🕵️ Brooklyn DA and FBI wreck a crypto scam that bled Russian-speaking Americans dry
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI just took apart an international crypto scam that stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking Americans, many of them Brooklyn residents. The sting was the classic one: sell the victims an "investment", then come back and sell them a fake way out.
▪️ Step one: victims were pulled into an "elaborate investment scheme" and the money went into cryptocurrency that investigators then traced.
▪️ Step two: weeks after the theft, the same crew called the same people back, claiming they could recover the stolen funds. That's a recovery scam, feeding on people who already lost everything.
▪️ The Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit traced the coins and mapped the tech stack behind the operation, then brought in the FBI to pull it apart.
▪️ Prosecutors call it one of the largest cyber enforcement actions ever run by a local prosecutor's office.
▪️ Same office, last year: a man who impersonated crypto exchange support staff took nearly $16 million from about 100 victims. He pleaded guilty and was recently sentenced to up to 12 years.
📊 Scam websites taken down:
📊 Servers taken down:
💬 «When scammers halfway around the world target Brooklyn residents, they should know they are not beyond our reach.» — Eric Gonzalez
🔮Sites are down, but the 'recovery' crew that called victims back twice isn't in cuffs yet. Who's next?
@hivenetwork
Brooklyn prosecutors and the FBI just took apart an international crypto scam that stole tens of millions of dollars from Russian-speaking Americans, many of them Brooklyn residents. The sting was the classic one: sell the victims an "investment", then come back and sell them a fake way out.
▪️ Step one: victims were pulled into an "elaborate investment scheme" and the money went into cryptocurrency that investigators then traced.
▪️ Step two: weeks after the theft, the same crew called the same people back, claiming they could recover the stolen funds. That's a recovery scam, feeding on people who already lost everything.
▪️ The Brooklyn DA's Virtual Currency Unit traced the coins and mapped the tech stack behind the operation, then brought in the FBI to pull it apart.
▪️ Prosecutors call it one of the largest cyber enforcement actions ever run by a local prosecutor's office.
▪️ Same office, last year: a man who impersonated crypto exchange support staff took nearly $16 million from about 100 victims. He pleaded guilty and was recently sentenced to up to 12 years.
📊 Scam websites taken down:
241📊 Servers taken down:
112If you or anyone in your chat already got burned by one of these 'investment' outfits, the recovery guy who calls you next is the same scam wearing a new hat. The takedown hit domains and servers, and the release says nothing about arrests of the people running it. The sites are gone; the operators are not mentioned as caught.
💬 «When scammers halfway around the world target Brooklyn residents, they should know they are not beyond our reach.» — Eric Gonzalez
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@hivenetwork
📊 BTC -2.7%, ETH -5.6%: whales buy, Fear & Greed cools to 53
BTC sits at $81,236 (-2.69% in 24h) and ETH at $2,366.18 (-5.56%), so the red is real but not a crash. Holders of 1,000+ BTC are buying again, while the Fear & Greed index slid from greed to neutral.
▪️ WAL +34.1% on $50M volume: the only real rocket on the board. The digest doesn't say why, so check the reason before you chase.
▪️ ZEC -11.9% on $265M volume: the biggest volume among losers. That's someone actually selling, not a thin-book wiggle.
▪️ PUMP -13.7% on $40M and ENA -11.2% on $56M: memecoin and L2 names bleeding, and the feed doesn't explain it.
▪️ SOXLB -15.6% on just $23M: thin liquidity, easy to move, easy to get trapped in.
▪️ USDC and USD1 show big volume ($4.1B and $205M) at 0.0%: that's stablecoin plumbing, not a signal. Don't read it as bullish.
▪️ Wintermute outflow: an unidentified buyer pulled 1,162 BTC (about $96.77M) into five fresh wallets. That's the classic move to hide who's accumulating, and Cryptoquant says whales now hold 3.03M BTC,…
🔮Whales loading while Fear & Greed drops to neutral. Who's holding the bag this time?
@hivenetwork
BTC sits at $81,236 (-2.69% in 24h) and ETH at $2,366.18 (-5.56%), so the red is real but not a crash. Holders of 1,000+ BTC are buying again, while the Fear & Greed index slid from greed to neutral.
▪️ WAL +34.1% on $50M volume: the only real rocket on the board. The digest doesn't say why, so check the reason before you chase.
▪️ ZEC -11.9% on $265M volume: the biggest volume among losers. That's someone actually selling, not a thin-book wiggle.
▪️ PUMP -13.7% on $40M and ENA -11.2% on $56M: memecoin and L2 names bleeding, and the feed doesn't explain it.
▪️ SOXLB -15.6% on just $23M: thin liquidity, easy to move, easy to get trapped in.
▪️ USDC and USD1 show big volume ($4.1B and $205M) at 0.0%: that's stablecoin plumbing, not a signal. Don't read it as bullish.
▪️ Wintermute outflow: an unidentified buyer pulled 1,162 BTC (about $96.77M) into five fresh wallets. That's the classic move to hide who's accumulating, and Cryptoquant says whales now hold 3.03M BTC,…
Fear & Greed at 53 (Neutral), down from 62 yesterday: greed is leaking out, not panic. The index says the crowd has lost conviction, and the violent moves are in small caps and thin books, which is exactly where liquidation cascades start. The only bullish counter-signal in the feed is the whales quietly loading up.
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@hivenetwork
🪙 Nasdaq-listed Tron sells its own stock to buy more TRX
Nasdaq-listed Tron (TRON) filed for an at-the-market share offering of up to $200M, selling its own common stock to pile into TRX. Stock holders are funding the coin bag, and the shares are already bleeding.
▪️ ATM means no one-time deal: the company sells new common stock into the open market in chunks, whenever it feels like it.
▪️ Clear Street is the agent doing the selling and keeps a commission on gross proceeds.
▪️ Proceeds go to TRX purchases on top of the existing daily buying program, announced in February.
▪️ The treasury holds 718.9M TRX after its latest buy: 149,369 TRX at an average $0.3347 on Thursday.
▪️ The daily program was set at about $50,000 of TRX a day for 360 consecutive days, so the ATM is what actually scales the bag.
▪️ Shares opened lower on Thursday and were already down roughly 67% over 12 months, according to Yahoo Finance.
📊 TRX in treasury:
📊 Max commission to agent:
📊 Daily TRX buy plan:
📊 Shares at Thursday open:
🔮Who is the exit liquidity here: the TRX holders or the people buying the shares?
@hivenetwork
Nasdaq-listed Tron (TRON) filed for an at-the-market share offering of up to $200M, selling its own common stock to pile into TRX. Stock holders are funding the coin bag, and the shares are already bleeding.
▪️ ATM means no one-time deal: the company sells new common stock into the open market in chunks, whenever it feels like it.
▪️ Clear Street is the agent doing the selling and keeps a commission on gross proceeds.
▪️ Proceeds go to TRX purchases on top of the existing daily buying program, announced in February.
▪️ The treasury holds 718.9M TRX after its latest buy: 149,369 TRX at an average $0.3347 on Thursday.
▪️ The daily program was set at about $50,000 of TRX a day for 360 consecutive days, so the ATM is what actually scales the bag.
▪️ Shares opened lower on Thursday and were already down roughly 67% over 12 months, according to Yahoo Finance.
