October 2026

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October 2026

Oct 31TechnologistNEXT TECHNOLOGY BOARD CLEARS SALE OR PLEDGE OF ALL 5,833 BITCOIN — CEO PICKS TIMING — FILINGS NAME NO CUSTODIAN — COMPANY VALUED AT $7.8 MILLION
Oct 31MaximalistIPOWER HOLDS 15 BITCOIN AT BITGO — THE CUSTODIAN TAKES ORDERS FROM ITS NOTE BUYER’S AGENT — 8.1 MILLION SHARES REGISTERED AGAINST 596,808 OUTSTANDING
Oct 31MaximalistEOLE WILL SELL ALL 151.21 OF ITS OWN BITCOIN, NAMING CYBER THREATS — THE SAME DAY IT TOLD LENDING CUSTOMERS THEIR COINS ARE FINE — IN MAY IT HAD BORROWED OVER 300 FROM THEM
Oct 31TechnologistBINANCE’S USER FUND MOVED 7,500 BITCOIN — HALF OF ITS 15,000 — ONE KEY SIGNED — 21 MINUTES AFTER UPDATE #3
Oct 31TechnologistBINANCE’S RESERVE LIST COUNTS 1,200 BITCOIN AN ADDRESS HASN’T HELD SINCE AUGUST — CHECKED AGAINST THE CHAIN, ITS 100.04% BITCOIN COVER IS 99.87%
Oct 30MaximalistUSBC’S OPTIONS COUNTERPARTY HOLDS THE KEYS TO 37.9% OF ITS BITCOIN — UP FROM 34.1% IN AUGUST — THE COIN COUNT DIDN’T MOVE
Oct 30CapitalistSTRATEGY’S CFO IS OUT NOV. 5 — THE CEO TAKES OVER THE BITCOIN FINANCES AND SIGNS FOR THEM — THE PLAN STAYS SAYLOR’S
Oct 30MaximalistTETHER AND CIRCLE FROZE ABOUT $2 BILLION IN UNDER THREE HOURS — BINANCE SHUT EVERY WITHDRAWAL — THE PENTAGON WANTS 90 DAYS OFF THE GRID — EIGHT STORIES, ONE QUESTION: WHO HOLDS YOUR FREEZE BUTTON?
Oct 30TechnologistCOINBASE’S BLOG SAID IT HOLDS 5% OF ALL BITCOIN — THE SAME PAGE NOW SAYS 12%, WITH NO EDIT NOTE — ITS 10-Q COUNTS 3.0 MILLION CUSTOMER COINS, NEARLY 15%
Oct 30TechnologistEVERY BITCOIN CYCLE LOW CAME 13 TO 71 DAYS AFTER A MIDTERM — THIS YEAR’S LOWEST CLOSE CAME 126 DAYS BEFORE — THE PATTERN HAS UNTIL JAN. 13
Oct 30MaximalistBINANCE REWROTE ITS HACK NOTICE — DEPOSITS NOW “UNAFFECTED” — WITHDRAWALS STILL OFF ON EVERY NETWORK, BITCOIN AND LIGHTNING INCLUDED
Oct 30Technologist18,270 BITCOIN LEFT BINANCE’S HOT WALLET IN BLOCK 973,732 — SPLIT INTO 19 ADDRESSES, 17 HOLDING 1,000 EACH — NONE HAD MOVED BY BLOCK 973,809
Oct 30TechnologistBINANCE BLAMED EIP-7702, AN ETHEREUM FEATURE — ITS 18,270 BITCOIN LEFT ON 11 SIGNATURES FROM ONE KEY — NONE MOVED BY BLOCK 973,862
Oct 29MaximalistTHAILAND’S SUPREME COURT SAYS BITCOIN HAS A FORM ON THE NETWORK — SO TAKING IT BY FORCE IS ROBBERY — THE CASH FALLBACK IS 1,878,000 BAHT, THE 2022 VALUE
Oct 29CapitalistSTRATEGY SOLD 6,948 BITCOIN IN 2026 AT ABOUT $62,152 EACH — ITS Q3 RELEASE GAVE ONLY THE $431.8 MILLION — ITS NEXT BUYS COST $81,477
Oct 29MaximalistSPARROW 2.5.6 NOW CHECKS SIGNATURES ON ITS OWN PENDING PAYMENTS — THE FIX ELECTRUM SHIPPED AFTER ROGUE SERVERS TURNED A FEE BUMP INTO THEFT — NO ADVISORY, NO WORD ON OLDER VERSIONS
Oct 29MaximalistSINGAPORE POLICE SAY TAMPERED LEDGERS CAME FROM LOCAL RETAIL STORES — TWO CASES SINCE SEPTEMBER 10, 29 DAYS BEFORE LEDGER’S WARNING — ABOUT S$3.5 MILLION LOST, NO STORES NAMED
Oct 29MaximalistTHE RECRUITER IN THE DANBURY BITCOIN KIDNAPPING PLOT IS SENTENCED — HIS BROTHER WHO PAID FOR IT GOT 15 YEARS — THE TARGETS WERE A BITCOIN THIEF’S PARENTS
Oct 29CapitalistDDC SETTLED $50.7 MILLION OF BITCOIN-BACKED LOANS WITH 601 COINS — THE SAME COUNT IT HAD PLEDGED — ITS RESULTS RELEASE CALLED IT A STRONGER BALANCE SHEET
Oct 29TechnologistBITCOIN DIFFICULTY ROSE 5.54% AT BLOCK 973,728 — HIGHEST SINCE NOVEMBER 2025 — STILL 4.88% UNDER THE RECORD SET A YEAR EARLIER
Oct 29MaximalistUPDATED: BINANCE PUTS THE DAMAGE AT $6.3 BILLION — IT POINTS TO A COMPROMISED DEVOPS LAPTOP, NO KEY LEAK FOUND — EVERY WITHDRAWAL IS PAUSED, BITCOIN INCLUDED
Oct 29TechnologistA FRENCH QUANTUM LAB PUTS BITCOIN’S CURVE AT 30,000 CAT QUBITS AND ONE HOUR — 17 TIMES FEWER THAN GOOGLE’S MARCH FIGURE — IF ITS QUBITS NEVER BIT-FLIP
Oct 28CapitalistSTRATEGY HOLDERS VOTE FOR DAILY PREFERRED DIVIDENDS — A WEEKEND’S THREE ARE PAID ON MONDAY — BUY ON FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6 AND YOU GET NONE OF THEM
Oct 28MaximalistA ST. LOUIS MAN ADMITS A 2024 PLOT TO FORCE A BITCOIN TRANSFER AT A CONNECTICUT HOME — THE CREW BROUGHT AIR RIFLES AND A LAPTOP — UP TO 20 YEARS
Oct 28TechnologistTHE SAME ADDRESS SENT LIQUID’S RESERVE ANOTHER 50 BITCOIN — NOT A PEG-IN, NO L-BTC ISSUED — 52.53 BTC IN ABOUT 20 HOURS — THE GAP IS NOW 550.00004081
Oct 28TechnologistTWO SOLO MINERS WON BITCOIN BLOCKS A DAY APART — CKPOOL KEPT EXACTLY 2% — ONE REWARD LANDED ON AN ADDRESS WITH FOUR EARLIER PAYMENTS
Oct 28MaximalistFOUNDATION ROTATED EVERY ENVOY ONION ADDRESS AFTER ITS BREACH — THEN MOVED THE CHECK THAT SAYS A PASSPORT PRIME IS GENUINE — 5,600 HOME ADDRESSES WERE IN REACH
Oct 28MaximalistECLAIR 0.14.6 IS ACINQ’S THIRD SECURITY PATCH IN 12 DAYS — SPLICES NOW SPEND ONLY CONFIRMED COINS BY DEFAULT — A PEER COULD SKIP LIQUIDITY FEES AND NEVER GET FLAGGED
Oct 28TechnologistBITCOIN CORE DISCLOSES THREE BUGS — ONE PEER COULD CRASH ANY WINDOWS, MACOS OR BSD NODE — AN LLM SCAN FOUND ALL THREE — 29.5 SHIPS A DAY AFTER 29.X END OF LIFE
Oct 28TechnologistBITCOIN CORE 32.1 BINARIES ARE POSTED — 11 BUILDERS’ HASHES MATCH — THE PENDING ANNOUNCEMENT DATES 29.X END OF LIFE OCT. 27 — 8,420 REACHABLE CORE NODES, 41.78%, RUN 29 OR OLDER
Oct 28CapitalistANAP WILL PAY ¥798.64 MILLION IN BITCOIN FOR 19.96% OF A LIGHTNING STARTUP — THE OTHER BUYER IS FULGUR, RUN BY ANAP’S OWN PRESIDENT — ANAP’S NOTICE DOESN’T NAME IT
