Announcements

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Soundtrack

• Event space fundraiser
• Nostrica Conference Costa Rica March 19-21
• BTC Vancity Meetup March 22
• Lightningcon Vietnam March 23-24
• Bitcoin Beach Philippines Retreat March 27-29
• BitDevs March March 30

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Mailing Lists

bitcoin-dev

• Bitcoin Search
• Serverless Payjoin
• Ordinal inscriptions
• OP_VAULT BIP
• OP VAULT activation discussion

lightning-dev

• Lightning Benchmarking

Optech

• Regrets over MIT license
• Free software and fiduciary duty

Network Data

• 4MB Ordinal
• Ordinals 50% of Blockspace
• Zaps are on the rise

Pull Requests and repo updates

core lightning

eclair

ldk

lnd

New Releases

• Strike <-> Clover integration
• Zeus Point of Sale over LNC
• Orange Pill app on Android
• Pearth Heat “Stealing Sats”
• Lightning paywall for Ghost
• Neutronpay building Lightning infrastructure for Colombian Neobank
• Localbitcoins shutting down
• Telegram launches p2p market
• Paywithmoon no longer issues prepaid debit cards
• Options contract code for Liquid made public
• Bluewallet shuts down custodial Lightning feature
• Voltage launches Flow 2.0
• LND (custodial) Accounts

Events and Podcasts

• Starks on Bitcoin

Miscellaneous

• Lightning Labs newsletter
• Operation Choke Point 2.0
• North Korea stole US$17 billion last year
• Best wallets for slow internet