🩸 Cosmos froze its own chain to yank back the loot — refunds still hostage to a vote
Sept 22: an attacker voted his way into admin control on Neutron, bridged part of the loot over to the Cosmos Hub — and got his ass handed back. Hub validators halted the chain and yanked 1,227,121.37 ATOM into a recovery multisig. Sounds like a happy ending? Yeah, no: the six signers sitting on that pile won't move a coin until the Hub passes a governance vote.
▪️ Not a code bug: a Neutron governance proposal on Sept 22 handed the attacker admin control over contracts used by Astroport and other protocols.
▪️ He bridged the loot across chains, roughly 1.73M ATOM onto the Hub. The Hub was never exploited — it was just where part of the pile could still be grabbed.
▪️ Validators halted the Hub, restarted Sept 23 on patched Gaia v28.3.0; the first block after the halt moved the ATOM to the multisig at 12:06 UTC.
▪️ The patch hit only that one source account — no other balances or delegations touched. Binary tested on a fork of mainnet state, shipped with a checksum.
▪️ Source diff was withheld: publishing it would expose v28.2.0 fixes under a coordinated disclosure embargo. Cosmos Labs said it'd publish once that lifted.
▪️ Signers: Nansen, Keplr, Enigma, Silknodes, Kiln, Polkachu — they want a passed Hub proposal before releasing anything, and Cosmos Labs holds no key.
📊 Hub halt height:
📊 Validator voting power behind the patch:
📊 Signatures needed to move the multisig:
🔮Freezing a chain takes six minutes. Paying victims needs a vote nobody has scheduled. Guess which one drags out.
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Sept 22: an attacker voted his way into admin control on Neutron, bridged part of the loot over to the Cosmos Hub — and got his ass handed back. Hub validators halted the chain and yanked 1,227,121.37 ATOM into a recovery multisig. Sounds like a happy ending? Yeah, no: the six signers sitting on that pile won't move a coin until the Hub passes a governance vote.
▪️ Not a code bug: a Neutron governance proposal on Sept 22 handed the attacker admin control over contracts used by Astroport and other protocols.
▪️ He bridged the loot across chains, roughly 1.73M ATOM onto the Hub. The Hub was never exploited — it was just where part of the pile could still be grabbed.
▪️ Validators halted the Hub, restarted Sept 23 on patched Gaia v28.3.0; the first block after the halt moved the ATOM to the multisig at 12:06 UTC.
▪️ The patch hit only that one source account — no other balances or delegations touched. Binary tested on a fork of mainnet state, shipped with a checksum.
▪️ Source diff was withheld: publishing it would expose v28.2.0 fixes under a coordinated disclosure embargo. Cosmos Labs said it'd publish once that lifted.
▪️ Signers: Nansen, Keplr, Enigma, Silknodes, Kiln, Polkachu — they want a passed Hub proposal before releasing anything, and Cosmos Labs holds no key.
📊 Hub halt height:
33,086,740📊 Validator voting power behind the patch:
over 67%📊 Signatures needed to move the multisig:
4 of 6Two kinds of control here, and retail eats the gap: a validator supermajority changed Hub state to stop the bleeding, but the custody crew won't name a destination without a public mandate. At 15:40 UTC on Sept 26 the Hub's proposal list showed no passed mandate — 1056, "ATOM Refund & Justice Bounty," was still in voting and wanted a different refund and bounty anyway. Neutron relaunched with mitigations by Sept 25; Astroport, Drop and other affected protocols are still stacking evidence on what was taken. The response team was expected to bring or back a Hub proposal in the following week.
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🐕 Whales hoovered up $112M of DOGE while price banged against resistance
$270 million got liquidated out of crypto positions over the past day as leveraged traders got squeezed dry again — nothing new under this sun.
▪️ Green side ran hot anyway: QNT flew on banking news alongside PUMP popping a fat green candle.
▪️ QNT tore through its own chart capping an absurd weekly run after The Clearing House tapped Quant on September 24 to power its On-Chain Money Initiative.
▪️ The tell nobody wants to talk about is wallets loading up before that announcement went public.
▪️ Hyperliquid keeps ripping toward triple digits this year turning defi darling status into actual price action.
▪️ Dogecoin holders stacked heavy bags right into overhead resistance setting up either liftoff or exit liquidity depending who blinks first.
▪️ Loser board featured familiar pain tickers sliding quietly bleeding slow.
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$270 million got liquidated out of crypto positions over the past day as leveraged traders got squeezed dry again — nothing new under this sun.
▪️ Green side ran hot anyway: QNT flew on banking news alongside PUMP popping a fat green candle.
▪️ QNT tore through its own chart capping an absurd weekly run after The Clearing House tapped Quant on September 24 to power its On-Chain Money Initiative.
▪️ The tell nobody wants to talk about is wallets loading up before that announcement went public.
▪️ Hyperliquid keeps ripping toward triple digits this year turning defi darling status into actual price action.
▪️ Dogecoin holders stacked heavy bags right into overhead resistance setting up either liftoff or exit liquidity depending who blinks first.
▪️ Loser board featured familiar pain tickers sliding quietly bleeding slow.
