🇮🇷 Iran's Central Bank Blocks Payment Gateways to Cryptocurrency Exchanges Amid Currency Crisis "These restrictive and destructive decisions in technology policymaking not only eliminate Iran's limited opportunity for economic growth through new technologies but also drive away the country's most important asset - its capable human capital."

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Iran's Central Bank Blocks Payment Gateways to Cryptocurrency Exchanges Amid Currency Crisis

This move follows the Iranian rial's 37% devaluation against the US dollar in 2024, which led many Iranians to seek digital assets like bitcoin.

☕ Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, January 14th, 2025 GM and happy Lightning Whitepaper Day! 📰 ⬇️

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Good Morning, Bitcoin - Tuesday, January 14th, 2025

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

🟩 Blockstream Green Desktop v2.0.17 adds graphical assets for Jade Plus, support video promo on Linux, and shows total spent amount in transaction details. Also, the default fee rate is now the 24 block fee rate estimate.

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Release Release 2.0.17 · Blockstream/green_qt

What's new in this release Added Graphical assets for Jade Plus Support video promo on Linux Show total spent amount in transaction details Chang...

🛠️ Bitcoin Keeper v1.3.3 redesigns Electrum Server Management, adds remote signing support for Keystone devices, includes PDF export for individual wallet configuration files, and brings UI improvements and general bug fixes.

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Release v1.3.3 · KeeperCommunity/bitcoin-keeper

Redesigned Electrum Server Management Add Keystone remote signing support PDF export for individual wallet configuration files UI improvements and ...

🟧 Solo Satoshi Introduces Bitaxe Touch Bitcoin Home Miner The device is powered by the Bitaxe 601 Gamma, which uses the BM1370 ASIC chip from the Bitmain S21 Pro, reaching a hash rate of up to 1.6 TH/s.

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Solo Satoshi Introduces Bitaxe Touch Bitcoin Home Miner

Bitaxe Touch is a touch screen Bitcoin miner. It features an 800×480 LCD displaying real-time Bitcoin price, Mempool data, power usage, hashrate, ...

Stratum V2 Reference Implementation (SRI) v1.2.1 is a patch release for a bug on roles_logic_sv2 crate that manifested while mining on testnet4. "Now, non-future jobs are always created by using the original timestamp defined by the Template Provider," said the developers.

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Release v1.2.1 · stratum-mining/stratum

General release information This is a PATCH release. After v1.2.0 we identified a bug on roles_logic_sv2 crate, which is described in detail on #13...

New CFPB proposed rulemaking makes no distinction between custodial and self-custody wallets The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking to reinterpret the Electronic Funds Transfer Act (EFTA) to include cryptocurrency activities. However, the proposal does not differentiate between cryptocurrency services offered by trusted intermediaries, which could be subject to consumer protection regulations, and software tools for self-securing digital assets, which are considered protected speech and should not be subject to regulatory permissions, writes Coin Center. Source:

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New CFPB rulemaking makes no distinction between custodial and self-custody wallets

They are completely different products with different risks and covering self-custody is beyond statutory authority and unconstitutional.

Nostur v1.17.0: Sync Read Notes Across Devices, Olas Image Viewing & More The latest version of the Nostur client now syncs already seen and read notes across multiple devices, supports the viewing of Olas pictures (kind:20), implements support for Frost/multisig login, adds an undelete button for deleted posts, as well as many other improvements and bug fixes.

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Nostur v1.17.0: Sync Read Notes Across Devices, Olas Image Viewing & More

Nostur is a Nostr client for Apple devices. Available on iOS, macOS, and iPadOS.

⌛Block 878939: Important News of the Week 2025 is starting out strong for Bitcoin and freedom tech, so here is our largest weekly digest report ever! Huge shoutout to all the developers, contributors, and everyone else making important things happen— a big part of our mission is to ensure your work doesn't go unnoticed.

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Block 878939: Important News of the Week

News. Updates. Research. Stats. Everything Important You Need to Know.

Wasabi Wallet v2.4.0: Send to Silent Payment Addresses "Wasabi is now one of the first wallet to support send to Silent Payment addresses, and we hope that more wallets will join! We are working on allowing receiving, please bear with us!" - @wasabiwallet.io

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Wasabi Wallet v2.4.0: Send to Silent Payment Addresses

Wasabi Wallet is a free and open-source, privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet for desktop.