Binance, Coinbase Join West Africa Scam Sweep, $11M Flagged
Authorities in Ghana and Nigeria arrested 28 people in a crackdown on West African scam networks that included crypto investment fraud, the U.S. Department of...
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Vitalik Buterin proposes paranoid mode for Ethereum AI agents
Ethereum’s AI push is back in the spotlight after Vitalik Buterin proposed a paranoid mode for AI agents. The idea is meant to improve privacy...
Lopp’s Wrench Attack Archive Doubles to 702 With AI Search
A larger archive, not a sudden wave Jameson Lopp’s public record of physical Bitcoin attacks now lists about 702 cases going back to 2014. The...
Reuters/Ipsos Poll Finds Most Americans Oppose Election Betting
Poll shows broad opposition A new Reuters/Ipsos survey found most Americans do not want prediction markets used for betting on US elections and other government...
Eclair v0.14.4 blocks browser-origin commands to Lightning nodes
Eclair, the Lightning node software from ACINQ, shipped v0.14.4 on Oct. 15 with a fix for a browser-based attack path. The issue could let a...
Ripple CTO Emeritus Warns of SecuX Wallet Notification Scam
David Schwartz, Ripple’s CTO emeritus, has flagged a suspicious Android notification that appeared to come from the SecuX wallet app. He described it as a...
Ethereum schedules Hoodi 200 million gas test for October 26
The Hoodi testnet now has a fixed date for Ethereum’s next upgrade rehearsal. The Ethereum Foundation said on Oct. 16 that Glamsterdam will activate on...
Claude AI Traces NSA Crypto Seeds to 1990s Unix Timestamps
For years, the five NIST elliptic curves P-192, P-224, P-256, P-384, and P-521 carried a quiet question. The curves protect websites, payments, and government traffic,...
Ethereum Futures Open Interest Holds Above $30B; Long Liquidations Outpace Shorts
Futures exposure stays high Ethereum futures open interest remains above $30 billion. Coinglass shows 12.63 million ETH in active contracts, worth $30.59 billion, after a...
UK Freezes $12M London Penthouse of Alleged Prince Group Finance Chief
UK authorities have frozen a London penthouse linked to Thet Li, the man accused of being the finance chief for Prince Group. The apartment sits...