Samourai Dojo v1.22.0: New API Endpoint, Exclusion of Incompatible Clients
"This feature was added to protect our users whose privacy-enhancing transactions such as tx0 or BIP47 notification would not be relayed properly because of non standard policies set by default on Knots nodes."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/samourai-dojo-v1-22-0/
New Geyser Launches: Our New Weekly Series
This is the first issue of our new weekly series in collaboration with Geyser. Here, we'll take a look at the most recent and interesting initiatives launched via Geyser crowdfunding platform.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/geyser-weekly-new-projects-and-initiatives/
River Link Launched: Shareable Bitcoin Links
"Before River Link, you would need to know a user’s Bitcoin address, Lightning invoice, LNURL-Pay, or Lightning address in order to send them Bitcoin. With River Link, all you need is to enter an amount and you are able to share the automatically generated River Link."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/river-link-launched/
CivKit Node v0.0.2: Mainstay Integration, Database Support & More
"Happy to announce the release of Civikit V2, a significant upgrade that brings a host of new features and integrations to enhance your experience," announced Nicholas Gregory.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/civkit-node-v0-0-2/
Minibits v0.1.5-beta: Seed-based Ecash Backups
Minibits now comes with "seed-based backup, that allows you (in cooperation with the mint) to recover your ecash balance in case of device loss."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/minibits-v0-1-5-beta/
NDK v2.3.0: NIP-42 Support, More Aggressive Caching & More
This release includes improvements in UX through cache performance, more aggressive caching, and other updates.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ndk-v2-3-0/
CrowdHealth Integrates Lightning with Breez SDK, SDK Core v0.2.12 Released
"Using the Breez SDK, CrowdHealth is integrating Lightning payments, which CEO Andy Schoonover believes will make the service more effective, more efficient, and more accessible."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/breez-sdk-v0-2-12-crowdhealth-integration/
Bitcoin Freedom Festival 2024 To Take Place in Costa Rica on January 18-20
Bitcoin Freedom Festival is a 3-day event aimed at exploring Bitcoin lifestyle in Uvita, Costa Rica.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-freedom-festival-2024/
Mutiny Wallet Added Nostr Wallet Auth, Can Now Be Self-Hosted with StartOS
"Why use mutinywallet.com when you can self-host your own, private Mutiny website and wallet?"
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/mutiny-wallet-v0-4-39-1/
NerdMiner v1.6.3: 78 KH/s, BTC Price Screen & More
NerdMiner is a free and open source educational project that lets you try to reach for a bitcoin block with a small piece of hardware.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/nerdminer-v1-6-3/
Coinselect v1.1.0: TypeScript Library for Bitcoin Transaction Management
Coinselect is a TypeScript library designed for Bitcoin transaction management. It leverages Bitcoin Descriptors to define inputs and outputs, enabling optimal UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) selection and accurate transaction size calculations.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/coinselect-v1-1-0/
LDK Node v0.2.0: Pre-flight Probes, API Improvements
LDK Node is a self-custodial Lightning node in library form. Its central goal is to provide a small, simple, and straightforward interface that enables users to easily set up and run a Lightning node with an integrated on-chain wallet.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ldk-node-v0-2-0/
FASB Officially Adopts Fair Value Accounting Rules for Bitcoin Starting December 2024
- "The amendments in the ASU are effective for all entities for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2024, including interim periods within those fiscal years."
- "This upgrade to accounting standards will facilitate the adoption of BTC as a treasury reserve asset by corporations worldwide," said MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fasb-bitcoin-fair-value-accounting/
Bitcoin Optech #281: Griefing Liquidity Ads
This week’s newsletter summarizes a discussion about griefing liquidity advertisements and includes Optech's regular sections describing changes to services and client software, summarizing popular questions and answers of the Bitcoin Stack Exchange and more.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-optech-281/
LNbits v0.11.3 Released
LNbits is free and open-source Lightning wallet and accounts system that comes with a variety of handy plugins and integrations.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/lnbits-v0-11-3/
BitKit v1.0.0-beta.92: Instant Payments, LNURL-withdraw & LNURL-pay Support & More
"We’re ecstatic to unveil one of the largest updates to Bitkit since its beta launch! Over 402 improvements have been made since the last update, supercharging Bitkit with new features and fixing numerous bugs you’ve helped us find."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitkit-v1-0-0-beta-92/
eNuts v0.2.0-beta: Auto Mint Swapping
This release of eNuts wallet implements optional auto mint swapping upon receiving tokens from untrusted or non-default mint, among other improvements.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/enuts-v0-2-0-beta/
ShockWallet and Lightning.Pub Released for Public Testing
- Shocknet announced an early release of a new ShockWallet, a cross-platform, non-custodial wallet with a nostr account system that lets you share your node with friends and family by using nostr relays.