Oct 27TechnologistWASABI 2.8.5 FIXES A CASE WHERE A MALICIOUS COORDINATOR “COULD CAUSE A LOSS OF FUNDS” — THE RELEASE NOTES SAY “MALICIOUS SERVERS” — AND PAYJOIN IS GONE SIX WEEKS AFTER IT GOT TAPROOT
Oct 27CapitalistEMPERY DIGITAL WENT FROM 4,081 BITCOIN TO 1,018 IN 2026 — COLLATERAL CALLS AND A $56.8 MILLION REALIZED LOSS — NOW THE BUYBACKS ARE BACK
Oct 27TechnologistARBISTAR MIXED ITS BITCOIN — GUARDIA CIVIL SAYS 881 BTC LEFT ON THE DAY OF THE CRASH — THE 20,000 BTC FIGURE COUNTS COINS GOING IN AND OUT
Oct 26CapitalistSTRIVE BOUGHT 6,182 BITCOIN WITH 15% PREFERRED MONEY — BITCOIN PER SHARE ROSE 13.8% — AFTER THE PREFERRED, EACH SHARE’S CLAIM FELL 3.45% — AND IT LINED UP $1 BILLION MORE
Oct 26FundamentalistSTRATEGY BOUGHT NO BITCOIN — IT SPENT $204.9 MILLION BUYING BACK ITS OWN PREFERRED — USD CASH FELL FROM $640.5 MILLION TO $242.4 MILLION IN TWO WEEKS
Oct 26TechnologistKEYSTONE’S DEVICE AUTHENTICATION KEY STOLEN — 18,835 WALLETS IN STOCK TO BE DESTROYED — AFTER OCTOBER 20, A PASSED CHECK NO LONGER PROVES A DEVICE IS GENUINE
Oct 26MaximalistFOUNDATION PROMISED TO FORGET ITS BUYERS — PHISHING EMAILS FROM ITS OWN DOMAINS CARRIED THEIR HOME ADDRESSES — THE PURGE PROMISE WAS DROPPED IN MAY
Oct 26MaximalistDATAVAULT AI COUNTED 837 BITCOIN HELD AT AN EXCHANGE — A JUNE WITHDRAWAL NEVER WENT THROUGH — NOW IT SAYS THE COINS DON’T COUNT AS ITS ASSET
Oct 26TechnologistBTCPAY SERVER 2.4.6 SHIPS THE STORE-KEY FIX — A LINK NO LONGER DECIDES WHEN A SEED-SIGNED TRANSACTION GOES OUT — NO ADVISORY, NO CVE, NO BLOG POST
Oct 26MaximalistBLINK NOW BILLS DORMANT CUSTODIAL ACCOUNTS $1 A MONTH PER BALANCE — BALANCES UNDER $1 TAKEN WHOLE, EMPTIED ACCOUNTS MAY CLOSE — NON-CUSTODIAL ACCOUNTS PAY NOTHING
Oct 26TechnologistBITCOIN CORE DROPS 32.0 BEFORE RELEASE — 32.1 TAGGED OCTOBER 26 OVER UNNAMED LAST-MINUTE ISSUES — THE TWO-WEEK CLOCK ON THREE BUGS FIXED IN 30.0 WAITS FOR 32.1
Oct 25MaximalistA NEW YORK FIRM CLAIMS THE 127,271 BITCOIN THE U.S. HOLDS ON AN ORAL DEAL WITH CHEN ZHI — IT NEVER GOT ONE ADDRESS OR KEY — THE LAST TIME CHEN GAVE IT KEYS, HE MOVED THE MONEY FIRST
Oct 25MaximalistTHE FEDS SEIZED 925.94 BITCOIN FROM BTC-E IN 2017 — ONE ADDRESS FILLED FROM BACKUP WALLET COPIES TOOK 929.5 — A USER NOTIFIED OCT. 12, 2026 HAS UNTIL NOV. 16 TO CLAIM IN COURT
Oct 24TechnologistA CHANNEL WITH THE SAME NODE AT BOTH ENDS CRASHED CORE LIGHTNING — LND’S OLDER 0.20 LINE GETS AN EQUALITY CHECK IN AN OCT. 22 CANDIDATE — ITS NEWER 0.21.5 CANDIDATE HAS NO SUCH CHECK
Oct 24MaximalistKEYSTONE FOUND THE BREACH OCTOBER 20 — HARDWARE WALLET BUYERS’ NAMES, HOME ADDRESSES AND ORDER VALUES OUT — NO CUSTOMER COUNT, REPORT “COMING SOON”
Oct 24TechnologistROGUE ELECTRUM SERVERS SWAPPED REAL PAYMENTS FOR UNSIGNED FAKES — ONE USER BUMPED THE FEE AND PAID THE THIEF — 4.8.3 CHECKS ONLY THE WALLET’S OWN INPUTS
Oct 24TechnologistCORE LIGHTNING’S APRIL HOTFIX CITED “STRESS ON READERS” — OCTOBER 24 DISCLOSURE: ONE SIGNED MESSAGE KEPT NODES DOWN ON EVERY RESTART — FUNDS AT RISK WHILE OFFLINE
Oct 24MaximalistBIP-139 GIVES BITCOIN WALLETS ONE EXPORT FORMAT — IT BARS MAINNET SEED WORDS BECAUSE BACKUPS MAY SIT IN THE CLOUD — EVERY VALID FILE MUST CARRY A DESCRIPTOR AND ENCRYPTION IS OPTIONAL
Oct 23WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 23TechnologistTETHER SIGNED FOR ITS 96,932 BITCOIN ON OCTOBER 22 — EVERY COIN WENT BACK TO THE SAME ADDRESS — ITS FIVE PUBLIC KEYS HAVE BEEN ON THE CHAIN SINCE 2022
Oct 23MaximalistSOUTH AFRICA WILL REDRAFT ITS CROSS-BORDER CRYPTO RULES — GODONGWANA: “SHIFT AWAY FROM PRE-APPROVALS” — HIS SPEECH NEVER SAYS WALLET, AND THE DRAFT COUNTED A MOVE TO YOUR OWN WALLET AS AN EXPORT OF CAPITAL
Oct 23FundamentalistNETANYAHU ASKS FOR A PLAN TO BYPASS BANKING SANCTIONS — CALLS BLOCKCHAIN “ONE OF THEM” — NAMES NO CURRENCY AND NO ONE TO WRITE IT
Oct 23TechnologistECLAIR 0.14.5 CALLED ITSELF “SECURITY HARDENING” — OPTECH: TWO OF THE BUGS LET A PAYER OR A PEER STEAL FUNDS — THE SPLICE FIX MAKES ECLAIR CHECK ITS OWN BITCOIN NODE
Oct 23MaximalistBTCPAY SERVER FIXED STORE KEYS THAT REACHED SERVER-WIDE — THE FIX MERGED OCTOBER 19 — THE NEWEST RELEASE, V2.4.5, IS FROM OCTOBER 6
Oct 23TechnologistBITCOIN CORE WILL FIX EASY-TO-FIND BUGS AT ONCE — POINSOT: THE EMBARGO “ACHIEVES LITTLE” — FIXES GO TO MAINTAINED VERSIONS ONLY, AND 29.X DROPS OFF WHEN 32.0 SHIPS
Oct 23TechnologistBITCOIN’S MESSAGE-SIGNING SPEC TOLD VERIFIERS TO PASS SOME KEYLESS PROOFS — BIP-322 FIX MERGED — THE GAP WAS FLAGGED IN JUNE
Oct 22MaximalistTIANJIN PROSECUTORS ASK A CHINESE COURT TO CONFISCATE 61,896 BITCOIN TIED TO ZHIMIN QIAN — THE COURT TOOK THE CASE SEPTEMBER 28, TWO WEEKS BEFORE LONDON RULED CHINESE LAW GOVERNS — THE KEYS ARE STILL IN ENGLAND
Oct 22WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 22MaximalistA MT. GOX CLAIM PAID 7.3 BITCOIN INTO A KRAKEN ACCOUNT IN MARCH 2025 — FEDERAL AGENTS SEIZED IT UNDER A WARRANT TRACING IT TO 2013 SILK ROAD SALES — ON OCTOBER 16, 2026 PROSECUTORS FILED TO KEEP IT
Oct 22TechnologistCOLDCARD OWNER SUES COINKITE IN TORONTO — CLAIM SAYS COINKITE WAS WARNED OF THE SEED FLAW IN MAY 2025 — PUTS LOSSES ABOVE $140 MILLION
Oct 22TechnologistONE BITCOIN ADDRESS HAS ‘RECEIVED’ 80.8 MILLION BTC — 92% OF THE BITCOIN IN THE DAY’S BIGGEST TRANSFERS WENT BACK TO THE SENDER
Oct 22CapitalistALPHA MODUS TOOK IN 3,170 BITCOIN ON SEPTEMBER 30 — ON OCTOBER 21 IT AGREED TO SELL 6.3 MILLION NEW SHARES AT $1.15 TO PAY DEBT — ITS OWN FILING PUTS BOOK VALUE AT $4.22 A SHARE AFTER THE SALE