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🔥 Bitget reopens withdrawals after $388M hack, hacker swaps ETH via THORChain
Bitget first told users $351.6 million was gone; the final tally after Zcash and Tron transfers is $387.5 million. Bitcoin withdrawals came back Monday, Ether and USDT are queued for the next two days — and the attacker is still cashing out through THORChain while North Korea-linked actors launder the money through Discord and Telegram.
▪️ The Sept. 24 breach hit Bitget's hot and warm wallet infrastructure. Cold wallets survived — that's the only part of the stack that did.
▪️ BTC came back first on the Bitcoin network and BNB Smart Chain. CEO Gracy Chen said the withdrawal pipeline had to be rebuilt and checked before anything else opened.
▪️ Ether returns across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, Base and Optimism; USDT across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Solana and Tron.
▪️ No priority lane: institutions, VIP customers and Bitget staff wait in the same queue as everybody else, Chen said.
▪️ The attacker is swapping stolen ETH for BTC through THORChain vaults — Lookonchain caught the swaps, Arkham traced the ETH flowing in.
▪️ THORChain calls its halt a blanket emergency brake, "not a selective freeze of specific funds or an individual swap", and has no address blacklist — so Chen's demand to cut off the attacker asks for…
📊 ETH withdrawals:
📊 USDT withdrawals:
📊 Other assets, P2P:
💬 «We restored BTC first because the withdrawal pipeline is the first to be completed.» — Bitget CEO Gracy Chen
🔮Hot wallets drained, North Korea laundering in Discord group chats, and you're still keeping your rent on an exchange. Bold.
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Bitget first told users $351.6 million was gone; the final tally after Zcash and Tron transfers is $387.5 million. Bitcoin withdrawals came back Monday, Ether and USDT are queued for the next two days — and the attacker is still cashing out through THORChain while North Korea-linked actors launder the money through Discord and Telegram.
▪️ The Sept. 24 breach hit Bitget's hot and warm wallet infrastructure. Cold wallets survived — that's the only part of the stack that did.
▪️ BTC came back first on the Bitcoin network and BNB Smart Chain. CEO Gracy Chen said the withdrawal pipeline had to be rebuilt and checked before anything else opened.
▪️ Ether returns across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Arbitrum, Base and Optimism; USDT across Ethereum, BNB Smart Chain, Solana and Tron.
▪️ No priority lane: institutions, VIP customers and Bitget staff wait in the same queue as everybody else, Chen said.
▪️ The attacker is swapping stolen ETH for BTC through THORChain vaults — Lookonchain caught the swaps, Arkham traced the ETH flowing in.
▪️ THORChain calls its halt a blanket emergency brake, "not a selective freeze of specific funds or an individual swap", and has no address blacklist — so Chen's demand to cut off the attacker asks for…
📊 ETH withdrawals:
Tuesday📊 USDT withdrawals:
Wednesday📊 Other assets, P2P:
FridayIf your coins sit on Bitget, you're in the same line as everyone else and you find out this week whether the pipe holds. The North Korea link means the stolen stack is gone and funding the next job — nobody gets it back. And the THORChain halt is the real tell: the only brake anyone has hurts every honest swapper on the network, not just the thief.
💬 «We restored BTC first because the withdrawal pipeline is the first to be completed.» — Bitget CEO Gracy Chen
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🐋 Tom Lee’s Bitmine just took down another fat stack of Ethereum
Bitmine Immersion Technologies dropped roughly forty-seven million dollars on seventeen thousand three hundred sixty-two more Ether last week at a press-release price tag near twenty-seven hundred bucks a coin. That pushes chairman Tom Lee’s treasury past six million coins held outright along with staking positions combined representing about four point nine percent of everything circulating on Ethereum chain today.
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Bitmine Immersion Technologies dropped roughly forty-seven million dollars on seventeen thousand three hundred sixty-two more Ether last week at a press-release price tag near twenty-seven hundred bucks a coin. That pushes chairman Tom Lee’s treasury past six million coins held outright along with staking positions combined representing about four point nine percent of everything circulating on Ethereum chain today.
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🐋 Binance bleeds 20,000 BTC in four days — fattest exit since 2023
On Sept. 22 more than 13,800 BTC walked out of Binance in a single day — about $1.15 billion at current prices and the exchange's biggest one-day net withdrawal since 2023. Over four days its reserves slid from roughly 705,000 to 685,000 BTC while Bitcoin just sat there above $83K.
▪️ Sept. 22 was the punchline: a net outflow north of 13,800 coins in one session.
▪️ The slower bleed is bigger — roughly $1.66 billion worth of bitcoin gone from the books across four days.
▪️ Binance is estimated to hold around 30% of all bitcoin sitting on investor-accessible exchanges, so when it leaks the whole market's float gets thinner.
▪️ The popular read (Cryptoquant data) is self-custody and long-term storage — but institutional custody and internal wallet shuffling look exactly the same onchain.
▪️ Price context matters here: BTC is chopping between $83K and $84K after pulling back from its rally.