- "We believe the future is the Uncle Jim in all of us on-boarding our personal circle, in a decentralized and sustainable way, without compromising on UX."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/shockwallet-lightning-pub-alpha/
Elizabeth Warren Wants to Extend Bank Secrecy Act Regulations to Free & Open Source Software
The bill aims to extend Bank Secrecy Act requirements including know-your-customer rules to miners, validators, wallet providers and others.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/elizabeth-warren-wants-bank-secrecy/
How LNbank User Lost 4 BTC
"On December 6th I woke up and noticed most of my LN node balance had been drained out. I started to investigate and realised this happened because 998 Lightning payments were made to the same LN wallet Bitlifi and all these payments, although going out through different channels and nodes, were all converging on the same node at the end: ln-1.anycoin.cz."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/how-lnbank-user-lost-4-btc/
Tether Freezes All OFAC-Sanctioned Wallets in 'Proactive' Security Measure
"ITether framed the move as a voluntary step to "proactively prevent any potential misuse of Tether tokens and enhance security measures," and clarified that existing wallets on the OFAC list would be frozen along with any new wallets added in the future."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tether-freezes-all-ofac-sanctioned-wallets-in/
Block 820600: Important News of the Week
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https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/820600/
Ledger Live Tracks and Sends ALL User Information to Outsourced Data Harvesting Service
"The tracking code is too structural to be just counting users and downloads, like regular apps do. Ledger Live is doing analytics on everything from screen views, to button clicks, error events, installs, uninstalls, etc. It's basically tracking everything. Anything you do on that app gets tracked."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ledger-live-tracks-and-sends-out-all-user-information-by-default/
Unconfiscatable Conference 2023 - Day 2 Livestream
Unconfiscatable Conference brings high profile speakers from the world of Bitcoin to discuss the technology with emphasis on both scalability and privacy. It takes place in Las Vegas on December 7-8, 2023.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/unconfiscatable-2023-day-2/
Users of BTCPay Server's LNbank Plugin Urged to Upgrade to v1.8.9 ASAP
"A critical vulnerability has been found in LNBank, an external plugin you can optionally use in BTCPay Server. If you're using it, update immediately to newest version v1.8.9 to mitigate."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/lnbank-critical-vulnerability/
Ride The Lightning v0.15.0-beta: CLNRest for Core Lightning
"With this release c-lightning-rest integration has been removed and RTL now uses core lightning’s native CLNRest plugin to communicate with the core lightning backend."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ride-the-lightning-v0-15-0/
Payjoin CLI v0.0.1-alpha: A Command-line Payjoin Client for Bitcoin Core
"Exciting news for Payjoin tinkerers! Introducing payjoin-cli alpha - a game-changer for those using Bitcoin Core."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/payjoin-cli-v0-0-1-alpha/
Nayib Bukele Stepped Away From Presidency to Pursue Second Term
"President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador has been granted a special license allowing him to temporarily step down from his presidential role to pursue a second term in the country's upcoming elections on February 4, 2024."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/nayib-bukele-runs-for-2nd-term/
Unconfiscatable 2023 Livestream - Day 1
The Unconfiscatable Conference brings high profile speakers from the world of Bitcoin to discuss the technology with emphasis on both scalability and privacy.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/unconfiscatable-2023-day-1/
LND v0.17.3-beta: Hot Fix Release
- "This is a hot fix release that fixes multiple concurrency and memory related bugs."
