Malicious bots are actively probing exposed Bitcoin payment servers to steal master administrative keys
Bitcoin payment processor BTCPay Server has warned that bots are probing exposed Lightning nodes for a potential route to administrative control. The activity follows a separate critical BTCPay vulnerability that attackers exploited a month ago to obtain…
Cosmos is back online after outage, but Ledger users still can’t see or send their ATOM
Ledger’s status page continued to list Cosmos (ATOM) as a major outage on Sept. 13, leaving users unable to view ATOM balances or transaction history and unable to submit transactions through Ledger Wallet more than four days after the incident…
AI Agents Spending Money Online? New Research Says Not Really
TRM examined roughly $52.7 million across 198.9 million settlements using the x402 protocol. Most of it isn’t coming from AI agents, it says.
Thailand’s stablecoin proposal would block transfers to other people’s wallets
Thailand’s Securities and Exchange Commission has proposed a same-owner requirement for stablecoin transfers that would sharply narrow how customers can move tokens such as USDT through licensed crypto firms. The measure remains at the consultation stage…
Bitcoin’s $80,000 ceiling looks fragile after stocks shrugged off near-5% Treasury yields
Bitcoin failed to break $80,000 on Sept. 11 as US stocks climbed about 1% and long-dated Treasury yields stayed near levels not seen in years. Bitcoin registered an intraday high of $79,890, still short of the $80,000-$82,000 resistance zone identified…
The biggest vulnerability in your Bitcoin wallet might be the shipping label
Hardware wallets might be able to protect your keys, but the paperwork from buying them could expose your identity. To buy a hardware wallet, you give a company your name and address so it can send you a device designed to put you in control of your…
Why Bitcoin initially held its gain as rate traders put September hike odds at 85%
August’s inflation report left the Federal Reserve with a mixed signal: gasoline drove much of the headline increase, but monthly core inflation accelerated. That combination kept Governor Christopher Waller’s conditional case for a rate hike in play…
Stablecoins make sending money easy until someone needs to spend it
When you send money to someone abroad, the confirmation on your phone is only your half of the transaction: the other half belongs to the person who has to use it. Their rent may be due in local currency. Their nearest cash collection point may be across…
Revolut Leaks Passports, Bitcoin Transaction Histories to Fake Government Request
The fintech company fulfilled a fraudulent information request sent from a government agency’s own email domain, exposing ID documents and full crypto transaction histories for a “limited” number of users.
GPT-6 Astra Users Say OpenAI’s Newest Model Got Dumber. It Happened Before, Too
A week after launch, complaints are rolling in from users that GPT-6 Astra has been nerfed. OpenAI’s last model went through the same cycle in July.