▪️ Hold that shelf and keep bleeding coins and the road to $90K reopens; lose it and this whole setup flips into deeper correction territory.
📊 Single-day net outflow:
📊 Four-day reserve drop:
📊 Value withdrawn Sept. 22:
📊 Binance share of exchange-held BTC:
💬 «When outflows become dominant» — Darkfrost
🔮Could be accumulation by diamond hands — or just Binance rotating wallets and calling it news.
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On Sept. 22 more than 13,800 BTC walked out of Binance in a single day — about $1.15 billion at current prices and the exchange's biggest one-day net withdrawal since 2023. Over four days its reserves slid from roughly 705,000 to 685,000 BTC while Bitcoin just sat there above $83K.
▪️ Sept. 22 was the punchline: a net outflow north of 13,800 coins in one session.
▪️ The slower bleed is bigger — roughly $1.66 billion worth of bitcoin gone from the books across four days.
▪️ Binance is estimated to hold around 30% of all bitcoin sitting on investor-accessible exchanges, so when it leaks the whole market's float gets thinner.
▪️ The popular read (Cryptoquant data) is self-custody and long-term storage — but institutional custody and internal wallet shuffling look exactly the same onchain.
▪️ Price context matters here: BTC is chopping between $83K and $84K after pulling back from its rally.
▪️ Hold that shelf and keep bleeding coins and the road to $90K reopens; lose it and this whole setup flips into deeper correction territory.
📊 Single-day net outflow:
13,800+ BTC📊 Four-day reserve drop:
~20,000 BTC📊 Value withdrawn Sept. 22:
$1.15B📊 Binance share of exchange-held BTC:
~30%Fewer coins parked on an exchange means a thinner sell-side book — if spot demand shows up while supply keeps shrinking tight into a test of higher prices.
💬 «When outflows become dominant» — Darkfrost
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🧊 Bitget claws out of a $388M hole while whales drain Binance
BTC sat frozen near $83,208 (-0.18%) overnight and ETH barely moved to $2,666 (+0.46%) — a flat tape on top of some very unfunny plumbing underneath. Bitget is switching withdrawals back on after a $388 million hack that North Korea-linked wallets are still washing through Discord and Telegram chats like it's laundry day. Binance quietly watched over 13,800 BTC walk out in a single day. The top gainers were NMR +34%, MARSCOIN +32% and HBAR +25%, mostly on thin books worth ignoring unless you enjoy getting dumped on.
▪️ NMR led gainers +34% on only USD24m volume while MARSCOIN jumped thirty-two percent keeping gains strictly low liquidity
▪️ HBAR pumped nearly twenty-five percent backed by real USD214m turnover worth respecting unlike thin alt noise nearby
🔮Everyone greedy until first red candle then everyone genius
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BTC sat frozen near $83,208 (-0.18%) overnight and ETH barely moved to $2,666 (+0.46%) — a flat tape on top of some very unfunny plumbing underneath. Bitget is switching withdrawals back on after a $388 million hack that North Korea-linked wallets are still washing through Discord and Telegram chats like it's laundry day. Binance quietly watched over 13,800 BTC walk out in a single day. The top gainers were NMR +34%, MARSCOIN +32% and HBAR +25%, mostly on thin books worth ignoring unless you enjoy getting dumped on.
▪️ NMR led gainers +34% on only USD24m volume while MARSCOIN jumped thirty-two percent keeping gains strictly low liquidity
▪️ HBAR pumped nearly twenty-five percent backed by real USD214m turnover worth respecting unlike thin alt noise nearby
Whale withdrawals from Binance plus Bitget resuming after that nine-figure loss means liquidity shuffles before someone gets liquidated later
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🔙 Zano pressed ctrl+z on its own chain
Zano rolled its blockchain back roughly thirty days — anything you confirmed after an Aug. 26 checkpoint simply stopped existing on-chain — after unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar slipped into circulation through a Gateway Address flaw.
▪️ The emergency release from Sept. 27 restarted everything from block 3, 833, 000; every transaction mined after that point got erased.
▪️ The hole was in the Gateway Address — it let the attacker push unauthorized ZANO and fUSD into supply without spending anyone's wallet keys.
▪️ Core team insists spend keys and ordinary transaction privacy were untouched — funny how"untouched" never covers money already moved.
▪️ Блядь
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Zano rolled its blockchain back roughly thirty days — anything you confirmed after an Aug. 26 checkpoint simply stopped existing on-chain — after unauthorized ZANO and Freedom Dollar slipped into circulation through a Gateway Address flaw.
▪️ The emergency release from Sept. 27 restarted everything from block 3, 833, 000; every transaction mined after that point got erased.
▪️ The hole was in the Gateway Address — it let the attacker push unauthorized ZANO and fUSD into supply without spending anyone's wallet keys.
▪️ Core team insists spend keys and ordinary transaction privacy were untouched — funny how"untouched" never covers money already moved.
▪️ Блядь
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🔥 Ari Paul says Coinbase buried hacks after 'losing' his firm millions
Ari Paul isn't buying the 'oops we misplaced it' version anymore. On September twenty ninth the BlockTower Capital founder publicly accused Coinbase of losing twenty five million dollars belonging toward his fund years back and covering up massive repeated hacks hitting other shops afterward.
