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News

• Brink gets $5m from Jack
• Apple doesn’t like zaps
• Bitkey beta
• Mempool.space tx accelerator
• Binance tx accelerator
• 1 million zaps
• Ark

Research

• Bad nonces in bitcoin
• Insecure lightning payments

Notable code changes, proposals, and releases

• bitcoin core 25.0
• PoW Tor
• Stratum v2 in core
• Altpay - CLN plugin
• Sigops in getblocktemplate
• BIP 340 updates
• Lightning + AI

Privacy

• Silent Payments BIP
• Silent Payments PR

Gossip

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