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A scammer who preyed on others gets robbed of $4.8 million by the very same gang of thieves 🦖

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The supply chain for Ledger hardware wallets was tampered with. In this latest wave, $103.4 million has already been stolen from 530 addresses.
One of the victims was a scammer himself. He treated three brand-new devices he’d just bought as safes—only to have the private keys inside copied and 60 bitcoins vanish.

Blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis revealed that the scammer bought three brand-new Ledger devices that came preloaded with spyware designed to record recovery phrases. He transferred his coins into all three wallets, and the thieves then swept the funds from all three into a single address in one go: 60 bitcoins, worth about $4.8 million at the time.

The irony runs deeper: he was involved in task scams, getting people to fake sales and reviews for real products. Eventually, victims would suddenly find their accounts in the red. To get their money back, they had to deposit more funds first. So the people he scammed weren’t necessarily innocent themselves. According to Chainalysis, someone who scammed other scammers got scammed himself this time. The world of crypto can be a chain of scams within scams 🔐

This isn’t an isolated incident. Earlier this month, Ledger asked distributors in seven markets—Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Hong Kong—to stop selling its devices after tampered units made their way into legitimate sales channels. Similar devices have also reportedly turned up in Europe, prompting German electronics retailer MediaMarkt to suspend sales. Ledger, however, maintains that all confirmed thefts so far have occurred in Asia.

Another hardware wallet maker, Trezor, has also taken precautionary measures. It announced that, starting January 1 next year, it will cut ties with some distributors located too far away, saying it can’t ensure the same level of oversight as it does with local distributors. So far, there have been no reports of tampered Trezor devices.

My take: what was breached this time wasn’t the cryptography, but the stretch between people and the store shelf. The devices were fine when they left the factory; the problem happened during resale. The biggest selling point of a hardware wallet is that its private keys never touch an internet-connected device. Now attackers are simply bypassing the technology and targeting logistics and authorized distributors instead. A cold wallet isn’t automatically safe. Where the device in your hand came from matters more than how many buttons it has ⚠️

Let’s talk in the comments: when you buy a hardware wallet, do you stick to official channels, or order from a third party for convenience? 📉

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Google has cut the costliest step in quantum computing by 40x. Bitcoin wallet encryption is one step closer to being cracked 🦖

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On October 15, Google’s Quantum AI team published a paper in the journal Science. Using a technique called magic state cultivation, they reduced the error rate on their Willow chip by about 40 times, achieving a T-state logical fidelity of 99.99%. Those numbers may sound dry, but they’re directly connected to one big question: when will a quantum computer be able to calculate the private key behind a Bitcoin address?

First, what are magic states? Complex quantum computations need a kind of one-time fuel that gets used up. Industry estimates suggest that producing it alone could consume as much as 95% of a quantum computer’s computing power. In 2004, two physicists proposed the standard solution, called magic state distillation: use a whole array of qubits as a factory. It comes at an enormous cost. In 2024, Google proposed magic state cultivation, which works like a filter, discarding all the bad states and keeping only the clean ones. This is the first time the method has moved from papers and simulations onto a real chip. 🔐

The key is the cost. Google says that only about 8% of attempts pass all the checks. That means the chip has to throw away more than 90% of the results for every clean magic state it keeps. That sounds wasteful, but compared with the old approach of building a dedicated factory, it’s a major leap. Google’s next step is to cut the hardware noise on Willow in half again. Since errors fall with the cube of the noise level, the magic state error rate could drop to around two in 100,000.

Why does this matter to crypto? A white paper published in March put it plainly. Google’s quantum team, Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, and Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh estimated that the hardware cost of breaking Bitcoin’s elliptic curve encryption could be fewer than 500,000 physical qubits. Last year’s estimate was still one million noisy qubits to take on RSA-2048. In 2019, that figure was 20 million. That’s a 20-fold drop in six years. 📉

But don’t panic just yet. This experiment used only 54 of Willow’s 105 qubits. To actually factor RSA-2048, magic state errors would need to be as low as one in 10 billion—about a million times lower than in this result. In other words, your wallet won’t be in trouble tomorrow. But paper by paper, the timeline for migrating to post-quantum encryption is being pushed forward. ⚠️

My take: the impact of breakthroughs like this isn’t that they’ll pay off tomorrow. It’s that they gradually shorten the time horizon institutions have in mind when making long-term plans. The coins in your wallet may not move, but the underlying cryptographic standards are already being discussed for replacement. What’s really worth watching is when the Bitcoin community moves a post-quantum upgrade from discussion onto the agenda.

