Onyx: A Censorship-Free Fork of Amethyst
Onyx provides the same features and interface as Amethyst, but doesn't have any of the spam filters or reporting shadowbans, with a goal to remain censorship-free.
Chrome Update Addresses New Zero-Day Exploit
"It is strongly recommended that all Chrome users install the available security update as soon as possible."
LND v0.16.3-beta: Mempool Optimizations & Bug Fixes
"This release optimizes the new mempool watching logic (more efficient data structure, less cpu usage), and fixes *two* potential spurious force close vectors," said Lightning Labs CTO Olaoluwa Osuntokun.
SEC Moves to Freeze Binance.US Assets
"A court filing made in the D.C. District Court asks for approval to freeze assets tied to BAM Management US Holdings and BAM Trading Services, the holding and operating firms for Binance.US."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sec-moves-to-freeze-binance-us-funds/
Blockstream's Greenlight - Scalable, Non-Custodial Lightning Infrastructure Is Now Open to Developers
"Today we are extremely proud to open-source the #greenlight client repository as part of our Developer Preview! Included are the client libraries, with bindings for python and JS, as well as all the tools to self-host a Greenlight node," wrote Christian Decker, Core Tech Engineer at Blockstream.
eNuts (Alpha): Mobile Cashu Wallet with Lightning Support
"We don’t need more digital currency. We already have digital currency. It’s called the U.S. dollar. It’s called euro. It’s called the yen. They’re all digital right now,” said SEC's Gary Gensler on CNBC's Squawk Box.
BREAKING: SEC Sues Coinbase For Running Unregistered Securities Exchange, Brokerage and Clearing Agency
- “We allege that Coinbase, despite being subject to the securities laws, commingled and unlawfully offered exchange, broker-dealer, and clearinghouse functions,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
- "As alleged in our complaint, Coinbase was fully aware of the applicability of the federal securities laws to its business activities, but deliberately refused to follow them. While Coinbase’s calculated decisions may have allowed it to earn billions, it’s done so at the expense of investors by depriving them of the protections to which they are entitled."
- SEC also claims that coins such as SOL, ADA, MATIC, FIL, SAND, AXS, CHZ, FLOW, ICP, NEAR, VGX, DASH and NEXO are securities, per court filing.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/sec-sues-coinbase-for-unregistered-securities/
El Salvador's Volcano Energy Secures $1B in Commitments for 241 MW Bitcoin Mine
- Volcano Energy announced $1 billion in commitments to build a 241 megawatt (MW) bitcoin mine in the Metapán region of El Salvador.
- Tether is among the initial investors in the project.
Bitkit v1.0.0-beta.51: Bug Fixes and Performance Improvements
Bitkit is a non-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning wallet that also supports profiles, contacts, payments to contacts, key-based logins, widgets, and more. Available on iOS and Android.
Satellite CDN: Scalable Media Hosting For The Nostr Ecosystem
- Satellite.earth Nostr client developer Stuart Bowman shared a media hosting prototype for the Nostr ecosystem.
- The client is now fully open source.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/satellite-cdn-scalable-media-hosting-for-the-nostr-ecosystem/
Operation Triangulation: iOS Devices Targeted with Previously Unknown Malware
"We identified that the latest version of iOS that was targeted by Triangulation is 15.7. However, given the sophistication of the cyberespionage campaign and the complexity of analysis of iOS platform, we can’t guarantee that other versions of iOS are not affected."
nsecBunker: How To Set Up Your Nostr Keys Management Fortress
"Setting up the nsecBunker may seem intricate at first, but I will guide you step-by-step. Follow along, and you'll have your bunker up and running without a hitch."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/nsecbunker-nostr-keys-management-fortress/
BREAKING: SEC Sues Binance and CZ For 'Blatant Disregard of the Federal Securities Laws,' Names Coins It Deems As Securities
- “Through thirteen charges, we allege that Zhao and Binance entities engaged in an extensive web of deception, conflicts of interest, lack of disclosure, and calculated evasion of the law,” said SEC Chair Gary Gensler.
- "Charges include operating unregistered exchanges, broker-dealers, and clearing agencies; misrepresenting trading controls and oversight on the Binance.US platform; and the unregistered offer and sale of securities."
- The lawsuit also claims that coins like SOL, ADA, MATIC, FIL, ATOM, SAND, MANA, ALGO, AXS, COTI, BUSD, and BNB are all unregistered securities.
Parmanode v3.3.7: Electrum Desktop Wallet
"Parmanode now includes Electrum Desktop Wallet. It downloads, pgp verifies, installs, AAAAND connects to your own Fulcrum (Electrum) server with no manual configuration required by the user."
TBD Launched Tech Preview of Web5 Verifiable Credentials Toolkit
With this release, developers will be able to spin up and manage Decentralized Identifiers (DIDs), issue verifiable credentials, and define templates to make it easy and efficient to issue and verify these credentials.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/tbd-launched-tech-preview-of-web5-verifiable-credentials-toolkit/
Seed Tool v2.1.0: Update Styling and Bug Fixes
Bitcoin Seed Tool lets bitcoiners to experiment and learn how bitcoin wallets are generated using different sources of entropy (randomness).
EU Study Calls for Additional Invasive Regulation via 'Euro Wallet,' Still Calls Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work Outdated Tech
"Principally, we recommend addressing the cross-border issue with a cross-sectoral EU regulation on cross-border solicitation in financial services, a centralized authority of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) to inquire into the EU user base and make this information available to the National Competent Authorities (NCAs), as well as RegTech, by virtue of a Euro Wallet."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/eu-study-calls-for-additional-invasive-regulations/
Miner Fee Gathering Capability: Out of Band Fees
"The evidence we have suggests there has been no recent significant increase in these differences (Actual fees vs template fees), when compared to the higher market fee rates."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/miner-fee-gathering-capability-out-of-band-fees/
Bcademy, Boltz, Equitas, JAN3, Maven and Mifiel Join The Liquid Federation
"The new additions expand the total number of Federation members to 67, which includes major exchanges, Bitcoin infrastructure companies, and wallet providers, among others."
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/bcademy-boltz-equitas-jan3-maven-and-mifiel-join-the-liquid-federation/