📊 TRX in treasury:
718.9M📊 Max commission to agent:
3%📊 Daily TRX buy plan:
$50K📊 Shares at Thursday open:
-4.7%If you hold TRON shares, the new stock supply is the problem: every ATM sale adds shares to a stock already sliding, and the commission comes off the top. The treasury is worth about $237M on paper, so the gap between that and the share price is what you should be watching. Anyone chasing TRX as a pump should notice the buyer is a company that has to keep selling stock to keep buying.
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@hivenetwork
🌅 BTC $82,250, Greed at 63, and the top 'losers' are stablecoins doing nothing
BTC is at $82,250 (+1.25% in 24h) and ETH at $2,448.89 (+3.48%). Fear & Greed climbed to 63 (Greed) from 53 yesterday, so the room is getting cocky again.
▪️ INJ +25.6% on only $40M volume and ZRO +21.4% on $24M. Thin volume that spikes this hard is a book someone can walk through. Don't call it a trend yet.
▪️ STRK +14.3% on $65M. NEAR +11.8% on $212M and ZEC +11.2% on $234M. The real money is in NEAR and ZEC, and the data gives no catalyst for any of these moves.
▪️ Top losers: USD1, RLUSD, USDC, U and FDUSD, all within ±0.1%. USDC alone traded $3.6B. Nobody lost anything here, the stables just moved around.
▪️ Criminals stole an estimated $90M in crypto by tampering with hardware wallets, a supply chain attack that the item says could erode user trust.
▪️ Nasdaq-listed Tron treasury company holds about $237M in TRX and set up a $200M at-the-market offering to fund more TRX buys.
▪️ CoreWeave co-founders sold $3.3B in stock since the IPO while shares declined. Investors read it as a concern about AI infrastructure financial stability.
🔮Greed at 63 while the biggest 'losers' are stablecoins. Who is actually getting sold to today?
@hivenetwork
BTC is at $82,250 (+1.25% in 24h) and ETH at $2,448.89 (+3.48%). Fear & Greed climbed to 63 (Greed) from 53 yesterday, so the room is getting cocky again.
▪️ INJ +25.6% on only $40M volume and ZRO +21.4% on $24M. Thin volume that spikes this hard is a book someone can walk through. Don't call it a trend yet.
▪️ STRK +14.3% on $65M. NEAR +11.8% on $212M and ZEC +11.2% on $234M. The real money is in NEAR and ZEC, and the data gives no catalyst for any of these moves.
▪️ Top losers: USD1, RLUSD, USDC, U and FDUSD, all within ±0.1%. USDC alone traded $3.6B. Nobody lost anything here, the stables just moved around.
▪️ Criminals stole an estimated $90M in crypto by tampering with hardware wallets, a supply chain attack that the item says could erode user trust.
▪️ Nasdaq-listed Tron treasury company holds about $237M in TRX and set up a $200M at-the-market offering to fund more TRX buys.
▪️ CoreWeave co-founders sold $3.3B in stock since the IPO while shares declined. Investors read it as a concern about AI infrastructure financial stability.
Greed is rising while the strongest moves run on small volume, so a reversal in INJ or ZRO would hit fast. The Pirate Chain rollback is a governance fight, and whether the team gets it through decides whether ARRR holders get their coins back or eat the mint. Watch whether NEAR and ZEC volume holds today.
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@hivenetwork
🐋 XRP-киты гонят монеты на Binance: максимум за семь месяцев
Крупные холдеры XRP за последние 30 дней перевели на Binance 1.669 млрд токенов, и по данным CryptoQuant (автор анализа Arab Chain) это самый высокий показатель с начала весны. Цена при этом держится около $1.33 после хреновго октября, и китов на бирже пока никто не назвал продавцами.
▪️ Метрика считает скользящие 30 дней переводов от крупных холдеров на Binance. В сентябре пик был около 1.65 млрд, потом откат, и вот теперь снова выше.
▪️ Пятёрка лидеров по учтённым балансам: Upbit ~6.44 млрд XRP, Coinbase 5.84 млрд, Binance 2.76 млрд, Bithumb 1.85 млрд, Uphold 1.75 млрд. Вместе это около 84.5% всего, что видит датасет.
▪️ Выборка: 699 публичных кошельков, 24 биржи, срез XRP Insights на 15 октября. Неизвестные кошельки в неё не попали, так что цифры это оценка, а не инвентаризация.
▪️ Главный подвох: большая часть XRP на биржах принадлежит клиентам, часть это токенизированные резервы и операционные деньги. Заход на биржу не равен выставленному ордеру на продажу.
▪️ Цена: в октябрь XRP вошёл около $1.49, с тех пор отдал 10–12%. За последнюю неделю минус 5–8% в зависимости от того, как считать.
📊 Стоимость 1.669 млрд XRP по $1.33:
📊 Все публичные биржевые кошельки:
📊 Прирост Binance за неделю:
💬 «Increased whale inflows to centralized exchanges can increase the amount of XRP available for trading, potentially raising the risk of selling pressure» — CryptoQuant (research by Arab Chain)
🔮Депозит не равен продаже, но и подарком кошелька это тоже не назовёшь. Кто уже в шорте, а кто ждёт, когда киты первыми нажмут кнопку?
@hivenetwork
Крупные холдеры XRP за последние 30 дней перевели на Binance 1.669 млрд токенов, и по данным CryptoQuant (автор анализа Arab Chain) это самый высокий показатель с начала весны. Цена при этом держится около $1.33 после хреновго октября, и китов на бирже пока никто не назвал продавцами.
▪️ Метрика считает скользящие 30 дней переводов от крупных холдеров на Binance. В сентябре пик был около 1.65 млрд, потом откат, и вот теперь снова выше.
▪️ Пятёрка лидеров по учтённым балансам: Upbit ~6.44 млрд XRP, Coinbase 5.84 млрд, Binance 2.76 млрд, Bithumb 1.85 млрд, Uphold 1.75 млрд. Вместе это около 84.5% всего, что видит датасет.
▪️ Выборка: 699 публичных кошельков, 24 биржи, срез XRP Insights на 15 октября. Неизвестные кошельки в неё не попали, так что цифры это оценка, а не инвентаризация.
▪️ Главный подвох: большая часть XRP на биржах принадлежит клиентам, часть это токенизированные резервы и операционные деньги. Заход на биржу не равен выставленному ордеру на продажу.
▪️ Цена: в октябрь XRP вошёл около $1.49, с тех пор отдал 10–12%. За последнюю неделю минус 5–8% в зависимости от того, как считать.
📊 Стоимость 1.669 млрд XRP по $1.33:
~$2.22 млрд📊 Все публичные биржевые кошельки:
22.06 млрд XRP📊 Прирост Binance за неделю:
+54.6 млн XRPЕсли вы в лонгах по XRP около $1.33, эти депозиты для вас не абстракция: каждый перевод это потенциальный стакан продаж. Аналитик сам предупреждает, что рост депозитов не обязательно означает продажу, так что пока это скорее вопрос, а не приговор. Следите за тем, перейдут ли эти монеты в ордера на Binance, и за тем, удержится ли цена выше $1.28–1.29.
💬 «Increased whale inflows to centralized exchanges can increase the amount of XRP available for trading, potentially raising the risk of selling pressure» — CryptoQuant (research by Arab Chain)
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@hivenetwork
🔫 Crypto exchange owner snatched at gunpoint, and the kidnappers had army-issue ammo
Toronto police charged seven men, three of them Canadian Armed Forces members, over the July abduction of a crypto exchange owner. That's 82 charges, including kidnapping for ransom. The gang wasn't after cash from a wallet on the table. They wanted into his crypto assets and his business security systems.
