Man stole 50k bitcoins and hid them in a popcorn tin, caught nearly a decade later over an $800 transaction
A man exploited a vulnerability in the darknet marketplace Silk Road to steal about 50k bitcoins, hiding his fortune in a popcorn tin for nearly a decade. In the end, an $800 transaction reportedly helped investigators find him.
Exploiting a vulnerability
In 2012, James Zhong discovered a vulnerability in Silk Road—then one of the largest darknet marketplaces on the internet.
He found a way to trick the withdrawal system into sending him far more bitcoins than he had deposited.
On Septem

$DOOD Today's price action is like the bubble tea shop at the entrance to your neighborhood suddenly getting a long line—yesterday nobody paid it any attention, and today it's packed. It's up nearly 40% in 24 hours, touching a high of 0.0027 after dipping to 0.0014—almost doubled before pulling back, a real roller coaster. Trading volume was $410 million, showing real money changing hands, not a pump based on nothing.
Sentiment is classic FOMO from having missed the move mixed with the urge to chase. Looking at fund flows, there's clear support near the 0.0014 low. After it climbed to 0.0027,

Keystone Security Breach: 18,835 Hardware Wallets at Risk of Destruction
The security breach on Keystone's website has taken a significantly darker turn. Hackers have obtained the device authentication key, forcing the hardware wallet maker to destroy 18,835 units, halt shipments, and face the potential exposure of personal data for nearly 26,000 customers.
What initially appeared to be a customer data leak has escalated into a far more critical security crisis. On October 26, 2026, Keystone revealed that attackers also stole the authentication key used to verify whether its hardware wallets a

Why don’t lower transaction fees necessarily mean a public blockchain is more competitive?
In the Web3 world, low fees have long been an important selling point for attracting users.
Lower transaction costs let users transfer, trade, and use decentralized applications more cheaply. This is especially important for gaming, DeFi, and payment scenarios that require frequent interactions.
But if a public blockchain’s fees are much lower than those of other networks, does that necessarily make it more competitive?
Not necessarily.
Fees determine the cost of using a network, but its long-term compet

Why have I always thought Bitcoin was going to fall? It wasn't based on imagination. Today, I was at my computer right at 6 o'clock, continuing my analysis. It’s not because I opened a short at 805 that I want it to fall; I shorted because I judged it was going to fall.
Let’s look at the weekly chart: it hasn’t fallen nearly far enough yet, and there’s still room to go down. But the battle between bulls and bears around 80k is intense, so it’s moving sideways here. You can short around 810 and go long around 795, trading back and forth.
The Fed won’t raise rates on Thursday. If that meets expe

$Q Totally normal. I woke up to find it had dropped to 0.78. This market is just... the things you say are impossible always happen. Teach me. I'm going to sleep.😂

#USConsumerSentimentNearRecordLow #WCTCS9 #ShareWeekly
U.S. Consumer Sentiment Near Record Lows: Could Weak Confidence Become the Next Major Risk for Stocks and Crypto?
The U.S. economy may be approaching a critical test as consumer confidence remains under significant pressure. A consumer sentiment reading of 48.0, as cited in the current discussion, reflects deeply pessimistic household perceptions and raises an important question: Can consumer spending remain resilient when Americans continue to struggle with affordability and economic uncertainty?
In my view, the biggest risk is not the s

I’m INSANELY bullish on $ETH long term.
But will someone please give me their best argument why this won't happen 👀

The Time Series—Assuming Time Symmetry
If time were symmetric,
with no physical, logical,
or experiential distinction between the past and the future,
it would raise the following questions and challenges:
1. The collapse of causality
Time symmetry means the order of cause
and effect is no longer fixed,
which could lead to causal confusion.
For example, the effect of an event could occur before its cause.
This would upend our understanding of logic and decision-making,
and make it difficult for the basic rules of the real world
(such as the laws of physics) to operate.
But precognitive dreams

Does holding 10 cryptocurrencies really diversify risk?
Many investors believe that as long as they don't invest all their funds in a single cryptocurrency, their portfolio is sufficiently diversified.
So they hold BTC, ETH, and several different altcoins at the same time.
On the surface, the number of assets has increased, and risk seems to be spread out.
But the problem is that having more assets does not necessarily mean having fewer sources of risk.
Why is that?
First, different tokens may be affected by the same market factor.
When overall market risk appetite declines, many crypto assets

$TRUMP 1.672, politically themed meme is riding out an external variable 🎭
It has no team or product roadmap behind it, and its total token supply was fixed from the start. Its price is driven almost entirely by news attention around a public figure. News is quiet today, so the price is trading sideways, with volume still decent for the meme sector. But be aware: once the event window closes, the order book will thin rapidly. By the time you see a rally, most of the move may already be over, making it easy to end up holding the bag if you chase.
$BOM 0.000623, meme points concept rebounds sli

Good morning, guys. I woke up early needing to pee, around 5 a.m. I got up to use the bathroom and checked the group messages. I saw that one of the guys had tagged me last night, asking whether he should cut his losses on his short and hand it to the market maker. I was already asleep then. Since I got liquidated a few days ago, I’ve been out of the market, so I checked the price of Ethereum. Sure enough, just as I expected, it had broken below 2,300. But it looks like this guy cut his losses at 100U and got out, handing it to the market maker.
给兄弟们说说我的想法；现在看以太坊下跌趋势中，存在一个相对教弱的小反弹，当前的以太坊偏震

Why doesn't a sudden large cryptocurrency transfer by a whale necessarily mean the market is about to turn?
In the cryptocurrency market, a large transfer can quickly attract attention.
When on-chain data shows that a large address has transferred millions of dollars worth of assets, the market can easily come up with two guesses:
Is the whale preparing to sell?
Or is someone quietly accumulating tokens?
But there is an important issue here:
A large transfer can prove that assets have moved, but by itself, it cannot prove whether the sender intends to buy or sell.
Why can't you judge the marke

El Niño and Crypto: What Investors Should Know
26 Oct 2026 · @learn_with_fullo
El Niño does not move crypto prices directly, but a strong one can reach the market through food, energy and currency pressures. NOAA's latest outlook says a strong El Niño is under way, so it is worth understanding the links and the myths.
Why people connect El Niño and crypto
El Niño is a warming of the central and eastern tropical Pacific that returns every 2 to 7 years and usually lasts 9 to 12 months. It shifts rainfall and temperature worldwide, bringing floods to some regio

Well Deserved. Harry Kane is the Balon D'or winner
#BallonDor

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$CORE The latest on-chain staking data for the Core blockchain is out. Here’s a rundown of the current landscape:
In the official staking pool, 294,105,141 CORE are locked, corresponding to 1,478.181254 BTC staked. As for node operations, only 13 of the 32 node seats are active, contributing 685 EH/s of BTC hashrate, about 64% of the network’s 1069 EH/s.
Looking at staking in the B14G ecosystem: 96,497,000 CORE staked, 2,762.92 BTC staked, and 72,713.21 CORE burned in total.
One point worth noting is that the project team has fully withdrawn its nodes, handing node operations back to the commu