Institutio Theologiae Elencticae

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• Lightning Hackday 3 January 2024
• Bitcoin Birthday Party 3 January 2024
• January Bitdevs 30 January 2024

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New merchants

• Gyrokinesis Studio
• Newegg
• Mahony’s Tavern
• Shoot High Caliber
• Privato Vineyard
• Crow’s Nest Distillery

Today’s talk

Matteo of Orange Pill App

bitcoin-dev

• Blake 3 implementation in Bitcoin script
• BitVM online

lightning-dev

• Lightning Address in a Bolt 12 world

Optech

• Linux Foundation unwilling to host the Bitcoin-dev mailing list
• Possible data breach at Coinsmart
• If you created a bitcoin wallet before 2016, your money may be at risk
• In a first, cryptographic keys protecting SSH connections stolen in new attack
• Full RBF to 76,400 sat/vB
• Owner speaks out, blames weird script
• Zeus developer has Apple ID revoked

Bitcoinomics

2023 (Central Banking) Banking Crisis

• Payment Shock Coming for Most Canadians With Mortgages, RBC Says
• Citizens Bank, Sac City, Fifth Bank In The US To Be Shuttered This Year
• Custodia bank goes live
• Ransomware attack on ICBC disrupts trades in US Treasury market
• US dollar dominance is facing a crypto-yuan hostile takeover

Network Data

Mining

• OFAC sanctioned Bitcoin transactions missing in F2Pool block
• Hut 8 receives Court approval for a stalking horse bid for four natural gas power plants and the North Bay Bitcoin mine
• Introducing the BASIC Note: A Bitcoin-Denominated Investment in Undervalued Mining Assets
• The future of energy? Brooklyn’s bitcoin-heated bathhouse
• Mintgreen boiler live in Burnaby
• Nigerian Bitcoin Miner, Trojan Mining, Launch 500KW Hydro Mining Site

Token Layer

• Tether Q3 attestations
• A Bitcoin Dev’s Bot Bucked BRC-20s—Now He Might Share ‘The Sophon’ With the World

New Releases

• Encrypted Messaging over the Lightning Network
• Wallet of Satoshi adding additional PoS functionalities
• Wallet of Satoshi withdraws from US app stores
• Boltz Backend 0.3.3
• Athena enables Lightning deposits into their ATMs
• Bitcoinize machines for sale from $199
• Using OpenAI agents to pay Lightning invoices
• Durabit: Incentivizing Torrent Seeding With Bitcoin
• HRF launches CBDC tracker
• Building on Lightning: lipa Is Revolutionizing Wallets with the Breez SDK

Events and Podcasts

• CD114: Circular Economies with Coinos
• Bitcoin and the Nature of Reality with Jeff Booth - FFS #67
• Bitcoin Meetups, Bitcoin Stores (Flockstr, Coinos)

Miscellaneous

• Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Reportedly Quits and Pleads Guilty to Breaking US Law
• DOJ Charges Binance With Vast Money-Laundering Scheme and Sanctions Violations
• CZ announces he is stepping down
• Binance Announcement: Reaching Resolution With U.S. Regulators
• Creator of nodeless investigated for running an unlicensed money transmission business
• B.C. cryptocurrency exchange NetCents faces securities hearing
• The hidden culprit driving America’s apocalypse of boarded-up storefronts
• Seeing like a bank
• Why Banks Are Suddenly Closing Down Customer Accounts
• Your Rewards Card Is Actually Bad for You, and for Everyone Else
• Does Bitcoin Make You Rich? DW Documentary on El Salvador
• CoinDesk bought by crypto exchange Bullish
• Richmond case involving $10M in cryptocurrency and fake police sees charges laid
• Lightning Is Doomed