▪️ July 25, 2026: the victim was approached as he got to his vehicle near Finch Avenue East and Bayview Avenue, grabbed at gunpoint, handcuffed and assaulted.
▪️ Police say the goal was access to his cryptocurrency assets and business security systems. He was targeted because of that access.
▪️ He was let go after being threatened and warned not to contact police. Police have not named him or his exchange.
▪️ Arrests came in waves: Saiefeddine Adem and Raheem Bishop-Jackson on July 26, then Talarambage Fernando, James Moreau and Christian Darbandi on August 11, then Jack Miley and Suhaib Alekozai on…
▪️ Fernando and Moreau are reservists with the 7th Toronto Regiment and were removed from military duties after their arrests. Miley is also confirmed as a Canadian Armed Forces member.
▪️ Searches of homes and cars found a shotgun, two 9mm guns with 3D-printed receivers, two silencers, GPS trackers, handcuffs, meth, cocaine and over 2,700 rounds.
📊 Charges laid:
📊 Men arrested:
📊 Rounds seized:
💬 «The victim was allegedly targeted because of his access to cryptocurrency assets.» — Chief Superintendent Joe Matthews
🔮Hardware wallet, 2FA, cold storage... and the one thing nobody hardens is the guy who owns the keys. Who's next?
@hivenetwork
Toronto police charged seven men, three of them Canadian Armed Forces members, over the July abduction of a crypto exchange owner. That's 82 charges, including kidnapping for ransom. The gang wasn't after cash from a wallet on the table. They wanted into his crypto assets and his business security systems.
▪️ July 25, 2026: the victim was approached as he got to his vehicle near Finch Avenue East and Bayview Avenue, grabbed at gunpoint, handcuffed and assaulted.
▪️ Police say the goal was access to his cryptocurrency assets and business security systems. He was targeted because of that access.
▪️ He was let go after being threatened and warned not to contact police. Police have not named him or his exchange.
▪️ Arrests came in waves: Saiefeddine Adem and Raheem Bishop-Jackson on July 26, then Talarambage Fernando, James Moreau and Christian Darbandi on August 11, then Jack Miley and Suhaib Alekozai on…
▪️ Fernando and Moreau are reservists with the 7th Toronto Regiment and were removed from military duties after their arrests. Miley is also confirmed as a Canadian Armed Forces member.
▪️ Searches of homes and cars found a shotgun, two 9mm guns with 3D-printed receivers, two silencers, GPS trackers, handcuffs, meth, cocaine and over 2,700 rounds.
📊 Charges laid:
82📊 Men arrested:
7📊 Rounds seized:
2,700+If you're the guy with the keys, your address is now part of your security model, and your exchange is just a map pin for whoever wants in. Police say there are no outstanding suspects and no more arrests are expected, but the investigation is still running. Canada has seen this movie before: WonderFi CEO Dean Skurka was released after a $720,000 ransom was paid in 2024, and a man who kidnapped a victim for a $1 million Bitcoin ransom got 13 years in September 2025. Cold storage doesn't help when the person holding the seed is the weak link.
💬 «The victim was allegedly targeted because of his access to cryptocurrency assets.» — Chief Superintendent Joe Matthews
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@hivenetwork
🚀 STRK +122% on a 'maybe we become our own L1' announcement, now the crowd is bailing
STRK ripped 122% between October 8 and 11, closing at $0.1232 and up 210% in four weeks. The fuel was Starknet saying it is actively considering dropping its Ethereum Layer 2 role and becoming a Layer 1. Then the crowd piled in at the top, and the chart started bleeding.
▪️ Oct 8: Starknet says it is considering becoming its own Layer 1 instead of staying an Ethereum L2, with full quantum resistance planned by 2027 in the same package
▪️ Oct 8 social sentiment was still -0.51, then flipped as the pump picked up speed and hit +12.44 on Oct 11, the highest reading of the move
▪️ Peak day: 2,823 active addresses and 1,166 new wallets, about 13x the recent average for new wallets. Everyone showed up late to the party
▪️ By Oct 13: active addresses down 63%, new wallets down 81%, price down almost 30%. Classic retail exit at the worst moment
▪️ Meanwhile the 10 largest addresses hold around 7.09 billion STRK, their highest combined balance since April. Whales loading while the herd runs
▪️ Next catalyst: around 127 million STRK unlocks on October 15, nearly 1.7% of circulating supply
📊 Oct 13 new wallets vs peak:
📊 Top 10 addresses balance:
💬 «We're considering multiple options, including becoming an L1.» — Eli Ben-Sasson
🔮Pumped on a 'maybe', and the only ones still buying are the whales. Who's holding the bag this time?
@hivenetwork
STRK ripped 122% between October 8 and 11, closing at $0.1232 and up 210% in four weeks. The fuel was Starknet saying it is actively considering dropping its Ethereum Layer 2 role and becoming a Layer 1. Then the crowd piled in at the top, and the chart started bleeding.
▪️ Oct 8: Starknet says it is considering becoming its own Layer 1 instead of staying an Ethereum L2, with full quantum resistance planned by 2027 in the same package
▪️ Oct 8 social sentiment was still -0.51, then flipped as the pump picked up speed and hit +12.44 on Oct 11, the highest reading of the move
▪️ Peak day: 2,823 active addresses and 1,166 new wallets, about 13x the recent average for new wallets. Everyone showed up late to the party
▪️ By Oct 13: active addresses down 63%, new wallets down 81%, price down almost 30%. Classic retail exit at the worst moment
▪️ Meanwhile the 10 largest addresses hold around 7.09 billion STRK, their highest combined balance since April. Whales loading while the herd runs
▪️ Next catalyst: around 127 million STRK unlocks on October 15, nearly 1.7% of circulating supply
📊 Oct 13 new wallets vs peak:
-81%📊 Top 10 addresses balance:
~7.09B STRKYou bought an L1 story, but Starknet has not confirmed it will move away from its current setup, so you bought a maybe. Sentiment cooled, activity fell, and a 127M STRK unlock lands on October 15. The only thing holding this up right now is big wallets quietly accumulating.
💬 «We're considering multiple options, including becoming an L1.» — Eli Ben-Sasson
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@hivenetwork
📊 Bitcoin и Ethereum сползают, TIA рвётся на +24.5%, STRK сдувается после +210%
Bitcoin стоит на $81,612.01 (-0.88% за сутки), Ethereum на $2,428.61 (-1.02%). Это медленный слив, а не паника. Движение делают альты, пока остальные дрейфуют и ждут, что скажут ETF.
▪️ TIA +24.5% на объёме $47M: самый громкий памп дня. Кто догонит сейчас, тот и станет exit liquidity для тех, кто зашёл раньше.
▪️ STRK -15.3% на объёме $28M после 210% за четыре недели. Santiment: соцсентимент пик дал 11 октября, сетевая активность падала вместе с ценой.
▪️ ZEC -6.1% на объёме $157M, самый большой оборот среди лузеров. Там и идёт реальная продажа, а не тихий дрейф.
▪️ INJ +27% за день, обогнал NEAR и Sei. Причина: возможное одобрение ETF, которое расширит доступ инвесторов и повлияет на предложение и оценку.
