GM, bitcoiner — October 25, 2026

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Your morning Bitcoin brief: Electrum 4.8.3 fixes a malicious-server attack, bitcoin falls to $79,146, Heatbit’s water heater that mines bitcoin and other bitcoin news

##Network Stats

As of Oct 25, 2026, 5:01 AM EDT

MARKET
  Price       $80,318  (-0.39%)
  24h volume  $19.6 bn
  Dominance   60.1%
  Sats / $    1,245

NETWORK
  Block       #973,046
  Hashrate    1,068 EH/s
  Difficulty  +4.75%
  Retarget    5 days
  Halving     534 days  (63.4%)

MEMPOOL
  Fee    1 sat/vB
  TX     35,479
  Size   21.9 MB
  Queue  22 blocks

LIGHTNING
  Capacity  2,571 BTC  (+489575.5%)
  Channels  25,211

##Security & Privacy

###Electrum 4.8.3 fixes flaw that let malicious servers trick users into paying attackers

A malicious server could hide a just-broadcast transaction and show an invalid conflicting one paying the attacker; fee-bumping it signed a real payment. Electrum reports attacks in the wild, with one user losing funds. Users of their own trusted servers are unaffected. github.com news.bitcoin.com

###Keystone discloses website breach exposing customers’ shipping data

Names, contact details, addresses and order details were exposed; Keystone says payment details, recovery phrases and private keys were not. It warns of scammers posing as Keystone and says it will never ask for a recovery phrase. x.com keyst.one

##Price & Market

###Bitcoin falls to $79,146 as liquidations hit weekend trading

The price slipped below $80,000 on Saturday, its lowest in more than a month, as leveraged traders absorbed hundreds of millions in liquidations. news.bitcoin.com

##Mining

###Heatbit unveils Bitwater, a water heater that mines bitcoin

The $899 device replaces an ordinary heating element with 20 mining chips, putting the electricity used for hot water toward potential bitcoin earnings without replacing the tank. news.bitcoin.com