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Global News

• ​OpenSats announces over $4.3M Bitcoin grants and $3.4M Nostr grants were allocated in 2023 in Year-in-review​
• ​Aqua Wallet launches as an all-in-one wallet with support for Bitcoin, Lightning, Liquid, and Tether​
• ​Scam Bitcoin Wallets Are Still Reigning Free on Apple's App Store Despite Multiple Reports​
• ​Nigeria’s Central Bank Fleshes Out New Rule Allowing Crypto Firms’ Access to Bank Accounts​
• ​Bitcoin Victoria Falls: New Bitcoin Circular Economy in Livingstone, Zambia​
• ​SEC Approves 11 Bitcoin Spot ETF Applications​
• ​VanEck To Donate 5% of Its Bitcoin ETF Profits to Support Bitcoin Core Developers​, while ​Bitwise pledges 10% to support Brink, OpenSats and the HRF Bitcoin Development Fund​
• ​Google, Apple Pull Binance, Kraken and Other Exchanges from India App Stores​
• ​Stripe Is Deplatforming Users For Selling Bitcoin Hardware​
• ​Core Scientific Is Ready to Emerge from Bankruptcy and Re-list on Nasdaq by the End of January​
• ​UN Report Attacks Tether for Facilitating Global Crime​
• ​Trezor Warns of Unauthorized Email Impersonating Trezor Sent via Its Third-Party Email Provider​
• ​Bitwise Becomes First U.S. Spot Bitcoin ETF to Disclose BTC Holding Addresses​
• ​Swan Bitcoin Launches Swan Mining Out of Stealth Mode​
• ​Bitcoin Surpasses Silver to Become Second Largest ETF Commodity in the US​

Australian News

• ​Lack of bitcoin futures might restrict future Aussie bitcoin ETF​
• ​Bitcoin Alive 2024: Australia Gears Up For The Ultimate Bitcoin Experience​ - get tickets at ​Bitcoin Alive​, use code: HARDBLOCK
• ​US, UK and Australia step up sanctions on Hamas-linked crypto facilitators​

Technical News

• ​The 3rd Edition of Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain has been open-sourced on GitHub​
• ​Mercury Layer 2 protocol release enables self-custodial UTXO transfers off chain​
• ​Fedimint v0.2.1 Stable MVP release​
• ​Coracle v0.4.0 Private Groups on Nostr​
• ​Payjoin Dev Kit (PDK) v0.13.0​ and ​developers Dan Gould and Esraa given Spiral grants​
• ​BitKit v1.0.0-beta.98: Pay to Lightning Addresses, In-App Support & More​
• ​OpenSats Announces Long-Term Support to René Pickhardt​
• ​Base58 Ships Its Crypto + Digital Signatures Course for Bitcoin Developers