Do you think the quantum threat is overblown fear—or a countdown that’s being underestimated? Let’s talk in the comments. 👀

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Russian retail investors have just 8 months of crypto freedom left—and will only be allowed to buy $3,600 a year 🦖

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In an FAQ updated on October 12, the Bank of Russia confirmed that, starting July 1, 2027, peer-to-peer crypto transactions between individuals will no longer be legal. Anyone who wants to buy crypto will have to go through licensed brokers and exchange operators listed in the Central Bank’s register. The legal basis for this rule is Federal Law No. 282-FZ, signed on August 4 this year and officially in force since September 1.

There are also strict limits on how much people can buy. Non-qualified investors must first pass a test and will be allowed to buy no more than 300,000 rubles’ worth a year—about $3,600. They can only buy three assets: Bitcoin, Ethereum, and USDT. Qualified investors, by contrast, have no annual limit. Retail investors face a $3,600 ceiling, while institutions can come and go as they please ⚖️

More unusually, even self-custody is off the table. Transferring crypto from a digital account to a wallet whose private keys you control is not allowed. Transfers between individuals through addresses operated by digital depository institutions are also prohibited. Ordinary users can’t lend or borrow crypto, either; only brokers, trustees, exchange operators, and clearing organizations can act as lenders.

Why does this matter so much? After a leading exchange sold its Russian business to a local platform in 2023, the standard way for Russians to get USDT was peer-to-peer: the buyer sent rubles to the seller’s bank card, and the seller transferred the USDT. The new rules cut off exactly that route. According to Andrei Tugarin, managing partner at GMT Legal, speaking to Kommersant FM, from July 1, 2027, Russian banks will have to refuse customers’ requests to fund crypto wallets on foreign platforms, and they will also be unable to accept rubles withdrawn from those platforms ⚠️

On the other hand, the authorities don’t want to shut the door completely. Russia’s largest bank, Sberbank, joined the Central Bank’s register of crypto exchange operators on October 12 and plans to launch its first crypto products on December 1. VTB and T-Invest Lab are also on the list. To join the register, a company must be Russian and have a minimum capital of 15 million rubles, or about $179,000. However, businesses can continue operating without a license until July 1, 2027 💼

My take: this looks less like a ban and more like a takeover. Retail investors are being pushed out of peer-to-peer trading and into licensed channels, keeping both the money and the people inside the system. For ordinary Russians, that means less freedom—they won’t even be able to move their own coins into their own wallets. For banks and brokerages, it’s a new business opportunity. Crypto can’t be used to buy things domestically, but it is still allowed for settling foreign trade. That door has never been closed.

Let’s discuss in the comments: do you think licensing will cool Russia’s crypto demand, or just push it into the over-the-counter market? 📉

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A 50% crash and a 20x gain in the same memo: why one firm says all three paths lead to Bitcoin 🦖

🧭 群里聊方向

The author of this memo is Matt Hougan, chief investment officer at Bitwise. Published Wednesday, it uses the choose-your-own-adventure books of his childhood as a framework. The core idea, in one sentence: the divide over today’s macroeconomic outlook is the widest he’s seen in his career. Some think AI could double U.S. GDP; others fear it could make humans obsolete.

His approach is simple but rigorous: walk through every path and see where it ends.

Path one: AI really does usher in superabundance. Productivity explodes, and knowledge-based work becomes cheap. Money flows toward things that are truly scarce and impossible to manufacture: waterfront property, gold, and Bitcoin.

