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Craig Wright Gets Suspended 1 Year Sentence in UK for Continuing to Sue Bitcoin Developers Craig Wright was sentenced to one year in prison by a UK judge for contempt of court. The sentence is suspended for two years, meaning he will only serve time if he reoffends during that period.
Chinese Car Company Cango Buys 32 EH/s from Bitmain, Mines 393 BTC in November Cango, a Shanghai-based NYSE-listed car dealership platform, invested $256 million to acquire 32 EH/s of Bitmain hashrate, shifting to Bitcoin mining and retaining 393 BTC it produced in November.
El Salvador to Scale Back Bitcoin Policies for $1.4 Billion IMF Loan Deal El Salvador finalized a four-year $1.4 billion IMF deal strained by its Bitcoin adoption. It makes bitcoin use voluntary for the private sector, limits public sector bitcoin activities, and phases out government involvement in the Chivo wallet. It may also unlock extra $3.5 billion in development bank funds.
LND v0.18.4-beta: Bitcoind v28.0 Compatibility Fix & Optimization for Payment Requests "This is a minor release which ships the features required for building custom channels, alongside the usual bug fixes and stability improvements. Of note are the bitcoind v28.0 compatibility fix and an optimization for payment requests (invoices) that removes unnecessary size expansion."
🌆 Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, December 18th, 2024 GM and happy Bitcoin Hodl day! December 18 marks the beggining of the HODL meme, which originated on the Bitcointalk.org forums in 2013 when a user named GameKyuubi was drunk and made a typo. Here's our latest daily news roundup:
Samourai Wallet Pretrial Hearing Moved to March 12, Trial Set for November 3, 2025 The Samourai Wallet case pretrial hearing is postponed to March 12, 2025, due to an increased volume of discovery as the prosecution has added two additional discovery batches since September. The trial is now scheduled for November 3, 2025.
Foundation Announces Passport Prime Personal Security Platform "Passport Prime is the first device of its kind: a Personal Security Platform that’s fit for the future decentralized economy, making it simple to safeguard all your private keys in one offline device, and sign every kind of transaction or contract with complete peace of mind."
Early Bitcoin Investor Gets 2 Years in Prison for Filing False Tax Returns An early Bitcoin investor from Austin, Texas, has been sentenced to two years in prison for intentionally underreporting capital gains from the sale of $3.7 million worth of bitcoin.
Coracle v0.5.0: Faster Feeds, Nostr-editor, Reworked Login "Coracle 0.5.0 has (finally) arrived! The focus of this release is, well, focus. This is a huge release, with lots of improvements to existing features — and the removal of a few thousand lines of code."
Ashigaru v1.1.0: Removed DNS Dependencies & UI Improvements "After the team experienced a continued DDoS attack on this website last month, our focus has shifted to eliminating any need for users to connect to a clearnet domain and ensuring that there is widespread redundancy of available Tor onion services which we can bring back online. This allows us to operate in the future, if necessary, with a minimal server footprint and with as little impact to our users as possible."
Bitcoin ATM Operator Byte Federal Reports Data Breach Affecting 58,000 Users "Customer personal information that was subject to the attempt at unauthorized access includes name, birthdate, address, phone number, email address, government-issued ID, social security number, transaction activity, and photographs of users."
Czech Republic Eliminates Bitcoin Capital Gains Tax for Long-term Holdings The Czech Republic has enacted a law that exempts Bitcoin holdings held for more than three years from capital gains tax. This legislation received unanimous approval from the nation's parliament on December 6 and is scheduled to take effect on January 1, 2025.