Oct 22FundamentalistALBUQUERQUE BITCOIN KIOSK BAN TAKES EFFECT — CASHIER CASH SALES BANNED TOO — $500 A DAY FINES, MACHINES OUT BY DECEMBER 5
Oct 21CapitalistA MERGED TESLA-SPACEX WOULD HOLD 30,221 BITCOIN — STILL 6,597 FEWER THAN STRIVE — ABOUT 3.6% OF STRATEGY’S STACK
Oct 21CapitalistSTRIVE DECLARED ITS FIRST SATS DIVIDENDS — $1.7264 A SHARE THROUGH NOVEMBER 30, ABOUT $12.1 MILLION — AND SAYS IT EXPECTS NO EARNINGS AND PROFITS “IN THE CURRENT YEAR OR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE”
Oct 21MaximalistNGRAVE’S HIJACKED LIQUID ALERT TOOK $1.77 MILLION IN BITCOIN — THE ZERO’S KEYS HELD — THE ATTACKER COULD READ SWAP HISTORY TYING ADDRESSES TO IP AND LOCATION
Oct 21MaximalistGYET PUT 124.8079 BITCOIN INTO A CAYMAN FUND — IT NOW HOLDS ZERO COINS ITSELF — ITS 131.23 BTC IS A FUND INTEREST, NOT COINS
Oct 21MaximalistGRAYSCALE OPENS IN-KIND SUBSCRIPTIONS — ABOUT $364,800 OF BITCOIN BUYS BITCOIN MINI TRUST SHARES — THE RELEASE PITCHES CUSTODY OVER SELF-CUSTODY AND NAMES NO WAY BACK TO COINS
Oct 21TechnologistBITCOIN CORE 32.0 IS TAGGED — 29.X LOSES SUPPORT AND FLAWS FIXED IN 30.0 GO PUBLIC TWO WEEKS AFTER RELEASE — 47% TO 56% OF CORE NODES RUN 29 OR OLDER
Oct 21CapitalistBITCOIN IS PRESSING $84,300, THE TOP OF ITS BOX SINCE OCT. 7 — A DAILY CLOSE ABOVE IT OPENS $87,400
Oct 21TechnologistTHE 2010 ADDRESS BEHIND OCTOBER 7’S 100 BITCOIN HAD TWO MORE LOTS — BOTH WOKE IN SEPTEMBER — ON OCTOBER 19 PIECES OF ALL THREE PAID ONE NEW ADDRESS WITHIN 86 MINUTES
Oct 21FundamentalistBIS PAPER 175 SAYS BITCOIN’S FIXED SUPPLY IS “UNRESPONSIVE TO ANY CONCEIVABLE STATE OF THE WORLD” — ITS SECOND CHARGE, ENDLESS ISSUANCE, RESTS ON COUNTS OF OTHER TOKENS
Oct 20WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 20MaximalistSWITZERLAND’S REGULATOR APPROVED ITS FIRST BITCOIN ETF FOR EVERYDAY INVESTORS — IT HOLDS REAL BITCOIN — FINMA’S FIRST CONDITION IS ABOUT CUSTODY, AND IT DIDN’T SAY WHO HOLDS THE KEYS
Oct 20CapitalistSTRIVE CLOSED ITS $630 MILLION SATS SALE — AND PUT $157.5 MILLION OF CASH AND SECURITIES IT ALREADY HAD INTO AN 18-MONTH DIVIDEND RESERVE — THE 15% CHECKS START NOVEMBER 9, EVERY BUSINESS DAY
Oct 20TechnologistSATD BITCOIN NODE POSTS A TRANSACTION-FILTER LANGUAGE — ITS OWN MANUAL SAYS FILTERING “CANNOT PREVENT CONFIRMATION” — THE NODE COUNTS FILTERED TRANSACTIONS MINED ANYWAY
Oct 20MaximalistPROSECUTORS WILL MOVE TO STRIKE EVERY TERROR-VICTIM CLAIM ON THE 127,271 SEIZED BITCOIN FOR LACK OF STANDING — EARLY FILERS INCLUDED — MOTION DUE NOVEMBER 20, 2026
Oct 20TechnologistLIQUID TURNS BITCOIN SWAPS BACK ON 44 DAYS AFTER THE EXPLOIT — ITS RESERVE HOLDS 3,632.23 BTC AGAINST 4,234.76 L-BTC — THE 602.53 BTC GAP IS STILL OPEN
Oct 20FundamentalistJPMORGAN’S 10-YEAR FORECAST PUTS BITCOIN AT 10% A YEAR — AHEAD OF U.S. STOCKS AT 7.5% AND GOLD AT 5.5% — AND IT STILL LEAVES BITCOIN OUT OF ITS MAIN PORTFOLIO MATH
Oct 20CapitalistFIDELITY CALLS BITCOIN PREFERREDS THE NEWEST DEMAND CATALYST — SINCE SEPTEMBER 14, STRATEGY HAS BOUGHT BACK $865.3 MILLION OF STRC AND SOLD NONE — IT HOLDS 12% UNTIL STRC TRADES NEAR $100
Oct 20TechnologistBLACKROCK FILED FOR A BITCOIN FUND THAT “DOES NOT INVEST DIRECTLY IN BITCOIN” — IT BUYS OPTIONS ON IBIT AND HOLDS TREASURIES — THE SAME DAY IBIT TOOK IN $665.2 MILLION
Oct 20CapitalistBITDEER MINED 1,355 BITCOIN IN SEPTEMBER — ALMOST ONE IN TEN NEW COINS — IT HELD 47 AT MONTH END, DOWN FROM 2,029 A YEAR EARLIER
Oct 20CapitalistBONDS BACKED BY COREWEAVE’S RENT TRADED AT TWICE THE EXTRA YIELD OF GOOGLE-BACKED ONES — CORE SCIENTIFIC GETS 77% OF ITS REVENUE FROM COREWEAVE — AND COREWEAVE’S OWN BONDS HIT NEAR 15% ON OCTOBER 14
Oct 20Technologist144 BITCOIN BLOCKS ON OCT. 20, 2026 HELD 709,304 TRANSACTIONS — 73% MORE THAN A YEAR EARLIER — MINERS GOT 2.25 BTC IN FEES, DOWN FROM 2.87
Oct 19CapitalistSUPER LEAGUE HOLDERS APPROVE METAPLANET’S 2,100 BITCOIN — THE SHARES WERE PRICED ON AN AUGUST COIN NEAR $62,900 — THE COMPANY PAID $81,444.82 ON OCTOBER 16
Oct 19CapitalistSTRIVE NOW HOLDS 36,818 BITCOIN — COUNT RAW COINS AND EACH SHARE LOST 12 SATS — COUNT WHAT’S LEFT AFTER THE PREFERRED AND EACH SHARE GAINED ABOUT 7%
Oct 19CapitalistUPDATED: STRATEGY SPENT $193.1 MILLION BUYING BACK ITS OWN PREFERRED — AND $22.1 MILLION ON BITCOIN — USD CASH FELL FROM $640.5 MILLION TO $447.3 MILLION IN A WEEK
Oct 19FundamentalistA 2013 WALLET NAMED IN THE NOAH DOE SUIT MOVED 411.45 BITCOIN — THE 546-SATOSHI COURT-ORDERED NOTICE STILL SITS IN IT, UNSPENT — THE OWNER HAD THE KEY
Oct 19MaximalistMT. GOX PUSHES REPAYMENTS TO OCTOBER 31, 2027 — THE FOURTH ONE-YEAR DELAY — THE TRUSTEE GIVES NO COUNT OF UNPAID CREDITORS AND NO BITCOIN BALANCE
Oct 19TechnologistMARA MOVED A FIFTH 500-BITCOIN LOT AT 14:39 UTC — AFTER THE STORIES RAN — THE COINS TRACE TO BLOCKS TAGGED “MARA MADE IN USA” — NO SALE CONFIRMED
Oct 19Maximalist14.99 OF THE 2013 BITCOIN MOVED — THE ADDRESS SIGNED BESIDE A WALLET IN 915,878 TRANSACTIONS — 456.11 BITCOIN STILL SIT
Oct 19MaximalistA LAW PROFESSOR TELLS THE CFTC EXCHANGE BUYS OFTEN END IN “ACTUAL DELIVERY” — WITHDRAW TO YOUR OWN WALLET INSIDE 28 DAYS AND ITS CRYPTO PLAN DOESN’T REACH THE TRADE — STATE LICENSES WOULD STAY
Oct 19MaximalistANCHORWATCH OPENS A NEVADA BITCOIN TRUST COMPANY — ITS LLOYD’S POLICY LISTS FRAUD BY ANCHORWATCH ITSELF — THE RELEASE NAMES NO KEY QUORUM
