Bitcoin surged above $85,000 as a wave of short liquidations accelerated the cryptocurrency’s strongest advance since January. Data from CryptoSlate showed BTC gained more than 5% over the past 24 hours to reach $85,193, extending its advance over the past 35 days to about 29%. The asset had eased to $84,545 as of press time …
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A flaw in Bitcoin Lightning software Eclair could let malicious peers wipe out a node’s local channel balance through fees. ACINQ released Eclair 0.14.3 on Sept. 14 to patch three peer-triggered vulnerabilities that could cause operators to lose or lock funds during channel closures, splicing, and on-the-fly funding. The Bitcoin technology company, a contributor to …
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Bitcoin climbed above $80,000 after a $148 billion US Treasury cash build failed to destabilize overnight funding markets. The Treasury General Account rose by $148.003 billion through Sept. 16 to $991.708 billion, Federal Reserve data showed, as tax payments shifted cash into the government’s account at the central bank. Deposits held by commercial banks at …
Bitcoin entered this week (Sept. 21–27) above $80,000, but Friday’s update on Americans’ inflation expectations could test whether its rebound can withstand tighter monetary policy. The Bitcoin price stood at $80,323 in CryptoSlate’s Sept. 20 snapshot, up 4.82% over seven days and 3.82% over 30 days. That recovery leaves two questions for the coming week: …
The developers who maintain the minority chain that forked away from Bitcoin on Aug. 8, 2026, plan to make it so miners cannot unlock newly mined coins for 45 days. The news comes as BTCB2, also labeled Bitcoin BLAKE2b, Bitcoin BIP-110, or XBT on some trading venues, has dropped 84% below its all-time high. From …
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Bitcoin’s price broke $85,200 earlier today for the first time in over eight months, yet the Coinbase Premium Index, the market’s favorite gauge of U.S. spot demand, slid back below zero. The Number That Didn’t Move BTC has climbed about 6% over the past day and printed an intraday high of $85,248 just as $260+ …
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This weekend, an attacker pulled 186.4 million ZEAL and 54.4 billion NACHO from a Kaspa KRC-20 bridge wallet without possessing its private key, then recycled the tokens through layer two (L2) networks and sold them into liquidity pools. The strange part is that Kaspa itself wasn’t hacked. Five valid transactions fooled an off-chain indexer into …
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Two ether whales have committed a combined $106.4 million to ETH over five days, and the second-largest crypto asset just traded above $2,700 for the first time since Jan. 31. The Rotation That Hasn’t Stopped Over the past five days, a whale sold 1,107 BTC worth $86.76 million on Hyperliquid, bought 34,422 ETH worth $86.5 …
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Bitcoin’s price crossed the $84,000 mark early Monday morning after closing the week above its 50-week moving average for the first time in 45 weeks. Technical Milestones Signal Potential Cycle Bottom Bitcoin’s price crossed the $84,000 mark late Sept. 21 as the top cryptocurrency looked set to start the week building on momentum sparked by …
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Mike McGlone stressed that, since 2017, crypto has been performing poorly with increasingly high volatility levels, and that the reason behind this behaviour could be linked to a hawkish turn by the Federal Reserve and an overstretched SPX index valuation. McGlone Warns About Crypto’s Demise As The Fed Turns Hawkish Mike McGlone, Senior Commodity Strategist …
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A North Korean hacking group used fake IT job offers to infect at least 30,000 computers and move about $10.7 million in cryptocurrency back to the regime. The warning comes from a joint advisory by the FBI, Japanese police, Australian cyber officials and German intelligence dated September 18th. The actor is called WaterPlum and is also known …
A Pennsylvania man is suing JPMorgan Chase after the bank froze his account, pulled nearly $12,000 out of it and refused to put it back. Jim Serena says his friend Peter McNeal sent him four Zelle payments totaling about $12,000, reports WTAE. Then McNeal mistakenly told Chase the payments were unauthorized. Chase froze Serena’s account …
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Fraudsters used stolen debit cards on a U.S. prediction market in a bid to take at least $10 million through bets and cash-outs, according to a new report. A debit-card processor flagged the scheme to the company in February, reports The Wall Street Journal. Users linked stolen cards to Polymarket US accounts then tried to wager and …
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X alleges six Bitcoin-focused accounts coordinated posts and engagement to inflate creator payouts, with claimed and projected losses of at least $378,000. Elon Musk-owned social media platform X has sued the alleged operators of a network of Bitcoin-focused accounts, seeking to recover at least $278,000 in creator payouts it says they obtained by manipulating engagement. …
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ZetaChain plans to wind down its Cosmos-based layer 1 and migrate ZETA to Solana, joining other crypto projects moving away from standalone chains. ZetaChain tokenholders have approved a plan to wind down the project’s layer-1 blockchain and migrate its native ZETA token to Solana. Governance proposal 68 passed Sunday with 99.4% support and 58% participation, …
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