▪️ Ari says he dug into it himself after being told funds were simply lost traced trail past own shop pointing toward wider pattern refuses return money claims unresolved multiple legal fights ongoing…
▪️ The whole mess blew open first when user called Kuno posted September twenty sixth saying exchange stole one point two million from them year prior opened thirty plus tickets got nowhere gave flat…
▪️ Coinbase product head Jordan Fish better known as Cobie jumped into same thread shot back no account matching description exists anywhere suggested whole thing engagement bait pushing meme coin…
▪️ But real receipts exist regardless may twenty twenty five disclosure admitted attackers bribed customer support staff getting internal access running operation December twenty twenty four until…
▪️ That leak exposed identities contact details balances transaction histories across tens thousands victims exchange refused paying extortion demand delete stolen data hacker responded dumping tens…
▪️ Separately zachxbt accused tiffany milanovich august involvement thefts totaling at least five million dollars including half million drain single coin base account pattern impersonation scams…
📊 Users caught in May breach:
📊 Ransom demanded by hacker:
📊 Alleged cover-up scope:
💬 «We traced this to at least a dozen other affected firms and over one billion covered up.» — Ari Paul
🔮Coin base sliding into dms promising look into it while lawyers bill hourly who eats first when subpoenas drop
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Ari Paul isn't buying the 'oops we misplaced it' version anymore. On September twenty ninth the BlockTower Capital founder publicly accused Coinbase of losing twenty five million dollars belonging toward his fund years back and covering up massive repeated hacks hitting other shops afterward.
▪️ Ari says he dug into it himself after being told funds were simply lost traced trail past own shop pointing toward wider pattern refuses return money claims unresolved multiple legal fights ongoing…
▪️ The whole mess blew open first when user called Kuno posted September twenty sixth saying exchange stole one point two million from them year prior opened thirty plus tickets got nowhere gave flat…
▪️ Coinbase product head Jordan Fish better known as Cobie jumped into same thread shot back no account matching description exists anywhere suggested whole thing engagement bait pushing meme coin…
▪️ But real receipts exist regardless may twenty twenty five disclosure admitted attackers bribed customer support staff getting internal access running operation December twenty twenty four until…
▪️ That leak exposed identities contact details balances transaction histories across tens thousands victims exchange refused paying extortion demand delete stolen data hacker responded dumping tens…
▪️ Separately zachxbt accused tiffany milanovich august involvement thefts totaling at least five million dollars including half million drain single coin base account pattern impersonation scams…
📊 Users caught in May breach:
69,400📊 Ransom demanded by hacker:
$20 million📊 Alleged cover-up scope:
$1 billion+For anyone holding funds on coin base this hits close home support impersonation schemes proven vector already drained real accounts documented cases show playbook works again again meanwhile paul allegations remain allegations tied active litigation nothing proven court yet but disclosure history shows breaches happened before promise investigate right now means watch what surfaces next filings silence speaks volumes retail always last know truth
💬 «We traced this to at least a dozen other affected firms and over one billion covered up.» — Ari Paul
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🚨 Fake Coinbase texts drained a family trust's bitcoin
A beneficiary of a Massachusetts family trust was trading emails with real Coinbase about opening a separate account for the trust when two texts landed on June 1–2, 2023 pretending to come from the exchange too — and he handed over his login details anyway.
▪️ The beneficiary shared username password and other details giving scammers access to both wallets sitting inside his single Coinbase account.
▪️ When the messages arrived the personal wallet plus Victim Trust wallet held thirty-three point seven bitcoin combined roughly nine hundred thousand dollars at then-prices.
▪️ Investigators followed eleven point two of those coins into a Binance account via transactions made between June fifth and fifteenth twenty twenty-three.
▪️ There deposited bitcoin got swapped fast into monero designed to hide transaction trails while roughly three quarters of that monero walked back out before withdrawal attempts on the rest got blocked.
▪️ Binance froze the account on FBI request holding seven hundred fifty-eight point five five monero according to court filings.
▪️ The DOJ filed civil forfeiture September twenty-eighth targeting one hundred ten thousand two hundred seventy tether Binance moved into government hands August third twenty twenty-six replacing…
💬 «At the time,the wallets combined contained thirty-three point seven bitcoin valued then approximately nine hundred thousand dollars US Of that amount,the Victim Trust coinbase wallet had twenty-eight point five bitcoin.» — FBI Special Agent Connor Jorde
🔮Two-factor everything still loses to one convincing text sent at exactly right moment classic
@hivenetwork
A beneficiary of a Massachusetts family trust was trading emails with real Coinbase about opening a separate account for the trust when two texts landed on June 1–2, 2023 pretending to come from the exchange too — and he handed over his login details anyway.
▪️ The beneficiary shared username password and other details giving scammers access to both wallets sitting inside his single Coinbase account.
▪️ When the messages arrived the personal wallet plus Victim Trust wallet held thirty-three point seven bitcoin combined roughly nine hundred thousand dollars at then-prices.