Oct 19MaximalistA 2013 WALLET MOVED 411.45 BITCOIN FOR 337 SATOSHIS — ITS PUBLIC KEY IS NOW ON THE CHAIN — 25 DUST OUTPUTS STAYED BEHIND
Oct 18MaximalistEU, UK AND SEVEN MORE SIGN EUROPE’S CRYPTO CRIME PROTOCOL — ASSETS CAN BE FROZEN “WITHOUT PRIOR NOTICE”
Oct 18WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 18TechnologistA SILENT HUB PAYS THE USER — LICHEN’S BABE FIX FOR VARIABLE WITHDRAWALS — BUT YOU GET ONE TRY
Oct 18TechnologistTHE “TWO 2013 WALLETS” WERE ONE TRANSACTION — FOUR ADDRESSES — 471.1 BITCOIN, NOT 416.7
Oct 17TechnologistTHE NSA’S P-256 SEED WAS CANDIDATE 1,842 FROM AN AUG. 16, 1997 CLOCK — WHY AN EARLIER VALID CURVE WAS SKIPPED IS UNKNOWN — BITCOIN’S CURVE NEVER HAD A SEED
Oct 17TechnologistTHE NSA’S MYSTERY CURVE SEEDS WERE A 1997 CLOCK — AN ANTHROPIC TEAM AND CLAUDE TRACED ALL FIVE — BITCOIN’S CURVE NEVER HAD A SEED TO EXPLAIN
Oct 17FundamentalistWASHINGTON PAID $1.05 TRILLION IN NET INTEREST IN FISCAL 2026 — THE FIRST YEAR OVER A TRILLION — BIGGER THAN DEFENSE AND MORE THAN HALF THE $1.99 TRILLION DEFICIT
Oct 17MaximalistLOPP’S WRENCH ATTACK LIST WENT FROM 363 TO 701 — USDT CASES ROSE FROM 15 TO 92, BITCOIN FROM 109 TO 168
Oct 17TechnologistECLAIR’S BROWSER FIX SAT PUBLIC FOR 30 DAYS — ITS API TAKES A BITCOIN ADDRESS AND AN AMOUNT AS PLAIN FORM FIELDS
Oct 17CapitalistBITCOIN DIFFICULTY ROSE 5.92% — THE THIRD-BIGGEST JUMP OF 2026 — EVERY MINER’S SHARE OF THE SAME 450 COINS A DAY SHRANK ABOUT 5.6%
Oct 17TechnologistBINANCE ADDED 6,711 BITCOIN TO A COLD WALLET WHOSE PUBLIC KEY IS ALREADY ON CHAIN — TEN DAYS AFTER DRAKE’S WARNING, FIVE EXPOSED WALLETS HOLDING 793,731 BTC HAVEN’T MOVED A COIN
Oct 16WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 16CapitalistSTRIVE SOLD $100 SATS SHARES FOR $90 — $630 MILLION IN CASH, 15% PAID ON $700 MILLION — 16.7% ON THE MONEY RAISED
Oct 16CapitalistSTRIVE KEEPS $608 MILLION OF THE $630 MILLION SATS RAISE — $21 MILLION GOES TO THE UNDERWRITERS — 15% ON $700 MILLION COSTS 17.3% ON THE CASH IT KEEPS
Oct 16TechnologistSTRATEGY DECLARES A STRC DIVIDEND FOR ALL 30 DAYS OF NOVEMBER — TWENTY PAY 3 CENTS, TEN PAY 4 — THE SAME $1.00 AS TWO $0.50 CHECKS — THE OLD CHECK COMES BACK IF THE OCTOBER 28 VOTE FAILS
Oct 16CapitalistMSCI’S FORCED SALE OF STRATEGY IS ABOUT $2 BILLION — LESS THAN ONE DAY OF TRADING — THE “NON-OPERATING” LABEL IS THE PART THAT STICKS — BDCS WERE DROPPED IN 2014 AND WERE STILL LOBBYING TO GET BACK IN TEN YEARS LATER
Oct 16CapitalistBITCOIN FELL 0.9% FRIDAY — STRATEGY FELL 9.6% — THE PREMIUM THAT PAYS FOR ITS BITCOIN SHRANK BY MORE THAN HALF IN ONE DAY
Oct 16TechnologistCBOE CAN NOW LIST BINARY OPTIONS ON MARA’S BITCOIN COUNT — 9,270 OF ITS 35,577 BITCOIN WERE LOANED OR PLEDGED — PAYOUTS IGNORE LATER RESTATEMENTS
Oct 16Maximalist9/11 FAMILIES WITH $93.69 BILLION IN IRAN JUDGMENTS SAY NO ONE IS FIRST IN LINE FOR THE 127,271 SEIZED BITCOIN — RIVALS CLAIM “SUPERIOR RIGHT” — PAYING THE 9/11 JUDGMENTS ALONE TAKES MORE THAN $736,000 A COIN
Oct 16TechnologistLAYERTREE PUTS MANY OWNERS IN ONE BITCOIN OUTPUT — A 1,020 VB EXIT NO OPERATOR CAN BLOCK — EVERY TIER NEEDS OPCODES BITCOIN HAS NOT ACTIVATED
Oct 16MaximalistDEUTSCHE BANK GETS BAFIN CUSTODY LICENSE — THE BANK HOLDS THE KEYS — NO WORD ON SENDING COINS TO A CLIENT’S OWN WALLET
Oct 16MaximalistONE OF THE BIGGEST LEDGER THEFT VICTIMS RAN A TASK SCAM — MORE THAN 60 BTC, PARKED SEPTEMBER 22, EMPTIED OCTOBER 9 — CHAINALYSIS
Oct 16CapitalistCAPITAL B’S BITCOIN GREW 11.2% IN THE HALF — PER SHARE IT GREW 1.85% — THE €67.5 MILLION IMPAIRMENT IS THE SMALLER COST
Oct 15TechnologistSILENT PAYMENTS FOR SHARED WALLETS — BIP-352 SAYS NOT WITHOUT A SECURITY PROOF — A NEW PROPOSAL’S PROOF IS STILL UNDER REVIEW
Oct 15MaximalistRUSSIA’S CENTRAL BANK SAYS COINS IN A LICENSED ACCOUNT CANNOT MOVE TO THE OWNER’S OWN WALLET — OR TO ANYONE ELSE — DIRECT P2P TRADES END JULY 1, 2027
Oct 15FundamentalistWHOLESALE GOODS PRICES JUMPED THE MOST SINCE BLS STARTED COUNTING IN 2009 — BONDS RALLIED ANYWAY — BITCOIN AND ITS MINERS GOT SOLD WITH THE AI TRADE
Oct 15CapitalistUPDATED: MSCI ADOPTS ITS NON-OPERATING COMPANY RULE — ITS OWN LIST MARKS STRATEGY “DELETED” — $40.3 BILLION OF FLOAT, 93.6% OF THE CUT LIST — TWO DAYS EARLIER SAYLOR SAID MSCI WAS “ACTING LIKE AN UNREGISTERED FINANCIAL ADVISOR” — FINAL WORD NOVEMBER 11
Oct 15MaximalistMORE THAN 300 U.S. TROOPS, ESTATES & FAMILIES CLAIM THE 127,271 SEIZED BITCOIN — THEY HOLD $1.268 BILLION IN COMPENSATORY JUDGMENTS AGAINST IRAN — THEY SAY A TERROR LAW PUTS THEM AHEAD OF THE GOVERNMENT
Oct 15TechnologistLEDGER SAYS ITS CHIP WAS NEVER BROKEN — THE IMPLANTS WENT IN AFTER THE DEVICES LEFT ITS HANDS — NO DEVICE COUNT, NO VICTIM COUNT, NO WORD ON REFUNDS
Oct 15TechnologistGOOGLE CUT MAGIC STATE ERRORS 40X ON WILLOW — ITS MARCH PAPER PUT BITCOIN’S KEYS UNDER HALF A MILLION QUBITS — THE NEW POST NEVER SAYS ENCRYPTION
Oct 15TechnologistBITCOIN BLOCKS ARE ARRIVING EVERY 9.38 MINUTES — 117 BLOCKS AHEAD OF A 10-MINUTE PACE — DIFFICULTY ON PACE TO RISE 6.58% AT BLOCK 971,712
Oct 15MaximalistUPDATED: AUSTRALIA’S DRAFT CRYPTO CUSTODY RULES LET PLATFORMS POOL CLIENT COINS IN ONE WALLET — ASIC SAYS KEY MANAGEMENT RULES WOULD NOT FIT ITS “PRINCIPLES-BASED” APPROACH — COMMENTS CLOSE NOVEMBER 27
Oct 15TechnologistA BITCOIN THINK TANK ASKED 13 NEW AI MODELS WHERE TO SAVE — BITCOIN WON ALL 13 — BUT ONE CLAUDE UPDATE CUT ITS PICK FROM 81.0% TO 41.3%, AND GPT-6 SAID 39.7%
