• nostr is growing and helping with Lightning adoption with people zapping each other sats: "Nostr is a simple, open protocol that enables truly censorship-resistant and global value-for-value publishing on the web."
  • cashu enables near perfect privacy for custodial bitcoin apps. while custodial, it's integrated with Lightning and gives users full privacy within whatever app/custodial setting their using the e-cash in. seems like it could be a drop-in replacement for custodial solutions to offer better privacy for their users. great interview on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUJmHo990Fk
  • russia might be mining bitcoin? hash wars incoming?