RGB

Here is the blackpaper (it’s a long paragraph so nothing too big but highlights the benefits of RGB) https://github.com/RGB-WG/blackpaper

Timestamp to Bitcoin as a checkpoint.

Mentioned as reason #6 in the following article: https://coincheckup.com/blog/7-reasons-why-bitcoin-is-bullish-right-now/

https://www.babylonchain.io/

A Beginner-Friendly Guide to Modifying Open Source Projects

https://bitcoiner.guide/fork/

FROST adding or removing signers

https://gist.github.com/nickfarrow/64c2e65191cde6a1a47bbd4572bf8cf8/

Tor introduces proof-of-work

https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/core/torspec/-/blob/main/proposals/327-pow-over-intro.txt https://darknetone.com/tor-merges-proof-of-work-to-combat-ddos-attacks/

Alternate routing plugin for Core LN

https://github.com/ffaex/altpay

Do most inscriptions belong to a single entity?

https://block21m.substack.com/p/most-bitcoin-inscriptions-belong-d6d

actually it’s just a paid inscription service https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1663383996561072129?s=46

Moderation on bitcoin mailing list. Is change needed?

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-June/021734.html

The curious case of the half-half Bitcoin ECDSA nonces

an apparently custom ECDSA/Bitcoin implementation that has been used to empty hundreds of compromised Bitcoin addresses for many years.

https://eprint.iacr.org/2023/841

LDK Node

More tooling to make building on lightning easier!

https://lightningdevkit.org/blog/announcing-ldk-node/