- "Memory consumption for lnd nodes running with bitcoind using the rpcpolling has been significantly reduced (previously scaled with total mempool size)."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/lnd-v0-17-3-beta/
Unchained to Pause Bitcoin Backed Loans to Individuals
"Due to external requirements, new loan originations to individual borrowers will be paused beginning January 1, 2024. We will continue originating new loans for legal entities such as LLCs or corporations after January 1 for business or investment purposes."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/unchained-to-stop-offering-bitcoin-backed-loans-to-individuals/
GrapheneOS v2023120700: December Security Update
"This is the first quarterly release of Android 14 and includes a bunch of nice improvements including using the phone as a webcam."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/grapheneos-v2023120700/
Apple Confirms Governments Using Push Notifications to Surveil Users
"In this case, the federal government prohibited us from sharing any information. Now that this method has become public we are updating our transparency reporting to detail these kinds of requests," Apple said in a statement.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/apple-confirms-governments-using-push-notifications-to-surveil-users/
Bitcoin Core v26.0: P2P/Network Improvements, Pruning Updates, New RPCs & More
Bitcoin Core version 26.0 is now available for download. It includes experimental support for the version 2 transport protocol, support for taproot in miniscript, enhanced connection strategies against eclipse attacks and many other improvements and bug fixes.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-core-v26-0/
Bitcoin Optech #280: Cluster Mempool, Testing with Warnet
This week’s newsletter describes several discussions about the proposed cluster mempool and summarizes the results of a test performed using warnet.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-optech-280/
Stacker.News Introduced Territories: User Generated Subs
"You can now create your own subs aka territories. Note: this is just an MVP. It's probably 5% of what we have planned for territories."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/stacker-news-ships-territories/
RoninUI v2.4.0: Added Whirlpool UI
"Users can now take full control of their Whirlpool CLI from a mobile phone, via local network or over Tor. This includes the option to pair Whirlpool CLI with a bitcoin wallet directly from your mobile phone."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/roninui-v2-4-0/
Bitcoin Keeper v1.1.8: Custom Multisig, Coin Selection & More
Bitcoin Keeper is a bitcoin multi-sig wallet with privacy and inheritance features. Available on iOS and Android.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcoin-keeper-v1-1-8/
Guide: How to Become a Lightning Service Provider (LSP)
"I really hope that all those Plebnet node runners are reading this mini guide and give more use to their LN nodes. This liquidity is what is needed right now for regular mobile users," wrote Darthcoin.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/guide-how-to-become-an-lsp/
PlebDevs Released a Backend Course for Lightning App Development
"In this comprehensive and beginner-friendly 13-lesson course, we'll transform you from a JavaScript n00b into a proficient backend developer, with a special focus on Lightning App Development."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/plebdevs-backend-course/
Envoy v1.4.0: Intuitive Coin Control, New Activity Center & More
"In this version of Envoy we’ve implemented intuitive and easy-to-use coin control, a new Activity Center and Privacy Shield, a redesigned Learn tab, broad user experience and user interface improvements, and squashed bugs across the board."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/envoy-v1-4-0/
RoninDojo v2.1.1: Kernel Update, Security Patches & Fixes
"Very grateful for everyone that has been patient and understanding the situation with this kernel bug. It's been a huge headache and stressor. The problem got progressively worse with time which was not what we expected. More announcements coming soon."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ronindojo-v2-1-1/
TABConf 2024 to Take Place on October 23-26 in Atlanta
ext TAB conference will take place on October 23-26, 2024 in Atlanta, GA.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tabconf-2024/
TBD Unveils Tech Preview of tbDEX Open Source Liquidity Protocol
"Yellow Card's integration with tbDEX heralds a big shift for Africa, unlocking Bitcoin-to-fiat off-ramps across 20 African nations. Users in these countries will have the ability to receive Bitcoin or stablecoin payments directly in their local currencies, withdrawable through bank accounts, P2P payment apps, or mobile money providers."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tbd-unveils-tech-preview-of-tbdex-open-source-liquidity-protocol/
Primal Debuts on Mobile App Stores: iOS v1.0.4, Android Beta v0.21.4 Released
Primal mobile app now can be found on the app stores by Google and Apple. The iOS version comes with an integrated Lightning wallet and ability to buy sats via Apple Pay.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/primal-mobile-apps-store-debut/
BitcoinTalk.org to Ban Link Sharing and Promotion of Custodial No-KYC Mixers
- "Bitcointalk.org aims to allow about as much freedom as is reasonably possible. But this is not a darknet forum, and with mixers looking "grayer and grayer", it's no longer reasonably possible to allow linking to mixers."
