Hi Bitcoiners!I’m back with the 31st 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 July 2019AdoptionSetting up a full node on an unused laptop (1 Jul)Lightning network payments are more popular than nearly all altcoins (2 Jul)10.5M btc has not moved in one year (4 Jul)Tony Hawk has been holding bitcoin for 6 years (5 Jul)WikiLeaks has received more than $46M in btc at this days’ valuation (7 Jul)A Venezuelan on how cryptocurrency is helping them deal with hyper inflation (7 Jul)SegWit adoption on a daily basis hits a new all-time-high of 56% (11 Jul)Statista’s research on cryptocurrency adoption around the world (11 Jul)SegWit usage hits a new all-time-high of 53.86% (18 Jul)A poker site earns the Guinness world record for the largest cryptocurrency payout in bitcoin (25 Jul)Business Insider compares spending Gold to bitcoin at various merchants in New York (29 Jul)A Grayscale survey finds that 36% of US investors would consider to buy Bitcoin (30 Jul)DevelopmentA technical overview of an upcoming improvement to the Lightning Network called JIT-routing (1 Jul)lnd v0.7-beta has been released (2 Jul)Electrum Wallet is adding support for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network (5 Jul)C-Lightning v0.7.1 has been released (6 Jul)The CEO of cryptocurrency exchange BitMEX gives a $60k grant with no strings attached to a Bitcoin Core developer (12 Jul)Simplified fee negotiation for the Lightning Network (20 Jul)M5StackSats Lightning Network point of sale terminal (28 Jul)Lightning Pay Station point-of-sale terminal, an extension to BTCPay Server (30 Jul)lnd v0.7.1-beta has been released (31 Jul)SecuritySomeone creates a cold storage design for cryptocurrency that looks like a cash bill (3 Jul)Facebook confirms it will collect all payment data from all Libra purchases (10 Jul)Safe deposit boxes at banks are not as safe as people think (20 Jul)Another testimony to Dave Bitcoin for helping people recover lost wallets (23 Jul)MiningA list of all blocks over 2MB so far (2 Jul)Bitcoin mining on an Apollo Guidance Computer at 10.3 seconds per hash (8 Jul)A miner wastes an estimated $150k trying to reward themselves with more bitcoin (10 Jul)Bitcoin’s hashrate reaches a new all-time-high of 70 exahashes (11 Jul)SlushPool launches Stratum V2 mining software through its Braiins initiative (26 Jul)BusinessBisq decentralised exchange breaks its monthly volume records in June (5 Jul)Bitstamp opens a Lightning Network node (8 Jul)A draft of a map of Bitcoin exchanges and which countries they serve (8 Jul)BTCPay Server launches a crowdfunding campaign for the Tor project (15 Jul)Coinbase passes 30 million accounts with 22k new users per day (22 Jul)Bakkt begins user testing bitcoin futures (22 Jul)A discussion on Libra compared to Bitcoin (23 Jul)Norwegian Air will accept bitcoin and is opening its own cryptocurrency exchange (24 Jul)Newegg expands bitcoin as a payment option to another 73 nations (24 Jul)Lolli’s CEO on making bitcoin accessible by letting users earn it (26 Jul)OpenBazaar launches its iOS and Android apps (29 Jul)Facebook warns investors that Libra may never see the light of day (30 Jul)EducationAn introduction to Schnorr Signatures (7 Jul)A reply to an Italian national newspaper that states Bitcoin is a ponzi scheme (8 Jul)An explainer of why inflation is more severe than the public numbers (11 Jul)A technical history of payment channels from Satoshi Nakamoto to the Lightning Network (12 Jul)An in-depth explainer of BetterHash, using new hashing protocols to decentralise mining (14 Jul)IMF report on the rise of digital money competing with fiat currency (15 Jul)A discussion on the challenges of locking a bitcoin transaction for a very long period of time (20 Jul)Andreas Antonopoulos on using a Blockchain for non-cryptocurrency reasons (20 Jul)A guided reading of Bitcoin’s White Paper (29 Jul)Regulation & PoliticsThe US Congress has sent a letter to Facebook to stop development of Libra and work with regulators (3 Jul)Abra CEO on a potential Bitcoin Ban (3 Jul)Zimbabwe bans the US dollar leading to an increase in local bitcoin trading (10 Jul)The US president tweets about Bitcoin (12 Jul)Ex US Congressman calls Bitcoin a great idea (16 Jul)A US Congressman on Bitcoin and Libra (16 Jul)A US Congressman on the unstoppable force of Bitcoin (17 Jul)A comparison of Bitcoin and Shitcoin in a US Congress hearing (17 Jul)Meltem Demirors full testimony on Bitcoin for US Congress (18 Jul)Meltem Demirors on her testimony on Bitcoin for US Congress (18 Jul)A Chinese court declares Bitcoin legal in China as a ‘Virtual Propert’ (19 Jul)Cryptocurrency is not prohibited in India says its Finance Minister (19 Jul)Politicians speak out on private companies issuing their own currencies without democratic control (20 Jul)Iran legalises cryptocurrency mining (22 Jul)US Banking Committee Chairman Crapo is confident they would not succeed at banning cryptocurrency (30 Jul)US Congress is struggling with privacy and cryptocurrency (31 Jul)Bitcoin experiences the first US Federal Reserve interest rate cut in history (31 Jul)Archeology (Financial Incumbents)Deutsche Bank will cut 18000 jobs (8 Jul)An ex-Deutsche Bank employee on quitting his job to get into cryptocurrency (8 Jul)JP Morgan Asset Management gets a ship seized transporting $1.3 billion in cocaine (10 Jul)The Federal Reserve Chairman calls Bitcoin a store of value (11 Jul)A discussion on banks blocking transfers to cryptocurrency exchanges (14 Jul)US bank Wells Fargo no longer allows transactions involving cryptocurrency (14 Jul)The Bank of China posted an article explaining who bitcoin is valuable (27 Jul)Price & TradingA yearly 15 August bitcoin price flyer (1 Jul)The highest bitcoin trade ever recorded (19 Jul)Fun & Other2 people cited in the Bitcoin white paper on the future of cryptocurrency (1 Jul)A video of someone buying 10 btc in december 2010 (1 Jul)A scammer’s fake story debunked by a Venezuelan (1 Jul)Someone sends 1 btc to the Genesis address (2 Jul)Someone finds one of their old wallets from 6 years ago (2 Jul)A Bitcoin easter egg in the movie The Spider-Verse (6 Jul)A tailor with a Bitcoin bag in front of Deutsche Bank (8 Jul)Bitcoin wallet art design on wood (10 Jul)A discussion on how girlfriends respond to talking about Bitcoin (13 Jul))A discussion on giving bitcoin to relatives (15 Jul)Scamming a bitcoin mining scammer (17 Jul)A discussion on increased financial awareness because of Bitcoin (18 Jul)The US dollar when you put it through FaceApp (18 Jul)A discussion on why people don’t understand Bitcoin (22 Jul)Holding $0.18 worth of bitcoin since 2013 (24 Jul)A survey in the US shows people who haven’t bought cryptocurrency trust Bitcoin more than Facebook’s Libra (24 Jul)Cameron Winklevoss on money as an evolutionary experiment (29 Jul)A discussion on the Bitcoin halving on CNBC (29 Jul)Someone’s story of going all in on bitcoin now (31 Jul) via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2LYNVvs
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