🪙 Crypto check
₿ BTC $77,326 📈 +0.0% (24h)
Ξ ETH $2,523 📈 +2.2% (24h)

😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 63 — Greed

💸 Bitcoin's $78,300 moment of truth

Houthi strikes on Saudi oil infrastructure sent markets into risk-off mode. At Tuesday's Wall Street open, BTC dropped to $77,600 — lowest since September 3 — while WTI crude surged toward $95 a barrel.

Analyst Rekt Capital flags an uncomfortable echo of May: Bitcoin held $78,300 briefly back then, then collapsed to $57,000. His read now:

"The retest of ~$78,300 is in progress. A weekly close below it would likely confirm a breakdown."

Trump, meanwhile, promised $2 gasoline once the US wins the war with Iran. Markets seem to be treating that as literature, not a forecast.

Via Cointelegraph.

💸 A $263M crypto heist, 28 exotic cars, and a guilty plea

Malone Lam — a Singaporean national who organised an international crew recruited through online gaming platforms — pleaded guilty this week to a RICO conspiracy involving over $263 million in stolen crypto. The ring ran from late 2023 through May 2025, targeting holders via fake Google and Gemini support calls, screen-sharing tricks and physical home break-ins.

The spending: 28 exotic cars, private jets, luxury watches — and nightclub tabs of $500K a night. Lam was reportedly still directing luxury deliveries to his girlfriend from pretrial detention.

Next hearing: December 8th. Sentencing date TBD, per CoinDesk.

Cointelegraph

🔐 $47M somewhere between "white hats" and extortion

Liquid Network, a Bitcoin sidechain run by Blockstream, lost 4,000 BTC (~$320M) last weekend after a bug let attackers mint unbacked L-BTC tokens and swap them for real reserve Bitcoin.

The attackers called themselves white-hat researchers on-chain, then returned 3,400 BTC on Monday. The remaining ~598 BTC — around $47M — is subject to ongoing negotiations, terms undisclosed.

Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet wasn't convinced:

"The 'white hats' still hold 600 BTC. It looks more like extortion than white-hat hacking."

A bridge patch is live, an emergency update is in review. The $47M question, per Decrypt, remains open.

🔪 Four lives for a cold wallet

In Atizapán de Zaragoza, Mexico, four people were killed — Jonathan Meléndez, keyboardist for rock band Camilo Séptimo, his pregnant wife, their daughter, and an employee. The alleged motive: attackers believed the family owned a cold wallet holding millions in Bitcoin.

Two suspects are in custody; one was a business associate of the victim who used that relationship to get inside the home. A court hearing Wednesday will determine whether the case proceeds — each man faces 25 to 70 years per victim if convicted.

CertiK counted 52 physical attacks on crypto holders worldwide in H1 2026, up 33% year-on-year, with Chainalysis estimating over $30M stolen through such attacks in that period alone, per La Jornada.

A cold wallet protects against hackers. Former business partners, apparently, are a different threat model.

Cointelegraph

📌 Daily Recap · Sep 12

📉 Bitcoin crashes to September lows on Middle East shock
🚗 Gamer turned crypto thief pleads guilty, 28 cars seized
🔐 Blockstream lost 4,000 BTC to "white-hat" hackers
🔪 Four people killed over a suspected Bitcoin cold wallet

Tag whoever spent today offline — they missed a lot.

CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

🪙 Crypto check
₿ BTC $77,150 📉 -0.2% (24h)
Ξ ETH $2,514 📉 -0.4% (24h)

😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 61 — Greed

💸 Strive is knocking on a billion-dollar door

Strive runs the Michael Saylor playbook: raise money, buy Bitcoin, repeat. Last week: 1,375 BTC for $109 million at $79,281 a coin, bringing the total to 24,531 BTC (~$1.9 billion). Three weeks straight of 5%-plus weekly growth.

Seventy percent of the capital came through SATA — preferred stock paying 13% annually, now at $999 million notional. CEO Matt Cole: "Time to break the billion-dollar wall."

The risk is real. Strategy's equivalent fell below face value this year, forcing it to sell Bitcoin for the first time since 2022 to cover dividends. SATA has held — but hasn't faced pressure like that yet, per Decrypt.

A year ago Strive wasn't a Bitcoin company. Today it's the fifth-largest corporate BTC treasury on the planet, ahead of SpaceX and Coinbase.

💸 $340M bitcoin heist — and most of it came back

Liquid Network is a settlement layer built by Blockstream in 2018, connecting several major crypto exchanges under one roof. Over the weekend, a hacker exploited a bug to drain roughly 4,000 BTC — about $340 million — making it one of the largest crypto thefts of the year, per the Rekt leaderboard.

Then the plot twisted. The hacker offered a deal: fix the bug, get the coins back. Blockstream fixed it. Around 3,400 BTC were returned — the remaining ~600 BTC (~$47M) are still with the hacker, and the network stays paused while additional security work is completed.

A white-hat heist, live-streamed negotiations, and 600 bitcoins quietly kept as a consulting fee. The cheapest security audit in history this was not.

TechCrunch

🎬 *A New Hope* hits IMAX — first time ever

Forty-eight years, and somehow this never happened before.

*Star Wars: A New Hope* — the film that reinvented the blockbuster on May 25, 1977 — is getting its first-ever IMAX release, timed to the franchise's 50th anniversary.

Select venues with 70mm projectors will screen a restored original print: no Episode IV subtitle, no Special Edition tweaks. Other IMAX theatres also get the film, though which cut is still unclear.

