🌃 Good Morning, Bitcoin - Monday, February 24th, 2025 Good morning! Here comes another freedom-packed No Bullshit GM report, right on time, and precisely when needed.

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Monday, February 24th, 2025

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Validating Lightning Signer v0.13.0: Enhanced Configuration, Better Testing and Security Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) is a library and reference implementation for a signer module to secure Lightning nodes. It separates your Lightning private keys and security rule validation from your Lightning node into a separate signing device, enhancing security by reducing the attack surface.

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Validating Lightning Signer v0.13.0: Enhanced Configuration, Better Testing and Security

Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) is a library and reference implementation for a signer module to secure Lightning nodes. It separates your Lightn...

Blitz Wallet v0.4.1-beta: The Efficiency Update Blitz is a self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning, Liquid, and ecash wallet built using the Breez SDK, Greenlight, Liquid Wallet Kit, and Boltz. Available on iOS and Android.

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Blitz Wallet v0.4.1-beta: The Efficiency Update

Blitz is a self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning, Liquid, and ecash wallet built using the Breez SDK, Greenlight, Liquid Wallet Kit, and Boltz. Availabl...

Bybit exchange appears to have been hacked for approximately $1.5 billion worth of ETH. If confirmed, this would constitute the largest cryptocurrency hack to date.

🌃 Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, February 19th, 2025 GM, the latest GM report is now available: 🔻

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Wednesday, February 19th, 2025

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🇳🇬 Nigeria Freed Gambaryan in Exchange for Access to US Financial Surveillance Capabilities - Report "Let's be very clear: What the US has deemed acceptable here is that the cost of one innocent man's freedom is its potential loss for tens of thousands of innocent Africans." - @L0la L33tz

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Nigeria Freed Gambaryan in Exchange for Access to US Financial Surveillance Capabilities - Report

Nigeria appears to have exchanged Binance Executive and former IRS criminal investigator Tigran Gambaryan for access to U.S. "resources and experti...

🚨 PSA: Be sure to update your LND instance to the latest version, especially if you are using it with Lightning Terminal.

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LND v0.18.5-beta: Important Bug Fixes & Improvements

The Lightning Network Daemon (LND) is a complete implementation of a Lightning Network node developed by Lightning Labs.

🌇 Good Morning, Bitcoin - Monday, February 17th, 2025 Good morning, Nostr. Is it even morning anymore? What is morning, anyway? 🆕 📰 ↘️

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Monday, February 17th, 2025

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Alby Hub v1.14.2: Basic Swap Functionality, Home Widgets & More "Alby Hub now has a healthcheck indicator, better fiat support, NIP-44 encryption, and a way for self-hosters to support Alby! We've also added basic swap functionality to the node page so you can more easily manage your liquidity without having to open new channels."

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Alby Hub v1.14.2: Basic Swap Functionality, Home Widgets & More

Alby Hub is an open-source hub for setting up and/or controlling your Lightning node and wallet from various applications that support Nostr Wallet...

🇦🇷 Argentina's Milei Faces Fraud Charges, Impeachment Calls After Failed Memecoin Launch Milei is embroiled in controversy for promoting LIBRA, a Solana-based token, whose value dropped 95% from $4.5 billion to $200 million over the weekend. Insiders reportedly cashed out $87.4 million in tokens during the incident. "This scandal, which embarrasses us on an international scale, requires us to launch an impeachment request against the president," added Leandro Santoro, a member of the opposition coalition.

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Argentina's Milei Faces Fraud Charges, Impeachment Calls After Failed Memecoin Launch

Argentina's 'anarcho-capitalist' President Javier Milei is facing fraud charges and impeachment calls after promoting a crashed memecoin.

⌛ Block 884070: Important News of the Week Nearly a thousand blocks later, it's time for another weekly digest 📰 ⏬

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Block 884070: Important News of the Week

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☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Saturday, February 15th, 2025 GM? GM. The latest GM report is now available:

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Bisq v1.9.19 & Bisq2 v2.1.6: Updates and Security Improvements 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 trade protocols, multiple privacy networks and multiple identities.

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Bisq v1.9.19 & Bisq2 v2.1.6: Updates and Security Improvements

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...

Bitkit v1.0.9: Fee Weather Widget, Bitcoin-to-Fiat Calculator Bitkit is a self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning Wallet for Android and iOS.

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Bitkit v1.0.9: Fee Weather Widget, Bitcoin-to-Fiat Calculator

Bitkit is a self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning Wallet for Android and iOS.

Fountain App v1.1.16: Nostr Live Streams & Storage Manager "Nostr livestreams are a beta feature - i.e. we still have a lot more work to do! We will continue to make improvements to livestreams over the coming months - so we would love to hear your feedback." h/t @Fountain

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Fountain App v1.1.16: Nostr Live Streams & Storage Manager

Fountain is a Lightning and Nostr-powered value-for-value podcasting app and community where listeners and podcasters get rewarded for the value th...

❄️ COLDCARD Mk4 v5.4.1 & Q v1.3.1: New Message Signing Features, Address Display & More

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COLDCARD Mk4 v5.4.1 & Q v1.3.1: New Message Signing Features, Address Display & More

COLDCARD Mk4 is an ultra-secure and verifiable hardware wallet for Bitcoin. COLDCARD Q is the higher-end COLDCARD that comes with a full QWERTY key...

U.S. Customs and Border Protection Broadens Crackdown on Asian ASICs - Report U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seizing Asian Bitcoin mining ASICs. The crackdown now includes machines from MicroBT and Canaan, following the initial stoppage of Bitmain’s Antminer S21 and T21 models last year.

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U.S. Customs and Border Protection Broadens Crackdown on Asian ASICs - Report

U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seizing Bitcoin mining ASICs. The crackdown, as reported by Blockspace.Media, now includes machines fro...

Blockstream Explorer API has been relaunched and is moving to open beta It offers a scalable HTTP REST API for Bitcoin mainnet, testnet and the Liquid Network, with an Electrum JSON-RPC service coming soon. Built on the open-source Esplora technology, it now features simplified onboarding, enhanced infrastructure, and more robust support. "Start harnessing the power of the new Blockstream Explorer today. Visit blockstream.info/explorer-api to apply for the open beta and gain instant access. With our free tier, which includes 30 days of free usage for testing, exploring the API is risk-free, empowering your projects without financial commitment." Learn more:

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Introducing the New Blockstream Explorer API: Faster, Easier, and More Transparent

We are excited to announce the formal relaunch of the Blockstream Explorer API. With this update, we are moving the project into open beta, introdu...

⚡ LND v0.18.5-beta is now available This minor release includes important bug fixes for AMP invoices, interactions with external software for normal invoices, fee bump transactions, performance improvements for Postgres backends, and UX improvements for custom channels. Source:

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Release lnd v0.18.5-beta · lightningnetwork/lnd

This is a minor release which ships important bug fixes for AMP invoices, a critical bug related to erroneous invoice state transitions, fee bump ...