An impressive number of cool bitcoin things happened in the last 2 weeks

Darosior published a draft bip for the Great Consensus Cleanup: https://x.com/darosior/status/1904947392744485062

A new version of frostr was released with a desktop app and a browser extension: https://x.com/bitcoinplebdev/status/1905056787771842665

Electrum announced direct nostr support for PSBT signing, NWC integration, and submarine swap coordination: https://x.com/ElectrumWallet/status/1905024339759550760

A new implementation of ring signatures came out that works with nostr's elliptic curve (and therefore bitcoin's): https://github.com/AbdelStark/nostringer

One of the guys from Vinteum published a set of utxo snapshots for various bitcoin-related networks: https://bitcoin-snapshots.jaonoctus.dev/

A payjoin coordinator called Private Pond got an open source release: https://x.com/MrKukks/status/1906615058689335400

Exodus Wallet removed their lightning support: https://x.com/EliNagarBrr/status/1906631948325331051

Bitgo added lightning support: https://x.com/BitGo/status/1909638805981909063

Breez announced a new bitcoin wallet similar to Aqua: https://x.com/Breez_Tech/status/1907435825287041465

Google decided to censor the Bitcoin Dev Mailing List: https://x.com/jarolrod/status/1907480779078221842

And then they brought it back: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev

The U.S. Justice Department announced it will stop targeting mixing services: https://x.com/valkenburgh/status/1909586503803470238

Mastercard annouced some sort of partnership with Kraken Pay (I think it's just gonna be a Kraken branded mastercard that deducts funds from your Kraken account, but we'll see): https://en.cryptonomist.ch/2025/04/08/mastercard-and-kraken-revolutionize-crypto-payments-a-strategic-alliance-is-born-in-europe/

Mempool Space launched version 3.2.0 of their software: https://x.com/mempool/status/1909532932211138574

Jeremy Rubin found a way to improve bitvm with garbled circuits: https://rubin.io/bitcoin/2025/04/04/delbrag/

Rootstock announced the first bitvm hackathon: https://bitvmx.org/force/

Robin Linus figured out how to use CTV to improve bitvm in such a way that bitvm "federations" cannot run off with user funds (though they can still hold them hostage): https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/how-ctv-csfs-improves-bitvm-bridges/1591

The link also includes an explanation of a CTV "hack" whereby you can get it to commit to all vouts AND any number of vins (except all of them)

Rijndael proposed Taplocks which use zero-knowledge proofs to make a tapleaf unspendable unless an oracle reveals a secret (even if the script contains OP_SUCCESS!): https://x.com/rot13maxi/status/1909252898170564621

The Bitcoin Policy Institute proposed "BitBonds" -- novel loan contracts that allegedly let borrowers (particularly the USA) acquire bitcoin in a budget-neutral way: https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/bitcoin-enhanced-treasury-bonds-an-idea-whose-time-has-come

Ruben Somsen announced SwiftSync which increases blockchain validation speed by over 5x: https://gist.github.com/RubenSomsen/a61a37d14182ccd78760e477c78133cd

LNBits finally released version 1.0.0 of their software: https://github.com/lnbits/lnbits/releases/tag/v1.0.0

They also added appimage support: https://docs.lnbits.org/guide/installation.html

Starkware combined ColliderScript and Bitvm into something wacky: https://x.com/StarkWareLtd/status/1910317337301152034

Trump blocked the IRS Reporting rule for 'DeFi Brokers': https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/trump-signs-resolution-blocking-irs-reporting-rule-for-defi-brokers/

A github called "Awesome CTV" was launched, containing links to interesting things about CTV, including software demos, technical analysis, and dev tools: https://github.com/arshbot/awesome-ctv-csfs

What a wild couple of weeks it's been!