George Saoulidis
George Saoulidis is your new favourite bitcoin writer. Find all his stuff at https://georgesaoulidis.com/links
THE ECONOMY ADDED 29,000 JOBS. THE FEED RAISED RATES ANYWAY. NOW WATCH THEM CALL IT A SOFT LANDING.
America added 29,000 jobs in September. Economists wanted 90,000. The Fed raised rates a month ago and markets just celebrated the...
CORE LIGHTNING JUST TOLD THE WORLD ITS NODES ARE GETTING ROBBED — AND IT WON’T SAY WHO OR HOW
The team behind Bitcoin's most-used Lightning implementation says attackers are hitting unpatched nodes right now. They won't name the vulnerability. They...
TETHER DUMPED BITCOIN FOR TRON — NOW IT WANTS A HOMECOMING PARADE, A BLACKLIST, AND YOUR BLOCKS
Tether abandoned Bitcoin for Tron, killed Omni in 2023, and now says USDT is "coming home" on an RGB rail it...
BITCOIN’S LOUDEST PURIST JUST TOOK THE BIGGEST MINER’S PAYCHECK TO BUILD A PRIVATE LANE FOR YOUR TRANSACTIONS
Peter Todd spent years arguing nobody should control what gets relayed. Now he runs Slipstream, MARA's private mempool - where a...
CITI JUST RAISED ITS BITCOIN TARGET TO $113,000 — THE SAME BANK STILL WANTS YOUR KEYS
Citigroup hiked its 12-month Bitcoin target from $82,000 to $113,000 after ETF inflows flipped positive. The banks love writing price targets....
WALL STREET’S INVISIBLE COMMITTEE IS ABOUT TO FORCE YOUR RETIREMENT FUND TO DUMP BITCOIN — AND NOBODY ELECTED THEM
MSCI's own simulation removes Strategy and Metaplanet from its global indexes. Every passive fund tracking those benchmarks gets forced to sell....
METAMASK LOST CONTROL OF 523,000 ETH AND WON’T SAY WHY — IT STILL WANTS YOUR KEYS
MetaMask got compromised, quietly exited ~17,000 Ethereum validators, watched block rewards get rerouted to a Tornado Cash-funded address — and told...
THEY WANTED 36% OF YOUR BITCOIN EVERY SINGLE YEAR — WITHOUT YOU SELLING A SINGLE SAT. THE WHALES SAID THEY’D LEAVE, AND THE SMALL GUY GOT THE BILL.
The Netherlands planned a 36% annual tax on unrealized crypto gains. It died the moment capital threatened to walk. Then the...
THE POLICE STOLE 50 BITCOIN FROM THEIR OWN EVIDENCE LOCKER — THE CRIMINAL IS THE ONE WHO REPORTED IT
The NCA officer who led the crypto extraction on Silk Road 2.0 stole 50 Bitcoin out of the wallet his own...
Bitget Lost $388M Through a Zero-Day, Not Stolen Keys
SlowMist traced Bitget's $387.5M theft to a zero-day in a third-party security vendor, not stolen keys. The keys you rent were...
Quick Reads
ROBINHOOD HOLDS 185,000 BITCOIN FOR YOU – TODAY IT BOUGHT 294 FOR ITSELF
Robinhood custodies 185,000 BTC for its customers. On October 7 it put $25 million of Bitcoin on its own balance sheet...
1.1 MILLION USERS HAVE BEEN LOCKED OUT OF THEIR BITCOIN SINCE JUNE — AND THE REGULATOR JUST SAID NO AGAIN
BaFin refused bitcoin.de's MiCA license. Trading has been frozen since June 12 and 1.1 million customers' coins were already moved to...