Path two: the bubble bursts, triggering a recession on the scale of 2008. Bitcoin initially falls along with other risk assets, but Hougan thinks a bailout is almost inevitable, because AI infrastructure represents the biggest capital spending boom in U.S. history. The amount of money printed would be staggering. He puts the odds of a rescue at nearly 100%, and writes that this is exactly the kind of environment Bitcoin was created for 💥

Path three is the middle ground: 3% growth and 4% interest rates. Bitcoin doesn’t have to do anything special; it just has to keep showing up as usual—continuing to benefit from ETF inflows, adoption by financial advisors, and allocations on corporate and sovereign balance sheets.

He also leaves room for caution, saying Bitcoin won’t go up in a straight line. During the COVID panic in March 2020, it was cut in half in a matter of days, before rebounding roughly 20x. He also flags two risks unrelated to macroeconomics: coordinated crackdowns by governments around the world, and the threat quantum computing poses to old wallets ⚠️

When this memo came out, the market was worried about exactly the kind of macro anxiety he describes. This week, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $261 million in net outflows in a single day. Bitcoin briefly fell to $80,983, its lowest level since September 18, before climbing back above $82,000. Ethereum slipped below $2,500. And the head of the world’s largest asset manager publicly warned that if AI data centers were shut down, the U.S. economy could go straight into a recession.

My take: the value of this memo isn’t that it’s bullish. It’s that it offers a different way to price macroeconomic uncertainty. Most people are asking which scenario will happen. Hougan’s point is that all three scenarios end with the same kind of asset: something scarce, and a vehicle for monetary expansion. Put another way, if that end-point logic holds, the wild swings along the way are part of the journey, not the conclusion. But in the short term, flows still call the shots. Without a return of spot buying, even the strongest long-term thesis can’t support the price.

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AI wrote 75% of the code, but it didn’t make itself move faster. Google just poured cold water on AI self-improvement 🦖

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The investigators: Google DeepMind, one of the world’s largest AI labs. What they investigated: the hypothesis of recursive self-improvement—the idea that AI creates a smarter version of itself, which then creates an even smarter next generation, so quickly that humans can’t test, regulate, or simply shut it down in time. The conclusion, in the latest flagship model safety report published on October 14: no evidence of acceleration.

First, three numbers. One: more than 75% of production code at Google DeepMind is now written by AI. The share of code submissions handled entirely by AI rose from 7.5% in April to 11.9% in September. AI is clearly becoming more deeply embedded. Two: around 88% of code changes still need multiple rounds of human guidance—or are written by people themselves. Three: the company’s internal composite capability index, which combines 123 models and 92 benchmarks into a single score, has risen by about 0.1 points per month. There was no statistically significant acceleration after April 1, 2026, either.

The shape of the curve says even more. The flagship generation at the end of 2024 scored around 0.5 points. The previous generation, from this September, scored just over 2.9. Almost every version lies along a straight line. The latest model, Argon, scored around 3.3—the only point that sticks out. But its margin of error is wide enough to overlap with the trend line. Researcher Haydn Belfield, who took part in the evaluation, explained that most of this outperformance comes from increased computing power and organizational investment, not AI accelerating itself.

The data on actual work is even more direct. Google examined 1,389 work logs from Argon acting as an internal agent. The conclusion: the bigger the task, the less likely it is to complete it independently, and the more often a human needs to step in. It managed only about half of internal research engineering tasks, while DeepMind considers 90% the threshold for full automation. Another survey of 12 senior leaders and researchers found that automation is highest for clearly defined, verifiable tasks, and lowest for open-ended scientific creativity, designing new experiments, diagnosing unstable training, and long-term research judgment.

Some context: a month ago, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei publicly said recursive self-improvement was already accelerating. Sam Altman and Elon Musk echoed him. Those remarks sent chip stocks down nearly 6% that day, while Bitcoin was rising ⚠️

My take: this audit isn’t declaring that AI has hit a wall. It is pulling the runaway-acceleration hypothesis down from market expectations. For crypto markets, some assets with an AI narrative premium are priced partly on the assumption that AI will keep getting faster on its own. Now the company best placed to build AI says its internal data shows otherwise. In the short term, that’s clearly a sentiment headwind. But the 75% and 11.9% figures also show that AI is already deeply embedded in production workflows. The underlying demand for payments and settlement in the agent economy hasn’t been overturned 📉

A quick look at the markets: Bitcoin is fluctuating around $82,000, and Ethereum is hovering below $2,500. The market-implied odds of a Fed rate hike in October have risen from 18% to 29% over the past week. In other words, as the AI narrative cools, macroeconomic tensions are tightening.