Oct 15FundamentalistA BIS PAPER SAYS BITCOIN REMOVES ‘TRUST IN AN ISSUER’ — ITS COMPLAINT ABOUT ENDLESS ISSUANCE IS ABOUT EVERY OTHER TOKEN — ONE AUTHOR, NOT THE BANK’S VIEW
Oct 14WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 14CapitalistSTRIVE’S WARRANTS RAN OUT WITH $369.2 MILLION RAISED — $235 MILLION WENT INTO BITCOIN — THE 8-K IS SILENT ON THE OTHER $134 MILLION
Oct 14CapitalistK33 SAYS STRATEGY’S PREFERREDS LEFT IT 4,947 BITCOIN AHEAD OF A NO-PREFERRED PATH — THE EXTRA $725 MILLION A YEAR IN DIVIDENDS ERASES THAT IN ABOUT SEVEN MONTHS — THE CASH RESERVE COVERS ABOUT 42 MONTHS
Oct 14CapitalistSKIP STRATEGY’S DAILY DIVIDEND VOTE AND YOU VOTED NO — SAYLOR HAS 32.8% — HE NEEDS ONE IN FOUR OF EVERYONE ELSE’S MSTR SHARES — PREFERRED SHAREHOLDERS DO NOT GET TO VOTE
Oct 14MaximalistSTANDARD CHARTERED OPENS BITCOIN TRADING TO WEALTHY UAE CLIENTS — THE BANK KEEPS CUSTODY IN A CLOSED LOOP — ITS RELEASE NEVER SAYS CLIENTS CAN TAKE COINS OUT
Oct 14MaximalistRUSSIA’S CENTRAL BANK ADDS SBERBANK TO ITS CRYPTO EXCHANGE REGISTER — THE SAME BANK ALREADY KEEPS THE RECORD OF WHO OWNS THE COINS — ITS OWN SITE SAYS IT IS TESTING WITHDRAWALS BUT NOT TO WHERE
Oct 14TechnologistA POST-QUANTUM LIGHTNING DESIGN TRUSTS THE FIRST KEY IT SEES — A NODE THAT FIRST MEETS A PEER AFTER A QUANTUM COMPUTER EXISTS CAN PIN AN ATTACKER’S KEY — ONE ORDINARY NODE IN THE MIDDLE AND THE PAYMENT FALLS BACK TO CLASSICAL
Oct 14MaximalistKRAKEN’S PARENT PAYWARD SIGNS A DEAL TO BUY LITHUANIA’S SALDO BANK — DEPOSITS, LOANS AND CARDS FOR EU CLIENTS — THE ANNOUNCEMENT NEVER MENTIONS BITCOIN
Oct 14FundamentalistTHE OCC NAMES NINE BANKS WHOSE POLICIES RESTRICTED DIGITAL ASSET BUSINESSES — JPMORGAN AND BANK OF AMERICA AMONG THEM — NO FINES ANNOUNCED, NO CRYPTO FIRM NAMED
Oct 14TechnologistLEDGER TOLD RESELLERS IN SEVEN ASIAN MARKETS TO PULL ITS WALLETS OFF THE SHELVES — NO OUTLET SAYS HOW MANY DEVICES — THE LOSS FIGURE IS STILL IN DISPUTE
Oct 14MaximalistCOINBASE SAYS IT HOLDS 5% OF ALL BITCOIN — IT WANTS QUANTUM-SAFE SIGNATURES THAT SUIT ITS MPC CUSTODY — A FREEZE IS ON ITS LIST OF OPTIONS FOR OLD COINS
Oct 14CapitalistBLACKROCK’S BITCOIN AND ETHER FUNDS TOOK IN $7.9 BILLION IN Q3 — ASSETS UP 63% TO $79.6 BILLION, STILL 23% BELOW A YEAR AGO — $39 MILLION IN BASE FEES
Oct 13MaximalistA LONDON JUDGE RULED CHINESE LAW DECIDES WHETHER ZHIMIN QIAN’S VICTIMS OWN ANY OF 61,000 SEIZED BITCOIN — POLICE TOOK THE KEYS IN 2018 — THE COINS SIT IN ENGLAND, THE RIGHTS WERE LOST OR KEPT IN CHINA
Oct 13MaximalistTREZOR CUTS RESELLERS ON JANUARY 1, 2027 — IT HAS NOT SAID HOW MANY OR WHICH — ITS RESELLER PAGE SHOWS NO CHANGE
Oct 13WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 13CapitalistSUPER LEAGUE BOUGHT ONE BITCOIN FOR $83,041.40 — METAPLANET’S 2,100 ARRIVE ONLY IF HOLDERS VOTE YES ON OCTOBER 16 — THOSE HOLDERS WOULD KEEP 3.9%
Oct 13CapitalistSTRIVE’S 15% SATS PAYS FIVE POINTS MORE THAN STRATEGY’S STRF — A SKIPPED DIVIDEND EARNS NO INTEREST AND BUYS NO BOARD SEAT
Oct 13CapitalistSTRIVE’S NEW 15% SATS PREFERRED RANKS BEHIND $1.4 BILLION OF SATA — THE PROSPECTUS SAYS SO — THE PRESS RELEASE DOES NOT
Oct 13CapitalistUPDATED: METAPLANET BIDS FOR 7.1% OF ITS SHARES WITH BOND MONEY — ITS CEO LENDS 55 MILLION OF HIS OWN SO BOND BUYERS CAN HEDGE — TWO WEEKS AFTER THE DIRECTORS CALLED THE TEAM “DEEPLY ALIGNED”
Oct 13MaximalistMEDIAMARKT SATURN PULLS LEDGER FROM STORES AND ONLINE — OVER ONE IMPLANT REPORT FROM GERMANY — LEDGER HAS NOT CONFIRMED IT
Oct 13TechnologistLEDGER SAYS THE CRYPTOBILIS IMPLANT READ THE 24 WORDS OFF THE SCREEN AND SENT THEM OVER LTE — THE SECURE ELEMENT WAS NEVER TOUCHED — TREZOR AND ONEKEY DROP THE RESELLER
Oct 13CapitalistBITCOIN HELD THE ETF FLOOR WITHOUT ETF BUYERS — SINCE JULY 2024, THEIR MONEY SHOWS UP WHEN THEY’RE 10% IN PROFIT
Oct 13MaximalistFRENCH AMENDMENT I-CF821 WOULD MAKE HOLDERS DECLARE SELF-CUSTODY WALLETS WORTH €100,000 OR MORE — THE FINANCE COMMITTEE ADOPTED IT — THE FULL ASSEMBLY STARTS FROM A TEXT WITHOUT IT
Oct 13TechnologistBLOCKSTREAM MULTISIG IS BACK — WHEN THE TIMELOCK RUNS OUT YOUR KEY SPENDS ALONE — ITS HELP PAGE HAS NOT CAUGHT UP
Oct 12WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 12MaximalistPRINCE GROUP’S ALLEGED FINANCE CHIEF CAN’T SELL HIS £8.9 MILLION LONDON PENTHOUSE — THE UK FROZE IT ON THE LAND REGISTRY — THE 127,271 BITCOIN THE US TIES TO THE SAME NETWORK ARE ALREADY IN US CUSTODY
Oct 12MaximalistTETHER FROZE $10 MILLION OF THE CRYPTOBILIS LEDGER HAUL IN TWO HOURS — THE 203.79 BTC SITS IN TWO ADDRESSES — NOBODY CAN FREEZE IT
Oct 12CapitalistSTRATEGY SPENT $192.4 MILLION BUYING BACK STRC AND $21.5 MILLION ON BITCOIN — ITS USD CASH FELL FROM $833.4 MILLION TO $640.5 MILLION — $354.8 MILLION OF BUYBACK ROOM IS LEFT
Oct 12TechnologistA NEW BITCOIN ATM CHAIN ADVERTISES $50,000 A DAY AT A FLAT 5% FEE — CALIFORNIA CAPS A KIOSK CUSTOMER AT $1,000 A DAY — ARIZONA AT $10,500
Oct 12MaximalistJEONBUK BANK LENDS WON AGAINST BITCOIN IT NEVER HOLDS — A CUSTODIAN KEEPS THE COINS — IF THE LOAN GOES BAD, A COURT SELLS THEM
Oct 12TechnologistCRYPTOBILIS FOUNDERS SAY THEY SOLD THE LEDGER RESELLER IN MARCH 2026 — THEY SAY EVERY SUPPLIER WAS TOLD — LEDGER HAS NOT SAID WHETHER IT KNEW
Oct 12MaximalistTHE CFTC’S CRYPTO RULE IS STILL A NOTICE — COMMENTS CLOSE DECEMBER 14 — TD COWEN SAYS A FINAL RULE COULD TAKE UNTIL EARLY 2028
