Lightning Hood Weekly Round-Up For The Past Week In Bitcoin, October 28 – November 3, 2019
Bitcoin and Lightning Network News
Major Headlines
1.) On Oct. 30, 2019, the bitcoin blockchain reached $1 billion in cumulative transaction fees
2.) Bitmex experienced an email privacy issue impacting their customers. Bitmex has stated that they’ve identified the root cause of the issue and will be in touch with any users affected
3.) Halloween 2019 marked the eleventh anniversary of the release of the white paper for the first fully decentralized, peer-to-peer electronic cash by anonymous creator(s) Satoshi Nakomoto
4.) Crypto derivatives exchange BitMEX is implementing major changes to the weights of its indices later this month, according to an announcement published today, Nov. 1. The exchange says the update is a bid to ensure that users trade against a reference price that “more closely reflects the market consensus price of underlying assets”
5.) While the electricity crisis was already part of everyday life, the blackout still crippled communications across the country. It also inspired Venezuelan Randy Brito to focus fully on the Locha Mesh initiative, an open-source project working to enable private messages and payments without an internet connection
6.) The ACCC has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Google LLC and Google Australia Pty Ltd (together, Google), alleging they engaged in misleading conduct and made false or misleading representations to consumers about the personal location data Google collects, keeps and uses
7.) Bisq, a prominent decentralized cryptocurrency exchange, has launched a major software update promising new features such as a new trade protocol that further reinforces the trustless nature of the system
Community News And Developments
1.) Snapshot of the current state of the Lightning Network
2.) c-lightning update: v0.7.3 or “Bitcoin’s Proof of Stake” has been tagged and released
3.) Coinkite publishes everything you need to build your own Coldcard Wallet
4.) Casa keys announces 2of3 basic multisig with two hardware keys. Gold members will be able to swap their mobile key for a 2nd hardware device key
5.) Gugol has provided a demo on how tokens can be integrated into websites/API for auth/payment
6.) The c-lightning team is proud to announce the release of version 0.7.3. This is the second of their “every two months” timed releases; the next is slated for December
Research And Thought Pieces
1.) This week’s newsletter announces the latest C-Lightning release, requests help testing a Bitcoin Core release candidate, describes discussions about simplified LN commitments using CPFP carve-out, and summarizes several top-voted questions and answers from the Bitcoin StackExchange
Podcasts And Videos
1.) Marty Bent and Matt Odell sat with Evan Kaloudis to discuss gaming, ZeusLN and the state of Lightning
2.) Yan Pritzker, Bitcoin Author and previously CTO of Reverb joins Stephan in this episode to talk about Bitcoin Mining, his book Inventing Bitcoin and give Bitcoin beginners an intro to Bitcoin Mining
Lightning Hood’s Selection For Meme Of The Week
If there are any other major news events or items we may have missed from the week please let us know! You can reach us on twitter @lightning_hood

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