How to buy non-KYC Bitcoin with a US Postal Money Order

> In this guide, my goal is to get you to buy non-KYC Bitcoin using a US Postal Money Order (US PMO), one of the most private purchase methods available on Bisq. I will cover how to create a US PMO payment account, how to create a buy offer, and how to buy and send a US PMO via US Postal Service (USPS).

https://heady_wook.keybase.pub/Wook_H_2020_How_to_buy_non_KYC_Bitcoin_with_a_US_Postal_Money_Order.pdf

Announcing Strike Public BETA

> Today, Strike is available to download on iOS, Android, and Chrome. Strike allows anyone in the world to interact with the Bitcoin and Lightning Network protocols using only a bank account and/or debit card. You don’t need a wallet, a node, a seed, channels, liquidity, fancy swaps, whitepapers, and so on to interact with this new global digital economy. Simply download, link your bank account, and scan. You can find our download links and learn more at our updated website at beta.strike.me.

> With our public launch, I am unbelievably proud to announce the only requirement for most users to use Strike is your name and phone number.

https://medium.com/@JimmyMow/announcing-strike-public-beta-325877a79f87

The IRS is seeking surveillance tools to track lightning network transactions

> Regarding Layer 2 protocols, Lightning Labs has developed a monitoring app, Lndmon, for the Bitcoin LN and has released the code on GitHub with no current resources developed for LNs on other distributed ledgers (e.g., Litecoin blockchain)...Building off of monitoring code, there is potential to develop solutions for tracking illicit actors on the Layer 2 network. Notable is that the number of nodes on the LN has grown to nearly 10,000 since the initial release in March 2018. Comparing that to the number of full nodes on the Bitcoin mainchain, currently numbered at 10,570 (source: bitnodes.io), demonstrates that the number of users in these networks is significant. Even though Layer 2 protocols have been dismissed by many in the investigative support community, there is clear evidence that this is a growing network.

https://beta.sam.gov/opp/6c8e3cfe6059462c8cdd82cea4252966/view?keywords=cryptocurrency&sort=-modifiedDate&index=&

nodl Dojo and nodl One v0.1.1 firmware released

- Whirlpool CLI 0.10.6
- bitcoind 0.20.0
- Electrs 0.8.5
- LND 0.10.1
- RTL 0.7.1

https://www.nodl.it/

OCBTCN Full Node Deep Dive: myNode

> For the next installment in our deep-dives into Bitcoin nodes, we'll be joined by Taylor from myNode and Ketan from Ministry of Nodes. myNode aims to be the easiest way to run a dedicated, easy to use, Bitcoin Node and Lightning Wallet.

youtube: https://youtu.be/GS1woRbJFDI

Hodl Hodl v1.57 New features: Offer page redesign, New API releases

> we have redesigned the “Offer Creation” page to make it far more intuitive and generally easier to use. We even added some information on the page for all our newcomer traders.

> With our chat API you can fetch all the messages related to a contract, and with our contract listing API you can fetch all the contracts you are participating in, all without visiting the site!

https://medium.com/@hodlhodl/hodl-hodl-v1-57-new-features-offer-page-redesign-new-api-releases-14e2601c2380

Top Podcasts of the Week

Tales from the Crypt - Rabbit Hole Recap - https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt/episodes/Rabbit-Hole-Recap-Week-of-2020-06-29-eg7pri

What Bitcoin Did - Raoul Pal, Caitlin Long, & Travis Kling - https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/wtf-is-going-on-in-the-markets

Lightning Junkies - Jack Everitt - https://lightningjunkies.net/lnj032-jack-everitt-how-to-get-rich-with-lightning-gaming/

Stephan Livera - John Cantrell - https://stephanlivera.com/episode/187/

Tales from the Crypt - Antoine Riard - https://anchor.fm/tales-from-the-crypt/episodes/174-Antoine-Riard-eg349l

Coldcard 101

- Basic introduction
- Main features
- How to set one up
- Receive and send a transaction
- Using Electrum
- Create a backup
- Adding a passphrase

https://www.bitcoinqna.com/post/coldcard-101

Electrum v4.0.1 released

- PSBTs
- Multisig support for coldcard
- Compatibility with latest trezor firmware
- Lightning
- Watchtowers
- Submarine Swaps

release notes: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

download: https://electrum.org/#download

Samourai Wallet Whirlpool CLI v0.10.7 released

- fix mixsTarget=0 considered as mixsTarget=1
- fix invalid value "nbCleaned" logged on utxo refresh
- show utxos counts (deposit, premix, postmix) + total balance
- ignore case for interactive commands

https://code.samourai.io/whirlpool/whirlpool-client-cli/-/releases/0.10.7

Hablemos de Bitcoin - Privacidad y Derechos Humanos, con A. Gladstein y A. Machado

> Hablamos con Alex Gladstein, de la Human RIghts Foundation y con el venezolano Alejandro Machado, de Open Money Initiative, para conocer de qué forma Bitcoin puede ser útil para activistas y para la lucha por los DDHH. ¿Tiene relación con la privacidad y el dinero digital? Entérate de todo aquí.

youtube: https://youtu.be/cchPZqFUkuo

MyNode v0.2.10 firmware released

- Add LNBits
- LND v0.10.1
- Loop v0.6.4
- BTC RPC Explorer v2.0.1
- Use Tor for key checks and upgrades
- HTTPS for Caravan
- Move Whirlpool files to HDD
- HTTPS Certificate Improvements

https://github.com/mynodebtc/mynode/releases/tag/v0.2.10

UK Financial Conduct Authority "Cryptoasset" Research Report

- A nationally representative online panel of 3,085 respondents were sked if they had heard of cryptocurrencies
- 2258 answered yes, they were given the rest of the survey

> We estimate 3.86% of the general population currently own cryptocurrencies. This amounts to approximately 1.9 million adults with the UK population (over 18) taken to be approximately 50 million.

https://www.fca.org.uk/publication/research/research-note-cryptoasset-consumer-research-2020.pdf

Hard Money Film released by Richard James

hardmoneyfilm.com

Iran Gives Bitcoin Miners One Month to Register With the State

> Under the directive, miners will have to disclose their identities, the size of their mining farms and their mining equipment type with the Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade.

> The directive did not specify the punishment for failing to register.

source: http://cabinetoffice.ir/fa/news/7060/

coindesk synopsis: https://www.coindesk.com/iran-cryprocurrency-mining-registration

Introducing Fully Noded PSBT Signers

> Now Fully Noded has the ability for you too add psbt signers independently of wallets, this means you can create a 100% watch-only wallet on your node where the node only holds public keys, then very easily add your BIP39 seed words with an optional passphrase and Fully Noded will automatically sign the psbt for you if it can, making recovering cold storage easier then ever.

https://medium.com/@FullyNoded/introducing-fully-noded-psbt-signers-8f259c1ec558

PSBT Toolkit v0.1.0 released

> It's a simple application that gives you full PSBT functionality minus signing. It also has a couple transaction utilities + generators if you just want to play around.

https://github.com/benthecarman/PSBT-Toolkit/releases

What are mixers and “privacy coins”?

> This explainer will describe a few of the most popular privacy-preserving techniques in the cryptocurrency space and will explain how they work. As we will see, there are multiple ways to achieve extra privacy with cryptocurrency transactions, and many reasons why users might want to adopt these methods.

https://www.coincenter.org/education/advanced-topics/what-are-mixers-and-privacy-coins/

Electrum v4.0.2 released

- rm old corrupted non-bip70 invoices (#6345)
- other minor fixes

release notes: https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/blob/master/RELEASE-NOTES

download: https://electrum.org/#download