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Dutch bitcoin broker Bitonic has been hacked and “small amounts” of cryptocurrency were stolen from customers, according to emails obtained by broadcaster NOS. The hack took place on Sunday night, and all customers were immediately logged out of their accounts…

Why bitcoin payments haven’t taken off, and a call for moonshot ideas that could change that “If \[bitcoin] ends up just being digital gold, I think it’s failed,” Jack Dorsey said in January 2025. “If it ends up being a currency that people can use daily…

Sony Network Communications disclosed a data breach exposing 2.5 million client records following unauthorized access to its So-net database.

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A Advent acaba de captar seu maior fundo global, de US$ 27 bilhões – e outros US$ 3 bi para uma estratégia nova de investimentos no middle market.

The hash ribbon recovered on August 26 and has held for 61 days. Historically, Bitcoin was higher one year later in six of seven counted recoveries, about a 72% edge. Sean Hagan breaks down the signal, the misses (15 of 231, notably April 2021 at -17%), the…

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Otavio (Tavi) Costa – Founder & CEO, Azuria Capital
Alexandre Laizet – Deputy…

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OpenAI has released GPT-6.1 Terra, but where does it fit alongside Sol and Astra? I break down what Terra is designed for, OpenAI's reported improvements, its API pricing and where to find…

A nonprofit service that protects internet users’ privacy is leaving France. Quad9, a free DNS resolver, has said it will reluctantly stop serving users in France on November 24. This follows a

Miner-side job declaration, where the miner builds their own block template, is standardized in Stratum V2 and has real mainnet precedent in DATUM. That closes one half of a non-custodial pool’s problem: the miner already doesn’t have to trust the pool’s…

Abstract: @remix7531 and I are publishing libshrincs, a proof-of-concept C implementation of WOTS+C with machine-checked proofs of functional correctness and security. WOTS+C is the one-time signature scheme used by SHRINCS, a post-quantum signature scheme…

BIP110 Situation Monitor I have made a BIP110 situation monitor which tracks live miner signalling data and shows the chain tip of both a core node and bip110 node to flag forks. It also has a visual guide to the activation paths & forking dynamics. Finally…

Since there were no objections to the activation parameters shared in the last email, I have updated the website with the repository link for activation client and added some FAQs. Repository: GitHub - ctv-activation/activation-client // Deployment of CTV…

Introduction The FROST scheme is based on Verifiable Secret Sharing, where signers first perform Shamir Secret Sharing in homomorphic space, then each signer stores the generated share it has of the final key. However, this is slightly undesirable compared…

A clockless vardiff strands a slowing miner A note on where this came from. This began as an attempt to optimize vardiff, not to write about it. We were building a controller to track a miner more tightly, and noticed that an asymmetric response — quick…

Summary This post details two distinct Denial-of-Service (DoS) vulnerabilities discovered in Core Lightning (CLN). Both vulnerabilities allowed a remote peer to trigger unbounded memory growth, ultimately leading to Out-of-Memory (OOM) system crashes. The…

Bitcoin Core version 31.1 is now available from: https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-31.1/ This release includes various bug fixes and performance improvements, as well as updated translations. Please report bugs using the issue tracker at GitHub:…