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Liquid Reserve Gap Falls to 250 BTC After 300 BTC Top-Up
Liquid's L-BTC reserve gap fell to 250 BTC after a 300 BTC top-up, but direct peg-outs stay paused until reserves are fully restored.
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BTC Market Pulse: Week 45
Glassnode's weekly read says BTC fell below $80k on perpetual selling while funding stayed positive and options traders bought protection; spot buyers held steady.
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Strive’s Bitcoin Buying Slows to 124 BTC, About 2% of the Prior Week’s Total
Strive's bitcoin buying slowed to 124 BTC in a week, roughly 2% of the prior week, and it used its SATS at-the-market program for the first time; holdings now 43,124 BTC.
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Strategy Adds 811 BTC With MSTR Sales as STRC Buybacks Top $400 Million in Two Weeks
Strategy put $413.1M into STRC buybacks in two weeks, more than six times its bitcoin spending over the same stretch, per its weekly filings.
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Binance hackers begin swapping stolen Solana tokens for Bitcoin: Chainalysis
Chainalysis reports hackers started converting the $6.3B Binance theft from stolen Solana tokens into Bitcoin, and Gate froze two linked accounts.
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BTCPay Tells Merchants to Switch Off Servers Amid Hot Wallet Attack Reports
BTCPay tells merchants to shut servers running 2.4.1 and older after attacks on hot wallets, days after an emergency fix.
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Bitcoin eases to $77,900 as Binance customers pull $3.6 billion after withdrawals reopen
Bitcoin dipped to about $77,900 as Binance customers pulled a net $3.64B after withdrawals reopened and ETFs lost $643M.
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Elliptic Flags First Bitcoin Mixing of Binance Hack Proceeds
Elliptic traced roughly 12,000 wallets across 11 chains and reports the first Bitcoin mixing of Binance hack proceeds, with $3.24B still linked.
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BTCPay Server Reports No Wallet Drains on Latest Release After Asking Merchants to Go Offline
BTCPay Server says an admin-login attack hit instances before 2.4.2 and reports no drains on the latest release.
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Bitcoin ETFs lost $643 million in outflows Friday, and 2026 is barely green now
Bitcoin ETFs saw $643 million in outflows on the first trading day after the Binance hack, the largest since June 25.
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Strangers are begging the Binance hacker for bitcoin, one ‘help me bro’ at a time
The 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC from the Binance hack have received only trivial messages and pleas since Thursday.
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Spot bitcoin ETFs see largest daily outflows in four months following record Binance hack
US spot bitcoin ETFs saw $643 million in outflows on Friday, their largest single-day outflow since June 25, after the Binance hack.
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Threshold Says tBTC Operators Patched or Went Offline Over Linux Flaw
Threshold says tBTC operators patched or went offline over a Linux flaw, and a separate incident drained about 0.5 ETH from an operator account.
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LOST 70K USD IN ELECTRUM RBF FAIL - YOUTUBE VIDEO
A user lost 0.85 BTC (about $70K) when an Electrum RBF bug hit a transaction, and documents the failure in a video.
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18 years in, what has Bitcoin truly done?
CoinDesk's Nikhilesh De reflects on Bitcoin's 18 years, arguing its cultural impact may outweigh the protocol itself.
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A Nasdaq-listed company may sell $450 million bitcoin, citing Binance hack and quantum fears
A Nasdaq-listed firm says it may sell or borrow against 5,833 BTC (about $450M), citing Binance hack and quantum risks.
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Bitcoin Adoption or Crypto Speculation? Critiquing a BIS Research Paper
Critique of a BIS working paper on whether crypto activity reflects Bitcoin adoption or speculation.
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The $3 Billion Kill-Switch: Inside the $6.4B Binance Heist—and Why Only Bitcoin Is Real Bearer Money.
Analysis of the October 29 Binance hack, which drained about $6.36B across 10 chains without leaked private keys, framed as a stress test of crypto custody.
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Bitcoin stolen from Binance tops Tesla’s holdings and is over twice El Salvador’s reserve
Blockchain investigators link an 18,270 BTC theft from Binance to North Korea, a haul now larger than Tesla's disclosed bitcoin holdings.
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Inside the largest crypto hack on record: How attackers breached Binance for $6.3 billion
Investigators tie the $6B Binance hack to North Korea and detail how hot-wallet signing infrastructure was compromised and where funds went.
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Zooko and Sean Bowe Back Plan to Pull 50,000 ZEC From Zcash’s Grants Treasury
Zooko and Sean Bowe back a proposal to move 50,000 ZEC, about $61M, out of Zcash's grants treasury into a miner reserve.
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Lost 70k USD (0.85BTC) due to Electrum RBF security breach. I'm devastated and don't know how to move forward
A long-time user reports losing 0.85 BTC from a hot Electrum wallet via an RBF-related breach, a cautionary account of wallet security.
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After the Binance hack, I checked my own node: long-term holders barely moved a coin
A full-node operator tracked UTXO age across Bitcoin history and found long-term holders barely moved coins in the 12 hours after the Binance hack.
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Zcash grants group offers $124M compromise as governance backlash grows
Zcash grants group proposes redirecting about $124M toward mining rewards, drawing governance and accountability criticism.
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Five Pools Dominate Bitcoin Mining. Who Decides Whether Your Payment Gets Through?
Five mining pools produce about 80% of blocks, and pool operators usually pick which transactions get confirmed, so payment censorship depends on pool choice.
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18,270 BTC left a Binance hot wallet in one transaction, and no one can freeze it. Censorship resistance cuts both ways, and so does "not your keys"
On-chain tracing via TRM Labs shows 18,270 BTC left a Binance hot wallet in one transaction, and the BTC cannot be frozen, unlike stablecoins. A sharp look at censorship resistance.
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Binance hacker’s Bitcoin haul tops Coinbase’s corporate treasury
The Binance hacker's holdings of 18,270 BTC and over 500,000 ETH now exceed Coinbase's reported corporate treasury.
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Bitcoin Core 32.1, multi-party SP, CLN Dos - Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #429
Bitcoin Optech newsletter covering multiparty silent payments, a Core Lightning DoS disclosure, and Bitcoin Core's security policy update.
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Strategy Sold 5,552 Bitcoin and Bought 7,218 in Q3 as a $20.9 Billion Markup Drove Profit
Strategy's Q3 operating income came entirely from a $20.9B bitcoin markup, while it sold 5,552 BTC and bought 7,218; CFO Andrew Kang leaves Nov. 5.
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Strategy CFO Andrew Kang resigns as company posts record operating profit
Strategy's CFO Andrew Kang is resigning while the company reports record operating profit from marking up its bitcoin holdings.