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News
Nigeria’s Central Bank ‘Softens’ Its Stance, Permits Bank Accounts for Bitcoin CompaniesFCA’s ‘Consumer Protection’ Regulations Make Centralized Exchanges Unusable for Retail Bitcoin Savers in UKSEC’s X Account Gets Hacked, Makes a Fake Bitcoin Spot ETF AnnouncementSpiral Grants Support to Fedimint Developer JoschisanSEC Approves 11 Bitcoin Spot ETF Applications (Updated)Bitwise Will Donate 10% of Its Bitcoin ETF Profits to Brink, OpenSats and the Human Rights FoundationVanEck To Donate 5% of Its Bitcoin ETF Profits to Support Bitcoin Core Developers
Updates and releases
BDK v1.0.0-alpha3: LocalChain Hard-wired Genesis Block & MoreAmethyst v0.83.5: Flare.pub Support & MoreFiatLink: A Lightning-Fiat Standard For Bitcoin On and Off RampsMercury Layer Has Been ReleasedPayjoin (PDK) v0.13.0: Improved Taproot, V2 & Receiver Error Handling SupportUnleashed.Chat v0.1.4: API Key Auth, Nostr Mode ImprovementsBitcoin Victoria Falls: New Bitcoin Circular Economy in Livingstone, ZambiaBitcoin Connect v3.2.0-alpha ReleasedGeyser Launches: New Fundraisers and InitiativesElectrum v4.5.0 ReleasedBlink Plugin for BTCPay Server ReleasedNostr Image Host: Upload & View Images Without API KeyMutiny Wallet & Node v0.5.3: Nostr Contact Search, Fediminint Fixes & More
Research
Bitcoin Optech #284: LN Anchors & v3 Transaction Relay, LN-Symmetry Research Implementation
Mining stats
Bitcoin network’s hashrate (7-day SMA) continues to increase and currently is at ~532 EH/s.Next Bitcoin mining difficulty adjustment is expected to occur in ~923 blocks or approximately 6 days.
Lightning stats
Lightning network capacity tumbled below 5000 BTC, while the Lightning node count increased by nearly 100 this week, per mempool.space.