Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
The arrest count is striking, but the scale of the online infrastructure removed may be the bigger story. An international effort against West African scam networks has resulted in 28 arrests, while technology companies say they removed more than 3.7...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Crypto’s third-quarter security bill came to $1.18 billion, but the headline total is only part of Hacken’s latest warning. The firm recorded 107 incidents between July and September, with smart-contract exploits taking a much larger shar...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
A hardware wallet’s strongest cryptography offers little protection when an attacker can interfere with the device before its owner even switches it on. That is the uncomfortable lesson from the CryptoBilis case now facing Ledger customers in S...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Addresses associated by on-chain analysts with miner MARA Holdings have sent approximately 1,000 BTC to Binance and Gate over five days, putting the company’s treasury movements back in focus. TL;DR: Lookonchain-linked analysis values the trans...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
An unusual piece of cryptography history has gained an answer. Anthropic says Claude reconstructed how the original seed values behind several widely used NIST elliptic curves were generated, resolving a question that had attracted suspicion for more...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
XRP Ledger validators are advancing a maintenance amendment while the network’s proposed native lending features face a more complicated path through governance. TL;DR: The fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment has cleared the 80% support threshold in rece...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
An early Bitcoin holder has moved approximately 411.45 BTC from a wallet associated with 2013, attracting fresh attention as traders monitor old coins returning to activity. TL;DR: The coins were worth roughly $34 million at recent market prices. A t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Cysic has suspended its cross-chain bridge after an attacker created 10 million unauthorized CYS tokens on BNB Chain and converted part of the supply into assets moved toward Ethereum. TL;DR: On-chain analysis traced the sale of about 7.2 million CYS...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
Qubic halted its network after attackers exploited weakly generated wallet credentials to remove roughly $1.4 million in cryptocurrency from more than 1,400 accounts, according to the project’s account of the incident. TL;DR: The reported loss...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Stablecoins issued or circulating on Cardano reached roughly $70.2 million in DefiLlama’s October 18 snapshot, up about 31% over 30 days. USDC represents nearly two-thirds of that total. Cardano’s stablecoin market has crossed anot...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Aptos reports roughly 174,570 APT burned in the past 30 days, but gross staking issuance is about 1.5 million APT a month. Fee burns reduce issuance; they have not made the token deflationary. Burning tokens sounds attractive to investors unti...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Investigators have raised new concerns about stolen crypto flowing into Zcash, following earlier tracing of roughly 2,746 ZEC linked to the Bitget breach. Shielded transactions obscure details after entry, but do not prove that the underlying...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Cross River Bank announced an integration of Ripple’s RLUSD stablecoin into its Core Operating System on October 15. The bank aims to give fintech customers access to blockchain settlement alongside conventional payment rails. A US bank...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Sui’s Hashi project is preparing for a phased October mainnet rollout with more than $500 million in partner capital commitments. Anchorage Digital is joining as a launch partner, but pledged funding is not the same as value already depl...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Crypto-aligned political committees have reported more than $52 million in spending against former Senator Sherrod Brown’s bid to return to Congress. The campaign is one of the clearest examples of the industry’s willingness to spe...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Ledger has introduced Atom, a new device intended to run everyday apps while keeping sensitive approvals inside its secure operating system. The Founders Edition has a $849 reservation price, with shipping estimated for 2027. Ledger wants to m...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: South Korea’s Financial Services Commission identified Gopax operator Streami among 16 financial firms affected by recent hacking incidents. Authorities said around 100,000 data-leak cases had been identified across the broader group, no...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Polygon Labs has closed its acquisition of Coinme, gaining access to 37 state money-transmitter licences and 11 applicable exemptions. The move is designed to connect its on-chain payment technology with regulated US money movement. Polygon ha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: French lawmakers approved an amendment to the 2027 budget by 38 votes to 37 that would change how gains are taxed when cryptocurrencies are converted into stablecoins. The proposal is not yet final law. For French crypto investors, moving from...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Security researcher Joe Grand says he warned Ledger about signs of physically modified devices months before a wider hardware-wallet supply-chain attack came to light. The dispute concerns communications and product distribution, not proof tha...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: HEX and PulseChain founder Richard Heart was reportedly detained in Istanbul in connection with a Finnish tax investigation. The reported legal proceedings are separate from his earlier US securities dispute, and no conviction is established b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Stablecoin issuer Tether has participated in a funding round for AI infrastructure startup AIsa, bringing the startup’s cumulative fundraising above $9 million. The company is working on payment and access systems for autonomous software...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Taiwanese authorities have reportedly restricted access to Coinbase and Kalshi sites over concerns involving election betting. The measures arrive ahead of local elections and underscore differing national approaches to prediction markets. Tai...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Ripple Prime is offering eligible institutional clients exposure to perpetual derivatives referencing traditional assets through infrastructure connected to Hyperliquid. The service extends Ripple’s reach beyond cryptocurrency payments....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 1 week ago
TL;DR: Pirate Chain developers disclosed a vulnerability linked to roughly 39.8 million unauthorized ARRR tokens. The incident raised urgent questions about network supply and how an attack can be investigated when transactions use strong privacy pro...
