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⚡️ QUICK BITS ⚡️

• Andreas Antonopoulos and David A. Harding releases the third edition of their seminal Mastering Bitcoin, published by O’Reilly Media.

• AcceptLN allows you to send BTC to arbitrary email addresses.

• LN eSIM is a new global eSim provider that accepts BTC and requires no KYC or email to use.

• Visits to Bitcoin’s Wikipedia page hit its highest level in over 16 months.

• BitcoinDev.org is a community funded website with the sole purpose of onboarding new developers into the Bitcoin ecosystem.

• Spring Browser is a Nostr-focused browser app for Android.

• 93% of the total supply of 21 million Bitcoin has now been mined.

• Nostter is a new Twitter-like app on Nostr.

• This Feature Matrix for Nostr Clients helps you decide which Nostr client is best for you.

• Kraken notifies customers it will send their data to the IRS.

• Elon Musk slams NFTs and ends up arguing the case for Bitcoin Ordinals.

• Bakkt implements Universal Money Addresses, says they are ‘taking the Lightning Network mainstream’.

• Minibits, a ecash wallet, is now interoperable with LNURL and supports withdrawals to lightning wallets.

• Gary Gensler wishes Bitcoin a Happy Birthday on Halloween and asks crypto firms to stop 'tricking' investors.

• Investment research firm Bernstein says Bitcoin will hit $150,000 by 2025.

• BitGo receives crypto custody license from the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority.

• Turkey proposes new crypto legislation to remove itself from FATF’s ‘grey list’ of countries with insufficient anti-money laundering restrictions.

• OKX releases its latest Proof-of-Reserves showing $12.5 billion in assets.

• Billionaire Stan Druckenmiller says not owning Bitcoin is a mistake.

• Bulgaria’s oldest football club adopts Bitcoin Lightning payments.

• Samourai Wallet releases version 5.0.0 of its Sentinel App allowing UTXO management on mobile phones without exposing private hot keys.

• MicroStrategy acquires an additional 155 BTC for $5.3 million.

• Wavlake iOS is available to test in beta.

• PayPal receives a subpoena from the SEC regarding its US dollar-pegged stablecoin.

• St. Galler Kantonalbank (SGKB), Switzerland’s fifth-largest cantonal bank, launches Bitcoin custody services.

• Senator Ted Cruz is now accepting campaign donations in BTC.

• Taiwan puts forward bill to regulate Bitcoin and crypto services.

• Jurrien Timmer from Fidelity Investments labels Bitcoin as ‘exponential gold’.

• Argentina's ecommerce giant, MercadoLibre, increases its Bitcoin holdings.

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📽️ QUICK BITS MEDIA 📽️ 

• Richard releases new colab with Joe Coffey and Man Like Kweks, titled ‘Schelling Point/Out of 21’ (3:01 min watch).

• Samourai Wallet releases the next installment in their Bitcoin Privacy Series, titled ‘Common Input Ownership Heuristic’ (5:23 min watch).

• Tatum Turn Up releases ‘Between Two ASICs - Ep. 15 - Preston Pysh’ (6:32 min watch).

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