Hi Bitcoiners!I’m back with the 30th monthly Bitcoin news recap.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.You can see recaps of the previous months on Bitcoinsnippets.comA recap of Bitcoin in May 2019AdoptionA local convenience store accepting bitcoin (1 Jun)The ₿ symbol is now available on iOS, Android and Microsoft services (4 Jun)Wasabi Wallet does its first ever 100 person CoinJoin (6 Jun)Asking shops to accept bitcoins when buying online (10 Jun)South Korea gets its first bitcoin ATM (13 Jun)Bitcoin passes 1 million daily active addresses again, like in November 2017 (15 Jun)A bitcoin update from Venezuela (17 Jun)A gas station that accepts bitcoin (21 Jun)Someone receives a letter from their 88 year old father who started investing a few years earlier (25 Jun)Buying coffee through the Lightning Network at a Bitcoin conference (29 Jun)DevelopmentWatchtowers are coming with the next big release for the Lightning Network (11 Jun)Someone who managed a bounty wallet dedicated to a scalability concept from 2012 is offering the 5.725 btc to a new scalability project (12 Jun)Lightning Labs’ non-custodial Lightning mobile app is now on mainnet (19 Jun)An overview of potential upcoming updates to Bitcoin’s consensus rules (21 Jun)Lightning Labs announces Loop In, a service that helps manage Lightning Channels (26 Jun)A list of technical improvements coming to the Lightning Network (28 Jun)SecurityAn overview of 9 easy ways to lose your cryptocurrency with a bonus 10th in the comments (5 Jun)A storage socket as an idea to store a physical bitcoin wallet (8 Jun)A discussion on what someone who lost access to their 9.5 bitcoins from years ago can do (11 Jun)A reminder to not store your bitcoins on any exchange (14 Jun)A warning against a support number scam for Ledger hardware wallets (14 Jun)Irish cryptocurrency exchange Bitsane exit scams its self-proclaimed 246k users (28 Jun)MiningA reminder of a report on how 74$ of Bitcoin mining is powered by renewable energy (9 Jun)The block reward is halving again in under a year (12 Jun)A reminder that cloud mining ventures are scams (16 Jun)Bitcoin’s hashrate hits another all-time high (20 Jun)BusinessSamourai Wallet receives $100k in funding (3 Jun)HodlHodl exchange enables users to buy and sell bitcoin directly from their Lightning Network wallets (5 Jun)Bitcoin Suisse ads on Zurch’s airport (11 Jun)Bitrefill raises $2M in funding to grow its team and advance its Lightning Network services (13 Jun)Bakkt will initiate user acceptance testing for its bitcoin futures in July (13 Jun)People are concerned about the ethics, censorship resistance, centralization and privacy of Facebook’s Libra project (14 Jun)Coinbase becomes one of the participants in Facebook’s Libra project (22 Jun)CashApp by Square enables bitcoin deposits (25 Jun)ResearchgoTenna releases a whitepaper for mobile mesh network bitcoin payments (11 Jun)Ruben Somsen explains his research on Statechains, a novel layer two protocol (16 Jun)EducationA livestream of day 1 from the Bitcoin lightning network hack day in Munich (1 Jun)A livestream of day 2 from the Bitcoin lightning network hack day in Munich (2 Jun)Setting up Lightning network channels could be an investment for the future (3 Jun)Alternatives to LocalBitcoins to buy Bitcoin privately (5 Jun)Andreas Antonopoulos on Bitcoin as the “email” of the Internet of Money (11 Jun)Carl Dong explains the Bitcoin build system security (12 Jun)A simple explainer of Erlay, a performance improvement to the Bitcoin network that reduces node traffic (16 Jun)This week’s Donald Duck children magazine in the Netherlands is about Bitcoin (21 Jun)People discuss capital gains tax on bitcoin investments and trading (21 Jun)A discussion on how many people don’t invest in Bitcoin, but use it to store their savings (24 Jun)An overview of useful information for newcomers to Bitcoin (25 Jun)A reminder of Andreas Antonopoulos testimony for the Canadian Senate in 2014 (26 Jun)Edward Snowden speaks about privacy at a Bitcoin conference (27 Jun)A reminder that a Bitcoin equals 100M satoshis and you can own less than a full bitcoin (30 Jun)Regulation & PoliticsLocalBitcoins is forced to remove its cash trade option (1 Jun)The Reserve Bank of India denies involvement in a draft bill to ban cryptocurrencies (8 Jun)Binance to block users from the US (15 Jun)Archeology (Financial Incumbents)Someone’s bank account is frozen for 4 weeks because they sold bitcoin (4 Jun)86 years ago the US moved off of the gold standard for the people (5 Jun)Warren Buffet claimed that Bitcoin is a ‘gambling device’ with ‘a lot of frauds’ loses $340M in a Ponzi scheme (6 Jun)The European Central Bank announces its new plans to print more euros and cut interest rates (10 Jun)Warren Buffet has 40% of his stock portfolio invested in banks and credit card companies (15 Jun)Federal Chairman Jerome Powell speaks on cryptocurrency (19 Jun)Price & TradingPeople discuss marketing manipulation vs a free market in bitcoin trading (4 Jun)An overview of annual minimum bitcoin prices (8 Jun)Bitcoin reaches an all-time price high in Argentine Pesos due to hyperinflation (9 Jun)Relative to this day, there were only 70 days that Bitcoin was unprofitable to buy (23 Jun)An article in the Wall Street Journal Business section on the bitcoin price (24 Jun)An animation of bitcoin’s price graph from 2009 to the present showing many hype cycles (26 Jun)A reminder of how most traders lose money (26 Jun)The $1 of free bitcoin Coinbase handed out in 2015 to new users is worth about $50 now (27 Jun)A TV interview in the Philippines on the bitcoin price (27 Jun)People talk a lot about the bitcoin price but not so much about the increase in volume (28 Jun)Fun & OtherAnother Bitcoin street art painting (2 Jun)If you invested $10 per day into bitcoin starting at its peak in December 2017, you would be up 46% (3 Jun)A recommendation on the book Sapiens due to its chapter 10 on money, which reinforces the vision for Bitcoin (5 Jun)Bitpay is overcharging its users for bitcoin transactions (5 Jun)Bitcoin art on hyperinflated Venezuelan Bolivares bills (10 Jun)Forbes accurately reports that nobody knows what Bitcoin will do next (13 Jun)The launch of the FiatMarketCap website (16 Jun)A Satoshi Nakamoto impersonator has been ordered by a judge to prove his claims of being the creator of Bitcoin (17 Jun)A reminder that there will never be enough bitcoin for all of today’s existing millionaires to own one (17 Jun)A discussion on bitcoin as a store of value (23 Jun)A CNBC news anchor on Facebook’s Libra project compared to Bitcoin (25 Jun)Google’s search algorithm is unaware that Bitcoin has no CEO (29 Jun)Former Vice President of the US, Al Gore, on Bitcoin (29 Jun) via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2FNfaEF
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