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Notes

- Setting up a Core Lightning node

- HardBlock exploring Lightning deposit and withdrawal integration

- Update on Zoe's scam situation

- Become a HardBlock Affiliate (contact hello@hardblock.com.au)

- Public Key to Receiving Address Calculator: https://github.com/mission-bitcoin/bitcoin-public-key-to-receiving-address-calculator

GLOBAL - GOVERNMENT

- 80% of countries now have a Consumer Price Index (CPI) over 6%: https://twitter.com/Ben__Rickert/status/1553248202115018752

- Argentina pledges to end budget financing by money printing: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-03/argentina-pledges-to-end-budget-financing-via-money-printing

GLOBAL - INSTITUTIONAL

- Michael Saylor resigns as CEO of MicroStrategy: https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/2/23289397/michael-saylor-bitcoin-microstrategy-ceo-steps-down

- BlackRock partners with Coinbase to bring bitcoin trading to their institutional clients: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/blackrock-to-offer-bitcoin-in-coinbase-partnership

- Binance and MasterCard launch a bitcoin pre-paid credit and rewards card in Argentina: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/binance-mastercard-launch-bitcoin-rewards-card-in-argentina

- Honduras launches "Bitcoin Valley": https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/honduras-launches-bitcoin-valley-tourist-town-santa-lucia-2022-07-29/

- Galoy (Bitcoin Beach Lightning wallet creators) are adding a new feature: bitcoin-backed synthetic US dollars: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/galoy-brings-us-dollars-to-bitcoin

AUSTRALIAN

- Australia's annual CPI (as of the quarter ending in June) reached 6.1%: https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/consumer-price-index-cpi

- Australian Government (Australian Signals Directorate) has signed a contract with Chainanalysis for $2.1m (AUD) (Note: this link is to the full list of successful tenders, so probably not worth clicking): https://t.co/7t9sOrEqS7

- Victoria Police to get sweeping new asset seizure powers, including related to cryptocurrencies: https://www.theage.com.au/politics/victoria/police-to-get-sweeping-new-asset-seizure-powers-20220802-p5b6g5.html

- "MasterCard to launch bitcoin backed card in Australia accepted by all merchants": https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2022/08/05/2493211/0/en/Ebang-International-to-Launch-New-Ebonex-Crypto-Linked-Payment-Cards-Powered-by-Mastercard.html

TECHNICAL

- Bitfinex and Tether have collaborated with the Hypercore open-source protocol team to launch a new peer-to-peer communications application, Keet: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/keet-the-decentralized-communications-app

- Anthony Ronning and Paul Miller release a privacy-focused Lightning wallet: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/pln-makes-bitcoin-lightning-more-private

- Lightning network capacity reaches an all-time-high of over 4400 BTC: https://1ml.com/statistics

- Whirlpool unspent capacity reaches an all-time-high of over 5200 BTC: https://bitcoin.clarkmoody.com/dashboard/