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Lightspark Introduces Spark: Statechain-inspired Solution for Scaling Bitcoin Lightspark, a startup aimed at facilitating Lightning Network adoption by enterprises, announced the launch of an alpha version of Spark, a statechain-inspired, trust-minimized solution designed to scale Bitcoin and extend the Lightning Network.
Envoy v1.8.3: Expanded Buy Bitcoin Feature, Enhanced Tor Connection, UI Improvements "In Envoy v1.8.3, we’ve continued our focus on refining the Envoy experience you know and love, expanding the Buy bitcoin feature to all 50 US states as well as bolstering the stability of our Tor connection and polishing the UI."
Denmark to Consider Unrealized Cryptocurrency Gains Tax Next Year The new bill is expected to be presented to the Danish Parliament in early 2025, with the country's Tax Law Council recommending that the rules should not be implemented before January 1, 2026, at the earliest.
BitBox 10.2024 Lugano Update: Sending to Silent Payments & MiniTapscript The BitBox Lugano update for BitBox02 hardware signer v9.21 and BitBox app v4.45 enables payments to Silent Payment addresses and implements MiniTapscript.
Vitalik Buterin: 'Saylor's Comments are Batshit Insane' "I'll happily say that I think Michael Saylor's comments are batshit insane. He seems to be explicitly arguing for a regulatory capture approach to protecting crypto. There's plenty of precedent for how this strategy can fail, and for me it's not what crypto is about," Buterin posted to X on Wednesday.
Bisq2 v2.1.2: Optimized Reputation System & Chat Consolidation This version brings reputation system improvements to enhance security and the overall trading experience, fixes notification issues, and consolidates chat rooms based on user feedback.
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Invested $25M to Support Free & Open-Source Projects Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) announced it has invested nearly $25 million (€23 million) in 60 global open-source technologies over the past two years. During this time, it received over 500 submissions proposing more than €114 million in work.
Minneapolis FED Research Paper Finds Banning or Taxing 'Bitcoin' Can Help Maintain Permanent Budget Deficits A new research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests that governments can either tax or ban "fixed supply private-sector bubble assets that are not a claim to any real resources" to ensure the long-term viability of large and permanent budget deficits.
AlgoRelay: Nostr's First Algorithmic Relay "AlgoRelay is the first nostr native relay capable of serving personalized, algorithmic feeds without the use of external or proprietary APIs or DVMs. It prioritizes surfacing content from the people you care about, based on your personal interactions."