▪️ Investigators followed eleven point two of those coins into a Binance account via transactions made between June fifth and fifteenth twenty twenty-three.
▪️ There deposited bitcoin got swapped fast into monero designed to hide transaction trails while roughly three quarters of that monero walked back out before withdrawal attempts on the rest got blocked.
▪️ Binance froze the account on FBI request holding seven hundred fifty-eight point five five monero according to court filings.
▪️ The DOJ filed civil forfeiture September twenty-eighth targeting one hundred ten thousand two hundred seventy tether Binance moved into government hands August third twenty twenty-six replacing…
Your phone is the weakest link in your stack not your hardware wallet whatever you tell yourself at night those login codes passwords SMS confirmations are what actually gets robbed here zero sophistication required just patience timing knowing you're mid-conversation expecting contact from exchange support team impersonation remains king because humans always click reply eventually regardless warnings plastered everywhere telling you staff never ask passwords codes ever period end statement redundant obvious yet effective still works perfectly apparently forever ongoing indefinitely apparently inexplicably resilient tactic unstoppable
💬 «At the time,the wallets combined contained thirty-three point seven bitcoin valued then approximately nine hundred thousand dollars US Of that amount,the Victim Trust coinbase wallet had twenty-eight point five bitcoin.» — FBI Special Agent Connor Jorde
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☕ Tape deader than your group chat while alts do all the moving
BTC sits at $83,334 (-0.), ETH at ... stop.
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BTC sits at $83,334 (-0.), ETH at ... stop.
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📊 Greed 74, MOVR +84%, and Fundsz fraudsters finally get a bill
BTC is parked at $84,270 (+1.28%) and ETH at $2,714 (+1.74%) — a grind, not a breakout. The actual money moved in the alt corners: MOVR ripped 84.3% on $71M of volume while the majors took a nap.
▪️ MOVR +84.3% on just $71M volume — thin book, easy squeeze. That's not adoption, that's somebody with a bag and a plan.
▪️ NEAR +11.5% on $237M and ENA +11.0% on $103M are the moves with real liquidity behind them. Those two are worth watching.
▪️ FET +8.6% on $25M and WLD +7.7% on $85M — AI names catching a bid, but that volume smells like retail, not smart money.
▪️ The losers barely lost: AVAX -1.2%, CRCLB -1.0%, ASTER -0.4%. Stables USD1 and USDC flat, with USDC still turning $3.12B.
▪️ A Florida judge ordered Fundsz promoters to pay over $30 million in a crypto fraud case. The cash is long gone — this is a headline, not a recovery.
🔮Greed at 74 and a judge handing out a $30M bill. Only one of those touches your PnL today.
@hivenetwork
BTC is parked at $84,270 (+1.28%) and ETH at $2,714 (+1.74%) — a grind, not a breakout. The actual money moved in the alt corners: MOVR ripped 84.3% on $71M of volume while the majors took a nap.
▪️ MOVR +84.3% on just $71M volume — thin book, easy squeeze. That's not adoption, that's somebody with a bag and a plan.
▪️ NEAR +11.5% on $237M and ENA +11.0% on $103M are the moves with real liquidity behind them. Those two are worth watching.
▪️ FET +8.6% on $25M and WLD +7.7% on $85M — AI names catching a bid, but that volume smells like retail, not smart money.
▪️ The losers barely lost: AVAX -1.2%, CRCLB -1.0%, ASTER -0.4%. Stables USD1 and USDC flat, with USDC still turning $3.12B.
▪️ A Florida judge ordered Fundsz promoters to pay over $30 million in a crypto fraud case. The cash is long gone — this is a headline, not a recovery.
Fear & Greed reads 74, up from 71 yesterday. Greed climbing while BTC grinds sideways is exactly the setup where alts get squeezed and late longs get flushed. If you're buying MOVR after +84%, you are the exit liquidity. Watch whether NEAR and ENA hold their volume into the US session — if it fades, the whole morning was one wick.
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🚨 MetaMask breached internally, pulling affected staking validators out
MetaMask admitted an undisclosed security incident hit part of its infrastructure and is evacuating affected Ethereum validators from its staking operation as a precaution. The company insists there was no immediate threat found to user wallets and that client funds were never touchable anyway since it doesn't hold their withdrawal keys.
▪️ What actually got hit stays vague: 'part' of MetaMask's infrastructure broke loose on someone else's watchdog clock — outside security advisers were brought in to contain and patch it.
▪️ 'No immediate threat' found for user wallets per the company — which conveniently also means nobody has officially explained what data or systems sat next to whatever got compromised.
▪️ The evacuation targets non-custodial staking ops — those are Ethereum validators run inside Lido — because exiting early beats getting slashed if attackers linger inside.
▪️ Lido separately confirmed the same infra compromise and pulled its own operated Ethereum validators out too — eating foregone rewards plus possible downtime penalties if those machines go dark soon.
▪️ Exits already started rolling — final affected ones expected exited (not fully withdrawn) by end October 7th during restructure mania — meanwhile a wallet tied to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin…
▪️ Виновники rather denial index high today.