▪️ Три резервиста Канадских вооружённых сил обвинены в похищении владельца криптобиржи. Полиция Торонто изъяла оружие, глушители и больше 2000 патронов, почти всё, по версии следствия, украдено из армии.
▪️ BlackRock продал Bitcoin на $71.78M, пока с его спотового BTC ETF текли выводы. Институционалы выходят, и это видно без лупы.
📊 Fear & Greed:
🔮Greed на 55, пока BTC сползает. Кто-то уже продаёт вам оптимизм, а кто-то его покупает.
@hivenetwork
Bitcoin стоит на $81,612.01 (-0.88% за сутки), Ethereum на $2,428.61 (-1.02%). Это медленный слив, а не паника. Движение делают альты, пока остальные дрейфуют и ждут, что скажут ETF.
▪️ TIA +24.5% на объёме $47M: самый громкий памп дня. Кто догонит сейчас, тот и станет exit liquidity для тех, кто зашёл раньше.
▪️ STRK -15.3% на объёме $28M после 210% за четыре недели. Santiment: соцсентимент пик дал 11 октября, сетевая активность падала вместе с ценой.
▪️ ZEC -6.1% на объёме $157M, самый большой оборот среди лузеров. Там и идёт реальная продажа, а не тихий дрейф.
▪️ INJ +27% за день, обогнал NEAR и Sei. Причина: возможное одобрение ETF, которое расширит доступ инвесторов и повлияет на предложение и оценку.
▪️ Три резервиста Канадских вооружённых сил обвинены в похищении владельца криптобиржи. Полиция Торонто изъяла оружие, глушители и больше 2000 патронов, почти всё, по версии следствия, украдено из армии.
▪️ BlackRock продал Bitcoin на $71.78M, пока с его спотового BTC ETF текли выводы. Институционалы выходят, и это видно без лупы.
📊 Fear & Greed:
55 (Greed), вчера 63Жадность подсела с 63 до 55, и это не повод расслабиться. Пока Bitcoin и Ethereum тихо сползают, а институционалы выводят деньги через ETF, любой памп на альтах выглядит как выход для тех, кто давно решил продать. Следите за объёмами на лузерах и за тем, что будет с ETF-потоками, а не за заголовками про ракеты.
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@hivenetwork
🚨 Richard Heart cuffed in Istanbul, and the shopping list is the real story
Turkish police detained HEX and PulseChain founder Richard Heart (legal name Richard James Schueler), his wife and three bodyguards in Istanbul on Oct 14, and the haul was wild: cash, six crypto cold wallets and enough luxury goods to open a boutique. Justice Minister Akın Gürlek confirmed it on Oct 17, and the inventory he released reads like a wardrobe audit nobody asked for.
▪️ Raid: investigators searched 15 properties across Beşiktaş, Üsküdar and Sarıyer, working with Turkish police intelligence, financial crime investigators and the National Intelligence Organization.
▪️ Cash and wallets: about $7.15M in US currency, 160,000 Turkish lira and six cryptocurrency cold wallets. What's on those wallets has not been disclosed.
▪️ Closet: 300 bags, 100 pairs of shoes, 136 pairs of glasses, 28 watches and 97 pieces of jewelry. Several luxury vehicles were impounded.
▪️ Tech and guns: 29 phones, 12 laptops, 19 graphics cards, 46 USB devices, seven firearms and 1,400 rounds of ammunition.
▪️ Trigger: Finland requested an Interpol Red Notice over aggravated tax fraud involving hundreds of millions of euros. A Red Notice is not an arrest warrant, and no conviction exists.
▪️ US backstory: the SEC sued him in 2023 over alleged unregistered crypto offerings above $1B. A federal judge dismissed that case in Feb 2025 on jurisdictional grounds, and the SEC declined to amend…
💬 «We will not allow anyone to view Turkey as a safe harbor for evading justice.» — Akın Gürlek
🔮Six cold wallets, zero disclosed contents. Who gets to open them, and when?
@hivenetwork
Turkish police detained HEX and PulseChain founder Richard Heart (legal name Richard James Schueler), his wife and three bodyguards in Istanbul on Oct 14, and the haul was wild: cash, six crypto cold wallets and enough luxury goods to open a boutique. Justice Minister Akın Gürlek confirmed it on Oct 17, and the inventory he released reads like a wardrobe audit nobody asked for.
▪️ Raid: investigators searched 15 properties across Beşiktaş, Üsküdar and Sarıyer, working with Turkish police intelligence, financial crime investigators and the National Intelligence Organization.
▪️ Cash and wallets: about $7.15M in US currency, 160,000 Turkish lira and six cryptocurrency cold wallets. What's on those wallets has not been disclosed.
▪️ Closet: 300 bags, 100 pairs of shoes, 136 pairs of glasses, 28 watches and 97 pieces of jewelry. Several luxury vehicles were impounded.
▪️ Tech and guns: 29 phones, 12 laptops, 19 graphics cards, 46 USB devices, seven firearms and 1,400 rounds of ammunition.
▪️ Trigger: Finland requested an Interpol Red Notice over aggravated tax fraud involving hundreds of millions of euros. A Red Notice is not an arrest warrant, and no conviction exists.
▪️ US backstory: the SEC sued him in 2023 over alleged unregistered crypto offerings above $1B. A federal judge dismissed that case in Feb 2025 on jurisdictional grounds, and the SEC declined to amend…
If you hold HEX or PulseChain, this is a founder-legal-drama story, not a fundamentals story, and the market will trade it that way. Five people are still in judicial proceedings with no confirmed extradition filing. The six cold wallets are the thing to watch: if they hold anything material, that becomes the next headline, and Turkey has already said it won't be a safe harbor.
💬 «We will not allow anyone to view Turkey as a safe harbor for evading justice.» — Akın Gürlek
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@hivenetwork
📊 BTC parked at $81.8K while TIA bled 17% and HEX's Richard Heart got cuffed in Istanbul
BTC is sitting at $81,795.21 (+0.21% in 24h) and ETH at $2,416.04 (-0.55%), so the majors are doing nothing worth chasing. The real action is in the small caps, and the biggest moves are on thin volume.
▪️ SAND +15.5% on $23M volume: a fat green candle on a small tape. It goes up fast and it comes back down just as fast.
▪️ TIA -17.1% on $22M volume: the worst hit of the day on a thin book. Expect a dead-cat bounce to get sold into, not a bottom.
▪️ WLD -8.4% on $33M, SUI -3.6% on $33M, NEAR -2.8% on $94M: the alt complex is bleeding quietly while BTC holds its ground.
▪️ HEX founder Richard Heart was detained in Istanbul together with four others.
▪️ Turkish authorities seized six crypto wallets, luxury goods, weapons and electronics. Justice Minister Akın Gürlek confirmed the detention.
📊 Fear & Greed (yesterday 55):
📊 Cash seized in Istanbul:
🔮Who is buying the TIA dip, and who is selling into it?
@hivenetwork
BTC is sitting at $81,795.21 (+0.21% in 24h) and ETH at $2,416.04 (-0.55%), so the majors are doing nothing worth chasing. The real action is in the small caps, and the biggest moves are on thin volume.
▪️ SAND +15.5% on $23M volume: a fat green candle on a small tape. It goes up fast and it comes back down just as fast.
▪️ TIA -17.1% on $22M volume: the worst hit of the day on a thin book. Expect a dead-cat bounce to get sold into, not a bottom.
▪️ WLD -8.4% on $33M, SUI -3.6% on $33M, NEAR -2.8% on $94M: the alt complex is bleeding quietly while BTC holds its ground.
