Crypto news
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Bitget to End Services for Some Users, With Account-Specific Deadlines
The exchange's terms list Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan as prohibited jurisdictions, while an affected user reports an Oct. 21 deadline.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Satoshi-era bitcoin faces a bigger quantum threat after Google’s new Willow breakthrough
Google says its Willow chip can prepare the special quantum states needed for advanced calculations with about 40 times fewer errors, reducing one of the hardware bottlenecks behind any future attempt to crack bitcoin wallets.
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Kevin Boon Succeeds Evan Cheng as Mysten Labs CEO
Cheng will remain CTO and personally lead a new AI business unit building agent infrastructure tied to Sui and Walrus.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves
Bitcoin Magazine Poetic Justice: Scammer Lost $5M in Bitcoin After Being Targeted by Ledger Thieves Call it poetic justice: one of the biggest victims of last week’s Ledger theft happened to be a scammer themself, according to blockchain analysts, and lost nearly $5 million in bitcoin. In a post...
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Anthropic Says Claude Traced NIST Curve Seeds to 1990s Timestamps
The finding is not a cryptographic break; published code covers five NIST prime-curve seeds and four binary-curve seeds.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Strive’s bitcoin buying spree earns 27% price target hike from TD Cowen
Strive plans fresh funding for bitcoin purchases as TD Cowen sees warrant-related stock pressure easing.
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Tesla Roadster Rocket Is the Cool 'Flying' Car You Can’t Have
Tesla's new Roadster flips through the air, jumps a row of Teslas and lands on SpaceX thrusters. The Rocket version is invite only, not approved for public roads, and not due until 2028.
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BFFS26 Denver: Joseph Kelly on Bitcoin Custody and Credit; Alan Lane on Banking Lessons
Bitcoin Magazine BFFS26 Denver: Joseph Kelly on Bitcoin Custody and Credit; Alan Lane on Banking Lessons The Bitcoin for Financial Services Summit (BFFS26) returns to Denver October 20–22, 2026, bringing together CPAs, wealth advisors, attorneys, lenders, and finance leaders who are building...
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Hackers Jailbreak iPhone 18 Pro on Stage, and It Survives a Reboot
Calif showed an untethered jailbreak on an iPhone 18 Pro running iOS 27.0.1 at Hexacon in Paris. It survived a reboot, but no tool or bug details are public yet.
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Sazmining Now Sells Jack Dorsey’s Proto Immersion Hashboards
Bitcoin Magazine Sazmining Now Sells Jack Dorsey’s Proto Immersion Hashboards Bitcoin mining just got a lower barrier to entry. Sazmining announced Thursday that it is now selling Proto ’s immersion hashboards directly to individual and institutional buyers through its mining-as-a-service platform....
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KOSPI erases an entire year’s worth of South Korean GDP
South Korea’s stock exchange halted trading for 20 minutes yesterday as the country’s KOSPI index fell more than 8% in a single day. Since its June peak, its drawdown now exceeds 40%, worth more than $2 trillion in market capitalization. Followed domestically the same way US investors follow the...
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Circle Plans Push Into 40 Emerging Markets as Stablecoins Go Mainstream, CEO Says
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire told Reuters the USDC issuer plans to enter about 40 emerging and developing markets, citing rising demand in Southeast Asia, Latin America, Africa and the Middle East.
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Phishing scammers capitalise on Ledger panic with fake firmware update
Phishing scammers are capitalizing on the recent $86 million Ledger spyware scandal with a new “firmware update” phishing campaign. Blockchain security firm SlowMist flagged the scam, sharing screenshots of an email which urges the recipient to connect their hardware wallet to “protect your device...
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SEI Perpetual Futures Trade on CFTC-Regulated OG.com Markets
The dollar-settled contracts have no expiry, a 100-SEI minimum order and funding calculated every eight hours.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Hot Inflation Data Puts Bitcoin Under Pressure, but ‘Difficult’ Isn’t ‘Bearish’: CoinShares
Bitcoin Magazine Hot Inflation Data Puts Bitcoin Under Pressure, but ‘Difficult’ Isn’t ‘Bearish’: CoinShares Bitcoin’s price has dropped this week as new inflation data has come in hot. But while the largest cryptocurrency’s near-term setup is difficult, it’s not “fundamentally bearish,” according...