Do you think AI will lose control of itself first, or will data like this gradually disprove the idea? If fears of another AI acceleration surge return, will Bitcoin once again become a safe haven for capital? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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#比特币现货etf单日净流出2.61亿美元
In just one day, Bitcoin ETFs flipped from $175.7 million in net inflows to $261.4 million in net outflows 🦖
On October 14, U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw $261.4 million in net outflows. The previous trading day, October 13, they had still recorded $175.7 million in net inflows 📉

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Most of the money came out of the two biggest funds: Fidelity’s FBTC saw $152.7 million withdrawn, and BlackRock’s IBIT saw $110.9 million withdrawn. Those two alone accounted for the vast majority of the day’s redemptions.
But one fund went against the trend: Bitwise’s BITB saw $2.2 million in net inflows, making it the only major product still attracting money 💰
This wasn’t just an ordinary fluctuation in fund flows. Since U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs launched in January 2024, their daily net flows have become one of the most direct, real-time indicators of institutional sentiment. The swing from $175.7 million in inflows to $261.4 million in outflows—more than $400 million in a change of direction—happened in just 24 hours.
Here’s my take: The large redemptions were concentrated in the two biggest funds, Fidelity and BlackRock. This looks more like institutions rebalancing between leading products, and between ETFs and the over-the-counter market, rather than collectively exiting the market. The real signal isn’t what happened on this one day—it’s whether the outflows can be made up over the next few days ⚠️
On the other hand, if net outflows continue for two or three days, Bitcoin’s latest rebound above $80,000 will have less spot-market buying to support it. A rally driven by leverage and sentiment can pull back even faster.
There are three things to watch next: First, will FBTC and IBIT see outflows for a second or third day in a row? Second, can smaller funds like BITB continue attracting money against the trend? Third, can Bitcoin hold the $80,000 level?
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The $1.8 billion stablecoin payment rails have been switched on for the first time today. One card aims to connect settlements across 200 countries 🦖
Mastercard launched its Global Money platform on Thursday, systematically integrating BVNK—the stablecoin infrastructure company it acquired in August for approximately $1.8 billion—into its payment network for the first time. At its core is a global money account where fiat currencies and stablecoins can sit side by side and be converted between one another through a single interface 💳

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This isn’t a niche tool for the crypto world. It’s foundational infrastructure for banks, fintech companies, and businesses. They can embed these accounts into their own branded products to offer real-time conversions, stablecoin-linked cards, and payouts to local banks—or simply use them to manage their own funds and settlements.
The scale is significant. Once connected to Mastercard’s transfer network, stablecoin balances can be converted directly into local currency and deposited into recipients’ bank accounts. By 2027, the platform is expected to support more than 40 currencies across over 200 countries. Stablecoin balances can also be spent directly across Mastercard’s acceptance network, with card issuance available in more than 130 countries. The first partners include payments company Nuvei, card-issuing platform Marqeta, and Ontop, Beem, and Almond FinTech 🌍
Mastercard Executive Vice President of Blockchain and Digital Assets Raj Dhamodharan says the future of commerce will be built on interoperability between multiple currencies. The next steps include support for AI agents making automated transactions and for tokenized deposits. The company has already enabled payments by AI agents and secured a New York license covering stablecoins and tokenized deposits 💰
My take: The real turning point for stablecoins isn’t technology—it’s the settlement and compliance rails. Whoever controls the acceptance network and the right to issue cards gets to define how stablecoins are spent. This time, it’s a card network stepping up, not an exchange. That shows traditional finance is moving sooner than many people think. Conversely, crypto-native stablecoin payment companies will either be absorbed or have to compete in the corners that card networks can’t reach ⚖️
Three things are worth watching: first, whether the promise of 40 currencies across 200 countries by 2027 is delivered on time; second, whether banks simply issue their own stablecoin accounts; and third, when these accounts will become directly available to everyday users.
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Inflation goes through the roof: Bitcoin plunges below $80,000, then climbs back to $82,000 an hour later 🦖
The US September Producer Price Index (PPI) surged to 6.3% year over year, a full 100 basis points above market expectations of 5.3%—the biggest monthly increase since March 2022. The day before, CPI had already come in hotter than expected, leaving markets on edge.