▪️ HEX founder Richard Heart was detained in Istanbul together with four others.
▪️ Turkish authorities seized six crypto wallets, luxury goods, weapons and electronics. Justice Minister Akın Gürlek confirmed the detention.
📊 Fear & Greed (yesterday 55):
53 Neutral📊 Cash seized in Istanbul:
$7.15MNothing on the board is forcing majors to move, so expect chop and fake breakouts. Don't treat SAND's green candle as a trend, and don't average into TIA while the sellers are still in charge. HEX holders will be watching the Istanbul headlines, but the sources don't link them to any price move yet, so wait for the tape to confirm before you trade the noise.
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@hivenetwork
🐋 Two 2013 bitcoin wallets wake up and move $34M in five seconds
Two bitcoin addresses dating to 2013 moved about $34 million in BTC within five seconds on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. Both transactions landed in the same block, 971894, mined by MARA Pool. Old coins waking up in a single block is not a coincidence.
▪️ Wallet #1, created Nov. 12, 2013, pushed 248.853 BTC out across several unidentified addresses.
▪️ Wallet #2, created Aug. 20, 2013, sent 167.84 BTC after more than 13 years of total silence.
▪️ Together that's 416.69 BTC, the first time these coins moved since they were bought.
▪️ The second transfer copied the first one's transaction pattern almost exactly, so onchain heuristics say it's probably one owner splitting the stack.
▪️ The oldest coins in the wider wake-up batch come from a wallet dated July 11, 2012, which sent exactly 25 BTC on Oct. 2 after about 14.2 years of dormancy.
📊 Moved in one block:
📊 Dormant BTC moved in October so far:
📊 Dormant BTC moved in August:
📊 BTC price on Oct. 17:
🔮Are the 2013 holders moving coins to cold storage, or lining up exit liquidity for the next pump?
@hivenetwork
Two bitcoin addresses dating to 2013 moved about $34 million in BTC within five seconds on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2026. Both transactions landed in the same block, 971894, mined by MARA Pool. Old coins waking up in a single block is not a coincidence.
▪️ Wallet #1, created Nov. 12, 2013, pushed 248.853 BTC out across several unidentified addresses.
▪️ Wallet #2, created Aug. 20, 2013, sent 167.84 BTC after more than 13 years of total silence.
▪️ Together that's 416.69 BTC, the first time these coins moved since they were bought.
▪️ The second transfer copied the first one's transaction pattern almost exactly, so onchain heuristics say it's probably one owner splitting the stack.
▪️ The oldest coins in the wider wake-up batch come from a wallet dated July 11, 2012, which sent exactly 25 BTC on Oct. 2 after about 14.2 years of dormancy.
📊 Moved in one block:
416.69 BTC📊 Dormant BTC moved in October so far:
774.17 BTC📊 Dormant BTC moved in August:
6,427.59 BTC📊 BTC price on Oct. 17:
~$81,500Nobody has sold these coins yet, so don't go short on a rumor. But the timing reads as planned, and the old holders are clearly reorganizing. Once the chatter fades, onchain watchers stop tracking the coins, and that's exactly when a dump can show up unannounced. Galaxy Digital already flagged a 100 BTC move from 2010 coins on Oct. 8, so this is a pattern, not a fluke.
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@hivenetwork
🚨 Bangkok takedown: Chinese suspect in $75M laundering network, wanted at home
Thai police arrested a 37-year-old Chinese man in a luxury house in Bangkok. China has a warrant out for him over an international crime network and money laundering. Police say the network moved more than 500 million yuan, and he is accused of running crypto and foreign-currency exchanges for criminal groups.
▪️ The mechanism, per police: he allegedly converted money for criminal groups through crypto and FX exchanges, spread across more than 133 accounts.
▪️ He also allegedly arranged visas for members of crime groups tied to other money-laundering cases. So this wasn't just a launderer, it was a logistics desk for the whole crew.
▪️ When the heat came, he allegedly used forged documents to report a fake residence and swapped his car's license plates. Classic move, didn't save him.
▪️ Police found him in a luxury house in Bangkok. His Thai visa had expired more than three years earlier, so he was living there illegally the whole time.
▪️ Next step: legal proceedings in Thailand first, then authorities coordinate his return to China to face the outstanding warrant.
📊 Network transactions:
📊 Accounts used:
📊 Visa expired:
🔮Expired visa, forged paperwork, luxury house. Who was really paying the rent?
@hivenetwork
Thai police arrested a 37-year-old Chinese man in a luxury house in Bangkok. China has a warrant out for him over an international crime network and money laundering. Police say the network moved more than 500 million yuan, and he is accused of running crypto and foreign-currency exchanges for criminal groups.
▪️ The mechanism, per police: he allegedly converted money for criminal groups through crypto and FX exchanges, spread across more than 133 accounts.
▪️ He also allegedly arranged visas for members of crime groups tied to other money-laundering cases. So this wasn't just a launderer, it was a logistics desk for the whole crew.
▪️ When the heat came, he allegedly used forged documents to report a fake residence and swapped his car's license plates. Classic move, didn't save him.
▪️ Police found him in a luxury house in Bangkok. His Thai visa had expired more than three years earlier, so he was living there illegally the whole time.
▪️ Next step: legal proceedings in Thailand first, then authorities coordinate his return to China to face the outstanding warrant.
📊 Network transactions:
500M+ yuan📊 Accounts used:
133+📊 Visa expired:
3+ years agoIf you trade anywhere near Asian OTC desks or FX-to-crypto rails, this is the type of pipe that gets dragged into the light. The same playbook of crypto plus FX through lots of accounts is what regulators are hunting, and the sources say this case may push stricter financial rules globally. Coinbase already froze more than $3 million tied to Southeast Asian scam networks back in June, so the net is getting tighter, not looser.
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@hivenetwork
🎣 Scammer scammed: task-scam crook lost 60+ BTC to the Ledger implant thieves
Chainalysis says one of the biggest victims of the Ledger implant thefts was a task-scam operator who lost more than 60 BTC, about $4.8 million. The crook who farmed people with fake reviews got farmed himself, and the thieves took his own Ledger addresses clean. Karma came with a hardware wallet.
▪️ How the scam worked: victims were paid to fake sales and reviews of real products, then a 'negative balance' appeared and they were told to top it up with their own money to get paid.
▪️ Sep 22: the operator parked the proceeds in three separate Ledger addresses.
▪️ Oct 9: thieves emptied all three, one transfer each, into the same wallet. Each address gave up about $1.64M in a single move.
▪️ Chainalysis flow chart: the largest scam wallet sent the consolidation wallet $1.36M across 106 transfers, and three wallets feeding it are labeled as reported scams.
▪️ Where the hardware came from: Ledger ties every confirmed loss to signers sold through CryptoBilis, a Southeast Asian reseller. Chainalysis didn't say where the operator bought his.
▪️ The implant: Ledger found it on Oct 10 inside a victim's signer. Its Donjon team says it reads the screen during setup, grabs the 24-word recovery phrase and sends it out over LTE via a provisioned…
📊 Task scams share of job scam reports, 2024 (FTC):
📊 Crypto lost to job scams, H1 2024 (FTC):
📊 CryptoBilis drain, Specter estimate (BTC, ETH, TRX):
💬 «We have not confirmed the total number of affected users or the total value lost.» — Ledger
🔮The scammer lost to a hardware wallet that a reseller sold him. Who vets the supply chain when the chain itself is the crime?
