Bitcoin News - September 2019
This month the Bitcoin hashrate reaches 8x that of when bitcoin was at its price peak, people built some cool DIY devices, Bitcoin’s security related to Quantum computing were debunked and Erlay gets a BIP to reduce bandwidth between nodes by 40%.
What the monthly news is about:
For those unfamiliar, each day I pick out the most popular/relevant/interesting stories in r/Bitcoin and save them. At the end of the month I release them in one batch, to give you a quick (but not necessarily the best) overview of what happened in bitcoin over the past month.A recap of Bitcoin in September 2019
Adoption- The average profile of someone who uses Bitcoin (2 Sep)
- Bitcoin is at a $2250 premium in Argentina after the president imposes capital controls (9 Sep)
- SegWit adoption is around 50%, with Blockchain, Binance, BitMEX and Bittrex among others still not adopting it (16 Sep)
- The Tor Project now uses BTCPay Server to accept bitcoin and lightning donations (19 Sep)
- An update from Bitcoin in Venezuela (29 Sep)
- Jack Mallers creates a bank to Lightning channel integration in the non-custodial Zap wallet (19 Sep)
- New BIP draft on Erlay, which reduces node bandwidth consumption by at least 40% (26 Sep)
- Norwegian bitcoin millionaire jumps down 2 stories from balcony after man with shotgun broke into his house (8 Sep)
- A Security vulnerability in the Lightning Network was reported (27 Sep)
- People debunk misconceptions around Google’s quantum computer breakthrough with regards to Bitcoin’s security (29 Sep) Mining
- Bitcoin’s hashrate passes 100 Exahashes per second (5 Sep)
- 31 Bitcoin block reward halvings remain (7 Sep)
- Bitcoin network has 8x more mining power than at its price peak (9 Sep) Business
- Jack Dorsey continues to advocate for Bitcoin with no chance of a Twitter coin any time soon (4 Sep)
- Bitpay suspends bitcoin donations to Hong Kong Free Press (11 Sep)
- Lolli CEO Alex Adelman on CNN (11 Sep)
- Square Crypto grants $100k to open source BTCPay Server Foundation to continue development (14 Sep)
- Bakkt goes live with their Bitcoin monthly futures contracts (23 Sep)
- Bakkt COO Adam White discussing their futures exchanges launch on CNN (24 Sep)
- Apple Pay’s Vice President confirms they are watching cryptocurrency as it has long term potential (25 Sep) Education
- An article explaining Miniscript, streamlined Bitcoin scripting (8 Sep)
- Understanding Bitcoin’s price movements for beginners (8 Sep)
- A guide on Bitcoin privacy for non-technical people (12 Sep)
- The Bitcoin Bible book by a 17 year old (13 Sep)
- 13 hours of Lightning Network education from Chaincodelabs’ summer residency (18 Sep)
- A discussion on Bitcoin and smart contracts (29 Sep) Regulation & Politics
- France will not tax crypto-to-crypto trades, only when converted into fiat currency (12 Sep)
- France and Germany agree to block Facebook’s Libra (14 Sep)
- Travis Kling on CNN about Bitcoin as an insurance policy against monetary and fiscal policy irresponsibility (19 Sep)
- Ukraine plans to make Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies taxable (28 Sep) Archeology (Financial Incumbents)
- The European Central Bank restarted printing €20B per month (12 Sep)
- The Federal Reserve creates another $128B to support the financial market (19 Sep)
- PMC Bank in India restricts account holders to withdrawing $141 in 6 months (26 Sep) Price & Trading
- Someone got a Localbitcoins transaction reversed and gets into trouble with their bank (16 Sep)
- Comparing various bitcoin bear market recoveries (21 Sep)
- $1.2B in btc was moved to an exchange triggering price movement and big volumes (25 Sep) Fun & Other
- A DIY BTC price ticker (2 Sep)
- A reminder of why Bitcoin (3 Sep)
- Hong Kong protestors use decentralised mesh messaging app that China can’t block (3 Sep)
- Bitcoin’s existence as an insurance against an Orwellian future (3 Sep)
- Bitcoin Rap Battle Debate (5 Sep)
- Bitcoin has now died 375 times (5 Sep)
- A $13 DIY BTC price monitor (7 Sep)
- A DIY Lightning ATM (9 Sep)
- Akon talking about Bitcoin on The Breakfast Club radio show (10 Sep)
- A flowchart for buying bitcoin or not (10 Sep)
- A 1 btc tip given 6 years ago on Reddit (10 Sep)
- Bitcoin logos on the Hungarian Underwater Rugby Team at the World Cup (13 Sep)
- 1.2 btc has been donated to a street artist who created 5 bitcoin-related murals (15 Sep)
- Bitcoin mining jokes (20 Sep)
- People discuss the richest bitcoin addresses and lost bitcoins (21 Sep)
- The origin of shitcoin (21 Sep)
- A reminder to be friendly to newcomers who want to learn about Bitcoin (26 Sep)