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Bitcoin Treasury Giant Strategy Faces Index Removal Under Finalized MSCI Rules
The index provider will classify “non-operating companies” as ineligible starting Nov. 30, targeting firms whose balance sheets are dominated by a single asset.
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Karpelès Reports Ledger Implants in Devices From Two More Resellers
Ledger says German stock inspections found no tampering and it has not verified a drain tied to a device bought outside Southeast Asia. Its authenticity check cannot detect the added hardware.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Strive to sell another $130M of SATS stock to buy more bitcoin
Bitcoin treasury firm Strive wants another $130 million on top of a previously announced $500 million IPO to buy more BTC and grow its business. Last Tuesday, Strive announced plans to raise $500 million through a Series A IPO that would sell 5 million shares, priced at $100 each, of the perpetual...
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India's Cyber Agency Says AI Agents Read Confidential Business Records Without Authorization
India's CERT-In says AI agents exceeded their assigned tasks in tests and read confidential records on live Indian systems.
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STRK’s L1 Bet: Eli Ben-Sasson on Starknet’s Exit Plan
Starknet says it is “actively considering becoming an L1” — leaving Ethereum to become what it calls the first fully quantum-resistant network, with 2027 as the target. StarkWare co-founder and CEO Eli Ben-Sasson joins Camila Russo to explain the plan. The announcement came as a post on X on...
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Crypto PACs escalate spending against Sherrod Brown in Ohio Senate race
At least two industry-aligned PACs have poured more than $52 million into opposing Sherrod Brown’s return to the Senate.
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Stablecoin remittances cost 84% less than traditional transfers, report finds
Borderless.xyz data shows major savings on cross-border business payments, with stablecoin transfers also settling faster than traditional international bank wires.
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Coinbase to power stablecoin-backed cards for Marqeta customers
The expanded partnership builds on Marqeta’s work powering Coinbase’s U.S. debit card offering in 2020.
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Prime Trust wins $9M judgment against Justin Sun-owned Poloniex
The Prime Trust estate has won a $9 million default judgement against Justin Sun-owned Poloniex. The estate previously filed an adversary proceeding against Justin Sun and Poloniex related to preferential transfers of property before the Prime Trust bankruptcy. Shortly before its bankruptcy, Prime...
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CFTC Wants to Drop Gemini’s $5M Settlement. A Judge Just Said No
The judge ruled that a shift in the CFTC’s enforcement priorities and misconduct allegations against its enforcement division weren’t enough to reopen a deal Gemini signed weeks before trial.
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Deutsche Bank To Debut Bitcoin Custody Within Weeks: Report
Bitcoin Magazine Deutsche Bank To Debut Bitcoin Custody Within Weeks: Report German multinational Deutsche Bank is just weeks away from its crypto custody service, according to reports. The lender — which is Germany’s biggest — also plans to expand the custody platform into Asia next year,...
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MSCI To Move Forward With Proposal That Could Exclude Strategy From Index
Bitcoin Magazine MSCI To Move Forward With Proposal That Could Exclude Strategy From Index Morgan Stanley Capital International is moving ahead with a proposal that could remove bitcoin juggernaut Strategy from its global equity benchmarks. The index maker said Thursday that it “will implement the...
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NEAR Intents Postmortem Links $3.8 Million Exploit to Deposit Bug
The protocol removed deposit notifications after another critical bug report and says all affected users were made whole.... Read the full story at The Defiant
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Bitcoin Bounces, But Where Does It Go Next? Here’s What the Charts Say
Technical indicators suggest the bullish trend remains intact, but prediction market traders are sending mix signals.
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Crypto Biz: Wall Street closes at 4. Tokenized stocks keep trading
Tokenized stocks are drawing trading activity beyond Wall Street hours, while Bitcoin miners confront costly AI expansion and new accounting rules could benefit stablecoins.