@hivenetwork
Chainalysis says one of the biggest victims of the Ledger implant thefts was a task-scam operator who lost more than 60 BTC, about $4.8 million. The crook who farmed people with fake reviews got farmed himself, and the thieves took his own Ledger addresses clean. Karma came with a hardware wallet.
▪️ How the scam worked: victims were paid to fake sales and reviews of real products, then a 'negative balance' appeared and they were told to top it up with their own money to get paid.
▪️ Sep 22: the operator parked the proceeds in three separate Ledger addresses.
▪️ Oct 9: thieves emptied all three, one transfer each, into the same wallet. Each address gave up about $1.64M in a single move.
▪️ Chainalysis flow chart: the largest scam wallet sent the consolidation wallet $1.36M across 106 transfers, and three wallets feeding it are labeled as reported scams.
▪️ Where the hardware came from: Ledger ties every confirmed loss to signers sold through CryptoBilis, a Southeast Asian reseller. Chainalysis didn't say where the operator bought his.
▪️ The implant: Ledger found it on Oct 10 inside a victim's signer. Its Donjon team says it reads the screen during setup, grabs the 24-word recovery phrase and sends it out over LTE via a provisioned…
📊 Task scams share of job scam reports, 2024 (FTC):
~40%📊 Crypto lost to job scams, H1 2024 (FTC):
$41M📊 CryptoBilis drain, Specter estimate (BTC, ETH, TRX):
>$86MIf you ever set up a Ledger signer bought from CryptoBilis, Ledger's ask is blunt: move your assets to a new signer with a new recovery phrase, today, not after your coffee. Ledger itself says it has not confirmed the number of affected users or the total value lost, so the $86M is one analyst's estimate, not a tally. The FTC already flagged this exact task-scam pattern back in December 2024, so the scam itself is not new, just the payday for the wrong side.
💬 «We have not confirmed the total number of affected users or the total value lost.» — Ledger
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@hivenetwork
🟢 BTC $82.6K, SOXLB +9.7%, and $52M liquidated while Wall Street slept
BTC sits at $82,645 (+1.03% in 24h) and ETH at $2,424 (+0.36%), so the majors are green and boring. The real action is in the small stuff and in the leverage that got wiped out while US stock markets were shut.
▪️ Movers: SOXLB +9.7% on $34M volume, SNDKB +5.3% on $39M, PEPE +4.1% on $23M, PUMP +3.5% on $31M, SUI +2.3% on $37M.
▪️ Losers are small: HBAR -1.9% on $28M, TRX -0.7%, INJ -0.2%. USDC and USD1 sit flat, the only thing in the market that did nothing.
▪️ $52M in SOXL chip-stock perp liquidations hit in 10 minutes while US markets were closed. No real share price to anchor to, so leveraged longs got flushed in a hole.
▪️ Two 2013 bitcoin wallets moved about $34M in five seconds on Oct 17, both transactions in block 971894. It's part of a wider wake-up of old wallets that started with dormant BTC in August.
▪️ Thai police arrested a Chinese suspect tied to a $75M crime network in Bangkok, allegedly running crypto and FX exchanges for criminal groups across more than 133 accounts.
▪️ Chainalysis: a task scammer lost 60+ BTC (~$4.8M) in the Ledger implant thefts. Proceeds went into three Ledger addresses on Sept 22, were consolidated into one wallet on Oct 9, and each address was…
📊 Fear & Greed:
🔮Greed climbs while 2013 wallets wake up. Who's the exit liquidity this time, you or the guy selling to you?
@hivenetwork
BTC sits at $82,645 (+1.03% in 24h) and ETH at $2,424 (+0.36%), so the majors are green and boring. The real action is in the small stuff and in the leverage that got wiped out while US stock markets were shut.
▪️ Movers: SOXLB +9.7% on $34M volume, SNDKB +5.3% on $39M, PEPE +4.1% on $23M, PUMP +3.5% on $31M, SUI +2.3% on $37M.
▪️ Losers are small: HBAR -1.9% on $28M, TRX -0.7%, INJ -0.2%. USDC and USD1 sit flat, the only thing in the market that did nothing.
▪️ $52M in SOXL chip-stock perp liquidations hit in 10 minutes while US markets were closed. No real share price to anchor to, so leveraged longs got flushed in a hole.
▪️ Two 2013 bitcoin wallets moved about $34M in five seconds on Oct 17, both transactions in block 971894. It's part of a wider wake-up of old wallets that started with dormant BTC in August.
▪️ Thai police arrested a Chinese suspect tied to a $75M crime network in Bangkok, allegedly running crypto and FX exchanges for criminal groups across more than 133 accounts.
▪️ Chainalysis: a task scammer lost 60+ BTC (~$4.8M) in the Ledger implant thefts. Proceeds went into three Ledger addresses on Sept 22, were consolidated into one wallet on Oct 9, and each address was…
📊 Fear & Greed:
59 (Greed), yesterday 53Greed at 59 and climbing means the crowd is leaning long and getting comfortable. That's exactly the setup where a 10-minute flush takes out leveraged longs while the stock market sleeps. The old-wallet wake-up and the Ledger thefts are the reminder that coins sitting still for years can start moving fast.
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@hivenetwork
🪙 Riot photo became a coin: PIERRE ran 155x in nine hours
A man stands guard in a gutted Micromania store in Nice during France's riots, and traders saw a ticker instead of a tragedy. Gamestop CEO Ryan Cohen posted the photo on X, and by Sunday PIERRE, a Solana meme coin built on it, was printing green candles at full speed.
▪️ The man in the photo is named Pierre. He tried to stop the looters and failed. There is no sign he has any link to the coin.
▪️ Market cap went from $9,700 to over $1.7M on Oct. 19, with $5.9M traded on Pumpswap in 24 hours.
▪️ Copycats piled in. 'mucron', a Macron-themed token, reached $1.1M, while traders counted 20+ rival versions launching on Pump.fun at once.
▪️ Best trade of the day: wallet wirelyss bought at a $6,310 market cap with $200 and walked out with $34,000.
▪️ PIERRE has no product and no team statement. It already trades about 27% below its peak.
📊 Arrests after Oct. 17 riots:
📊 Pump.fun wallets that lost money or made under $500 in 30…:
💬 «anger and shame» — Emmanuel Macron
🔮Pierre tried to stop the looters. Now his face is looting your wallet. Who's the bag holder this time?
@hivenetwork
A man stands guard in a gutted Micromania store in Nice during France's riots, and traders saw a ticker instead of a tragedy. Gamestop CEO Ryan Cohen posted the photo on X, and by Sunday PIERRE, a Solana meme coin built on it, was printing green candles at full speed.
▪️ The man in the photo is named Pierre. He tried to stop the looters and failed. There is no sign he has any link to the coin.
▪️ Market cap went from $9,700 to over $1.7M on Oct. 19, with $5.9M traded on Pumpswap in 24 hours.
▪️ Copycats piled in. 'mucron', a Macron-themed token, reached $1.1M, while traders counted 20+ rival versions launching on Pump.fun at once.
▪️ Best trade of the day: wallet wirelyss bought at a $6,310 market cap with $200 and walked out with $34,000.
▪️ PIERRE has no product and no team statement. It already trades about 27% below its peak.
