Bitcoin Community Divided as BIP-110 Advances to Complete Status With August Activation Looming
On June 30, 2026, Dathon Ohm, the author of BIP-110, announced that the proposal has been advanced to Complete status,
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Lightning Labs Ships Taproot Assets v0.8 and a New SDK as USDT Goes Live on Bitcoin’s Lightning Network
Lightning Labs has released Taproot Assets v0.8 alongside the first public release of the Taproot Assets SDK, a client library designed to make building stablecoin applications on Bitcoin significantly easier. USDT is now live on Lightning via Taproot Assets.
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Cashu Developers Are Working to Bring Payjoin Privacy to Bitcoin-Backed Ecash
Cashu developers are working on integrating Payjoin into the Cashu Development Kit, a move that would bring on-chain privacy directly into Bitcoin-backed ecash transactions and close a significant gap in how ecash mints handle coin origins.
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BTCPay Server 2.4.0 Ships With Passkey Login, Multisig Wallet Setup, and New Merchant Integrations
BTCPay Server has released version 2.4.0, bringing passwordless passkey login, a guided multisig wallet setup flow, Lightspeed and Jumpseller merchant integrations, and a rebuilt translation system that makes the platform more accessible across languages.
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Kenya Is Bitcoin Country. The Rest of the World Is Just Catching Up.
From grassroots circular economies in Kibera to back-to-back Bitcoin conferences in Nairobi, Kenya is no longer debating Bitcoin adoption. It is living it. Here is what two weeks in June 2026 revealed about where Africa’s most advanced Bitcoin economy actually stands.
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Bitcoin++ Wraps First-Ever African Edition in Nairobi, Hackathon Won by West African Builder, Return Confirmed for 2027
Bitcoin++ Nairobi concluded its first-ever African edition this week with three days of deep protocol sessions, a Bitcoin glossary translation sprint, a hackathon won by Senegalese builder Nourou, and an immediate confirmation that the conference is returning to Nairobi in October 2027.
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Nigeria’s Lightning Off-Ramp: Theophilus Isah on Building MavaPay to Turn Bitcoin into Instant Local Bank Transfers
Theophilus Isah trained as a biochemist, taught himself to code, and walked away from a hackathon loss to build MavaPay, one of the few Bitcoin Lightning off-ramps from Africa’s 2023 builder cohort still standing. He explains why Bitcoin, not the banking system, is the part that actually works.
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Africa’s Cross-Border Remittance Problem Has Two Wounds — And Bitcoin’s Lightning Network Is the Stitch
African families already lose close to nine billion dollars a year in remittance fees, from the diaspora and from within the continent itself. A new US federal tax just added to that burden. The case for Bitcoin’s Lightning Network as the alternative rail has never been clearer.
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Africa Free Routing Opens Applications for Lightning Developer Bootcamp in Addis Ababa
Africa Free Routing has announced its next Lightning Developer Bootcamp, taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia from July 27–31, 2026, bringing hands-on Bitcoin and Lightning Network training to East Africa’s largest tech hub.
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Africa Does Not Have a Bitcoin Adoption Problem. It Has a Narrative Problem.
The dominant global story about Bitcoin in Africa positions the continent as a recipient of Bitcoin’s benefits rather than a builder of its future. That framing is wrong, and it costs Africa more than people realise.
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