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Bitcoin briefly fell to $80,983, its lowest level since September 18, and was down as much as 3% on the day. Ethereum, XRP, and Solana fell even harder. But after a wave of short positions was liquidated, the price climbed back above $82,000 💥
The strangest move came from elsewhere: despite the scorching inflation data, Treasury yields actually fell. The 30-year yield dropped 8 basis points to 5.08%, well below its recent high of 5.36%, while the 10-year yield also fell by around 3%.
Robin Brooks, former head of FX strategy at Goldman Sachs, calculated that the 30-day correlation between upside data surprises and the 10-year yield has fallen from nearly 0.6 earlier this year to virtually zero by the end of August. His explanation: markets are now focused on the path of the fiscal deficit, not the data itself.
Rate-hike expectations have also cooled. CME data shows the odds of a hike this month to 4%–4.25% are down to just 29%, after briefly approaching 50% following the CPI release ⚠️
Technically, the 21-week and 50-week exponential moving averages are at $76,144 and $78,459, respectively. Analyst Rekt Capital says that in early bull markets, it’s common for prices to retest these levels before moving higher. Aksel Kibar, meanwhile, says last week’s close at $83,700 lacked breakout strength, with the top of the range at $82,800.
My take: The hotter the data, the lower the yields—meaning markets are now trading stagflation and fiscal deficits, not rate hikes. Bitcoin’s rebound came from shorts getting squeezed, not stronger buying. To confirm a bullish turn, we need to see it reclaim the $82,800 range high.
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#以太坊跌破2400美元
Crypto market cap drops 2.5% overnight; Ethereum falls 5.5% in a day, altcoins get hammered, while Bitcoin is down just 3.1% 💥

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Over the past 24 hours, total crypto market cap shrank 2.5% to $2.8 trillion. Ethereum fell below $2,400, dropping 5.5% in a day and bringing its market cap down to $289 billion. Bitcoin, by comparison, fell just 3.1% and still has a market cap of $1.6 trillion. The gap is plain to see. Analysts call this “outsized drawdowns”—in plain English, it means falling much harder than the broader market 🦖

At the same table, XRP fell 5.1% to a market cap of $82.4 billion, and Solana (SOL) dropped 3.8% to $60.6 billion. Altcoins across the board fared much worse than Bitcoin.

The trigger was the U.S. September CPI report released Wednesday, which showed a 3.7% year-over-year increase, higher than expected. Prediction market Myriad raised the odds of an October rate hike from 18% a week ago to 28%. With expectations of rate hikes back to pour cold water on the market, high-beta assets were the first to get hit.

The institutional moves are what really matter. Nick Forster, founder of options platform Derive, said traders switched into protection mode almost instantly, and hedging activity on the platform doubled. Whales unwound the long positions they had placed in the spring. He called it a dramatic regime shift, with institutions reassessing their macro risk exposure ⚖️

Luke Nolan of CoinShares added the missing link: the U.S. Dollar Index has reached a near 18-month high. A stronger dollar is a form of tightening. As liquidity expectations fade, altcoins—which are especially sensitive to financial conditions—are the first to fall.