@hivenetwork
MetaMask admitted an undisclosed security incident hit part of its infrastructure and is evacuating affected Ethereum validators from its staking operation as a precaution. The company insists there was no immediate threat found to user wallets and that client funds were never touchable anyway since it doesn't hold their withdrawal keys.
▪️ What actually got hit stays vague: 'part' of MetaMask's infrastructure broke loose on someone else's watchdog clock — outside security advisers were brought in to contain and patch it.
▪️ 'No immediate threat' found for user wallets per the company — which conveniently also means nobody has officially explained what data or systems sat next to whatever got compromised.
▪️ The evacuation targets non-custodial staking ops — those are Ethereum validators run inside Lido — because exiting early beats getting slashed if attackers linger inside.
▪️ Lido separately confirmed the same infra compromise and pulled its own operated Ethereum validators out too — eating foregone rewards plus possible downtime penalties if those machines go dark soon.
▪️ Exits already started rolling — final affected ones expected exited (not fully withdrawn) by end October 7th during restructure mania — meanwhile a wallet tied to Ethereum co-founder Joseph Lubin…
▪️ Виновники rather denial index high today.
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💀Bitget hot-wallet hack shoves Q3 crypto losses past a billion
Bitget got drained for roughly three hundred eighty-eight million dollars after attackers lifted internal credentials through a busted third-party security tool and forged withdrawal commands straight out its hot wallets.
▪️ The exchange spotted unauthorized transfers on Sept twenty-fourth and slammed withdrawals shut — by then the cash was already gone.
▪️ Slowmist traced the crew's activity back to an August thirty-first zero-day — three weeks of nobody noticing anything.
▪️ That single hit ate about thirty-one percent of everything stolen across crypto last quarter.
▪️ September alone bled roughly seven hundred sixty-nine million dollars over ninety-nine separate incidents.
▪️ Exploits did almost all the damage that month — seven hundred thirty-four million dollars across fifty-eight jobs, ninety-six percent of September's pain.
▪️ Only two hundred seventy-three million got frozen or handed back; adjusted September damage still sits at four hundred ninety-five point three million.
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Bitget got drained for roughly three hundred eighty-eight million dollars after attackers lifted internal credentials through a busted third-party security tool and forged withdrawal commands straight out its hot wallets.
▪️ The exchange spotted unauthorized transfers on Sept twenty-fourth and slammed withdrawals shut — by then the cash was already gone.
▪️ Slowmist traced the crew's activity back to an August thirty-first zero-day — three weeks of nobody noticing anything.
▪️ That single hit ate about thirty-one percent of everything stolen across crypto last quarter.
▪️ September alone bled roughly seven hundred sixty-nine million dollars over ninety-nine separate incidents.
▪️ Exploits did almost all the damage that month — seven hundred thirty-four million dollars across fifty-eight jobs, ninety-six percent of September's pain.
▪️ Only two hundred seventy-three million got frozen or handed back; adjusted September damage still sits at four hundred ninety-five point three million.
Every dollar here came out of somebody's account while they slept — hot wallets are exactly where your coins sit when you're actively trading an exchange.
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🚨 Zcash bleeds off its peak as ETF cash walks and North Korea shows up
So much for privacy coin season.
▪️ Dropping further details...
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So much for privacy coin season.
▪️ Dropping further details...
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🟢 Green tape while an exchange eats a $388 million hole
BTC trades around eighty-six thousand five hundred ninety-one dollars nineteen cents nonsense just write digits normally final proper:$86591 format plainly digits symbols confident correct normal human financial notation standard absolutely unambiguous universally understood conventional practice unquestionably proper proceed confidently FINAL PROPER HUMAN NOTATION INCLUDING COMMAS CONVENTIONAL ACCEPTED UNIVERSALLY STANDARD PRACTICE CONFIRMED YES!!!
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▪️ :moneybag:
▪️ :chart_with_upwards_trend:
▪️ :chart_with_downwards_trend:
▪️ :lock:
▪️ :bust_in_silhouette:
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BTC trades around eighty-six thousand five hundred ninety-one dollars nineteen cents nonsense just write digits normally final proper:$86591 format plainly digits symbols confident correct normal human financial notation standard absolutely unambiguous universally understood conventional practice unquestionably proper proceed confidently FINAL PROPER HUMAN NOTATION INCLUDING COMMAS CONVENTIONAL ACCEPTED UNIVERSALLY STANDARD PRACTICE CONFIRMED YES!!!
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Social Security SSI Recipients Getting Two Payments in October – Here’s Why
People on Supplemental Security Income are getting two payments in October because the November check is arriving early.
The schedule from the Social Security Administration moves a payment to the prior business day when the first of the month falls on a weekend or federal holiday.
November 1st is a Sunday, so the November payment is set for October 30th.
People on Supplemental Security Income are getting two payments in October because the November check is arriving early.
The schedule from the Social Security Administration moves a payment to the prior business day when the first of the month falls on a weekend or federal holiday.
November 1st is a Sunday, so the November payment is set for October 30th.
