init june topics

[DanGould]

Taiwan deports Chinese-American Crypto-robbery suspect back to U.S.

Stole $3m in girls cryptocurrency and put it in Taiwanese made CoolBit wallets. He entered intto her house.

https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202206060013

(中文）：[新聞] 華裔男在美搶9千萬躲台2個月全靠「冷錢包
https://moptt.tw/p/DigiCurrency.M.1654492918.A.A8D

Celsius Network "Pauses" Customer Withdrawals

https://twitter.com/CelsiusNetwork/status/1536169010877739009?s=20&t=vIAMD7FgAcjf6KmElGBpuQ

• Celsius offered enormous yields to customers by rehypothicating funds
• canada's 2nd largest pension fund invested in a $400m equity round of financing for celsius in oct 2021
• celsius holds 150k btc, Luna LFG held 80k

BIP 47 Payment Code Upgrades (v5?)

As per this gist, this version of BIP47 (v5?) adds one or two points of complexity and removes a big one:

• Outsourcing requires private interaction over (presumably) the Lightning Network
• Detecting new notifications requires custom infrastructure (optional, only if recipient address outputs are avoided to save space)
• Notification transaction no longer leaks privacy (big)

[https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/21c477c90c942acf45f8e8f5c1ad4fae?permalink_comment_id=4197284#gistcomment-4197284]

The History of LDK

https://twitter.com/fiatjaf/status/1534584538994819072?s=20&t=oRXRBietqni57U89t5YQNg

LDK was intended to embed in Electrum. Now it's used in server side software

Fuji: Borow bitcoin-backed stablecoins, synthetic stocks and bonds on Liquid

https://fuji.money

KYC Free Visa MasterCard Debit Carrds

• thebitcoincompany.com Visa
• edge.app MasterCard

Bolt.fun Shock the Web Hackathon # 2

https://bolt.fun/hackathons/shock-the-web-2/

build and design web applications that can interact with lightning & WebLN.

Shock the Web 2 ⚡️will be starting on Thursday (June 16th) with a day of discussions and workshops. We'll then let you get on with hacking for the whole weekend until the submission deadline (17th-19th). Of-course, we’re going to have mentors to help you along the way.

44 Countries Meet in El Salvador

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/el-salvador-brought-44-countries-to-bitcoin

Oslo Freedom Forums

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-purpose-at-oslo-freedom-forum

https://twitter.com/thebluematt/status/1531509811866529792?s=21&t=cWK88c6Hn54_Jj9BY6DwLQ

• Core ligthtning rust plugin
• umbrel CLN release
• lightning muxer !? ‣ https://github.com/bottlepay/lnmux

magma successes

• BtcSessions [tutorial on Magma](https://twitter.com/btcsessions/status/1534325195749527553?s=21&t=49pWK6xU3DANO1wsQU9Oeg)
  • 16.81 BTC bought in 44 days https://twitter.com/kerooke/status/1534294708805152770?s=20&t=uRz-ct6Dlk11TgAn5W8A-A

Umbrel released

• [Umbrel v0.5](https://blog.getumbrel.com/introducing-umbrel-0-5-a-beautiful-personal-server-os-for-self-hosting-dcbee7e23b64) released
  • new UI
  • lightning is an app now (and CLN is an option!)
  • new way to package and release apps https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel-apps/blob/master/README.md

LNURL in NFC with Bolt card

• [BLIP](https://github.com/theDavidCoen/blips/blob/84b00ea0802afca9c3a2c4e89b9891be3efe4333/blip-0015.md) for standardizing LNURL-withdraw for use at point-of-sale, e.g. over NFC
• Definitely has security concerns https://github.com/theDavidCoen/blips/blob/84b00ea0802afca9c3a2c4e89b9891be3efe4333/blip-0015.md#rationale

https://twitter.com/CoinCornerDanny/status/1526573313962680321

New Package Relay

Based on whether you'd accept the minimum feerate of the message or not

• https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2022-June/020544.html

New York State To Place Moratorium On Non-Renewable Bitcoin Mining

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/new-york-to-place-moratorium-on-carbon-based-bitcoin-mining

DEMO: Rare Japanese NFTs

Japan's early vintage NFTs issued in 2016 and 2017 on Bitcoin with Counterparty

https://rarejapanesenfts.com

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