Announcements

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Soundtrack

• Event space fundraiser
• BTC VanCity with Jeff Booth April 20
• BitDevs April 27

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Announcing the Pacific Nodewest noderunners community. Learn how to run a Lightning Network node, get support and make use of the latest tools and tricks to manage your node effectively.

Mailing Lists

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• Edge vulnerability

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• Subscription Payments via Lightning & LNBits
• Discreet Log Contracts

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• NIP-05 Verified Account
• LNBits Diagon Alley Market Protocol
• Will Twitter Open Source Algorithm

Network Data

• Zaps are on the rise
• If Satoshi’s wallet became active today, do you think it would cause mass panic?

Pull Requests and repo updates

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• LND 0.16 released

2023 (Central) Banking Crisis

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• How it’s made: Ameridollars

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• America’s banks are missing hundreds of billions of dollars
• The US bank system is more fragile than you’d think
• Signature Bank’s Crypto Execution
• Silicon Valley Bank’s demise disrupts the disruptors in tech
• How the Federal Reserve Grew More Powerful Than Anyone Ever Imagined
• Pakistan on the Brink: What the Collapse of the Nuclear-Armed Regional Power Could Mean for the World

New Releases

• Bitcoin settlement without internet
• SoftWar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin
• Self-sovereign Lightning addresses with Blixt
• Swiss Bitcoin Pay NFC card with 2FA
• Shakepay shuts down Earn
• Paxful shuts down in Canada
• Mempool 2.5.0 released «««< HEAD =======
• Seedsigner Open Source Hardware Wallet
• Bitcoin Inheritance Planning

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Events and Podcasts

• Bitcoin++ Layer 2 Conference
• Chaincode Podcast on Lightning Network history

Miscellaneous

• Nigerians flock to Bitcoin
• 2023 Banking Crisis
• News Outlets Talking about falling Dominance of USD
  • CNN
  • Fox News
• On the Trail of the Fentanyl King