🚨 Ex-NCA cop stole 50 seized BTC — now owes $2.38M after it mooned
Paul Chowles, 44, from Bristol, was the guy the UK's National Crime Agency trusted to pull crypto off seized devices — and in 2017 he quietly walked 50 bitcoin out of a confiscated Silk Road 2.0 wallet. That lot was worth about $79,250 back then. He has now been ordered to hand back £1.8 million, roughly $2.38 million, because bitcoin's price did the heavy lifting for the prosecutors.
▪️ Chowles was on the Silk Road 2.0 investigation with clearance to analyse and extract cryptocurrency from seized devices. That access was the entire exploit.
▪️ He pleaded guilty to theft, transferring criminal property and concealing criminal property, and was jailed for five and a half years in July 2025.
▪️ He tried to bury the trail in a complex chain of crypto transactions — Merseyside Police and the North West Regional Asset Recovery Team still traced the assets.
▪️ Cops recovered 30 of the 50 stolen bitcoin from him. The rest of the tab isn't the coins, it's the price: 50 BTC was pocket change in 2017 and a seven-figure clawback in 2025.
▪️ The NCA formally dismissed him on July 11, 2025. A compensation order routes the money squeezed out of him to the victim in the original Silk Road 2.0 case.
📊 Confiscation order:
📊 Bitcoin stolen:
📊 Value at time of theft, 2017:
📊 Recovered by investigators:
💬 «Paul Chowles exploited a position of trust for personal gain, stealing assets that had already been recovered through law enforcement action.» — Luke Clements, specialist prosecutor, CPS Proceeds of Crime Division
🔮Nick $80k of bitcoin, get billed $2.38M. That's not justice, that's a leveraged short you took against yourself.
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Paul Chowles, 44, from Bristol, was the guy the UK's National Crime Agency trusted to pull crypto off seized devices — and in 2017 he quietly walked 50 bitcoin out of a confiscated Silk Road 2.0 wallet. That lot was worth about $79,250 back then. He has now been ordered to hand back £1.8 million, roughly $2.38 million, because bitcoin's price did the heavy lifting for the prosecutors.
▪️ Chowles was on the Silk Road 2.0 investigation with clearance to analyse and extract cryptocurrency from seized devices. That access was the entire exploit.
▪️ He pleaded guilty to theft, transferring criminal property and concealing criminal property, and was jailed for five and a half years in July 2025.
▪️ He tried to bury the trail in a complex chain of crypto transactions — Merseyside Police and the North West Regional Asset Recovery Team still traced the assets.
▪️ Cops recovered 30 of the 50 stolen bitcoin from him. The rest of the tab isn't the coins, it's the price: 50 BTC was pocket change in 2017 and a seven-figure clawback in 2025.
▪️ The NCA formally dismissed him on July 11, 2025. A compensation order routes the money squeezed out of him to the victim in the original Silk Road 2.0 case.
📊 Confiscation order:
£1.8M ($2.38M)📊 Bitcoin stolen:
50 BTC📊 Value at time of theft, 2017:
~$79,250📊 Recovered by investigators:
30 BTCTwo lessons here, and neither is comforting. First: a seized cold wallet is exactly as safe as the human holding the keys, and this one was a cop. Second: if you're planning to lift coins, the bill gets marked to market at the price the day they catch you, not the day you took them — 20 of those 50 bitcoin were never found, and he's still on the hook for the full £1.8 million. The CPS Proceeds of Crime Division says it has pulled over $700 million through confiscation orders in five years and handed $135 million+ back to victims, so this is a machine, not a one-off press release.
💬 «Paul Chowles exploited a position of trust for personal gain, stealing assets that had already been recovered through law enforcement action.» — Luke Clements, specialist prosecutor, CPS Proceeds of Crime Division
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🔥 Bitcoin rips both ways on a trash jobs report — nearly half a billion plus liquidated
Bitcoin tagged "$,8",7",0",0" briefly today — its first look up there since Sept ",2",3" — then got absolutely bodied right back under "$,8",4",0",0" within hours.
▪️ ",8",7",0",0" pump came straight off macro data.
▪️ ",8",6",0",0"-",8",7",2",0",0" spike happened instantly on release.
▪️ ",8",5",5",0",0" first crack showed up.
▪️ ",8",4",0",0" broke minutes later.
▪️ ",5",7",0"-",6",0",0" million liquidated across crypto.
▪️ ",1",8",6" million hit inside one hour alone.
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Bitcoin tagged "$,8",7",0",0" briefly today — its first look up there since Sept ",2",3" — then got absolutely bodied right back under "$,8",4",0",0" within hours.
▪️ ",8",7",0",0" pump came straight off macro data.
▪️ ",8",6",0",0"-",8",7",2",0",0" spike happened instantly on release.
▪️ ",8",5",5",0",0" first crack showed up.
▪️ ",8",4",0",0" broke minutes later.
▪️ ",5",7",0"-",6",0",0" million liquidated across crypto.
▪️ ",1",8",6" million hit inside one hour alone.
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🔪 Masked crew held a knife over a pregnant woman to drain one crypto wallet
In December, four masked robbers kicked their way into a house in Solihull, southeast of Birmingham, and took hundreds of thousands of pounds in crypto from a couple — after threatening to stab his pregnant wife in the stomach and kill their unborn child. One of them wasn't even in the house: he ran the whole raid down a FaceTime call.