Oct 12CapitalistBITCOIN ETFS LOST $679 MILLION IN THE WEEK TO OCTOBER 9 — BLACKROCK’S IBIT STILL NETTED $1.1 MILLION — FIDELITY’S FBTC WAS $380 MILLION OF THE EXIT
Oct 12FundamentalistAUSTRALIA CAPS BITCOIN CFDS AT 2:1 LEVERAGE — A CFD PAID OUT IN BITCOIN MAY SLIP OUTSIDE THE RULE — ASIC MOVES TO CLOSE THE GAP
Oct 11WATCH - This Week in Bitcoin↗
Oct 11TechnologistDAY 35 AND LIQUID STILL HOLDS 3,632.23 BTC AGAINST 4,234.76 L-BTC — THE SAME 602.53 BTC GAP AS DAY ELEVEN — PEG-OUTS WAIT ON 1:1 BACKING THAT NOBODY HAS PUT BACK
Oct 11FundamentalistARGENTINA’S CENTRAL BANK KEEPS ITS 2022 BAN ON BANK CRYPTO SERVICES — SUPERINTENDENT CURUTCHET CITES “FRAGILITY” — HE SEES AN OPENING ONLY IN A SECOND MILEI TERM
Oct 11TechnologistCOLDCARD’S OFFICIAL X ACCOUNT POSTS A PHISHING LINK — THE FAKE NOTICE PITCHED A SEED MIGRATION — COLDCARD’S REAL GUIDE SAYS NEVER ENTER SEED WORDS INTO A WEBSITE
Oct 10TechnologistONE OF THE THREE LEDGER-DRAIN ADDRESSES SENT OUT 9.64 BITCOIN ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 9 — THE COINS KEPT HOPPING WITHIN THE HOUR — THE OTHER TWO STILL HOLD 203.79 BITCOIN
Oct 10MaximalistLEDGER CONFIRMS AN UNAUTHORIZED HARDWARE IMPLANT IN ONE DRAINED USER’S DEVICE — CRYPTOBILIS STOPS ALL HARDWARE WALLET SALES — LEDGER’S FIX IS A NEW SEED ON A NEW LEDGER
Oct 10MaximalistFRANCE’S FINANCE COMMITTEE REJECTED THE BUDGET’S REVENUE HALF 31 TO 3 — THE FLOOR RESTARTS FROM THE GOVERNMENT’S DRAFT ON OCTOBER 13 — THE CRYPTO EXIT TAX AND ITS SELF-CUSTODY LIST DO NOT CARRY OVER
Oct 10MaximalistTHE CFTC SAYS DELIVERY OF YOUR BITCOIN MAY MEAN HOLDING THE PRIVATE KEYS — IF YOUR EXCHANGE OFFERS MARGIN, EVEN A FULLY PAID BUY STAYS UNDER ITS RULES UNTIL THEN — COMMENTS DUE DECEMBER 14
Oct 10TechnologistA DRAFT BIP WANTS ONE STANDARD FOR CO-SIGNERS THAT EMULATE COVENANTS ON TODAY’S BITCOIN — EVERY POLICY KEEPS A WAY TO SPEND WITHOUT THE CO-SIGNER
Oct 9WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 9MaximalistTHAILAND'S SEC CLEARS BITCOIN AND ETHER ETFS FROM OCTOBER 16, 2026 — THE COINS MUST SIT WITH CUSTODIANS THE THAI SEC LICENSES — FOREIGN CUSTODIANS ARE SHUT OUT FOR NOW
Oct 9FundamentalistA MIDWEST HOUSE COST 41,458 BITCOIN IN 2012 — THIS SPRING IT COST 5.54 — IN DOLLARS THE SAME MEDIAN HOUSE WENT UP 78%
Oct 9MaximalistA BITCOIN LIFE INSURER RAISED $37.5 MILLION — IT REPORTS 1,183 BTC AND PAYS DEATH BENEFITS IN BITCOIN — THE POLICYHOLDERS’ FUNDS SIT WITH CUSTODIANS NOBODY NAMED
Oct 9CapitalistNEW YORK’S UP-TO-$35 MILLION DEAL WITH CELSIUS FOUNDER MASHINSKY CAN PAY THE STATE NOTHING — $25 MILLION IS SATISFIED IF HE PAYS THE DOJ $10 MILLION — THE OTHER $10 MILLION IS OWED ONLY IF HIS PRISON TERM IS CUT, GOOD TIME CREDITS INCLUDED
Oct 9TechnologistLDK FIXED A LIGHTNING BUG THAT LET A PEER WALK OFF WITH A FORWARDED PAYMENT — THE FIX SHIPPED OCTOBER 1 — THE DETAILS WENT PUBLIC OCTOBER 9
Oct 9TechnologistLEDGER TOLD BUYERS FROM ONE RESELLER TO MOVE TO A NEW SEED — 211 BITCOIN SIT UNSPENT IN THREE ADDRESSES AN INVESTIGATOR TIED TO THE DRAIN — ONE WAS STILL TAKING DEPOSITS AFTER LEDGER’S WARNING ON OCTOBER 9
Oct 9TechnologistSUI'S HASHI LAUNCHES WITH $500 MILLION IN COMMITMENTS — ITS DOCS SAY EVERY BITCOIN DEPOSIT IS A 2-OF-2 BETWEEN HASHI AND A GUARDIAN, WITH NO USER KEY — THE RECOVERY PATH LETS HASHI ALONE MOVE THE COINS
Oct 9FundamentalistFRANCE’S FINANCE COMMITTEE VOTED AN EXIT TAX ON CRYPTO GAINS ABOVE €800,000 — LEAVERS MUST LIST THE COINS THEY HOLD THEMSELVES — SWAPS INTO STABLECOINS GET TAXED FROM 2027
Oct 9MaximalistBRAZIL’S SANTA CATARINA POLICE FIND 4 SEED PHRASES IN OPERATION CLICKFIX RAIDS — $1.7 MILLION IN BTC, ETH, TRX AND USDT MOVED IN 13 TRANSFERS TO A POLICE ACCOUNT AT FOXBIT — NOBODY SAYS HOW MUCH WAS BITCOIN
Oct 9CapitalistCLEANSPARK SOLD 702 BITCOIN IN SEPTEMBER AND MINED 529 — ITS AVERAGE SALE PRICE, $72,928, WAS UNDER THE MONTH’S LOW — AND THE MONTHLY REPORTS ARE ENDING
Oct 9MaximalistEL SALVADOR NAMES CHIVO’S NEW MAJORITY OWNER, LINGUARD LABS — THE RELEASE SAYS USERS KEEP THEIR BALANCES BUT NEVER SAYS WHO HOLDS THE BITCOIN — THE IMF SAYS THE GOVERNMENT KEPT CUSTODY OF CUSTOMER ASSETS
Oct 9FundamentalistGOLD IS DOWN NEARLY 25% FROM ITS JANUARY RECORD — BITCOIN IS DOWN JUST OVER 3% SINCE — ONE BITCOIN NOW BUYS 19.88 OUNCES, UP 61% FROM FEBRUARY’S LOW
Oct 8MaximalistTHE U.S. GOVERNMENT MOVED 9,261 BITCOIN TO COINBASE PRIME IN TWO DAYS — 2,456 CAME FROM WALLETS NOBODY HAD TIED TO IT — GALAXY NOW ASSUMES THEY WERE SEIZURES
Oct 8FundamentalistTHE TREASURY PAID 5.618% TO BORROW FOR 30 YEARS — THE HIGHEST 30-YEAR AUCTION YIELD SINCE AUGUST 2000 — THE SAME DAY, CBO PRICED WHAT HIGHER RATES DO TO THE DEBT
Oct 8WATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 8CapitalistTD COWEN SAYS STRATEGY’S DILUTION TEMPERS THE PER-SHARE GAIN — THAT IS CEBE WITHOUT THE NAME — $15 BILLION OF NET CLAIMS SIT AHEAD OF THE COMMON
Oct 8TechnologistSECOND’S ARK SERVER LOST 0.75 BTC — A BOARDING CHECK TRUSTED THE ATTACKER’S KEY — USER EXITS HELD
Oct 8TechnologistOPENAI’S 719 MATH PAPERS SET BITCOIN TALKING ABOUT BROKEN KEYS — WE SEARCHED EVERY ABSTRACT — ZERO MENTION DISCRETE LOGARITHMS, ECDSA OR CRYPTOGRAPHY
Oct 8TechnologistDRAKE URGED BINANCE, ROBINHOOD, BITFINEX & TETHER TO MOVE EXPOSED BITCOIN — 616,390 BTC IN THEIR TOP COLD WALLETS HAS NOT MOVED
