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Your morning Bitcoin brief: bitcoin briefly slides to $76,300 as Binance confirms an estimated $6.3 billion hack, bitcoin developers fix three AI-found security flaws, Blockstream researchers report post-quantum hardware wallet signing in about 3 seconds and other bitcoin news
As of Oct 30, 2026, 5:03 AM EDT
MARKET
Price $77,916 (-2.61%)
24h volume $70.9 bn
Dominance 59.4%
Sats / $ 1,283
NETWORK
Block #973,796
Hashrate 1,053 EH/s
Difficulty -4.25%
Retarget 14 days
Halving 529 days (63.7%)
MEMPOOL
Fee 1 sat/vB
TX 58,244
Size 22.8 MB
Queue 23 blocks
LIGHTNING
Capacity 4,798 BTC
Channels 40,664Binance’s initial findings point to a possible employee laptop compromise, with no evidence of a private key leak. About $3 billion has been frozen onchain and Binance pledged to cover all losses. TRM Labs and ZachXBT say North Korea’s Lazarus Group likely carried it out. bitcoinmagazine.com news.bitcoin.com
Revenue declined and year-to-date BTC yield is negative. Michael Saylor says a new bull market is beginning and that Strategy could create up to $30 billion in digital credit without new common-stock fundraising as it plans more BTC purchases. bitcoinmagazine.com news.bitcoin.com
An October 28 advisory identifies four patched releases; the 29.x series has now reached end of life. cryptoslate.com bitcoincore.org
By the scan report’s original ratings: 1 critical, 13 high, 52 medium and 19 low. The bug-fix release also addresses reliability and payment-accounting issues; updating is highly recommended, especially for servers shared by multiple merchants. github.com
Trezor hasn’t received the device yet but treats the report as credible; no buyer has reported losses. Anyone who bought a Trezor from CryptoBilis since March 2026 should move funds to a wallet with a new seed and not set up unused devices. x.com trezor.io
Singapore police say tampered Ledger devices started showing up there on September 10. cointelegraph.com
The securities industry group becomes the country’s first self-regulatory organization for crypto exchanges and digital depositories. bitcoinmagazine.com
The confidential settlement ends the FCA’s first crypto marketing case, while UK and EU sanctions remain in place. Separately, KuCoin is withdrawing from Russia and Belarus. bitcoinmagazine.com news.bitcoin.com
Ten people and one entity were sanctioned, including two Russian crypto middlemen, for laundering money from schemes that fund North Korea’s weapons programs. bitcoinmagazine.com
In an interview, Hagerty argues that CBDCs threaten freedom and that regulatory ambiguity enabled SEC overreach, and discusses what Congress can accomplish before January. bitcoinmagazine.com
According to Blockstream, signing previously took over 20 seconds, and the method works on hardware users already have. x.com blog.blockstream.com
OP_MUL has been disabled since 2010. The witness-assisted construction multiplies values up to 46,340 within the 4-byte number limit and comes with 375- and 377-byte division extensions, a Rocq proof and a regtest harness. delvingbitcoin.org github.com
The release upgrades Java to v25.0.5, removing eMudhra root certificates, and bundled Tor to v0.4.9.5 to meet newly required client protocols, and improves screen reader and keyboard access. github.com
Soap says payments complete in seconds, run 24/7 and typically carry very low network fees. x.com x.com
The funds, FBEQ and FIBT, started trading on the Nasdaq. bitcoinmagazine.com
The pool covers five categories and keeps growing through community donations. x.com nutnovember.org
The daily-refreshed mirror adds one page per thread, stable Message-ID permalinks, and indexes by topic, BIP and author; messages are verbatim and link to their originals. delvingbitcoin.org learnbitcoin.com
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