📊 Arrests after Oct. 17 riots:
nearly 2,400📊 Pump.fun wallets that lost money or made under $500 in 30…:
96.8% of 413,579If you chased the top, you're holding a riot photo with a ticker slapped on it. The shopkeeper got a meme, the launchpad got the volume. Pump.fun just added Hyperliquid perps this weekend, so next time you can make the same bet on the mood with leverage and skip even pretending it's a coin.
💬 «anger and shame» — Emmanuel Macron
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@hivenetwork
🐋 Hyperliquid whale dumps $98M BTC long at a loss, flips into a 20x Tesla bet
Wallet 0x30af, the Hyperliquid whale who had a 40x bitcoin long worth about $98M on Sunday, folded it at a loss on Oct 18. Two days before Tesla reports earnings, the same account piled into $46M of leveraged Tesla and chip-stock bets. The cushion from the good months is gone, and the market is about to test the new book.
▪️ The BTC exit: 1,355.6 BTC closed near $80,945, a $3.26M loss per Lookonchain. Bitcoin then bounced to about $82,700, which would have been roughly $2.4M on that size.
▪️ The new trade: a $34.6M Tesla long at 20x on Hyperliquid's HIP-3 markets, which are builder-deployed perps that let you lever stocks 24/7.
▪️ Why it's a grenade: Tesla closed Friday at $354.72, only about 1.1% above the Tesla liquidation price near $350.82. A drop of a little over 2% wipes the position.
▪️ The chip bets are green, but the Tesla leg is down about $204,000 with the mark near $358. Tesla reports Q3 after the close on Wednesday, Oct 21.
▪️ Account math: about $2.83M of equity backing roughly $46M of exposure. That's maximum leverage with almost no room to breathe.
▪️ Past context: the wallet pulled $9,999,999 out on Sept 26 and is still only up about $2.18M all-time on more than $1.18B in volume. Hyperdash shows it down $9.53M this week and $6.52M this month.
📊 BTC exit loss:
📊 Tesla long size:
📊 Total exposure:
📊 Account equity:
🔮Whale dumped $98M BTC at a loss and went all-in on Tesla at 20x. Smart rotation or a guy who needed one last bounce to escape?
@hivenetwork
Wallet 0x30af, the Hyperliquid whale who had a 40x bitcoin long worth about $98M on Sunday, folded it at a loss on Oct 18. Two days before Tesla reports earnings, the same account piled into $46M of leveraged Tesla and chip-stock bets. The cushion from the good months is gone, and the market is about to test the new book.
▪️ The BTC exit: 1,355.6 BTC closed near $80,945, a $3.26M loss per Lookonchain. Bitcoin then bounced to about $82,700, which would have been roughly $2.4M on that size.
▪️ The new trade: a $34.6M Tesla long at 20x on Hyperliquid's HIP-3 markets, which are builder-deployed perps that let you lever stocks 24/7.
▪️ Why it's a grenade: Tesla closed Friday at $354.72, only about 1.1% above the Tesla liquidation price near $350.82. A drop of a little over 2% wipes the position.
▪️ The chip bets are green, but the Tesla leg is down about $204,000 with the mark near $358. Tesla reports Q3 after the close on Wednesday, Oct 21.
▪️ Account math: about $2.83M of equity backing roughly $46M of exposure. That's maximum leverage with almost no room to breathe.
▪️ Past context: the wallet pulled $9,999,999 out on Sept 26 and is still only up about $2.18M all-time on more than $1.18B in volume. Hyperdash shows it down $9.53M this week and $6.52M this month.
📊 BTC exit loss:
$3.26M📊 Tesla long size:
$34.6M📊 Total exposure:
$46M📊 Account equity:
$2.83MIf you're trading Tesla or chip names into Wednesday's print, this whale is your warning label: the account is running on fumes and one 2% move at 20x ends it. The bitcoin leg is already closed, so the forced-selling pressure now sits in the Tesla book, not the BTC one.
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@hivenetwork
🔓 Qubic: 1,404 wallets drained, and the network says the fault is your weak seeds, not its code
Qubic confirmed an attacker emptied 1,404 wallets between October 17 and 18, stealing about 2.94 trillion QU. The network's line: the protocol is fine, your wallet seeds were generated with too little randomness, and that made them easier to compromise. Translation for the chat: the lock was fine, but somebody else got the key.
▪️ Vulnerable seeds came from iPhones and iPads using any browser before October 18, Macs using Safari before that date, or the Qubic iOS app before July 2025.
▪️ Computors halted the chain at tick 85,371,949 to stop the stolen funds from moving any further.
▪️ 87.1% of the drained funds are still on the network and frozen. The other 12.9% went to MEXC, which froze the receiving account in about an hour.
▪️ Exchanges suspended QUBIC deposits and withdrawals.
▪️ The team says the seed bug is fixed in version 4.26.4, and no new weak seeds can be created under the corrected system.
▪️ What happens next is up to the Computor quorum. The Core team is identifying affected identities, and a community poll is open on Discord.
📊 Wallets drained:
📊 Frozen on network:
📊 Sent to MEXC:
📊 Chain halt tick:
🔮Weak randomness in 2025 wallets, and the hacker is 'a researcher' again. Who is really being robbed here?
@hivenetwork
Qubic confirmed an attacker emptied 1,404 wallets between October 17 and 18, stealing about 2.94 trillion QU. The network's line: the protocol is fine, your wallet seeds were generated with too little randomness, and that made them easier to compromise. Translation for the chat: the lock was fine, but somebody else got the key.
▪️ Vulnerable seeds came from iPhones and iPads using any browser before October 18, Macs using Safari before that date, or the Qubic iOS app before July 2025.
▪️ Computors halted the chain at tick 85,371,949 to stop the stolen funds from moving any further.
▪️ 87.1% of the drained funds are still on the network and frozen. The other 12.9% went to MEXC, which froze the receiving account in about an hour.
▪️ Exchanges suspended QUBIC deposits and withdrawals.
▪️ The team says the seed bug is fixed in version 4.26.4, and no new weak seeds can be created under the corrected system.
▪️ What happens next is up to the Computor quorum. The Core team is identifying affected identities, and a community poll is open on Discord.
📊 Wallets drained:
1,404📊 Frozen on network:
87.1%📊 Sent to MEXC:
12.9%📊 Chain halt tick:
85,371,949If you hold QUBIC from before October 18 or used the Qubic iOS app before July 2025, check your seed history today and treat that wallet as burned. Victims are told to report to police with wallet ID, amount and explorer link, which is a fine way to pass the buck while the quorum decides who gets paid back. September was already a bloodbath: PeckShield counted 55 major hacks and $766.5M in losses, up 462% from August's $136.3M, with Bitget losing about $387M and Liquid Network about $320M. Liquid got $285M back, and its attacker, who took roughly 4,000 BTC, promised to return the rest, which Ledger CTO Charles Guillemet publicly doubted.
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@hivenetwork
📊 Bitcoin's down 0.75% and the market is still pretending it's fine
BTC is at $81,995.36 and ETH at $2,408.8 over the last 24 hours, a slow bleed rather than a crash. Nobody's panicking, but nobody's flying either, and the volume says the chop is real.
▪️ GTC +12.9% on just $20M of volume: thin book, big green candle. Classic setup for someone to dump on the hamsters chasing it.
▪️ WLD +9.8% on $56M, the most real money behind any gainer on the list. Less of a ghost pump, more of a market actually paying attention.
