UN Cybercrime Draft Convention Approved Unanimously Despite Widespread Opposition The United Nations approved its first cybercrime treaty—a massive surveillance pact that mandates intrusive domestic surveillance measures and states’ cooperation in surveillance and data sharing—in a unanimous vote last week.

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UN Cybercrime Draft Convention Approved Unanimously Despite Widespread Opposition

The United Nations approved its first cybercrime treaty—a massive surveillance pact that mandates intrusive domestic surveillance measures and st...

⌛ Block 856136: Important News of the Week Tik tok next block, timechain doesn't stop, and so goes another week. Our sincerest thanks to all of our supporters—we couldn't do this without you. We know your time is valuable, and we are here to help you maximize it.

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Block 856136: Important News of the Week

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Bitcoin Optech #315: Dark Skippy & More This issue covers the Dark Skippy attack, discusses block withholding, shares stats on compact block reconstruction, outlines a replacement cycling attack on pay-to-anchor transactions, introduces a new BIP for threshold signing with FROST, and notes an Eftrace improvement for verifying zk-proofs.

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Bitcoin Optech #315: Dark Skippy & More

This issue covers the Dark Skippy attack, discusses block withholding, shares stats on compact block reconstruction, outlines a replacement cycling...

☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Friday, August 9th, 2024 Good morning! Today is Friday, August 9th, and here's your patiently-awaited GM report. The report has been rugged several times this week due to operational constrains on our end. Maintaining this site is still a full-time effort with minimal economic reward, but we will continue as long as we can—it is still far more meaningful than any soul-crushing fiat mining job. If you would like to support our independent journalism, check out our fundraising campaign on Geyser.

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Friday, August 9th, 2024

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Build Asset Management to Donate 10% of Management Fees to Support Open-Source Bitcoin Development The donation is set to be no strings attached and occur on a monthly basis. The funds split equally between OpenSats and the Human Rights Foundation's Bitcoin Development Fund.

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Build Asset Management to Donate 10% of Management Fees to Support Open-Source Bitcoin Development

Build Asset Management has committed to donating 10% of management fees from its Bitcoin-backed direct lending fund, Build Secured Income Fund I, t...

OpenSats Announced Sixth Wave of Nostr Grants OpenSats, a non-profit focused on funding Bitcoin and freedom tech projects, has announced the sixth wave of Nostr grants.

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OpenSats Announced Sixth Wave of Nostr Grants

OpenSats, a non-profit focused on funding Bitcoin and freedom tech projects, has announced the sixth wave of Nostr grants.

OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for Kieran Harkin Kieran will use long-term support to focus on performance improvements for Snort and zap.stream, developing native apps for zap.stream, including a new backend to create a marketplace of streaming providers.

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OpenSats Grants Long-Term Support for Kieran Harkin

"OpenSats is excited to announce long-term support for another prolific nostr developer, Kieran Harkin," announced the organization.

Fedi's Community 'Super App' Officially Launched "Early this year, we rolled out Fedi Bravo. It was a developmental release for testing and improving functionality that let us build a community superapp in active collaboration with our dedicated community of builders, pioneers, and Bitcoin enthusiasts. Thanks to their amazing work, we are ready to launch Fedi for the entire world."

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Fedi's Community 'Super App' Officially Launched

Fedi announced the first full release of its Bitcoin community “super app” during a livestream on Tuesday. The app is now available on Android ...

☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, August 6th, 2024 GM. Here's the very latest issue your favorite Bitcoin news digest. Enjoy, share, subscribe!

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, August 6th, 2024

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ESP Miner v2.1.9: Overheat Mode, Improvements & Fixes "Bitaxe firmware (esp-miner) version 2.1.9 has been released! Lots of bug fixes and improvements."

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ESP Miner v2.1.9: Overheat Mode, Improvements & Fixes

ESP Miner is an open source bitcoin ASIC miner firmware designed to run on a BitAxe v2+.

RaspiBlitz v1.11.1: WebUI Setup & Recovery Redesign "Version 1.11.1 of RaspiBlitz released with a redesign of the WebUI setup process. Many updates: LNbits 0.12.8, Specter Desktop 2.0.4, BTCPayServer 1.13.0, acme 3.0.7, lndmanage 0.16.0 .. and lots of fixes."

