Bitcoin news
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Mercado Bitcoin hack losses are at $46M and growing
Brazilian crypto exchange Mercado Bitcoin has paused withdrawals and deposits after losing an estimated $46 million worth of crypto to hackers. The exchange claimed it contained the security incident this morning, saying, “There was no harm to customers,” and “there was no data breach.” It said the...
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Brazil's Largest Exchange Mercado Bitcoin Halts Withdrawals After $40 Million Hack
Brazil's largest crypto exchange paused deposits and withdrawals after a security incident. Tether froze more than 4.5 million USDT tied to the attack.
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Arkham Says Mercado Bitcoin Attacker Holds $46 Million
The tracker groups 36 addresses. Mercado Bitcoin says customers suffered no losses but has not disclosed a total loss.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin Freezes Deposits and Withdrawals Due to Ongoing Security Incident, Losses Estimated Near $40 Million
Bitcoin Magazine Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin Freezes Deposits and Withdrawals Due to Ongoing Security Incident, Losses Estimated Near $40 Million Brazil’s largest cryptocurrency exchange kept deposits and withdrawals suspended on Monday after a security incident in one of its systems. The shutdown...
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Brazil’s Mercado Bitcoin halts withdrawals after $40 million drained across 10 chains
The Brazilian exchange paused deposits and withdrawals after wallets on at least 10 chains were emptied, days after the $6.3 billion Binance hack.
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Tether Says It Froze Over 4.5 Million USDT Tied to Mercado Bitcoin Incident
Ethereum and Tron records confirm blacklist actions against exchange-identified wallets, while deposits and withdrawals remain suspended.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Strive inches closer to becoming second-largest public bitcoin holder after latest $10 million buy
Strive bought another 124 BTC, bringing it closer to becoming the second-largest public company holder of bitcoin after Strategy.
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Binance Reopens Withdrawals as Hack Recovery Enters Second Week
Bitcoin Magazine Binance Reopens Withdrawals as Hack Recovery Enters Second Week Binance restarted customer withdrawals on Sunday, four days after hackers drained roughly $6.3 billion from its hot wallets in the largest crypto theft on record. The exchange reopened in stages over the weekend,...
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Mercado Bitcoin Keeps Withdrawals Suspended, Identifies Incident Wallets
The exchange says customers suffered no losses. Its latest disclosure links the incident to destination wallets receiving bitcoin, ether and other assets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitwise’s André Dragosch: Bitcoin’s “Fair Value” of $197,000
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Bitwise’s André Dragosch: Bitcoin’s “Fair Value” of $197,000 Bitwise's André Dragosch joins Spencer Nichols to explain why Bitcoin tends to move before shifts in global liquidity, acting as the canary in the liquidity coal mine, and why his global money supply model puts...
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Adam Back: Pension Funds Are Bitcoin’s “Third Wave” of Adoption
▶ Bitcoin Magazine Adam Back: Pension Funds Are Bitcoin's “Third Wave” of Adoption The first wave of Bitcoin adoption was individuals. The second was the ETFs. Adam Back, CEO & Co-Founder of Blockstream, explains why the third wave of model portfolios, managed funds and pension funds is still...
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Crypto Treasury Stocks: How mNAV and Dilution Affect Value
A bigger bitcoin or ether treasury need not mean more crypto per share—or a positive stock return. Strategy’s disclosures show why the valuation formula matters.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Strategy (MSTR) Adds 811 Bitcoin, Strive (ASST) Follows Suit With 124 as Both Keep Stacking
Bitcoin Magazine Strategy (MSTR) Adds 811 Bitcoin, Strive (ASST) Follows Suit With 124 as Both Keep Stacking Strategy bought another 811 bitcoin last week. The Saylor-led firm spent about $65.5 million at an average of $80,846 per coin between October 26 and November 1, according to its 8-K filing...
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Strategy spends triple its weekly Bitcoin outlay on STRC buybacks
Strategy spent $208.2 million buying back STRC preferred shares and $65.5 million on Bitcoin, while allocating $98.5 million to its USD Cash balance.
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Binance taps half its SAFU Bitcoin holdings, releases reserve proof
Binance’s SAFU Bitcoin wallet now holds about 7,500 BTC after a 7,499 BTC transfer linked to the hack, with no timeline for restoring the $1 billion fund.
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Strategy Resumes Bitcoin Buys With $66M Purchase
The Bitcoin treasury firm also spent $208.2 million buying back its STRC preferred stock, cutting its USD Cash balance to $132.7 million.
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‘We found room for even more orange’: Michael Saylor’s Strategy scoops up another 811 bitcoin for $65.5 million
The latest bitcoin acquisition disclosure comes after Strategy reported $19.5 billion in third quarter net income on Thursday.
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Binance hackers begin swapping stolen Solana tokens for Bitcoin: Chainalysis
Crypto exchange Gate said it froze two linked accounts as US investigators urged platforms to block transactions tied to the $6.3 billion theft.
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Bitcoin's 'volatility curve' has a midterm bump
Your day-ahead look for Nov. 2, 2026
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BTCPay Tells Merchants to Switch Off Servers Amid Hot Wallet Attack Reports
The Bitcoin payment software says attacks targeted versions 2.4.1 and older, days after it shipped an emergency fix for a critical flaw.
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Bitcoin eases to $77,900 as Binance customers pull $3.6 billion after withdrawals reopen
Bitcoin fell 0.4% to around $77,900 since midnight UTC as Binance customers pulled a net $3.64 billion after withdrawals reopened and ETFs lost $643 million.
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From Uptober to Hacktober: Are Bitcoin’s seasonal patterns becoming obsolete?
Bitcoin lost 7.3% in October 2026 after another decline the previous year, despite the month’s historically strong returns, as analysts reassess seasonal signals.
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Elliptic Flags First Bitcoin Mixing of Binance Hack Proceeds
The analytics firm traced roughly 12,000 wallets across 11 blockchains and put remaining linked balances at $3.24 billion.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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BTC heads into US midterm showdown: Three things to know in Bitcoin this week
Bitcoin price action held its 100-day moving average into the monthly close as crypto markets braced for US midterm election and tech earnings volatility.
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Bitcoin ETFs sink into October outflows with $643M exit after Binance hack
US spot Bitcoin ETFs ended October with $515 million in net withdrawals, while Ether funds posted a record $1.61 billion in monthly outflows.
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Bitcoin ETFs lost $643 million in outflows Friday, and 2026 is barely green now
The first trading day after the Binance hack saw the biggest ETF outflow 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 have taken in nothing since Thursday except payments worth under a dollar, each carrying a message, from pleas to laundering pitches to a token shill.
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Bitcoin claws back toward $79,000 as markets shake off crypto's biggest hack
ZEC led the majors and oil slid on a report that Trump wants to give Iran diplomacy more time, with U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday.
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BTCPay, a bitcoin payment tool, tells users to switch off their servers after reports of drained wallets
The open-source project says it is still investigating and hasn't given a loss figure or announced a fix. Its founder said the reports appear to involve versions older than 2.4.2.
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Spot bitcoin ETFs see largest daily outflows in four months following record Binance hack
US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $643 million on Friday, marking their largest single-day outflow since June 25, following Thursday's Binance's hack.