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Sleuth ZachXBT Blasts Ripple’s Cheap $250K Payout for 18T XRP Bug
The renowned blockchain sleuth criticized the reward the Ripple Ledger Foundation gave Cayden Liao and Veria Labs after a bug that, if exploited, would have let someone issue 18 trillion XRP in a single transaction, 184 times the original…
Bitcoin Price Defies $681M ETF Outflow as Oil Trades Above $100
Bitcoin is holding above $80,000 even as Brent crude trades above $100 amid renewed Middle East tensions. The resilience is notable, but roughly $681 million of weekly U.S. spot bitcoin ETF outflows leaves institutional demand as the key…
Bitmine Surpasses 6M ETH, Closing In on 5% of Ethereum Supply
Bitmine Immersion Technologies is closing in on a staggering prize: ownership of 5% of Ethereum’s entire ether supply. The company disclosed on Monday that its treasury now holds 6.03 million ETH, representing 4.9% of all tokens in…
Russia’s Moscow Exchange Pilots Crypto Trading for December Launch
The exchange is currently testing its crypto trading capabilities with professional participants in a pilot environment that will escalate to full production before December. Boris Blokhin, Managing Director of Securities Market at the…
Bitcoin Price Eyes $85K, but Momentum Has Yet to Show Up
Bitcoin’s price is holding near $83,770 on Oct. 11, 2026, after recovering from a recent low of $80,308, but the climb toward $84,000 is proving difficult. Short-term moving averages paint a mixed picture, while longer-term indicators…
Liquid Network at 86% Backing as Bitcoin Redemption Freeze Drags On
It has been 35 days since an attacker exploited a vulnerability in the Liquid Network’s Elements software, draining nearly 4,000 BTC from the protocol, and although 3,400 BTC has since been recovered, redemptions of LBTC for actual bitcoin…
More Orange: Saylor Hints at Growing Strategy’s 848K Bitcoin Stash
Strategy could expand its bitcoin holdings after Michael Saylor posted another orange-themed buying hint. His latest message follows a $28.7 million acquisition, while the company balances cryptocurrency purchases with cash commitments to…
Coldcard X Account Hit by Phishing Scam After $100M Fiasco
Coldcard is confronting another security controversy after its official X account published a phishing link on Oct. 11, 2026, falsely warning customers about a critical firmware vulnerability. The company deleted the post and insists its…
Strangely Rational — Week in Review
This editorial is from this week’s edition of the newsletter Week in Review, sent to subscribers on Friday. Subscribe to the newsletter to get this weekly editorial the second it’s finished. The newsletter also includes the biggest stories…
A 1960 Population Model Pegged Nov. 13, 2026 as ‘Doomsday’
In 1960, mathematician Heinz von Foerster and colleagues published a population-growth model in the journal Science that mathematically blew up to “infinity,” a result that later got pinned to Nov. 13, 2026 as an overpopulation doomsday.…