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...
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...
3,568 Bitcoin Just Moved Out of Saylor’s Wallets. Panic Says He’s Selling. Arkham Says Nope. Here’s What Actually Spooked Me.
3,568 Bitcoin (~$297M) left Strategy-linked wallets in nine hours and the market panicked. Arkham traced every coin: not a single one...
THE UK CHANCELLOR MOCKED FARAGE FOR HAVING A ‘BITCOIN ACCOUNT’ – THE SAME GOVERNMENT THAT DEBANKED HIM AND IS PRINTING AWAY YOUR POUNDS
A UK finance minister thought calling a rival 'Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account' was a winning line. He de-banked the...
BITGET BEGGED A PERMISSIONLESS PROTOCOL TO FREEZE $387 MILLION IN STOLEN COINS — THE HACKER’S EXIT WAS BITCOIN
Bitget asked THORChain to block its hacker's addresses. THORChain declined, a flagged wallet finished an XRP-to-bitcoin swap, and Circle and Tether...
BITCOIN’S DEVS JUST ADMITTED THEY HAVE NO QUANTUM PLAN. SAYLOR SAYS THAT’S THE PLAN.
Bitcoin’s developers cannot agree on how to defend the network against quantum computers — no sequencing, no activation mechanism, no timeline....
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BLOCK JUST SPENT MILLIONS TELLING 60 MILLION AMERICANS BITCOIN IS MONEY — WHILE ITS OWN APP HOLDS THE KEYS
Block's "Bitcoin Does" campaign launched Oct 1 to sell bitcoin as everyday money to 60 million Americans. Then there's the fine...
AFRICA’S FIRST BANK JUST OFFERED TO HOLD YOUR BITCOIN — THAT IS NOT CUSTODY, THAT IS CAPTIVITY
Absa became the first African bank to offer Bitcoin custody, chasing a $1.5 billion market. One line in the launch briefing...