News PayPal Proposes Scheme To Selectively Mine With ESG Compliant Miners The paper proposes routing transactions to whitelisted 'green miners' using low fees and a 'locked' BTC reward in a multisig payout address.
Releases Primal Introduces Top Zaps to All of Its Nostr Clients Primal is a free and open source nostr client focused on seamless user experience. Available on Android, iOS and the web.
Releases Sparrow Wallet v1.9.0: Remove Whirlpool Client & Soroban-related Features Sparrow is a free and open source desktop Bitcoin wallet focused on security and privacy.
Releases Finney by Nunchuk: Bitcoin Wallet for Families "Finney lets your family hold the reins, ensuring complete financial autonomy and security. With Finney, one can enlist one’s own family to hold a backup key, or backup keys, instead of relying on a trusted third-party," said Nunchuk in a blog post.
Guides How to Migrate Samourai Wallet & Implications for Whirlpool Users Privacy and freedom tech advocate Seth For Privacy shared some key insights on implications of yesterdays indictment for Samourai Wallet and Whirlpool users.
News Five New Editors Added to Oversee Bitcoin Improvement Proposals After public discussion, Bryan “Kanzure” Bishop, Jon Atack, Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Olaoluwa “Roasbeef” Osuntokun, and Ruben Somsen have been made BIP editors.
Releases Strike Launches Services in Europe As of today, the Strike app is available to eligible customers in Europe. Strike users in Europe are able to hold their cash balance in EUR, trade bitcoin, and transact globally using the Bitcoin and Lightning Networks.
News EU Parliament Adopts New Financial Surveillance Rules for Service Providers The EU Parliament approved a new AML package that will come into effect in 3 years. The new rules contain enhanced customer surveillance measures for financial institutions and EU wide limit of 10000 EUR on cash payments for obligated entities.
News Samourai Wallet Founders Arrested & Charged with Money Laundering, Unlicensed Money Transmitting Offenses U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Prosecutors are alleging Samourai Wallet laundered over $100 million in criminal proceeds.
Releases Bitcoin Optech #299: Weak Blocks Proof-of-Concept Implementation This week’s newsletter describes a proposal to relay weak blocks to improve compact block performance in a network with multiple divergent mempool policies and announces the addition of five BIP editors.
Releases nos2x v2.3.0: NIP49 Support nost2x is a signer extension for signing Nostr events on web apps without having to give them your keys.
Releases Zeus v0.9.0-alpha1 Rolls Out to Community Sponsors ZEUS is a mobile Bitcoin/Lightning wallet and remote node manager for LND and Core Lightning. ZEUS is built on TypeScript and React Native. It runs on both Android and iOS.