Max Shannon of Bitwise Europe offered another perspective: the drop is a hangover after a sharp rally. Since October, open interest in altcoin futures excluding Ethereum has fallen by $8 billion. Money has been pulled off the table. Ethereum has also outperformed Bitcoin for three consecutive months—the first time since March 2021—and investors who have made enough are starting to take profits. Ethereum ETFs have seen net outflows for 11 consecutive trading days, totaling $782.8 million. After a brief inflow on Tuesday, funds turned back to outflows, with the latest single-day net outflow reaching $129.5 million 📉

My take: this isn’t a collapse in fundamentals so much as high-level repositioning combined with leverage coming out of the market. But there’s one condition to watch: rate-hike expectations must not climb further. Nolan also said that if Bitcoin can’t hold its ground, altcoins will continue to bleed. On the other hand, if Bitcoin gets back above $80,000 and holds, the rebound could be just as dramatic.

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A 5-year exemption puts 63 U.S. stocks on-chain—but the whole building could be flattened by a single court ruling 🦖

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The SEC and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission just made a major move. After the CLARITY Act fell short in a 49–50 vote, the two agencies went straight around Congress and set rules for themselves. The SEC issued a 5-year exemption allowing tokenized stocks to be issued and traded. One exchange teamed up with ICE, the parent company of the NYSE, to launch 63 U.S. stocks; another firm, Securitize, launched 12. Apple, Nvidia, and Microsoft are all on the list.

On the surface, regulators are giving the green light. But investment bank TD Cowen poured cold water on the news, saying rules set by executive agencies are the easiest to overturn. The policies left behind by the previous administration were almost entirely wiped out once the new administration’s appointees took office ⚖️

The real risk was buried in 2024, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the 1984 Chevron precedent. In the past, when courts encountered ambiguity, they generally deferred to regulators’ expert interpretations. Now judges can reassess matters for themselves under the Howey test—and the scales are clearly tipped toward overturning the rules.

Lawyer Yuriy Brisov breaks it down further: to overturn a new rule, it’s not enough to say you don’t like it. You have to prove two things: first, that the rule wasn’t supported by sufficient research; and second, that it caused actual harm to businesses. The Business Roundtable won its 2011 lawsuit against the SEC on those grounds, when a new shareholder proxy-voting rule was ruled unlawful.

A group representing community banks has already sued the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, arguing that allowing crypto companies to obtain national trust bank charters exceeds the agency’s authority.

My take: the foundation of this policy windfall isn’t legislation passed by Congress, but regulatory interpretation and judicial deference. A change of administration or a single lawsuit could wipe it all out. Companies that have already poured money into infrastructure for tokenized stocks are betting on a time advantage while shouldering institutional risk. That’s also why regulators keep reminding everyone: an FAQ is only a guide, not a legally binding document.

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The privacy coin that surged 460% was hit with an 11% sell-off in a day. What’s really weighing on it may be an AI math problem 🦖

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Privacy coin Zcash fell 11% over the past 24 hours, but its market cap is still $18.5 billion. It’s one of the biggest mainstream coins to fall today. What’s more intriguing, though, is that the market is pointing to two completely different explanations ⚠️

First, the most straightforward one: leverage. Luke Nolan, a senior researcher at research firm CoinShares, said the drop was mainly driven by leveraged positions built up during the rally being unwound. The bigger the gains, the more people pile in using leverage. Then, when the market so much as sneezes, the moves get amplified: traders either have to cut their positions or get liquidated outright.

The data supports this explanation. According to CoinGlass, Zcash long positions worth $17.9 million were liquidated over the past 24 hours. Over the same period, liquidations in another popular perpetual-futures coin totaled just $7.3 million—a 2.4-fold difference.

But zoom out, and the picture looks different. Since its low in March this year, Zcash is still up 460%. Even after a cumulative pullback of more than 35% recently, on the daily chart it still looks like a decent correction. So Nolan’s view is clear: this looks more like a normal cooldown after a huge rally than a fundamental problem 💥

The second explanation is more intriguing. Some say what’s really weighing on privacy coins is the possibility that AI could crack encryption before quantum computers do. Last week, Ethereum co-founder Vitalik and Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake called on the industry to prepare for “bunker mode” in advance. The trigger was a mathematical breakthrough at OpenAI.

Ryan Zurrer, founder of investment firm Dialectic, put it bluntly: he said OpenAI’s mathematical breakthrough has made the entire crypto world nervous, because there are so few proofs in cryptography to begin with. If core primitives are rendered obsolete ahead of time by AI-driven attacks, more complex privacy protocols like Zcash could have the most to lose.

