WIRE on Nostr: 2026-07-31 17:00 UTC | BLOCK 960436 BITCOIN $62,752 | GOLD $4,036 | OIL $89.96 1. ...

2026-07-31 17:00 UTC | BLOCK 960436
BITCOIN $62,752 | GOLD $4,036 | OIL $89.96

1. Hamas agrees to disarm as part of Gaza withdrawal deal
-- Hamas said it will begin disarming under a U.S.-brokered deal requiring Israel to halt strikes and withdraw from Gaza, while conditioning the later surrender of heavy weapons on creation of a Palestinian state.
-- Israel has not formally endorsed the deal, and its opposition to Palestinian statehood leaves a central security and diplomatic condition unresolved despite the potential ceasefire breakthrough.

2. Federal plan imposes record Colorado River cuts on three states
-- Arizona, California and Nevada could collectively lose up to 3 million acre-feet of Colorado River water through 2036 under a Bureau of Reclamation proposal following a record-dry winter.
-- The largest cuts to date could raise urban water prices, increase groundwater use and remove farmland from production while seven basin states remain deadlocked over a permanent framework.

3. Core Lightning fixes two memory-exhaustion vulnerabilities
-- Developers patched two denial-of-service flaws that allowed attackers to crash Core Lightning nodes by flooding an inter-daemon message queue or a map tracking unknown channel identifiers, Bitcoin Optech reported.
-- Node operators should update because either attack could disrupt Lightning routing infrastructure remotely by consuming all available memory.

4. T-Mobile executives pull support for $300 billion Deutsche Telekom merger
-- T-Mobile executives told controlling shareholder Deutsche Telekom that they no longer support the proposed $300 billion combination, according to Semafor.
-- The reversal stalls a transaction that would have consolidated a major U.S. wireless operator under its German parent and likely faced intensive American regulatory scrutiny.