Crypto news
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Core Scientific (CORZ) to Exit Bitcoin Mining by Year-End as Colocation Hits $215 Million
Bitcoin Magazine Core Scientific (CORZ) to Exit Bitcoin Mining by Year-End as Colocation Hits $215 Million Core Scientific will complete its exit from bitcoin mining by year-end and enter 2027 as a pure-play high-density colocation provider, management said on Thursday's third-quarter earnings...
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Extended Sets Final XTEN Airdrop Rate as Xpoints Program Ends
The exchange also awarded Xpoints to 97 Discord Tester-role holders for early testing, feedback and platform use.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Mercado Bitcoin Said Its Hack Was Contained, But Blockchain Data Tells a Different Story
Fresh forensic analysis traces $48.6 million across 11 blockchains and finds thousands of customer deposit addresses drained hours after the Brazilian exchange said it had stopped the breach on Monday.
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Greek Parliament Approves 10% Tax on Crypto Gains
The framework exempts annual net gains of up to €500 and is scheduled to apply from January 2027.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin erases post-election gains as Wall Street selloff triggers over $1 billion in crypto liquidations
Bitcoin fell 6% to $75,700 and ether 7% as a Nasdaq selloff hit crypto, triggering $1.03 billion in liquidations.
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California Tribes Win Order Barring Kalshi Sports Contracts on Their Lands
Kalshi must report compliance steps within 21 days, after the tribes disputed the effectiveness of its voluntary location blocks.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Solana Labs’ Leap Opens iPhone Beta for Tokenized Stocks and Crypto
Trades route through Jupiter, while tokenized securities are unavailable to US persons and users in several other major markets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Zcash Upgrade Could Lock $16 Million in Crypto Forever
Zcash's latest upgrade promises faster transactions, but thousands of coins remain in an aging privacy system that will soon stop accepting withdrawals, potentially leaving their owners empty-handed.
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Kalshi, Coinbase stock perps under threat ahead of CFTC deadline
Tomorrow will be a climactic moment in a competitive battle between the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE), Kalshi, and Coinbase over stock “perps,” a crypto-inspired derivative that uses perpetually-rolling futures funding to create leveraged instruments for betting on stock prices. Despite a...
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Anza Urges Solana Validators to Upgrade Agave Before Epoch 1079
Agave 4.4.1 changes how loader-v3 program data counts toward transaction limits, ahead of a planned Nov. 6 cutoff for unpatched nodes.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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OpenAI Found 948 Linux Security Flaws—And Figured Out How to Exploit Them
An automated OpenAI system produced working exploits and draft fixes at roughly $1,279 per flaw, raising new questions about how cheaply AI can find holes in critical software at scale.
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EEZ Launches Rollup X With Swaps Filled by Mainnet Liquidity
The Ethereum Economic Zone ran three demonstrations at Devcon in Mumbai. Rollup X is a devnet whose batches are attested by a designated signer rather than proven.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Binance, Deribit revoke SignalPlus API keys after fake Teams invite attack
SignalPlus said attackers compromised an engineer’s computer in a breach that resulted in losses of less than $82,000, which the crypto trading platform pledged to reimburse in full.
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Base deploys Denim upgrade on mainnet, replacing Flashblocks with 200ms block times
Base activated its fourth network upgrade, Denim, introducing five canonical blocks per second at 200ms intervals.
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Greece Approves 10% Crypto Capital Gains Tax as First Framework Lands Below Draft Rate
Bitcoin Magazine Greece Approves 10% Crypto Capital Gains Tax as First Framework Lands Below Draft Rate Greece's parliament approved on Thursday a bill that imposes a 10% capital gains tax on cryptocurrencies, the first comprehensive legal framework for taxing crypto assets in the country....
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U.S. Justice Department assembles force to shield against foreign AI threats
The new DOJ task force will aid the recently designated U.S. "SI Force" by warding off bad actors backed by other nations, criminal groups or corporate fraud.
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SEC Crypto Broker Rule Enters White House Review
The planned amendments cover capital requirements, customer-asset safeguards and recordkeeping for broker-dealers handling crypto assets.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Ethereum Foundation sued for firing employee who opposed ‘suicide pledge’
A lawsuit filed by former Ethereum Foundation (EF) Protocol Support lead Kayleen Fulton against Stiftung Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, and others alleges she was fired after disclosing a cancer diagnosis and organizing opposition to a “suicide pledge.” In February of this year, the foundation...
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Bitcoin, crypto stocks caught in AI trade meltdown, but Wintermute trader sees 'glass half full'
The post-election rally quickly reversed as AI stocks plunged, but cryptocurrencies held up relatively better despite a $1 billion liquidation wave.
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Fed, OCC check US banks after Binance hack as experts flag security risks
US regulators reportedly contacted banks following last week’s $6.3 billion Binance security hack, while experts raised concerns about transaction security and crypto risks.
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OpenSSH Ships Urgent Workaround for Alpine Password Bypass
Key-only accounts can be exposed if SSH password authentication remains enabled. Alpine urges operators to update and restart the server process.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Trump-Backed American Bitcoin Turns a Profit as Bitcoin Rise Lifts Books
The Hut 8-backed miner reversed a second-quarter loss, driven largely by a $197 million gain on its Bitcoin holdings.
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Blockaid Warns Reth Bug Can Produce Incorrect State Proofs
Blockaid listed patched builds for reth, op-reth and Base, while Gauntlet curtailed deposits and allocations.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Crypto Clearing vs. Settlement: What Happens After a Trade?
Netting offsets obligations, while collateral backs performance. Neither is the same as completing payment and delivery.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Europe’s largest asset manager Amundi tokenizes equity index fund on Ethereum
The new share class offers blockchain-based exposure to an index tracking 600 companies across European markets.
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S&P 500 Plunges, Wall Street Fears Circuit Breaker, Just One Day After Trump Celebrated Record Highs
A day after Trump celebrated stock market records, the S&P 500 sank 3.8%, putting emergency trading halts in focus as AI stocks dragged Wall Street sharply lower during Thursday trading.
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Paraguay’s Peña Submits Resignation Amid Ueno Bank Crisis
Lawmakers approved impeachment proceedings with 78 votes, while the central bank outlined a first payout group for Ueno depositors.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bull Bitcoin Becomes First Exchange to Add Payjoin Privacy Deposits, Withdrawals, and Payjoin-by-Default Trading
Bitcoin Magazine Bull Bitcoin Becomes First Exchange to Add Payjoin Privacy Deposits, Withdrawals, and Payjoin-by-Default Trading Bull Bitcoin announced deep Payjoin integration with its exchange, claiming to be the first Bitcoin exchange in the world to offer Payjoin as a deposit and withdrawal...
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South Korea Pushes 22% Crypto Tax to 2029 in Fourth Delay, Offers Three-Year Loss Carryforward
Bitcoin Magazine South Korea Pushes 22% Crypto Tax to 2029 in Fourth Delay, Offers Three-Year Loss Carryforward South Korea's government plans to push back its tax on cryptocurrency gains by another two years to 2029, Finance and Economy Minister Lee Hyeong-il said Thursday, in what would be the...
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Gauntlet Restricts V1 Vault Deposits After Reported op-reth Vulnerability
The risk curator is also pausing allocations and reducing LayerZero-bridged asset exposure, while saying no exploit has been reported to its knowledge.... Read the full story at The Defiant