Inside transfer wipes out $1M executive debt as crypto firm offloads payments business without independent valuation
RocketFuel Blockchain transferred substantially all assets used in its payments business to RPay, whose sole director and CEO, Peter M. Jensen, also serves as a RocketFuel director and executive officer. The related-person deal closed Aug. 13 and was…
Microsoft Fixes ‘Perfect 10’ Exploit That Could Have Let Hackers Run Code Remotely
The Entra ID flaw earned the highest possible severity score, but Microsoft says it patched the bug before publishing the CVE and found no evidence it was ever exploited.
AI Has Made Bitcoin Software a Target—This Group Is Fighting Back
A group of 20-odd developers is scanning the Bitcoin ecosystem for AI-discoverable flaws, warning that cheap, powerful models have handed attackers unprecedented reach.
A Third of the Post-ChatGPT Web Is AI-Written, Pew Finds
Pew Research scanned nearly half a million webpages with an AI detector and found the fingerprints concentrated on .com domains—and multiplying fast.
Ethereum researchers are racing to close a zkEVM security gap before December
Ethereum’s better.codes contest now measures a cryptographic proof gap that researchers can attack from both sides. At 15:44:47 UTC on Aug. 21, the live leaderboard showed a 63.99-bit lower certificate and a 116.13-bit upper certificate for koalaIRS12.…
MANTRA Chain stays offline after exploit as Aug. 21 restart hinges on patch test
MANTRA Chain remained halted on Aug. 21 after the team said an attacker exploited a vulnerability in an upstream dependency. Transactions, transfers, and staking are unavailable while the mainnet is paused. MANTRA identified the vulnerable software only…
Trump-backed $4 billion USD1 stablecoin has wallet powers its own GitHub does not show
Justin Sun escalated his public fight with Donald Trump-backed World Liberty Financial on Friday, accusing its USD1 stablecoin of carrying administrative powers that allow privileged operators to move funds from frozen wallets without holder consent. On…
Coldcard Adds New Security Measures After $130 Million Bitcoin Exploit
Coinkite’s latest firmware requires users to add their own randomness when generating wallet seeds and fixes additional security issues uncovered during a three-week review.
A $22.9 million capital deficit threatens to derail an energy firm’s pivot to off-grid Bitcoin mining
Olenox Industries is an energy company that acquired Bitcoin miner CS Digital Ventures in May. It reported preliminary July production of 15.13 BTC against a June 30 balance sheet. The balance sheet carried $1.21 million of cash and $26.26 million of…
Wall Street and Washington Fuel Bitcoin Rally: Here’s What’s Going On
Institutional buying, improving macro conditions and a friendlier regulatory outlook are supporting Bitcoin’s rally, while billions in short liquidations have accelerated the move.