Vitalik Buterin: 'Saylor's Comments are Batshit Insane' "I'll happily say that I think Michael Saylor's comments are batshit insane. He seems to be explicitly arguing for a regulatory capture approach to protecting crypto. There's plenty of precedent for how this strategy can fail, and for me it's not what crypto is about," Buterin posted to X on Wednesday.

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Vitalik Buterin: 'Saylor's Comments are Batshit Insane'

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin criticized MicroStrategy founder Michael Saylor's view that concerns over regulated bitcoin custody were mainly...

Bisq2 v2.1.2: Optimized Reputation System & Chat Consolidation This version brings reputation system improvements to enhance security and the overall trading experience, fixes notification issues, and consolidates chat rooms based on user feedback.

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Bisq2 v2.1.2: Optimized Reputation System & Chat Consolidation

Bisq is a secure, private and decentralized bitcoin P2P exchange network. Bisq2 is set to be the successor to Bisq v1 and will support multiple tra...

☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024 GM, the latest daily digest is here! As always, please share and let us know what else we missed.

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, October 23rd, 2024

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River Introduces BTC Yield on USD Deposits Bitcoin financial services firm River has teamed up with Lead Bank to launch Bitcoin Interest on Cash product, allowing users to earn bitcoin or USD interest on their cash deposits.

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River Introduces BTC Yield on USD Deposits

Bitcoin financial services firm River has teamed up with Lead Bank to launch Bitcoin Interest on Cash product, allowing users to earn bitcoin or US...

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Invested $25M to Support Free & Open-Source Projects Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) announced it has invested nearly $25 million (€23 million) in 60 global open-source technologies over the past two years. During this time, it received over 500 submissions proposing more than €114 million in work.

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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund Invested $25M to Support Free & Open-Source Projects

Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund (STF) announced it has invested nearly $25 million (€23 million) in 60 global open-source technologies over the pas...

☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, October 22, 2024 GM. “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” ― Marshall McLuhan

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024

Good Morning, Bitcoin is your daily news roundup delivering key stories, project updates, new releases, guides, research, and all things related to...

Minneapolis FED Research Paper Finds Banning or Taxing 'Bitcoin' Can Help Maintain Permanent Budget Deficits A new research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests that governments can either tax or ban "fixed supply private-sector bubble assets that are not a claim to any real resources" to ensure the long-term viability of large and permanent budget deficits.

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Minneapolis FED Research Paper Finds Banning or Taxing 'Bitcoin' Can Help Maintain Permanent Budget Deficits

A new research paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis suggests that governments can either tax or ban "fixed supply private-sector bubb...

Debifi App v0.0.52: Coldcard MK4 Integration Debifi is a non-custodial Bitcoin-backed lending platform providing institutional-grade liquidity. It lets you borrow against your bitcoin using secure multisig escrow. Available on Android.

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Debifi App v0.0.52: Coldcard MK4 Integration

Debifi is a non-custodial Bitcoin-backed lending platform providing institutional-grade liquidity. It lets you borrow against your bitcoin using se...

Hodl Hodl Discontinues Support for Most Altcoins as Payment Method "Stablecoins and Bitcoin second-layer solutions are fully supported," said the exchange.

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Hodl Hodl Discontinues Support for Most Shitcoins as Payment Method

"Stablecoins and Bitcoin second-layer solutions are fully supported," said the exchange.

Joinstr App v0.1.1: UI Improvements, Testnet & Mainnet Support Joinstr is a free and open-source coinjoin implementation using Nostr relays for coordinating coinjoin transactions.

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Joinstr App v0.1.1: UI Improvements, Testnet & Mainnet Support

Joinstr is a free and open-source coinjoin implementation using Nostr relays for coordinating coinjoin transactions.

SIGit.io: Document Signing & Verification Over Nostr SIGit.io is an open-source and self-hostable solution for secure document signing and verification.

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SIGit.io: Document Signing & Verification Over Nostr

SIGit.io is an open-source and self-hostable solution for secure document signing and verification.

AlgoRelay: Nostr's First Algorithmic Relay "AlgoRelay is the first nostr native relay capable of serving personalized, algorithmic feeds without the use of external or proprietary APIs or DVMs. It prioritizes surfacing content from the people you care about, based on your personal interactions."

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AlgoRelay: Nostr's First Algorithmic Relay

AlgoRelay is nostr native first algorithmic relay, enabling operators to build relays using a preset weighting algorithm.

Core Lightning v24.08.2: Remember and Update Channel Hints "This point release addresses few crash fixes and includes an enhancement to remember and update channel hints for payments."

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Core Lightning v24.08.2: Remember and Update Channel Hints

Core Lightning is a lightweight, highly customizable and standard compliant implementation of the Lightning Network protocol.

DATUM Gateway v0.2-beta Released OCEAN has open-sourced DATUM Gateway source code, Linux binaries, and a package for StartOS node runners.

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DATUM Gateway v0.2-beta Released

OCEAN has open-sourced DATUM (Decentralized Alternative Templates for Universal Mining) Gateway source code, Linux binaries, and a package for Star...

ECB Economists: Nocoiners May Be Impoverished by Rising Bitcoin Prices A new paper by ECB economists describes a 'Bitcoin-positive' scenario as one in which the price of Bitcoin continues to rise significantly and sustainably over time. "If the price of Bitcoin rises for good, the existence of Bitcoin impoverishes both non-holders and latecomers."

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ECB Economists: Nocoiners May Be Impoverished by Rising Bitcoin Prices

A new paper by ECB economists describes a 'Bitcoin-positive' scenario as one in which the price of Bitcoin continues to rise significantly and sust...

☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Friday, October 18, 2024 GM. The GM report is never late, nor is it early; it arrives precisely when it is needed.

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Friday, October 18th, 2024

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Stratum v2 SRI v1.1.0: Improved Protocol Crates Documentation, More Testing Abilities "Kudos to our contributors for making v1.1.0 happen and to all the community testers stress-testing our implementation."

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Stratum v2 SRI v1.1.0: Improved Protocol Crates Documentation, More Testing Abilities

SRI is a reference implementation of the Stratum V2 protocol written in Rust. Stratum V2 is a next-generation bitcoin mining protocol designed to e...

ESP-Miner v2.3.0: Improvements & Bug Fixes "New Bitaxe firmware esp-miner v2.3.0 has been released! Lots of bug fixes and improvements, so make sure to give it a try – all single-chip HW versions are supported."

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ESP-Miner v2.3.0: Improvements & Bug Fixes

ESP Miner is an open source ESP32 firmware designed to run on a BitAxe v2+ machines.

Electrum v4.5.6: Testnet4, New Hardware Wallets Support

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Electrum v4.5.6: Testnet4, New Hardware Wallets Support

Electrum is a lightweight Bitcoin and Lightning wallet for all desktop platforms and Android.

Italy Plans to Raise Bitcoin Capital Gains Tax from 26% to 42% The new budget measures are still awaiting approval from the Italian parliament, with a final vote anticipated by the end of the year. If enacted, a 42% capital gains tax on Bitcoin would make Italy one of the highest-taxed countries for cryptocurrency in the world.

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Italy Plans to Raise Bitcoin Capital Gains Tax from 26% to 42%

Italy intends to increase the capital gains tax on Bitcoin from 26% to 42% as part of a strategy to fund costly election commitments while reducing...