▪️ NEAR -4.7% on $111M, the heaviest volume among the losers. That's where the sellers are actually hitting, not just drifting.
▪️ PIERRE: a viral photo of a French shopkeeper guarding his smashed-up store became a Solana meme coin, up about 155x in roughly nine hours to around $1M.
▪️ Hyperliquid whale closed a $98M BTC long at a loss, about $9M gone this week, then rotated into $46M of leveraged Tesla and chip bets two days before Tesla earnings.
▪️ Qubic confirmed an attacker drained 1,404 wallets, about 2.94 trillion QU on Oct 17-18, via weak seeds on certain iOS, macOS and app versions. Chain halted at tick 85,371,949.
📊 Fear & Greed today (yesterday 59):
🔮Greed is cooling, NEAR is bleeding $111M in volume, and everyone's still calling it a dip. Who's the exit liquidity this time?
@hivenetwork
BTC is at $81,995.36 and ETH at $2,408.8 over the last 24 hours, a slow bleed rather than a crash. Nobody's panicking, but nobody's flying either, and the volume says the chop is real.
▪️ GTC +12.9% on just $20M of volume: thin book, big green candle. Classic setup for someone to dump on the hamsters chasing it.
▪️ WLD +9.8% on $56M, the most real money behind any gainer on the list. Less of a ghost pump, more of a market actually paying attention.
▪️ NEAR -4.7% on $111M, the heaviest volume among the losers. That's where the sellers are actually hitting, not just drifting.
▪️ PIERRE: a viral photo of a French shopkeeper guarding his smashed-up store became a Solana meme coin, up about 155x in roughly nine hours to around $1M.
▪️ Hyperliquid whale closed a $98M BTC long at a loss, about $9M gone this week, then rotated into $46M of leveraged Tesla and chip bets two days before Tesla earnings.
▪️ Qubic confirmed an attacker drained 1,404 wallets, about 2.94 trillion QU on Oct 17-18, via weak seeds on certain iOS, macOS and app versions. Chain halted at tick 85,371,949.
📊 Fear & Greed today (yesterday 59):
55 (Greed)Fear & Greed slid to 55 from 59, still Greed, so the crowd is long and cocky but cooling off. The whale cutting a $98M long at a loss and the Qubic drain are reminders that the room is quietest right before someone gets robbed or liquidated. Expect chop today, and watch NEAR's volume before you trust any green candle.
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🟠 Strive scoops up 1,223 BTC and its treasury hits 36,818 coins
Strive dropped roughly $100 million on bitcoin across October 14 to 16, per a SEC filing dated Monday. Shareholders should ask who's paying for the coins, because the answer isn't the same as the one in the headline.
▪️ The 1,223 BTC purchase landed over two days, October 14 to 16, and disclosed in a filing dated Monday.
▪️ Average price came in around $81,734 per bitcoin, per the company's own figures.
▪️ It wasn't a one-off: the same week Strive already bought 2,822 BTC, so the buying is accelerating, not pausing.
▪️ Total reported holdings now sit at 36,818 BTC, which puts Strive among the largest publicly traded bitcoin owners.
▪️ The money doesn't come from thin air. Preferred shares, equity issuance and other capital-market tools are the engine, so every new purchase is partly paid for by the people holding the stock.
📊 Total holdings:
📊 Earlier same-week buy:
🔮Buying bitcoin with shares you sell to your own holders: is that conviction or a very expensive ATM?
@hivenetwork
Strive dropped roughly $100 million on bitcoin across October 14 to 16, per a SEC filing dated Monday. Shareholders should ask who's paying for the coins, because the answer isn't the same as the one in the headline.
▪️ The 1,223 BTC purchase landed over two days, October 14 to 16, and disclosed in a filing dated Monday.
▪️ Average price came in around $81,734 per bitcoin, per the company's own figures.
▪️ It wasn't a one-off: the same week Strive already bought 2,822 BTC, so the buying is accelerating, not pausing.
▪️ Total reported holdings now sit at 36,818 BTC, which puts Strive among the largest publicly traded bitcoin owners.
▪️ The money doesn't come from thin air. Preferred shares, equity issuance and other capital-market tools are the engine, so every new purchase is partly paid for by the people holding the stock.
📊 Total holdings:
36,818 BTC📊 Earlier same-week buy:
2,822 BTCIf you hold Strive stock, you're not just holding bitcoin exposure, you're holding a balance sheet that has to keep issuing paper to keep buying coins. That's where dilution and funding costs bite, and bitcoin can drop while the treasury keeps buying. The filing gives no forecast for where price goes next, so nobody in this story is promising you anything except more buying.
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🐋 2016 wallet wakes after 10 years of silence and moves 500 BTC
A wallet created on January 1, 2016 just shook off a decade of sleep and sent 500 BTC (about $41.33M) to Coinbase on Tuesday, while bitcoin sat above $82,000. Arkham ties the coins to convicted Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins, and Arkham thinks the cops are behind the move. Officials haven't confirmed it, but that's the story everyone's chewing on.
▪️ Collins built his stash from 2011 to 2012 with cannabis trafficking money, accumulating 6,000 BTC.
▪️ Then he lost access. The private keys were reportedly hidden in a fishing rod case that ended up in a landfill. Classic.
▪️ Irish authorities, working with Europol, started digging the coins out earlier this year. This transfer is the fifth such movement in 2026.
▪️ Tuesday's transfer pushes the recovered total to 2,500 BTC. The recovery is gradual, so expect more batches, not a one-off dump.
▪️ Same week, an unidentified "BTC whale" moved 411.45 BTC from a 2013 wallet. Legacy address to a newer SegWit wallet, two UTXOs merged. That's housekeeping, not a sell signal.
📊 Recovered so far (Collins coins):
📊 Still sitting in limbo:
📊 Dormant wallets woken in October:
🔮Police are the new whale on the chart now. Who's positioning ahead of the next batch?
@hivenetwork
A wallet created on January 1, 2016 just shook off a decade of sleep and sent 500 BTC (about $41.33M) to Coinbase on Tuesday, while bitcoin sat above $82,000. Arkham ties the coins to convicted Irish drug dealer Clifton Collins, and Arkham thinks the cops are behind the move. Officials haven't confirmed it, but that's the story everyone's chewing on.
▪️ Collins built his stash from 2011 to 2012 with cannabis trafficking money, accumulating 6,000 BTC.
▪️ Then he lost access. The private keys were reportedly hidden in a fishing rod case that ended up in a landfill. Classic.
▪️ Irish authorities, working with Europol, started digging the coins out earlier this year. This transfer is the fifth such movement in 2026.
▪️ Tuesday's transfer pushes the recovered total to 2,500 BTC. The recovery is gradual, so expect more batches, not a one-off dump.
▪️ Same week, an unidentified "BTC whale" moved 411.45 BTC from a 2013 wallet. Legacy address to a newer SegWit wallet, two UTXOs merged. That's housekeeping, not a sell signal.
📊 Recovered so far (Collins coins):
2,500 BTC📊 Still sitting in limbo:
3,500 BTC (~$288M)📊 Dormant wallets woken in October:
23Old coins landing on Coinbase is never a hug, it's a question mark. The October wave of dormant wallets is already at 1,745.615 BTC per btcparser.com, so this isn't a one-off curiosity. Keep an eye on whether the Irish batches keep coming, because 3,500 BTC is still in the pipeline. Arkham's read is law enforcement, not a whale, and the official side hasn't confirmed anything yet.
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