🇰🇿 Kazakhstan shut down 36 illegal cryptocurrency exchanges in 2024 as part of its efforts to combat money laundering. Licensed global exchanges, including Binance, Bybit, Upbit, and others, continue to operate legally in the country. Among the platforms that went offline, two were identified as operating pyramid schemes. So far, the Kazakh government has shut down over 3,500 unlicensed crypto exchanges in cooperation with other government agencies. Source:

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🇰🇷 South Korea’s financial regulator plans to gradually permit institutional investment in cryptocurrencies, according to local media reports. Under South Korea’s act on financial information use, only retail traders verified with their government names can trade cryptocurrencies. While there is no formal ban on institutional investors, Financial Services Commission (FSC) has advised banks to prevent institutions from opening accounts on exchanges, reports The Block. https://www.theblock.co/post/333554/south-korea-seeks-to-lift-ban-on-institutional-trading-of-cryptocurrencies-report

🌊 AnchorWatch Launches in the U.S. for Customers Holding Between $250K & $100M in Bitcoin "We’re thrilled to announce the Grand Opening of AnchorWatch and welcome you to safer bitcoin storage. For the first time ever, you now have access to truly insured custody - without giving up your keys."

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AnchorWatch Launches in the U.S. for Customers Holding Between $250K & $100M in Bitcoin

AnchorWatch is a pioneering insurance provider specializing in collaborative bitcoin custody. It combines the advanced security features of Trident...

☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, January 7th, 2025 GM! AnchorWatch, Canada, ransom kidnappings, software updates, and more 🗞️ ⬇️

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, January 7th, 2025

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Pierre Poilievre is the frontrunner in Polymarket odds to become Canada's next prime minister. The pro-Bitcoin politician and leader of the Conservative Party is leading the odds to replace Justin Trudeau after his resignation announcement on Monday. https://www.theblock.co/post/333318/pro-crypto-pierre-poilievre-leads-polymarket-odds-to-become-canadas-next-prime-minister-replacing-justin-trudeau

Feeder v2.8.0, an RSS reader app on Android, has added support for Nostr feeds (NIP-23 long-form articles).

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Release 2.8.0 · spacecowboy/Feeder

2.8.0 Agnieszka C (1): [6dbedc6] Updated Polish translation using Weblate Jonas Kalderstam (2): [719ead9] Updated Swedish translation using Webl...

Pierre Poilievre is the frontrunner in Polymarket odds to become Canada's next prime minister. The pro-Bitcoin politician and leader of the Conservative Party is leading the odds to replace Justin Trudeau after his resignation announcement on Monday. https://www.theblock.co/post/333318/pro-crypto-pierre-poilievre-leads-polymarket-odds-to-become-canadas-next-prime-minister-replacing-justin-trudeau

📅 Undermine 2025 - The Heatpunk Summit, a two-day conference dedicated to the emerging field of hashrate heating, is set to take place in Denver's Bitcoin hub on February 21 - February 22, 2025. Learn more about the event here:

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Blitz Wallet v0.3.7-beta: On-Chain Payments from Lightning or Liquid, Manual Channel Rebalancing This Blitz wallet (beta) update allows on-chain payments from Lightning or Liquid balances, removes requirement for a Lightning node connection when Lightning is disabled, introduces weekly rotation of Liquid addresses for accounts and monthly for contacts, enables automatic recovery of unclaimed ecash transactions, includes bug fixes for stability, and enables manual channel rebalancing.

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Blitz Wallet v0.3.7-beta: On-Chain Payments from Lightning or Liquid, Manual Channel Rebalancing

Blitz wallet is a self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning, Liquid, and ecash wallet built using the Breez SDK, Greenlight, Liquid Wallet Kit, and Boltz. A...

Kurl Technology Group has purchased an additional 213.4 BTC for $21 million, bringing its total holdings to approximately 430.58 BTC, acquired for a total of $42 million.

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KULR Reports 93.7% BTC Yield on $42M Holdings

KULR Technology Group boosts its Bitcoin investments to $42 million, achieving a 93.7% yield, underscoring its strategic focus on digital assets.