- "Examples of things that are not banned mixers include exchangers (unless they have a mixing function), CoinJoin-supporting non-custodial wallets, and Monero."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bitcointalk-bans-mixer-promotion-talk/
Block 819555: Important News of the Week
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https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/819555/
AntPool to Return 83 BTC Fee to Person Who Signs Message From the Compromised Wallet
AntPool said that it will return the 83 BTC fee if the owner of the compromised wallet comes forward before December 10.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/antpool-to-return-83-btc-fee/
MicroStrategy Added 16130 BTC to Its Stash in November
MicroStrategy has acquired an additional 16,130 BTC for ~$593.3 million at an average price of $36,785 per bitcoin. The company now holds 174,530 BTC acquired for ~$5.28 billion at an average price of $30,252 per bitcoin.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/microstrategy-added-16130-btc-to-its-stash/
Alby Extension v3.4.1: UI Improvements
"In the v3.4.0 release of the Lightning Browser Extension, several noteworthy features and improvements have been introduced."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/alby-extension-v3-4-1/
Spiral Renews Grant to the Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) Project
"VLS improves LN security by separating private keys from the node and creating discrete validating signing devices. Since launching their beta, they’ve added microcontroller and Docker deployments while developing support for tag team signing, splicing, and dual-funding."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/spiral-renewed-grant-to-validating-lightning-signer-vls-project/
Hodl Hodl Design Improvements: New Contract Flow & More
"This is a beta release of the new flow, please be patient, if you experience any difficulties, please report to support@hodlhodl.com."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/hodl-hodl-design-improvements/
Core Lightning v23.11: Dual Funding Cross-Compatibility with Eclair, More Powerful RPCs & More
"After the huge v23.08 release, this update is a bit smaller in scope and mainly offers improvements and follow-ups. Nonetheless, it includes some noteworthy features that we are excited to share with you."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/core-lightning-v23-11/
Eligius Pool Relaunched As OCEAN Pool, Raises $6.2M in Seed Funding
"At the start, we are already the most transparent pool giving you full visibility into block templates, generation payouts, miner stats, etc. As miners, you should have the ability to know what transactions you are mining with your hashrate. We are also the only non-custodial pool, making you, the miners, recipients of new block rewards directly from Bitcoin."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/ocean-pool-launch-6-2m-seed-round/
LNbits v0.11.2: New Service Fee Settings
New service fee settings enable you to earn a transaction fee for all internal or external transaction on a LNbits instance.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/lnbits-v0-11-2/
GrapheneOS v2023112600 Released
"In the latest release of GrapheneOS, you can now enable hardware memory tagging for all user installed apps on the Pixel 8 and Pixel 8 Pro to make them substantially harder to exploit. This is particularly useful for apps like Signal and WhatsApp."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/grapheneos-v2023112600/
DEMAND Launches The First Stratum V2 Bitcoin Mining Pool
“With Stratum V2 and our new solo mining pool, we aim to make home mining more attractive, which should in effect help decentralize the Bitcoin mining ecosystem and improve the health of the Bitcoin network overall.”
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/demand-statum-v2-mining-pool/
SimpleX Chat v5.4: Link Mobile & Desktop Apps via Quantum-resistant Protocol
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, Windows and macOS.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/simplex-chat-v5-4/
Nodeless.io Shuts Down Due to Investigation for Running 'Illegal Money Transmission' Business in Canada
"As you guys know I made Nodeless completely open source in the event that this happens, so that others who don't live under communism can run a honest, privacy focused payments business."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/nodeless-shuts-down-canada/
Block 818556: Important News of the Week
Here's your weekly recap of the most interesting and important news from the self-sovereign realm of Bitcoin and freedom tech.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/818556/
Unchained Added Bakkt as Collaborative Custody Partner, Improved Trading Desk
- Unchained announced that Bakkt has agreed to join its network of collaborative custody partners.
- The company also announced that a "smoother, faster selling experience is now available," allowing users to sell bitcoin directly from their vault."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/unchained-added-bakkt-as-collaborative-custody-partner/
Envoy v1.4.0-beta: Intuitive Coin Control & More
- "In this version of Envoy we’ve implemented intuitive and easy-to-use coin control, a new Activity Center and Privacy Shield, a redesigned Learn tab, broad user experience and user interface improvements, and squashed bugs across the board."
- "Be the first to report any reproducible issue for Passport or Envoy beta releases and get a 10k Satoshi bounty in Bitcoin per issue reported!"
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/envoy-v1-4-0-beta/
TrueVote: Open-Source Voting Platform Using OpenTimestamps & Nostr
- "Built on Bitcoin, Opentimestamps, and Nostr, our open-source platform ensures tamper-proof ballot data. No smoke and mirrors, just verifiable election integrity of every ballot, every vote."
- "We will have our MVP complete by the end of 2023."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/truevote-announced/
Blixt Wallet v0.6.9-420: Lightning Box
- "Lightning Box is a Lightning Address provider for mobile nodes like Blixt Wallet, letting you receive Lightning Address payments directly to your phone."
- "This works in conjunction with the Persistent Mode released in v0.6.9, which allows Blixt Wallet to stay active in the background in order to receive payments. You can also use this for nostr tipping."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/blitx-wallet-v0-6-9-420/
83 BTC Transaction Fee Sets a New Record in Fiat Terms
An unknown entity set a new Bitcoin transaction fee record in fiat terms today, effectively paying over $3.1 million for a single Bitcoin transaction.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/83-btc-transaction-fee/
BBQr: Better Bitcoin QR
"We carefully consider the data inside QR codes, and apply a deep knowledge of how QR codes work, so that no pixel nor byte is ever wasted! Internally it supports HEX and Base32 serializations and a constrained ZLIB option for data compression."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bbqr-better-bitcoin-qr/
Apple Deactivates Zeus Developer Account Following Antitrust Lawsuit by Cash App & Venmo Users
"Apparently, if you get cited in someone else's anti-trust lawsuit, Apple will deactivate your developer account without notice."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/apple-deactivates-zeus-developer-account/
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