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RaspiBlitz v1.11.1: WebUI Setup & Recovery Redesign

RaspiBlitz is a do-it-yourself (DIY) Bitcoin and Lightning node running on a RaspberryPi 4 & 5 with a nice display for easy setup and monitoring.

Fedimint v0.4.0: Changing Peer DNS Names, Wallet Client Module Rewrite - "The biggest new feature is the ability of guardians to change their API endpoint in case they lost access to their domain or want to move for other reasons. Users will automatically receive cryptographically signed announcements and use the new API URL from then on."

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Fedimint v0.4.0: Changing Peer DNS Names, Wallet Client Module Rewrite

Fedimint is a modular system for building federated applications, offering a trust-minimized, censorship-resistant, and private alternative to cent...

Mutiny Wallet to Shut Down at the End of the Year Mutiny Wallet will be phased out over the next few months, with the final cut-off date at the end of the year. Users wishing to continue using the wallet will need to self-host it.

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Mutiny Wallet to Shut Down at the End of the Year

"Our company is exploring alternative products, we'll be shutting down the wallet at the end of the year but you can still self host," announced th...

NDK v2.10: Performance Gains, New Tutorials, Cache Adapter, ndk-wallet "Happy to announce a new major version of NDK. A lot of work has been going on behind the scenes to improve NDK in a lot of fronts."

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NDK v2.10: Performance Gains, New Tutorials, Cache Adapter, ndk-wallet

NDK is a user-friendly and reliable Nostr development kit designed to improve the experience of building Nostr-related applications, including rela...

Aqua Wallet v0.2.0: RBF, Lower Liquid Fees, Native USDT Transactions "Aqua v0.2.0 is now out on both iOS and Android! Go ahead and update your app to play with some SATs and discover everything this new version has to offer."

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Aqua Wallet v0.2.0: RBF, Lower Liquid Fees, Native USDT Transactions

Aqua Wallet is an open-source mobile Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid and Tether wallet. Available on Android and iOS.

🔥Block 855363: Important News of the Week Just another week of nothing happening in Bitcoin.

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Block 855363: Important News of the Week

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☀️Good Morning, Bitcoin - Friday, August 2nd, 2024 GM. It's been almost a month of Good Morning Bitcoin daily reports, and we hope you’ve enjoyed them as much as we have. We're still fine-tuning the format and structure, but it feels like this has legs and is heading somewhere. A massive shoutout to @xSilentG for sending us 160k sats earlier this week (and to everyone else) - every sat counts, and your support fuels our mission!

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Friday, August 2nd, 2024

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🌅 Good Morning, Bitcoin - Thursday, August 1st, 2024 GM. It’s Thursday, August 1, a day to celebrate Bitcoin Independence Day. On this day in 2017, Bitcoin users ended the network’s Blocksize Wars with a user-activated soft fork (UASF), reclaiming control and concluding a years-long scaling conflict that culminated in the activation of SegWit. Additionally, today marks the 22nd anniversary of Adam Back's Hashcash whitepaper.

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Thursday, August 1st, 2024

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Senator Lummis Unveils Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Legislation: The BITCOIN Act - The legislation aims to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to manage the Federal Government's Bitcoin holdings transparently while protecting the private property rights of individuals and organizations. - "Bitcoin is transforming not only our country but the world and becoming the first developed nation to use Bitcoin as a savings technology secures our position as a global leader in financial innovation. This is our Louisiana Purchase moment that will help us reach the next financial frontier."

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Senator Lummis Unveils Strategic Bitcoin Reserve Legislation: The BITCOIN Act

The legislation aims to create a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve to manage the Federal Government's Bitcoin holdings transparently while protecting the p...

Russia Approves Bitcoin Mining & Experimental Cross-Border Exchange Regime - Oversight of mining activities will be divided among various institutions, with the Bank of Russia holding primary authority. - The authorized body and the central bank will also have the right to impose a ban or restrictions on digital currency transactions to "preserve Russia's monetary stability." - The law also imposes a ban on advertising cryptocurrencies and offering them to an unlimited audience. - Under the new law, the central bank will also establish a experimental infrastructure for cryptocurrency payments, with details yet to be announced. - The new law will not lift an existing ban on cryptocurrency payments inside Russia.

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Russia Approves Bitcoin Mining & Experimental Cross-Border Exchange Regime

The Russian State Duma has passed two bitcoin-related laws on Tuesday.