Predyx Down Following Attack Predyx, a Lightning Network-based prediction market platform, is currently down due to an attack that drained some liquidity from its markets. "To ensure the safety and integrity of Predyx, we’ll be temporarily shutting down for a few days while we work diligently to patch the vulnerability," said the developers.

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🚨 Important Announcement from Predyx 🚨 \ stacker news ~oracle

🚨 Important Announcement from Predyx 🚨 Hey Predyx community – we’ve got some news to share. Recently, we experienced an attack that targe...

BitBanana v0.8.9, a native Android app for Lightning node operators, brings Payment Path view for LND nodes, implements "Enable Offer" command for Core Lightning >=24.11, adds description and payer note for paid bolt12 offers in transaction history, enables offers without description, and more.

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Release v0.8.9 · michaelWuensch/BitBanana

Added Payment Path view (LND) Fixed incorrect fee limit for keysends with lnd Implemented "Enable Offer" command for Core Lightning >=24.11 Allow o...

MicroStrategy has acquired 1,070 BTC for about $101 million, at an average price of $94,004 per bitcoin. The company now owns a total of 447,470 BTC, valued at over $44 billion. https://www.microstrategy.com/press/microstrategy-acquires-1070-btc-achieves-btc-yield-of-48-q4-2024-74-fy-2024-now-holds-447470-btc_01-06-2025

❄️ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Monday, January 6th, 2025 Lots of goodies in this one, as there are many things to catch up on that might have been missed over the festive period. GM! 🗞️ ⬇️

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Monday, January 6th, 2025

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Doppler v0.4.0, a tool for building out and managing bitcoind/lightning clusters for regtest or signet environments, now allows an Esplora instance to be attached to any Bitcoind setup in a simulation doppler file.

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Release v0.4.0 · tee8z/doppler

Download doppler 0.4.0 File Platform Checksum doppler-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.xz Apple Silicon macOS checksum doppler-x86_64-apple-darwin...

FDIC releases unredacted letters urging banks to avoid Bitcoin activities Coinbase's Chief Legal Officer, Paul Grewal, shared unredacted versions of documents related to Operation Chokepoint 2.0, obtained through a court-ordered Freedom of Information Act request. The letters reveal that the FDIC repeatedly urged banks to suspend Bitcoin and crypto-related services and activities pending further regulatory reviews. https://www.fdic.gov/foia/history-associates-inc-v-fdic-fdics-redacted-pause-letters-january-3-2025

Nutshell v0.16.4, a Chaumian Ecash wallet and mint for Bitcoin Lightning based on the Cashu protocol, brings two new protocol spec updates to nutshell, NUT-19:Cached Response and NUT-20 Signature on Mint Quote. It also includes a new HTTP compression middleware and several bug fixes.

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Release 0.16.4 · cashubtc/nutshell

This release brings two new protocol spec updates to nutshell, NUT-19 and NUT-20 (thank you @lollerfirst). It also includes a new HTTP compression ...

Bitcoin miner MARA has lent 7,377 BTC to third parties to generate yield, representing approximately 16% of its total bitcoin reserves. https://theminermag.com/news/2025-01-05/mara-lend-bitcoin-btc/

The Syrian Center for Economic Research (SCER), a non-governmental organization, has proposed that the transitional government legislate Bitcoin and digitize the Lira. Contrary to some reports from 'crypto' media, the transitional government has not approved or considered this proposal and is unlikely to do so in the near future due to more pressing issues at hand. Source: @Bam ⚡️ بام

Mostro-CLI v0.11.0, a command-line tool for interacting with the Mostro P2P exchange platform, includes a core update to v0.6.11, SQLite support, key management implementation, and DM message functionality.

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Release v0.11.0 · MostroP2P/mostro-cli

Verifying the Release In order to verify the release, you'll need to have gpg or gpg2 installed on your system. Once you've obtained a copy (and ho...

A super early version of a mobile client for the Mostro P2P platform is available here:

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GitHub - MostroP2P/mobile: Mobile client for Mostro p2p

Mobile client for Mostro p2p. Contribute to MostroP2P/mobile development by creating an account on GitHub.