Why stealing billions from a crypto exchange can be harder to stop than a bank theft
The $6.3 billion Binance breach has revived a debate over whether crypto exchanges are less secure than banks or simply harder to protect once hackers get inside....
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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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The crypto reader’s guide to the 2026 midterm election: State of Crypto
America is going to the polls, and the results will shape crypto legislation and regulation over the next two years. Here’s what to know....
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Mercado Bitcoin Suspends Withdrawals After $40M in Suspcious Transfers
TL;DR Brazil-based Mercado Bitcoin suspended deposits and withdrawals after suspicious transfers affected wallets across at least 10 blockchain networks. Security researchers estimate that more than $40 million in crypto assets moved to new addresses. The exchange says it contained the incident, with no customer harm or data breach reported....
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CFTC Opens Regulatory Path for Crypto Markets as US Lawmakers Stall
TL;DR The CFTC is developing a federal framework for certain leveraged and margined retail crypto transactions. The proposal could give eligible crypto exchanges a route to operate under a national regulatory system rather than relying solely on state-level licensing. The agency opened a public consultation on October 5, seeking...
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Trezor Expands Wallet Security Features Following $100M Coldcard Exploit
TL;DR Trezor expands wallet maximum passphrase length from 50 to 128 characters. The update follows July’s Coldcard vulnerability, which exposed weaknesses in recovery phrase generation and contributed to more than $100 million in reported losses. Strong, unique passphrases helped protect some users whose wallet backups were compromised. The new...
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Binance Outflows and ETF Selling Weigh In On BTC
TL;DR Bitcoin slipped 0.4% to around $77,900 as investors assessed the fallout from Binance’s $6.3 billion hack as binance outflows pressure BTC’s price. Binance reported $3.64 billion in net outflows during the first nine and a half hours after withdrawals resumed. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded $643 million in...
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