Coinbase Ireland Hit With €3.25M Fine Over Fund Safeguarding and Oversight Failures
Key Takeaways: Irish central bank fines Coinbase Ireland $1.19m for customer fund safeguarding and outsourcing failures. The company used too much information from its U.S. parent group, while its local experience with the oversight side lacked, the…
Bitcoin Core changes security rules as AI makes finding code bugs dangerously easy
Developers merged a policy change that ends the months-long embargo for flaws a chatbot could rediscover, after a summer in which AI found hundreds of bitcoin bugs before the humans did.
Bitcoin’s price is as jumpy as Nvidia’s and eight times more turbulent than the euro
Your day-ahead look for Oct. 23, 2026
Live updates: Bitcoin holds above $81,000 as oil prices hit six-month high
Brent crude oil surged above $116 per barrel for the first time since late April.
Bitcoin steadies near $81,700 as altcoins rebound, pepe climbs 13%
Bitcoin rose 0.5% to around $81,700 since midnight UTC while the CoinDesk 80 gained 1.4% and memecoins climbed 2.9%.
Ripple and Arf Bring $10B PayFi Settlement Liquidity to XRP Ledger With RLUSD
Key Takeaways: For licensed payment companies on the XRP Ledger, Arf is rolling out settlement financing using RLUSD. About $10 billion in settlement volume is processed annually and the financing is usually repaid within 1-5 days. Once necessary changes…
Ethereum’s long-awaited Glamsterdam upgrade hits another roadblock as 13 security risks emerge
Ethereum developers have postponed the Glamsterdam upgrade on a major test network after identifying potential security risks affecting existing smart contracts. The Ethereum Foundation confirmed on Oct. 22 that the upgrade, scheduled for Oct. 26 on the…
XRPL recovers from network slowdown as critical security upgrade faces two-week delay
The XRP Ledger (XRPL) has recovered from intermittent transaction-processing delays, although developers are still preparing a permanent software correction. On Oct. 22, XRP Ledger Operations confirmed that ledger-closing times had returned to normal…
The Sleeper Has Awakened: Pepenardo’s Sleeping Knights Return
Bitcoin Magazine The Sleeper Has Awakened: Pepenardo’s Sleeping Knights Return Pepenardo has transformed six copies of Bitcoin Magazine’s 2036 Issue into original artworks, drawing directly onto the covers with a Sharpie. The hand-altered editions…
Bitcoin ETFs sold through 7 of 8 crashes even as Wall Street makes BTC selloffs less violent
Bitcoin ETFs recorded outflows during seven of eight major selloffs, challenging expectations that Wall Street investors would support prices during downturns. A new DWF Labs report shared with CryptoSlate found that US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds…