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Welcome to this week’s Bitcoin Breakdown Quick Bits feature where we curate the most interesting and pertinent Bitcoin snippets from the past week.

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⚡️ QUICK BITS

• Bitcoin price rises above US$42,000 for the first time since April 2022.

• Unleashed Chat enables fast, private and uncensored AI chat, payable with BTC.

• Nodeless.io, an open-source BTC payment gateway, shuts down as creator is investigated for running an illegal money transmission business in Communist Canada.

• FutureBit introduces the Apollo II home miner.

• Solo bitcoin miner wins the Bitcoin lottery by mining a block and being rewarded with 6.25 BTC.

• Earn bitcoin by reviewing technical bitcoin transcripts.

• Start9 launches its Restart Program, which offers powerful, refurbished servers pre-loaded with StartOS at discounts.

• DEMAND announces the world’s first Stratum V2 mining pool, enhancing Bitcoin’s resistance to censorship by giving individual miners more control over block template construction.

• Mainstream Media in a comically coordinated fashion releases a slew of news articles purporting to outline Bitcoin’s supposed copious usage of water.

• PlebDevs releases a new backend course for beginners on Lightning App Development that aims to turn JavaScript beginners into proficient backend developers.

• Coinkite proposes BBQr protocol that encodes larger files into a series of QR codes so they can cross air gaps.

• MicroStrategy acquires an additional 16,130 BTC and now holds 174,530 BTC.

• Standard Chartered Bank reiterates its April forecast that Bitcoin would reach $100,000 by the end of 2024.

• OCEAN mining pool (‘bitcoin mining as it was meant to be’, i.e. non custodial, publishes block templates before solving them, anti-censorship, etc) raises $6.2M in seed funding, led by Jack Dorsey.

• Jack Dorsey’s anti-censorship OCEAN bitcoin mining pool accused of censoring ordinals.

• Samson Mow and the JAN3 team meets with ⁦the president of Colombia to discuss Bitcoin’s potential implementation in social projects in the country.

• Coinkite releases Bitcoin Mini Guides for Beginners.

• Bhutan’s secret locations of the world’s largest state-owned bitcoin mines are uncovered by Forbes.

• AntPool to refund an accidental $3M BTC transaction fee by verifying the claimant through a signing tool.

• BTCPay Server introduces generating vouchers redeemable for BTC, allowing merchants to sell BTC for cash.

• Getbit.money enables transferring money from the USA to India instantly with the magic of the Lightning Network.

• Clark Moody dashboard shows the most important Bitcoin information on one page.

• Signal, the privacy-focused messaging app, is testing usernames as an alternative to phone numbers.

• Greece study suggests that utilizing Artificial Intelligence for Bitcoin trading can potentially generate returns 300% higher than long-term holding.

• Resolvr, decentralized escrow and dispute resolution services for FOSS bounties, has begun its alpha testing phase.

• Flockstr is a Nostr client for creating and managing calendar events and RSVPs.

• BitEscrow is a non-custodial escrow service using Bitcoin as a form of programmable collateral, and its blockchain as a global arbitration service.

• TBDex, a decentralized Bitcoin exchange by Blockstream, officially launches in Africa, aiming to boost financial freedom and accessibility.

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• BTC Startup Lab releases feature video for their Bitcoin startup bootcamp program (1:32 min watch).

• Unbankable, a new documentary by Luke Willms, releases its official trailer (1:39 min watch).

• Heatbit releases promo video, ‘What we really do at Heatbit’ (2:33 min watch).

• Cardano CEO unironically accuses the SEC of special treatment for Bitcoin in rant (3:03 min watch).

• Matthew Kratter of Bitcoin University covers OCEAN, the new transparent and permissionless Bitcoin mining pool funded by Jack Dorsey and run by Luke Dashjr (9:40 min watch).

• Bitcoin Explorers explore the question ‘Is Bitcoin Illegal? The Truth Behind Bitcoin Ban in Turkey’ (10:43 min watch).

• Nomad Capitalist releases video, ‘Are CBDCs the Final Nail in the Coffin?’ (12:24 min watch)

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