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⛏️ Bitcoin mining difficulty has remained below its record set in late October 2025 for more than a year, an unprecedented stretch in Bitcoin’s history. With BTC around $76,000 and costs rising, publicly traded miners are selling their bitcoin reserves and redirecting their electricity to AI.
The record was 156 T (156 trillion), meaning an average of about 670 sextillion attempts was needed to validate a block. To achieve that every 10 minutes, the network was then computing more than 1 sextillion hashes per second, equivalent to tens of billions of high-end graphics cards.

🇰🇵 North Korea reportedly selects 200 of the country’s top middle school students each year to train as state hackers, according to defectors cited by the South China Morning Post.
A few days ago, Chainalysis estimated that hackers linked to North Korea accounted for nearly 89% of crypto hacking losses in 2026

🔴 A family held captive in their home for crypto they didn't have. The attackers had the wrong house.
Armed individuals assaulted and held captive the tenants of an isolated house in Vern-sur-Seiche, near Rennes, on August 22, convinced they would find a cryptocurrency holder who did not live there.
Four young people aged 17 to 20, arrested on November 2 in the Paris region and Montpellier, admitted to the crimes, were charged and face up to 20 years in prison.
In March, a mother and her two children had already been mistakenly held captive in Seine-et-Marne, in place of the former owner of t

📊 Since the beginning of the year, spot Bitcoin ETFs have posted a slightly negative balance of $416 million as of November 5: about $25.6 billion in inflows were offset by $26 billion in outflows.

🚨 Gnosis Pay, which offers a payment card linked to a crypto wallet, announces a data breach that exposed its customers’ names, phone numbers and mailing addresses, as well as all crypto addresses linked to their wallets...

🚨 Gnosis Pay, which offers a payment card linked to a crypto wallet, announces a data breach that exposed its customers’ names, phone numbers and mailing addresses, as well as information related to their wallets.

⏳ NEWS | Ethereum postpones Glamsterdam, its next major update: tests have shown that two changes to gas fee calculations would break some smart contracts. Developers will not proceed with the upgrade schedule until these issues are resolved.