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Bitcoin Red Team Finds 4,962 Flaws After Coldcard Hack
A volunteer security group called the Bitcoin Red Team uncovered 4,962 vulnerabilities, 85 of them critical, across 390 open-source Bitcoin projects over a 27-hour stretch after the Coldcard hack. A Response to the Coldcard Exploit The…
Tesla, SpaceX Pick Texas Site for Musk’s $16.8B Chip Plant
Tesla and SpaceX have formally committed $16.8 billion to break ground on Terafab, Elon Musk’s giant AI chip factory, after moving the project’s planned site from Austin to a rural county outside Houston. A Site Change for the…
MARA Reports $611M Loss While Miners Deposit 581 BTC to NYDIG
MARA Holdings posted a $611 million net loss in the second quarter as its bitcoin treasury shrank 29% year-over-year to 35,577 BTC. The report landed the same week rival Riot Platforms and MARA itself sent a combined 581 BTC to custodian…
Coldcard Hacker Resumes Moving Stolen 30 BTC to New Wallet
The hacker behind the Coldcard wallet exploit, believed to hold 2,055 BTC (about $130 million) in stolen bitcoin, moved funds for the first time in weeks, sending 30.185 BTC (about $1.94 million) to a new wallet. The Hacker Goes Quiet, Then…
Malta Would Pay More Than Italy Under EU’s $2.19B Gambling Levy
Malta has joined Italy, Portugal, and Spain to block a possible EU-wide online gambling levy, four diplomats told Politico, in a budget fight any one of the 27 governments can veto. Commission modeling would bill Malta about $190 million…
CertiK Director Lau Advances AI as Net Positive Despite Risks
In response to recent events where AI agents escaped their sandboxes and attacked real-world targets, Kaijern Lau, Senior Director of Engineering at CertiK, believes the industry must prepare by increasing its investment in AI security as…
Google Scraps Google Earth’s AI-Generated Imagery Feature After Misinformation Warnings
Google pulled a newly launched AI-generated satellite imagery feature from Google Earth less than 24 hours after release, after experts warned it could be used to create realistic fake scenes and fuel misinformation. The tool let users…
Thune Delays CLARITY Act Vote to September Amid Senate Deadlock
The decision comes after Majority Leader John Thune stressed that Democrats insisted on no vote as they still consider that the CLARITY Act needs work regarding the ethics provision. Thune ensured that the crypto bill would be on the agenda…
What Is a Secure Element? How It Protects Hardware Wallets
For anyone who stores cryptocurrency in a hardware wallet, one tiny computer chip quietly performs one of the most important security jobs in the entire device. Most people never see it, never interact with it and rarely hear it mentioned.…
Canadian Users Account for 25% of Coldcard Exploit Losses
Canadian Bitcoin holders account for 25% of all attributable losses in the Coldcard wallet exploit. Total stolen assets reach $116 million while Galaxy Research traced the attack to a March 2021 firmware update. Geographic Distribution of…