Hi Bitcoiners!

I’m back with the sixteenth monthly Bitcoin news recap.

It's easy for news and developments to get drowned out by price talk, so 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. Lots of gems this time around!

You can see recaps of the previous months on Bitcoinsnippets.com

A recap of Bitcoin in April 2018

• 01: People unsurprisingly spend the day making April fools jokes about Bitcoin
• 02: A list of all words used to generate 24-word bitcoin seeds with 10⁷² combinations
• 03: The 0.4.1 beta version of Lightning Network implementation Lnd is released
• 04: Mark Karpeles, ex-CEO of Mt. Gox does an AMA & Eclair’s Lightning Network wallet is released for mainnet on Android
• 05: Satoshi Nakamoto chose this date as his birthday as a reference to gold confiscation from US citizens
• 06: Electrum is adding support for the Lightning Network & Nick Szabo on some of the basic concepts of a blockchain 14 years before bitcoin’s release & The SEC allows Bitcoin ETF proposals again & Elizabeth Stark, CEO of Lightning Labs on Yahoo Finance
• 07: People argue over an infographic on technology adoption
• 08: Twitter suspends the @Bitcoin account after it kept tweeting against Bitcoin
• 09: People discuss the value of Technical Analysis for cryptocurrency markets & Someone gets a 1 satoshi tip using the Lightning Network
• 10: People discuss whether r/Bitcoin is nuanced enough & Canadian banks ban cryptocurrency purchases resulting in skyrocketing volumes on P2P exchanges
• 11: BitMEX research on Proof-of-Stake viability & HalongMining is a 10nm ASIC fabricated by Samsung semiconductors
• 12: The biggest 1hr volume in the history of Bitcoin happens as the price rises $1000 in an hour
• 13: Developers at Chain make Bulletproofs twice as fast & A community member shares content, tools and advice on cryptocurrency and taxes & Yahoo Japan buys a 40% stake in cryptocurrency exchange BitARG
• 14: Bitcoin is declared legal under Islamic law
• 15: r/Bitcoin reaches 800k subscribers
• 16: A 2-minute reminder of how the banking system works & Coinbase buys Earn.com
• 17: IMF Director Lagarde makes positive comments about cryptocurrencies & Someone is looking to make a Lightning and NFC integration for in-store payments
• 18: Analysis on the age distribution of unspent transaction outputs throughout time
• 19: A reminder that Amazon filed a patent in 2014 to de-anonymize bitcoin transactions and sell the data to law enforcement
• 20: Benedikt Bunz and Pieter Wuille on Bulletproofs & Bitwage integrates SegWit
• 21: The Eclair Lightning Network wallet is improving & A deep dive into Lit: A Lightning Network implementation
• 22: The high court in India is discussing the Bitcoin ban with the Central Bank of India
• 23: The Lightning Network reaches 2000 nodes, $150K capacity and 7000 active channels & Ken Sheriff is repurposing vitage computers to mine bitcoins & You can buy Reddit Gold with bitcoin again
• 24: Exploring the Lightning Network Daemon 0.4 Beta release
• 25: The Nasdaq CEO says they are open to becoming a cryptocurrency exchange & Misleading references get removed from the Bitcoin Wikipedia article
• 26: The 17 millionth Bitcoin has been mined & A guide to using BTCPay, a free and open-source Bitcoin payment processor
• 27: Hundreds of Bitcoin users seek lawsuit against Bitcoin.com for misleading visitors
• 28: Bitcoin was the 9th most read article on Wikipedia in 2017 & France reduces the tax rate on cryptocurrency sales from 45% to 19%
• 29: The government of the Philippines will allow ten cryptocurrency companies to operate in a special economic zone in Cagayan
• 30: Eltoo: a simplified update mechanism for Lightning and off-chain contracts & A beginner’s guide to Lightning on a Raspberry Pi