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Bitcoin analysis, price predictions, and BTC ecosystem news.

Four matching characters hid an Electrum payment switch

Electrum 4.8.3 fixes transaction redirection; reported attacker addresses matched recipients' final four characters.

Four address characters matched in Electrum's fee-bump theft

Electrum's fee-bump exploit used substituted payments with matching address suffixes; version 4.8.3 patches the flaw.

One AI Prompt Can Change a Bitcoin Core Bug's Disclosure

Bitcoin Core can release fixes and advisories together for easily discoverable bugs, including those exposed by AI.

BlackRock's new bitcoin ETF caps your loss near 10%. The cost?

BlackRock filed PBIT, a buffer ETF on IBIT call spreads: ~10% loss floor per tranche, capped upside, fees still blank.

JPMorgan put 10% on bitcoin but still won't own it

JPMorgan's 2027 LTCMA gives bitcoin a 10% compound return, 20.9% arithmetic and 55% volatility, yet excludes it from

Russia gives P2P crypto 8 months left, then a Sberbank-only

Bank of Russia ends P2P crypto transfers July 1, 2027 and approves Sberbank as an exchange operator. Limits, coins and

30% of Bitcoin's supply has its public key showing

Nine firms incl. Hacken, Quantus and Midnight form the Quantum Alliance; outlets put exposed BTC at 6.04M–6.4M.

Bitcoin ETFs lost $261M in one day. XRP funds gained $740K.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs shed $261.46M on Oct 14 while XRP ETFs added $740K. Flows by fund, Ether and Solana ETFs, and

A Korean bank lent won against bitcoin. It never touches the

Jeonbuk Bank's first won loan backed by bitcoin: corporate-only, third-party custody, court-enforced default and

Hashi's $500M is a pledge, not a deposit. Watch this number

Hashi's $500M is partner commitments, not deposits. How native BTC collateral on Sui works, who is backing it, and

Tether froze 93% of THORChain's Tron USDT, then undid it

Tether blacklisted four THORChain Tron vaults holding ~1.45M USDT, then lifted it hours later. What happened and why

Bitcoin ETFs took $119M in while BTC fell below $84K

Spot Bitcoin ETFs added $119M on Oct 6 as BTC slid under $84K, while Ether ETFs lost $408M over six sessions.