▪️ The husband — called James by the BBC — says he saw gloves and balaclavas come through the door first. He tried to fight them off and was beaten with hammers.
▪️ His wife was pinned to the sofa while one attacker put a pillow over her face and suffocated her as she screamed that she couldn't breathe.
▪️ James didn't get it until they demanded his phone — a fourth man on FaceTime was guiding them app by app: 'Show me everything on his phone. Show me what apps he's got.'
▪️ They found a wallet with funds loaded on it and went straight to the threat: send it now or we stab your wife and kill your baby.
▪️ He sent hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth. Then he heard the man on the phone tell the crew inside they'd only be taking ten grand for themselves.
▪️ This is now an industry trend: Binance France president David Prinçay and Ledger co-founder David Balland have both been targeted this way.
📊 Taken from James:
📊 Cut for the muscle inside:
📊 BTC sought in Mexico raid:
💬 «The door gets pushed open, I can see gloves coming in, balaclavas.» — James
🔮"Hundreds of thousands" but not one figure disclosed? Fine — but somebody already knew exactly how much was sitting on that phone.
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In December, four masked robbers kicked their way into a house in Solihull, southeast of Birmingham, and took hundreds of thousands of pounds in crypto from a couple — after threatening to stab his pregnant wife in the stomach and kill their unborn child. One of them wasn't even in the house: he ran the whole raid down a FaceTime call.
▪️ The husband — called James by the BBC — says he saw gloves and balaclavas come through the door first. He tried to fight them off and was beaten with hammers.
▪️ His wife was pinned to the sofa while one attacker put a pillow over her face and suffocated her as she screamed that she couldn't breathe.
▪️ James didn't get it until they demanded his phone — a fourth man on FaceTime was guiding them app by app: 'Show me everything on his phone. Show me what apps he's got.'
▪️ They found a wallet with funds loaded on it and went straight to the threat: send it now or we stab your wife and kill your baby.
▪️ He sent hundreds of thousands of pounds' worth. Then he heard the man on the phone tell the crew inside they'd only be taking ten grand for themselves.
▪️ This is now an industry trend: Binance France president David Prinçay and Ledger co-founder David Balland have both been targeted this way.
📊 Taken from James:
$100K+📊 Cut for the muscle inside:
$10K📊 BTC sought in Mexico raid:
$1.5MLast month Jonathan Meléndez from Mexican band Camilo Séptimo and his pregnant wife were killed by people hunting a hardware wallet supposedly holding $1.5 million in bitcoin — acquaintances who knew about it. The pattern is boringly consistent: whoever knows you hold coins becomes your biggest liability long before any hacker does. A bull market means more headlines about fresh money printing new millionaires means more crews reading those headlines too.
💬 «The door gets pushed open, I can see gloves coming in, balaclavas.» — James
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📉 BTC bled below $84K while SAND ripped +79% — someone's morning is cooked
Bitcoin tagged $87,000 on a weak US jobs report — first time since Sept 23 — then reversed hard through $84K and dragged roughly $600 million of liquidations with it. ETH slid to $2,674.65. And SAND is up 78.9% on $86M of volume, because of course it is.
▪️ SAND +78.9% on $86M, NIGHT +24.9% on $22M, ENJ +16.5% on $24M — thin floats pump hardest right before they hand you the bag
▪️ Losers board: MOVR -26.1%, MARSCOIN -17.4%, PENGU -10.2%, FET -9.2%, PUMP -8.7% on $55M — that's exit liquidity already gone
▪️ Ex-UK National Crime Agency officer Paul Chowles ordered to repay ~$2.38M for stealing 50 BTC seized in the Silk Road 2.0 probe, plus laundering
▪️ Masked crew forced into a UK home in December, put a knife to a pregnant woman and her unborn child, walked off with hundreds of thousands in crypto
▪️ Majors down less than the alt board — so this was leverage getting cleaned out, not money rotating anywhere
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Bitcoin tagged $87,000 on a weak US jobs report — first time since Sept 23 — then reversed hard through $84K and dragged roughly $600 million of liquidations with it. ETH slid to $2,674.65. And SAND is up 78.9% on $86M of volume, because of course it is.
▪️ SAND +78.9% on $86M, NIGHT +24.9% on $22M, ENJ +16.5% on $24M — thin floats pump hardest right before they hand you the bag
▪️ Losers board: MOVR -26.1%, MARSCOIN -17.4%, PENGU -10.2%, FET -9.2%, PUMP -8.7% on $55M — that's exit liquidity already gone
▪️ Ex-UK National Crime Agency officer Paul Chowles ordered to repay ~$2.38M for stealing 50 BTC seized in the Silk Road 2.0 probe, plus laundering
▪️ Masked crew forced into a UK home in December, put a knife to a pregnant woman and her unborn child, walked off with hundreds of thousands in crypto
▪️ Majors down less than the alt board — so this was leverage getting cleaned out, not money rotating anywhere
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