r/Bitcoin recap - July 2018
Hi Bitcoiners!
I’m back with the nineteenth monthly Bitcoin news recap.
For those unfamiliar, each day I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/Bitcoin and save them. At the end of the month I release them in one batch, to give you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month.
You can see recaps of the previous months on Bitcoinsnippets.com
A recap of Bitcoin in July 2018
- 01: Lightningspin.com has routed 400 payments worth 6M satoshis for a combined $0.10 in fees
- 02: Coinbase launches its custodial service for institutional investors
- 03: Users can now create their own assets on the Liquid sidechain
- 04: According to Bitrefill’s blockchain analysis, Bitpay lost over half of their payment traffic since implementing BIP70
- 05: A comparison between proof-of-stake and the central banking system & What developers have learned from bootstrapping the Lightning Network & The state of merchant adoption
- 06: Pieter Wuille submits a Bitcoin Improvement Proposal for Schnorr signatures
- 07: The capacity of the Lightning Network has been steadily rising
- 08: Someone becomes the biggest node on the Lightning Network by opening $50k worth of channels
- 09: BTCPayServer has integrated with the Lightning Network & Ledger launches Leder Live, a companion app for their hardware wallet
- 10: 100 Merchants can trial Bitcoin’s Lightning Network risk free through CoinGate
- 11: Another day, another bank laundering $8b while claiming Bitcoin is for criminals
- 12: A house is sold for bitcoin in the United States
- 13: Billionaire Steven Cohen invests in cryptocurrency hedge fund
- 14: There are 3 blocks over 2MB in a row & A 45 min talk on future technological upgrades to Bitcoin & Someone livestreams eating M&M’s from a Lightning-powered candy dispenser
- 15: Over 40% of all transactions now use SegWit, while some large companies still haven’t adopted it & A stress test of all the popular metal cold storage devices
- 16: Dave helps recover someones lost 2.44 btc & A story from someone working at a financial firm on how they treat clients asking about bitcoin & A community member translates Bitcoin.org into his native language - Serbian
- 17: The bitcoin price rises $1000 in a day with a clear example of how connected exchanges are now
- 18: A reminder to properly secure your bitcoins
- 19: A billionaire states he has 1% of his wealth in bitcoin & It is now possible to buy Amazon gift cards with Lightning & A US Congressman says bitcoin is for criminals, while his own funding source is from illegal gambling
- 20: Blockchain.com still hasn’t implemented SegWit despite promises & Robin Hood (the movie) is partnering with Robinhood (the app) to give away $50k in cryptocurrency
- 21: The Lightning Network now has over 10k channels & An infographic on how to identify cryptocurrency scams
- 22: Google is allowing some cryptocurrency ads again
- 23: People discuss a Bitcoin ETF decision on 10th of August & The upgrade path to post-quantum computing & How Square could help bitcoin adoption
- 24: New Zap desktop and iOS apps
- 25: A visualisation of the Lightning Network growth over the past 6 months & Stratis to release a Bitcoin privacy solution using masternodes based on the TumbleBit protocol & Skrill users can now buy and sell bitcoin
- 26: A resort in Sri Lanka is accepting bitcoin & Mycelium android wallet is implementing SegWit support a year late & Marco Polo got laughed away by the Venetian Republic upon introducing paper money
- 27: An SEC Commissioner disagrees with a bitcoin ETF rejection & Google bans cryptocurrency mining apps from its Play Store
- 28: An article on what happened when Jameson Lopp, a Bitcoin engineer, got SWATted a year ago
- 29: Bitcoin Core 0.16.2 is released & Bitcoin adoption in New Hampshire & A petition to free Ross Ulbricht reaches 43k signatures
- 30: Kim Kardashian mentions bitcoin on Instagram to her 114M followers
- 31: Iran’s bitcoin trading volume rises as their currency loses value due to US sanctions & Ross Ulbricht’s murder-for-hire charges dropped related to the Silk Road
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