Oct 8FundamentalistGREECE DRAFTS A 10% TAX ON CRYPTO GAINS — THE FIRST €500 A YEAR IS EXEMPT — THE EU’S REPORTING RULES GOT THERE FIRST
Oct 8Technologist12,267 SEIZED BITFINEX BITCOIN LEFT A GOVERNMENT WALLET UNTOUCHED SINCE FEBRUARY 2024 — TEST PAYMENTS FIRST, THEN 3,000-COIN PIECES — WITHIN 74 MINUTES MOST SAT IN ONE BUSY WALLET NOBODY HAS NAMED
Oct 8CapitalistBITCOIN ETFS SHED $485 MILLION ON OCTOBER 7 — IBIT WAS $208 MILLION OF IT — FOUR DAYS OF OCTOBER INFLOWS, GONE IN ONE SESSION
Oct 8Technologist100 BITCOIN FROM JULY 2010 MOVED ON OCTOBER 7 — THE ADDRESS HAD SPENT IN 2011 — ITS PUBLIC KEY SAT ON THE CHAIN FOR 15 YEARS
Oct 7FundamentalistTHE U.S. GOVERNMENT MOVES 833.6 SEIZED BITCOIN — THE COINS COME FROM HASHFLARE AND THE BITFINEX HACK — BOTH CASES HAVE VICTIMS, AND THE RESERVE ORDER LETS THOSE COINS GO
Oct 7MaximalistTHE GOVERNMENT’S SEIZED BITCOIN JUST WENT TO COINBASE PRIME — THE RESERVE ORDER SAYS “SHALL NOT BE SOLD” — NOBODY IN WASHINGTON HAS SAID WHY IT MOVED
Oct 7MaximalistWATCH - Today in Bitcoin↗
Oct 7MaximalistRUSSIA’S CENTRAL BANK LISTS ITS FIRST CRYPTO CUSTODIANS — SBERBANK AND VTB ARE ON IT — YOU CAN BUY BITCOIN THROUGH THEM, BUT PAYING FOR GOODS IN CRYPTO IS STILL BANNED
Oct 7FundamentalistDOJ CITES A $250 BITCOIN FOG DEPOSIT — SAYS ONE MANHATTAN USER KEEPS ROMAN STORM’S CASE IN NEW YORK — THE PRIVACY TOOL IS WHEREVER A USER SITS
Oct 7CapitalistROBINHOOD PUTS $25 MILLION OF BITCOIN ON ITS OWN BALANCE SHEET — ITS CRYPTO CHIEF SAYS IT WON’T CHANGE THE COMPANY’S TRAJECTORY — AGAINST A $100 BILLION MARKET CAP IT IS 0.025%
Oct 7TechnologistLEDGER LAUNCHES BITCOIN LOANS — THE COLLATERAL IS CBBTC OR WBTC — YOUR DEVICE SIGNS, A CUSTODIAN HOLDS THE BITCOIN
Oct 7FundamentalistFRENCH HILL STILL WANTS THE CLARITY ACT IN THE LAME DUCK — HE SAYS AGENCY RULES FALL SHORT OF A LAW — THE SEC JUST CHANGED ITS RULES SO ONE COMMISSIONER CAN BE A QUORUM
Oct 7TechnologistEUROPOL SAYS WALLETS, NOT BLOCKCHAINS, ARE THE QUANTUM TARGET — ITS REPORT NEVER COUNTS THE EXPOSED BITCOIN — AND IT GETS WRONG WHO CHANGES BITCOIN’S RULES
Oct 7TechnologistCORE LIGHTNING TELLS NODE RUNNERS TO UPGRADE AGAIN — THE NEW POINT RELEASE STOPS PEERS FROM CRASHING NODES AND GETTING SPLICES SIGNED AT ALMOST NO FEE — RESTRICTED RUNES COULD MINT UNRESTRICTED ONES
Oct 7MaximalistGERMANY’S BAFIN REFUSES BITCOIN.DE’S MICAR LICENSE — TRADING PAUSED SINCE JUNE 12 — THE PLATFORM SAYS WITHDRAWALS STILL WORK
Oct 7CapitalistARTHUR HAYES SAYS AI IS OVERBUILT AND A BAILOUT IS COMING — BITCOIN SOAKS UP THE PRINTING — MEANWHILE HE IS LAUNCHING AN AI COMPUTE TOKEN
Oct 6MaximalistTETHER FROZE A PAYMENTS FIRM’S $2.76 MILLION FOR 377 DAYS — THE SUIT SAYS NOBODY GAVE A REASON — A MONTH AFTER A $42.4 MILLION FREEZE SUIT IN THE SAME COURT
Oct 6TechnologistFEDIMINT GOT A SECOND GUARDIAN CODEBASE — ITS OWN RECORD SAYS IT HAS ONLY MOVED TEST COINS
Oct 6FundamentalistTHE ECB PITCHED ITS DIGITAL EURO — THE SPEECH NEVER SAYS PRIVACY — ITS BANK-SAFETY MATH NEEDS CASH TO KEEP SHRINKING
Oct 6CapitalistBITCOIN IS DOWN 32% A YEAR AFTER ITS $126,000 TOP — THE LAST THREE CYCLES WERE DOWN 70% TO 82%
Oct 6FundamentalistAMIR TAAKI SAYS SINGAPORE POLICE QUESTIONED HIM ABOUT HIS WORK — THEN DEPORTED HIM — SINGAPORE HAS GIVEN NO REASON
Oct 6MaximalistADAM IZA PAID FIVE LA DEPUTIES — HIS 78 MONTHS RUN INSIDE A 15-YEAR BITCOIN ROBBERY TERM
Oct 5TechnologistSTRIVE BOUGHT 2,000 BITCOIN FOR ABOUT $169 MILLION — THE 8-K SHOWS 1.3 MILLION NEW SATA SHARES AND 2.1 MILLION WARRANTS TURNED INTO STOCK — IT WANTS PREFERRED ABOVE 60% OF ITS BITCOIN
Oct 5CapitalistSTRATEGY SPENT $176.3 MILLION BUYING BACK STRC AND $28.7 MILLION ON BITCOIN — ITS DOLLAR PILE FELL FROM $6.02 BILLION TO $5.71 BILLION — Q3 BOOKS A $20.91 BILLION UNAUDITED GAIN
Oct 5MaximalistS&P GLOBAL WILL NOW GRADE DEFI VAULTS — THE SAME DAY, A $6 MILLION VAULT RUN BY SEVEN UNNAMED KEYHOLDERS WAS DRAINED — THREE OF ITS KEYS SIGNED THE ATTACKER BACK IN
Oct 5CapitalistPUBLIC MINERS CUT 49.3 EH/S IN TWO QUARTERS AS POWER SHIFTS TO AI — TERAWULF’S AI LEASES NOW OUTEARN ITS MINING — ITS $131 MILLION INTEREST BILL OUTRUNS BOTH
Oct 5CapitalistMETAPLANET SOLD 10,000 BITCOIN AND BOUGHT 11,000 BACK — BUYING BACK THE COINS IT SOLD COST ABOUT $73 MILLION MORE — IT CALLS IT A LIQUIDITY DEMONSTRATION
Oct 5MaximalistIBIT TOOK $450 MILLION IN A WEEK — ALL U.S. SPOT BITCOIN ETFS NETTED $241 MILLION — YOU STILL CAN’T WITHDRAW A SHARE TO A WALLET
Oct 5MaximalistFINCEN WITHDRAWS ITS 2020 UNHOSTED WALLET RULE — BANKS WOULD HAVE REPORTED SELF-CUSTODY TRANSFERS OVER $10,000 — FINCEN SAYS IT “WILL NOT TAKE ANY FURTHER ACTION”
Oct 5FundamentalistFINCEN WITHDRAWS ITS 2023 FINDING THAT CRYPTO MIXING IS A PRIMARY MONEY LAUNDERING CONCERN — IT SAYS THE RULE COULD HAVE CHILLED “LEGITIMATE ACTIVITY” — SAMOURAI’S FOUNDERS ARE STILL IN PRISON
Oct 5TechnologistTHE CFTC CITES SATOSHI’S WHITE PAPER — THEN ASKS HOW TO POLICE LEVERAGED CRYPTO TRADING — IT’S A LIST OF QUESTIONS, NOT A RULE YET
Oct 5FundamentalistBLOCK 970,000 IS IN — 80,000 BLOCKS TO THE NEXT HALVING — NO COMMITTEE, NO VOTE, NO MEETING MINUTES
Oct 5MaximalistSEC CUSTODY PROPOSAL: CUSTODIAN COST IS NO REASON FOR AN ADVISER TO SELF-CUSTODY — THE TEST IS WHETHER ANY QUALIFIED CUSTODIAN “WILL MAINTAIN” THE COIN — QUESTION 38 ASKS IF THAT SHOULD CHANGE — COMMENTS DUE DECEMBER 5
