstamp in $200M Deal

Robinhood Markets Inc. will acquire the European cryptocurrency exchange Bitstamp Ltd. for $200 million as part of its strategy to expand beyond th...

Nigerian Banks Can Start Collecting Customers’ Social Media Handles for KYC Checks, High Court Rules “For all it is worth, I do not see how asking a banking or potential banking customer to provide his social media handle can ever amount to a breach of privacy,” the judge said.

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Nigerian Banks Can Start Collecting Customers’ Social Media Handles for KYC Checks, High Court Rules

Tthe Lagos Federal High Court, presided over by Justice Dimgba, upheld a Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) regulation requiring financial institutions ...

Empty Block Report - mempool research - "Ocean employees have publicly speculated that antpool released firmware which intentionally causes miners to work on old jobs for over 60 seconds while using different firmware, which lacks this issue, for their own mining. This is not supported by the data, which shows that the percentage of empty blocks found by antpool has actually been increasing following the most recent halving." - "If antpool were using patched firmware to reduce the time to switch from empty templates, we would expect antpool's empty block rate to be falling, not rising."

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Empty Block Report - mempool research

This mempool research report aims to thoroughly explore the causes and frequency of empty blocks through Bitcoins history.

Open Beta of Clams Bitcoin Accounting App Launched "To start we support CLN and LND nodes as connections. We plan to add a bunch more like onchain, exchanges, custodial wallets and more. You can help us test, catch bugs and decide on priorities by joining our Discord."

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Open Beta of Clams Bitcoin Accounting App Launched

Clams is an accounting software for bitcoin that lets you see wallet balances in one place, visualize your bitcoin flows and generate reports. Clam...

Core Lightning v24.05: 'The Infinitely Divisible Satoshi' "We are pleased to announce the v24.05 release of Core Lightning, code named "The Infinitely Divisible Satoshi."

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Core Lightning v24.05: 'The Infinitely Divisible Satoshi'

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

BTCPay Server v1.13.2: BoltCard Plugin, Refund Reports, Bug Fixes & Improvements "BTCPay Server 1.13.2 is out! This release sets a great foundation for the 2.0.0 and is only a small glimpse into what's coming next!"

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BTCPay Server v1.13.2: BoltCard Plugin, Refund Reports, Bug Fixes & Improvements

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

Volt Wallet: A Modern Descriptor-based Financial Freedom Bitcoin Wallet Volt is a mobile descriptor-based "Financial Freedom Wallet" that focuses on self-custody, privacy and sleek UI/UX. Available on Android and iOS (iOS beta Testflight coming soon).

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Volt Wallet: A Modern Descriptor-based Financial Freedom Bitcoin Wallet

Volt is a mobile descriptor-based "Financial Freedom Wallet" that focuses on self-custody, privacy and sleek UI/UX. Available on Android and iOS (i...

OpenCash Association Launched to Support Projects Building on Cashu Protocol Cashu developer @calle announced the launch of the OpenCash Association at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2024. This non-profit organization aims to support the open-source development of projects built on the Cashu protocol.

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OpenCash Association Launched to Support Projects Building on Cashu Protocol

Cashu developer Calle announced the launch of the OpenCash Association at the Oslo Freedom Forum 2024. This non-profit organization aims to support...

HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Grants 10 BTC to 13 Bitcoin Projects "HRF’s latest batch of grants focus on education for people living under authoritarian regimes, privacy and Lightning development, decentralized communications, and providing nonprofits and human rights groups with easier onramps to financial freedom tools. Areas of focus include key countries and regions in Latin America, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa."

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HRF Bitcoin Development Fund Grants 10 BTC to 13 Bitcoin Projects

"The Human Rights Foundation (HRF) is pleased to announce 1 billion satoshis of gifts from its Bitcoin Development Fund," announced the organization.

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.

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