Zcash grants committee drops plan to redirect 98,000 ZEC to future mining rewards
The committee withdrew its proposal after community backlash, leaving competing plans to cut off its funding or preserve the existing grants system.…
Bitcoin knocks on $78,000 in V-shaped comeback as midterm election uncertainty fades
BTC is steaming higher as U.S. midterm election uncertainty fades. Source:CoinDesk
U.S.-sanctioned Moscow Exchange to list bitcoin and Tether’s USDT in December
Russia’s main bourse wants back the crypto trading Russians do abroad, and one of the coins it's listing is issued by a company that freezes wallets on the…
Binance's $6.3 billion hack began with a fake job interview, exchange says
North Korealinked attackers spent months compromising Binance employees and internal systems before exploiting its hotwallet signing infrastructure through…
ETHGas wants to bring Wall Street to public Ethereum by selling advance block reservations
But there’s a catch: validators that fail to deliver on their commitments currently face no financial compensation requirement under the service.…
Liquid’s bitcoin IOUs are fully backed again after a $320 million exploit
A final 250 BTC transfer closed the hole left by September’s bug, but the federation behind the network still hasn’t said who paid to fill it. Source:CoinDesk
Tether holds 150,000 bitcoin worth $11.5 billion, CEO Paolo Ardoino says
Ardoino didn’t say where the extra coins sit. Holdings outside USDT reserves, such as Tether’s investments, wouldn’t appear in the report. Source:CoinDesk
Mercado Bitcoin pledges to cover all user losses after near $40 million hack
Partners like Tether, Circle, and Chainalysis helped freeze $11M of the stolen assets. Source:CoinDesk
EU entity suspected of losing $106 million from crypto exchange accounts, ZachXBT says
The unidentified attacker moved funds through ether, instant exchanges and Monero, but the victim and affected exchanges remain unknown. Source:CoinDesk
Why stealing billions from a crypto exchange can be harder to stop than a bank theft
The $6.3 billion Binance breach has revived a debate over whether crypto exchanges are less secure than banks or simply harder to protect once hackers get…
Strangers are begging the Binance hacker for bitcoin, one ‘help me bro’ at a time
The 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have taken in nothing since Thursday except payments worth under a dollar, each carrying a message, from pleas to…
BTCPay, a bitcoin payment tool, tells users to switch off their servers after reports of drained wallets
The opensource project says it is still investigating and hasn't given a loss figure or announced a fix. Its founder said the reports appear to involve…