Oct 4CapitalistTHE SEC APPROVES A 3X BITCOIN ETF — IT TRACKS FUTURES AND RESETS EVERY DAY — TWO DAYS THAT LEAVE BITCOIN FLAT LEAVE THE FUND DOWN 5.5%
Oct 4MaximalistJAPAN ADDS GARANTEX TO ITS RUSSIA ASSET-FREEZE LIST — THE ONLY CRYPTO EXCHANGE AMONG 33 NEW NAMES — GRINEX, WHERE TREASURY SAYS ITS CUSTOMERS WENT, ISN’T ONE OF THEM
Oct 4TechnologistBITCOIN CORE’S WALLET HOLDS YOUR KEYS BUT NOT YOUR HASHLOCK SECRETS — A DEVELOPER PROPOSES A DESCRIPTOR FIX
Oct 4TechnologistCHAINALYSIS PINS BITGET’S $387 MILLION THEFT ON NORTH KOREA — ITS POST SHOWS HOW IT TRACED THE MONEY — NOT HOW IT NAMED THE THIEF
Oct 3CapitalistSTRC’S 30-DAY VOLATILITY IS 9.1%, BELOW SPY — STRATEGY’S OWN PAGE PUTS THE ONE-YEAR FIGURE AT 22.1% — THE 30 DAYS INCLUDE A $151.7 MILLION BUYBACK BELOW PAR
Oct 3CapitalistSAYLOR’S DIGITAL CREDIT ESSAY: “BITCOIN ITSELF PAYS NO COUPON” — THE USD RESERVE PAYS STRC’S 12% — REFILLING IT CAN MEAN “SELECTIVE BITCOIN MONETIZATION”
Oct 3FundamentalistCORNELL’S BITCOIN ADOPTION INDEX — 25,880 ADULTS IN 25 COUNTRIES — ABOUT 13% KNEW BITCOIN’S SUPPLY STOPS AT 21 MILLION
Oct 3TechnologistPOST-QUANTUM SIGNATURES COULD GROW BITCOIN TO “TERABYTES PER YEAR” — A SNARK PROPOSAL PACKS A BLOCK’S SIGNATURES INTO ONE 300-500 KB PROOF — MINING POOLS WOULD BUILD IT
Oct 3MaximalistBITCOIN CORE MERGES A WALLET ENCRYPTION FIX — A FAILED DATABASE WRITE COULD “LEAVE PLAINTEXT KEYS ON DISK” — NOT IN A RELEASE YET
Oct 2CapitalistSUPERCYCLE FINANCE, A NEW BITCOIN TREASURY FIRM, SAYS IT WILL SELL AT CYCLE TOPS — MICHAEL TERPIN PLANS A REGULATION A RAISE — NO SEC FILING FOUND YET
Oct 2MaximalistCOMMUNITY BANKERS SUE THE OCC OVER CRYPTO TRUST CHARTERS — THE SUIT TARGETS THE 2021 LETTER ISSUED TWO DAYS BEFORE ANCHORAGE GOT ITS CHARTER
Oct 2FundamentalistIMF RELEASES ABOUT $138 MILLION TO EL SALVADOR — WAIVES MISSED TARGETS “INCLUDING ON THE BITCOIN ACCUMULATION FRONT” — NO MORE BITCOIN “BEYOND THE DOCUMENTED DONATIONS” — IMF SAYS THE STATE’S CHIVO EXPOSURE STILL HAS TO BE UNWOUND
Oct 2FundamentalistTHE US ADDED 29,000 JOBS IN SEPTEMBER AGAINST A 90,000 FORECAST — JULY REVISED TO A LOSS OF 10,000 — PAY UP 3.0% IN A YEAR — BITCOIN TOPS $87,000
Oct 2CapitalistBLACKROCK’S BITCOIN FUND TAKES IN $195.6 MILLION ON OCTOBER 1 — ALL US SPOT BITCOIN FUNDS NET $102.7 MILLION — THE REST LOSE $92.9 MILLION — FIDELITY’S FBTC DOWN $60.7 MILLION
Oct 2TechnologistANCHORAGE DIGITAL CUTS 17% OF STAFF, THE INFORMATION REPORTS — THE FIRST CRYPTO FIRM WITH A NATIONAL TRUST CHARTER — NO WORD FROM THE COMPANY YET
Oct 2MaximalistABSA BECOMES AFRICA’S FIRST BANK TO OFFER DIGITAL-ASSET CUSTODY, BLOOMBERG REPORTS — BITCOIN IS THE MAIN ASSET IT HOLDS — THE SERVICE IS FOR SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTIONS
Oct 1CapitalistSTRATEGY HOLDS STRC’S DIVIDEND AT 12% FOR PERIODS FROM OCTOBER 16 — $0.50 A SHARE ON OCTOBER 31 — THE NOVEMBER 15 PAYMENT DROPS AWAY IF HOLDERS APPROVE DAILY DIVIDENDS AT THE OCTOBER 28 MEETING — A DIVIDEND FOR EVERY DAY OF NOVEMBER WOULD REPLACE IT
Oct 1MaximalistPETER TODD JOINS THE MARA FOUNDATION AS LEAD MAINTAINER OF SLIPSTREAM — TRANSACTIONS GO STRAIGHT TO MARA POOL AND SKIP THE PUBLIC NETWORK — THE LIBRE RELAY AUTHOR WILL RUN IT
Oct 1TechnologistMSCI IS DUE TO DECIDE BY OCTOBER 16 WHETHER COMPANIES LIKE STRATEGY ARE “NON-OPERATING” — ITS OWN SIMULATION DELETES STRATEGY, METAPLANET AND YELLOW CAKE — A BITCOIN POLICY INSTITUTE PAPER SAYS THE TEST RESTS ON “OPERATING ASSETS,” A TERM GAAP AND IFRS DO NOT DEFINE
Oct 1FundamentalistILLINOIS AND TWO CRYPTO GROUPS ASK A STATE COURT TO DELAY THE 0.2% DIGITAL ASSET TAX BY SIX MONTHS — JULY 1, 2027 INSTEAD OF JANUARY 1 — A JUDGE STILL HAS TO SIGN OFF — THE FIGHT OVER WHETHER THE TAX IS CONSTITUTIONAL GOES ON
Oct 1TechnologistSECOND ECLAIR DENIAL-OF-SERVICE DISCLOSURE IN A WEEK — TWO BUGS FIXED IN V0.14.1 — ONE CONNECTION, AT NO ON-CHAIN COST, RAN A 4 GB NODE OUT OF MEMORY IN ABOUT 48 MINUTES — ONE BUG FOUND WITH AN LLM-BASED HARNESS
Oct 1TechnologistCORE LIGHTNING: ATTACKERS ARE TARGETING UNPATCHED NODES — ANYONE ON 26.06.7 OR EARLIER SHOULD UPGRADE NOW — THE FIX HAS BEEN PUBLIC SINCE SEPTEMBER 22 — NO WORD YET ON WHICH BUG OR WHAT WAS LOST
Oct 1TechnologistCOLDCARD CAN NOW SPLIT THE WALLET ALREADY ON THE DEVICE INTO CODEX32 SHAMIR SHARES — NO FUNDS MOVE AND THE WALLET DOES NOT CHANGE — SETS OF TWO TO NINE SHARES — THE DEVICE KEEPS NO COPY OF THE SET, SO RECORD EVERY SHARE BEFORE LEAVING THE SCREEN
Oct 1FundamentalistBLOCK LAUNCHES ITS FIRST BITCOIN AD CAMPAIGN, “BITCOIN DOES” — SEN. DAINES’ ADAPT ACT WOULD EXEMPT STABLECOIN PURCHASES FROM GAIN OR LOSS — SPENDING BITCOIN STAYS TAXABLE, EXCEPT FEES OF $10 OR LESS
Oct 1MaximalistALPHA MODUS CLOSES ITS SHARES-FOR-BITCOIN DEAL — NON-U.S. INVESTORS HAND OVER 3,170 BTC FOR 51.6 MILLION SHARES AND AS MANY WARRANTS AT $4.36 — THE COINS GO TO A SINGAPORE SUBSIDIARY FORMED FOR THE DEAL — THE FILING NAMES NO CUSTODIAN
Oct 1CapitalistALABAMA’S CRYPTOCURRENCY KIOSK FRAUD PREVENTION ACT TAKES EFFECT OCTOBER 1 — NEW CUSTOMERS CAPPED AT $1,000 IN CASH A DAY — OPERATORS MUST REFUND SCAM VICTIMS IN FULL, OR HALF FOR EXISTING CUSTOMERS, PLUS ALL FEES
Oct 1MaximalistSEC PROPOSES CRYPTO CUSTODY RULES FOR ADVISERS AND FUNDS — SELF-CUSTODY ONLY WHEN NO PERMITTED CUSTODIAN IS AVAILABLE — STATE TRUST COMPANIES COULD HOLD CLIENT COINS — PEIRCE: “ZEALOUSLY PROTECT” THE RIGHT TO SELF-CUSTODY

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