Hi Bitcoiners!I’m back with the 28th 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 April 2019AdoptionLightning Network capacity crosses $5M USD and is up 44% in 30 days (2 Apr)The global full node count is up from 60k to 95k in 2 months (5 Apr)A reminder that Binance still hasn’t adopted SegWit (6 Apr)A senior gentleman spends bitcoin at Bic Camera in Tokyo (7 Apr)Bitcoin reaches 400M transactions (8 Apr)The Lightning Torch has reached its final destination (13 Apr)The Lightning Network passes 8k visible nodes (16 Apr)A parkour gym in Canada accepting btc (25 Apr)Bitcoin has more daily transactions than during it’s all-time-high price period (25 Apr)An in-store bitcoin payment in Venezuela (28 Apr)Coinjoins have tripled to over 4% of all bitcoin transactions over the past year (29 Apr)Over 29k btc has been made fungible through Wasabi wallet (30 Apr)DevelopmentNopara73 re-applies for the 46 btc bounty for his work with coinjoin in Wasabi Wallet (3 Apr)The next Bitcoin Core release will let hardware wallets connect to full nodes (9 Apr)In-browser micropayments over the Lightning Network with WebLN, without invoice copying (14 Apr)The lnd v0.6 beta is announced (16 Apr)Someone creates a fee estimation tool (23 Apr)Lightning Labs’ desktop wallet is now on mainnet (23 Apr)Gab is forking Brave’s browser, removing their token and integrating bitcoin (25 Apr)SecurityA friendly reminder to take your cryptocurrency off exchanges (2 Apr)Electrum’s servers are being DDoSed by a large botnet to drive people to scam version (7 Apr)A reminder to not fall for scammers (9 Apr)Intel wants to backdoor every computer (11 Apr)A warning for a in-person trade scam through Telegram (19 Apr)bitcoins from the Bitfinex hack in 2016 were moved (25 Apr)MiningSomeone mining btc in 2011 at a loss (8 Apr)A discussion on a small Chinese-owned mining operation that burned down (21 Apr)BusinessSlush is planning to add Coinjoin functionality to Trezor (6 Apr)Facebook stops the selling of bitcoin hats on its platform (7 Apr)Samsung invests $2.9M in hardware wallet company Ledger (25 Apr)$89M in btc is withdrawn from Bitfinex’ cold wallet (26 Apr)16 new Bitcoin ATMs in Germany as regulations are cleared up (26 Apr)New York AG going after Bitfinex over $850M in Tether funds (26 Apr)E Trade is close to launching cryptocurrency trading (27 Apr)P2P Bitcoin exchange HodlHodl announces Lightning support (27 Apr)Rakuten plans to launch a cryptocurrency exchange (30 Apr)Microsoft Azure now supports RSK’s smart contracts (30 Apr)EducationCalculating the Merkle Root for a Block (3 Apr)An infographic on the history of the Lightning Network (13 Apr)Andreas Antonopoulos on the importance of bitcoin even if you don’t need it (20 Apr)Archeology (Financial Incumbents)The former chairman of the Federal Reserve claims to not know where $500B in loans to other Central Banks went (18 Apr)Argentina’s inflation is at 54.7% in 12 months (20 Apr)Nasdaq is testing to offer bitcoin trading (22 Apr)Ameritrade is testing the trading of bitcoin futures (24 Apr)Price & TradingPeople discuss bitcoin passing a golden cross in price (22 Apr)Fun & OtherBitcoin is an insurance policy against an Orwellian future (1 Apr)A Lightning purchase with a fee of 0.003 satoshi or about $0.00000015 (4 Apr)Free Bitcoin icons (9 Apr)Julian Assange receives $20K in bitcoin donations in 24 hours (12 Apr)Peter McCormack on being sued by a Satoshi Nakamoto impostor (12 Apr)A Bitcoin update from Venezuela (14 Apr)A reminder of what the average person on r/bitcoin can do to help (16 Apr)Another fraudulous attempt of Craight Wright pretending to be Satoshi Nakamoto is debunked (16 Apr)US presidential candidate Andrew Yang wants more clarity around cryptocurrencies (20 Apr)People discuss the euphoric feeling upon their first bitcoin purchase (20 Apr)$1.6B in gold vs in btc (22 Apr)Someone wrote a book about them travelling the world on 1 btc (23 Apr)Fees are back down to 1 satoshi per byte (25 Apr)A poster of the Bitcoin whitepaper (27 Apr) via /r/Bitcoin http://bit.ly/2VKLGQP
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