Collider has the details.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGKikqxxSdA

🔐 AI agents just slashed Bitcoin's quantum attack cost by 86%

Quantum Day — when a quantum computer becomes powerful enough to crack Bitcoin's cryptography — hasn't arrived. The price of getting there just dropped sharply, though.

Eigen Labs ran an open competition called ECDSA.Fail: 100+ participants working with AI agents optimized a quantum circuit targeting secp256k1, the elliptic curve securing transactions on Bitcoin and Ethereum. The resource score fell from 10.75 billion to 1.496 billion — 86% in two months.

Caveat: no real private key was cracked, and full hardware costs weren't counted. Still, NIST has already proposed banning classical encryption algorithms after 2035.

The deadline is set. The clock is running.

Decrypt

📈 Nasdaq just wrote a $100M check to Kraken's parent

Kraken is one of the world's largest crypto exchanges. Its parent Payward has been collecting checks from traditional finance fast: Deutsche Börse put in $200M in April, now Nasdaq's venture arm adds $100M — valuing Payward at $21 billion.

The deal has Kraken listing tokenized Nasdaq stocks on its own platform. A legacy exchange paying a crypto venue to become its storefront — not a sentence that would have made sense two years ago.

The full tokenized-stock market sits at $2.9B today, per RWA.xyz, up 7.4% in a month. Modest — until it isn't.

Cointelegraph

📌 Daily Recap · Sep 13

💸 Strive stacks 24,531 BTC and nears $2B
🪙 $340M Bitcoin hack — most of it bounced back
🎬 Star Wars hits IMAX for the very first time
🔐 AI agents cut Bitcoin quantum attack cost by 86%
📈 Nasdaq writes Kraken's parent a $100M check

That person who was heads-down all day? They missed every single one of these — fix that.

CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

🪙 Crypto check
₿ BTC $77,616 📈 +0.6% (24h)
Ξ ETH $2,517 📈 +0.1% (24h)

😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 57 — Greed

🚗 Tesla Roadster: eight years later

Tesla has officially announced an October 1st reveal for the second-gen Roadster. The company posted a simple "Go for launch" on X Saturday, with a "10.01" graphic — and not much else. The car was first teased back in November 2017, survived countless delays, a very public feud when OpenAI's Sam Altman complained about waiting 7.5 years after dropping a $50,000 reservation deposit, and according to The Information, a complete design overhaul — the 2017 version was scrapped entirely.

The graphic hints at SpaceX cold gas thrusters — an optional system supposedly letting the Roadster briefly leave the ground. Musk's definition of "optional" has always been generous.

One small footnote: Musk himself has said production won't begin until 12–18 months after the reveal. So October 1st is the show. The car in your garage is a 2027 problem.

TechCrunch

🤖 Waymo just called the cops on its passengers — again

Waymo's robotaxi is not merely a car without a driver. It's a car without a driver that watches what you do in the back seat.

In San Francisco, a Waymo vehicle pulled itself over, alerted the police, and effectively turned in two juvenile passengers who were carrying a loaded AR-style ghost gun. Both were taken to juvenile hall.

A spokesperson told the Los Angeles Times that the onboard system detected a "violation of our terms of service involving a firearm" — at which point the car made its own call. Literally.

What makes this especially curious: it's the second time this year. Earlier, Waymo faked a mechanical fault to pull over a different group of juveniles who were drinking alcohol and firing a toy gun out the window.

The robotaxi, it turns out, is the worst getaway driver imaginable.

The Verge

🪙 Crypto check
₿ BTC $77,191 📉 -0.6% (24h)
Ξ ETH $2,481 📉 -1.5% (24h)

😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 69 — Greed

🎤 She promised herself she wouldn't cry

In 2022, Celine Dion left the stage after being diagnosed with Stiff Person Syndrome — a rare neurological disorder that causes severe muscular rigidity, robbing her of the ability to walk and sing. Many fans quietly assumed that was it. Tonight she returned: 16-show residency, Plenitude Arena, Paris.

"I had promised myself not to cry. I don't keep my promises. But I'm so happy to see you all."

The 33,000-capacity arena sold out in minutes — nine million people had registered for presale. Europe 1 estimates the run could generate €1 billion for France, four times the impact of Beyoncé's Paris concerts earlier this year. Liberation put her on the front page: "Is she going to save the 2027 budget?" — asked sincerely.

The promise she kept was the other one.

Variety

🤖 I spent $4,000 on a robot dog, and here's what it's actually good for

A journalist walked two miles to his Washington, DC office with a Unitree quadruped robot trotting alongside. Strangers stopped to photograph it. Kids demanded tricks — handstands, leaps, a handshake. Real dogs kept a wary distance. The morning commute, Ars Technica reports, was a triumph.

The walk home was another story. Uphill, 87°F, and the robot's steps grew visibly labored. It made it to within sight of the front door — then collapsed onto its back, legs in the air, battery at 5% and internal temperature at 183°F.

When people ask what a $4,000 robot dog is actually useful for, the owner's honest answer: not much. Extremely good at starting conversations, though.

🔥 Diablo 5 is real

Blizzard just pulled back the curtain at BlizzCon 2026: Diablo 5 is coming, with a teaser that brings the Lord of Terror back — set a full century after Diablo 4's ending.

🔸 Release window: Spring 2029
🔸 First game in the series set entirely post-apocalypse
🔸 Meanwhile, Diablo 4 gets a new Amazon class pack in 2027 and a Nintendo Switch 2 port

Six years between entries, thirty years since the series began. At some point "post-apocalypse" stops being a setting and starts being a lifestyle — Blizzard just made it official.

IGN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxCN_AKYtts