Here’s the irony: the very project people are worried about is the one that’s been running the fastest. Zcash full-node developer Zakura said the team expects to achieve quantum protection by January next year, along with a reasonable level of AI protection. Tim Sun, a senior researcher at research firm HashKey, also believes this post-quantum roadmap is a key catalyst behind Zcash’s latest rally.

Put simply, this drop isn’t about Zcash’s fundamentals. It’s high leverage colliding with macro noise. What’s really changing is the narrative: the privacy coin story is evolving from anonymous transactions to resisting AI and quantum computing. Whoever makes the most progress on that front will have a valuable long-term advantage.

Two things are worth watching: first, whether research emerges that provides direct proof AI can crack today’s encryption; and second, whether Zcash delivers on its quantum protection roadmap by January next year.

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After shutting down 400 websites in three years, they still couldn’t stop them all. This time, they took down 112 servers at once.

👥 一起来群里抬杠

The Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that, working with the FBI, it had dismantled the core infrastructure of a transnational crypto investment scam. A total of 112 servers and 241 domain names were seized or disabled. Searches spanned three time zones, and the investigation had been underway for three years.

The victims were Russian-speaking people living in the United States. They clicked on Russian-language investment ads on Facebook, then received calls from people claiming to be investment advisers. Step by step, they were guided to open accounts on crypto websites, buy coins, and transfer them to specified addresses. Weeks or months later, when they tried to withdraw their money, their accounts were either locked or they were told to pay additional fees and taxes.

The most vicious part of the scam came in the second step. Even if you accepted your losses, someone might contact you weeks later, claiming they could help recover your stolen assets. That’s what the industry calls a “recovery scam”—a second hit against the same victims. Prosecutor Eric Gonzalez retrieved this data from the seized servers. His exact words were: “These criminals first defraud victims of tens of millions of dollars, then try to harm those same victims a second time with false promises of recovering their funds.” ⚖️

Look at the numbers: The investigation lasted three years. Authorities had already seized or disabled 400 related domains, yet new websites kept appearing. Prosecutors estimate that tens of millions of dollars were involved, with some victims losing all their savings. About $300,000 has been recovered so far. The servers were hosted by both U.S. and Eastern European companies, while the scammers’ network infrastructure and IP addresses were primarily based in Eastern Europe.

Why was this approach different? Taking down domains is like playing whack-a-mole—the scammers can come back with a new domain. Taking down servers cuts off their tools of production. They can’t quickly build new websites, and they also lose the means to keep contacting victims who have already been ensnared. In other words, the focus shifts from attacking the symptoms to cutting off their capacity to operate. ⚠️

To put it plainly, the most common point of failure in crypto scams isn’t technology getting hacked—it’s people and processes being exploited. Fake ads, fake advisers, fake recovery services: all three rely on psychology, not code. So even the strongest on-chain tracing capabilities won’t stop new victims from coming in as long as those ads keep running. What’s really worth watching is whether cases like this will eventually bring ad platforms and server-hosting companies into the picture too.

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7-day countdown: An Ethereum Layer 2 wants to break away from Ethereum. The reason isn’t fees—it’s quantum computing ⚛️
Starknet officially launched a non-binding governance vote on Thursday, asking STRK holders whether it should explore upgrading from an Ethereum Layer 2 to an independent, post-quantum Layer 1 blockchain. The three options are to support further research, oppose it, or remain neutral due to insufficient information. Voting closes on October 22 🗳️

