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Your morning Bitcoin brief: Tesla and SpaceX explore a merger that could unite 30,221 BTC, roasbeef urges lnd, btcd, tapd and litd users to update over a CVE, SideSwap reopens bitcoin swaps as Liquid reserves stay locked and other bitcoin news
As of Oct 22, 2026, 5:03 AM EDT
MARKET
Price $81,795 (-1.68%)
24h volume $37.3 bn
Dominance 60.0%
Sats / $ 1,223
NETWORK
Block #972,596
Hashrate 1,038 EH/s
Difficulty +5.04%
Retarget 7 days
Halving 538 days (63.1%)
MEMPOOL
Fee 1 sat/vB
TX 49,284
Size 24.8 MB
Queue 25 blocks
LIGHTNING
Capacity 3,754 BTC
Channels 32,518Elon Musk confirmed on SpaceX’s Oct. 20 earnings call that both companies have set up special committees of independent directors to evaluate a potential combination, which could unite their existing Bitcoin holdings. cryptoslate.com
The British bank plans to integrate Zodia Custody’s bitcoin and crypto services into its own. bitcoinmagazine.com
The CVE concerns the eMudhra CA compromise. @roasbeef advises using the new release binaries or rebuilding with Go 1.27.3. lnd v0.21.5-beta.rc1 and v0.20.6-beta.rc1 have been published as release candidates. x.com x.com
According to @MrKukks, anyone running WooCommerce deployed through BTCPay Server’s opt-in Docker installer option should update immediately by pressing Update inside BTCPay Server. x.com x.com
The social engineering letters reportedly try to trick recipients into scanning a QR code that leads to software which steals their seed phrase. x.com x.com
SideSwap funds the swaps from its own wallet; partly manual refills can delay payments, and direct Federation withdrawals remain restricted. Reserves are still 602 BTC short, according to @BitcoinArchive. cryptoslate.com x.com
According to @voltage_cloud, merchants can now offer Lightning in Soap’s checkout while Voltage handles the infrastructure behind it. x.com voltage.cloud
A CLINK plugin routes payment requests via nostr relays so an Electrum wallet can receive unsolicited payments without opening ports; a liquidity plugin automates submarine swaps to maintain inbound liquidity. delvingbitcoin.org github.com
The preliminary interpretation turns on applicable credit offers and actual delivery, rather than on the buyer’s use of financing alone. cryptoslate.com
At a White House cybercrime event, Trump is set to tout seizures of fraudulent crypto sites; FBI data shows $11.3 billion in US crypto fraud losses in 2025. bitcoinmagazine.com
According to news.bitcoin.com, the Bank for International Settlements paper recycles repeatedly rebutted claims about bitcoin, and reaches the same conclusion as Strategy’s Michael Saylor for the opposite reasons. news.bitcoin.com
The funds drew $1.08 billion over three trading sessions, pushing October flows back into positive territory. cointelegraph.com
Bitcoin approached $85,000, its highest price in two weeks, while shares of bitcoin treasury companies Strategy and Strive surged. cointelegraph.com news.bitcoin.com
In a simulator, 0xB10C saw unreachable nodes receive address self-announcements far less reliably than listening nodes, as they have only 8 connections, so an option relying on both home nodes receiving them would probably be very unreliable. delvingbitcoin.org delvingbitcoin.org
The updated post includes an accurate formula for the w-bound, now proven in linked Lean code along with its decimal approximation. delvingbitcoin.org
ZmnSCPxj argues that control of UTXOs steers Bitcoin’s direction, and that custodians, including those behind ETFs, benefit from blocking covenants that would make non-custodial Lightning more usable. delvingbitcoin.org delvingbitcoin.org
The funds reached an address that Arkham labels a Coinbase Prime deposit, a destination also used in July and August. cryptoslate.com
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