El Salvador has just started mining bitcoin using the energy from volcanoes

https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/01/el-salvador-just-started-mining-bitcoin-with-volcanoes-for-the-first-time-ever-and-theyve-already-made-269.html
archive: https://archive.ph/Ru7mw

US unites 30 countries to disrupt global ransomware attacks

"This month, the United States will bring together 30 countries to accelerate our cooperation in combatting cybercrime, improving law enforcement collaboration, stemming the illicit use of cryptocurrency, and engaging on these issues diplomatically," President Biden said today.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/us-unites-30-countries-to-disrupt-global-ransomware-attacks/
archive: https://archive.ph/Bq7ba

Hackers rob thousands of Coinbase customers using SMS 2FA flaw

- 6000 users compromised
- funds and personal info stolen
- full name, email address, home address, date of birth, IP addresses for account activity, transaction history, account holdings, and balances

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-rob-thousands-of-coinbase-customers-using-mfa-flaw/
archive: https://archive.ph/Chmqx

Darknet Market 'White House Market' is Retiring

- user registration and ordering have been disabled
- site will be kept online until open orders are finalized, disputes handled and coins withdrawn

https://darknetlive.com/post/psa-white-house-market-is-retiring/
archive: https://archive.ph/zz65j

Liquid Hard Fork Diagnostic Report

- the hard fork is now activated, and block signing has resumed

https://blog.liquid.net/liquid-hard-fork-diagnostic-report/
archive: https://archive.ph/CL0I7

[Lightning-dev] Full Disclosure: CVE-2021-41591/ CVE-2021-41592 / CVE-2021-41593 "Dust HTLC Exposure Considered Harmful"

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/lightning-dev/2021-October/003257.html
archive: https://archive.ph/gHSdP

Notable Software Releases this Week

bluewallet v6.2.9: https://github.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet/releases/tag/v.6.2.9

electrs v0.9.0: https://github.com/romanz/electrs/releases/tag/v0.9.0

lnd v0.13.3-beta: https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/tag/v0.13.3-beta

umbrel v0.4.3: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/releases/tag/v0.4.3

joinmarket v0.9.2: https://github.com/JoinMarket-Org/joinmarket-clientserver/releases/tag/v0.9.2

joininbox v0.6.1: https://github.com/openoms/joininbox/releases/tag/v0.6.1

U.S. Justice Dept launches new initiatives on cryptocurrencies, contractor hacks

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-dept-launches-new-initiatives-cryptocurrencies-contractor-hacks-2021-10-06/
archive: https://archive.ph/8EZoB

Bitcoin Optech #169

- proposal to add transaction heritage identifiers to Bitcoin
- 'how to prepare for taproot' series: output linking

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/10/06/
archive: https://archive.ph/FRUt4

J.P. Morgan: Institutional Investors Are Favoring Bitcoin Over Gold

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jpmorgan-bitcoin-better-inflation-hedge-than-gold
archive: https://archive.ph/VZIZQ

This Month in Bitcoin Privacy: September 2021

- Wasabi Wallet 2.0 Update, Continued
- El Salvador’s Chivo Privacy Concerns
- Mastercard Acquires CipherTrace
- HRF Grants to Chaincase, Umbrel Bounty
- Coinbase on ICE
- Bisq Transitions to Tor V3
- Chainalysis Behind Block Explorer
- Samourai Like-Type Change Outputs
- Moral Landscape of Monetary Design

https://enegnei.github.io/This-Month-In-Bitcoin-Privacy/September_2021
archive: https://archive.ph/v0YmL

Chipmakers resist US bid for client data

- TSMC said it absolutely would not hand client information to the US, while South Korea has expressed concern with the scope of the request

https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/biz/archives/2021/10/08/2003765704
archive: https://archive.ph/0OlBD

Surveillance Firm Elliptic Raises $60m Series C Funding Round

- Evolution and Softbank join existing investors including Wells Fargo, Santander, Octopus, and AlbionVC

https://archive.ph/FeYEl

Bitcoin Optech #170

- LN implementations vulnerabilities
- LN protocol using taproot
- Extract RBF logic into policy/rbf PR

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2021/10/13/
archive: https://archive.ph/Iryj1

The United States is now the epicenter for Bitcoin Mining, accounting for 35.4% of the global hash rate at the end of July 2021, according to a Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance study published on Wednesday.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/u-s-becomes-worlds-biggest-bitcoin-miner-beating-china
archive: https://archive.ph/gb239

Notable Software Releases this Week

eclair v0.6.2: https://github.com/ACINQ/eclair/releases/tag/v0.6.2

umbrel v0.4.4: https://github.com/getumbrel/umbrel/releases/tag/v0.4.4

bluewallet v6.2.10: https://github.com/BlueWallet/BlueWallet/releases/tag/v6.2.10

raspiblitz v1.7.1: https://github.com/rootzoll/raspiblitz/releases/tag/v1.7.1

immortan v0.3.5: https://github.com/btcontract/IMMORTAN/releases/tag/v0.3.5

sparrow v1.5.1: https://github.com/sparrowwallet/sparrow/releases/tag/1.5.1

nix-bitcoin v0.0.53: https://github.com/fort-nix/nix-bitcoin/releases/tag/v0.0.53

lightning terminal v0.5.2-alpha: https://github.com/lightninglabs/lightning-terminal/releases/tag/v0.5.2-alpha

How Satoshi Nakamoto’s Bitcoin project married the concepts of digital cash and digital gold and how pioneering cryptographer Adam Back continues the work of making it a better tool for freedom.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/bitcoin-adam-back-and-digital-cash
archive: https://archive.ph/lJwQ2