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The developers at StarkWare put it plainly: as long as Starknet remains on Ethereum, its timeline for becoming quantum-resistant will have to follow Ethereum’s. Ethereum’s own post-quantum team was only established this March, and its preliminary goal for protocol-level protection is 2029.
StarkWare CEO Eli Ben-Sasson put it this way: “Quantum-proofing cryptography is urgent. We have to move at lightning speed.” He and the company’s official account had already hinted on October 8 that the goal was to become the first fully quantum-resistant network by 2027. In June, the company also published a three-phase quantum-resistance roadmap covering signature upgrades, smart contract migration, and the infrastructure that depends on Ethereum.
To put it another way, this isn’t a breakup announcement. It’s a dispute over timelines. The vote makes it clear that voting in favor only means supporting research—it does not authorize a migration. Any actual move would require another proposal and governance vote, and no specific timeline for becoming a Layer 1 has been announced so far.
But the direction is clear. Starknet currently relies on Ethereum for its bridge and data availability, and those are precisely the areas it acknowledges still have quantum-security vulnerabilities. If it really does become independent, it will have to take responsibility for its own bridge, data availability, and even its security model. Instead of sharing Ethereum’s security, it would have to pay for its own security.
My take: what matters isn’t whether Starknet actually leaves, but that quantum risk has become a new dimension of competition between blockchains for the first time. The market used to treat it as a distant issue a decade away. Now a project is making it a selling point and putting it to a governance vote. If this vote passes, other Layer 2s will likely follow with quantum-resistant roadmaps to stake their claim early 🦖
Two things are worth watching: first, the October 22 vote result; second, if Starknet really does leave, how liquidity and asset bridges in the Ethereum ecosystem would be disentangled.
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The global crypto fund market is worth $172.9 billion, but Hong Kong gets just 0.42%. Now Thailand wants in too 🦖

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Thailand’s listing rules for Bitcoin and Ethereum ETFs officially take effect this Friday. Local retail investors will finally be able to buy locally listed crypto ETFs on the Stock Exchange of Thailand. But James Butterfill, Head of Research at CoinShares, has poured cold water on the excitement: he expects the first products to attract only tens of millions of dollars in inflows. Billions are wishful thinking 🧊

First, let’s look at how the door is opening. Thailand is allowing locally listed crypto ETFs to be offered directly to retail investors. But if you want to buy overseas crypto ETFs through domestic brokerages, access is still limited to institutions and ultra-high-net-worth investors. Two channels, two very different barriers to entry 📊

The reality check comes from a ready-made comparison: Hong Kong. Despite being an international financial center, Hong Kong accounts for just 0.42% of global crypto ETP assets. As of late September, global crypto investment products had $172.9 billion in assets under management, while Hong Kong had just $733 million—less than 1% of the total.

Thailand already has players in this space. In 2024, MFC Asset Management launched MBTCETF-UI, a Bitcoin ETF-tracking fund whose underlying investment is BlackRock’s iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT). ONE Asset Management also became Thailand’s first asset manager approved to offer a Bitcoin ETF-linked fund in 2024. So the new local ETFs won’t be entering an empty market: investors can already get Bitcoin exposure through overseas funds or by buying crypto directly.

Butterfill puts it plainly: local ETFs will need to convince new investors to enter the market or give existing investors a compelling reason to switch. Otherwise, they’ll just be fishing in the same pond ⚠️

There’s another step still to come. Thailand’s first crypto funds will need separate regulatory approval, as well as custody and distribution arrangements, before they can actually be listed and traded. In other words, the rules take effect Friday—the products don’t.

Put simply, opening the gates and getting money flowing are two different things. Thailand has one of Southeast Asia’s larger retail investor bases, but ETFs will have to prove they can attract new money rather than simply shift existing over-the-counter holdings or overseas investments into a new wrapper. Over the next few months, watch for two signals: when the first products get approved, and whether first-month inflows reach tens of millions or break into the hundreds of millions.

How much do you think these Thai ETFs will attract in their first month? Could one be a surprise hit, or will it be a lot of noise with little to show for it, like in many emerging markets? Share your thoughts in the comments.

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#btc跌破8.1万美元
Whales had already loaded up on 3.03 million BTC before the CPI announcement. Then the data came out, and the price plunged straight below their cost basis 🦖

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US September CPI came in at 3.7% year over year, above the 3.6% forecast. Core CPI was 2.6%, also higher than the expected 2.5%. Within minutes of the release, Bitcoin started sliding. It fell 3.3% in 24 hours to $80,979.

Here’s the really painful part: around $81,000 is the average cost basis of US spot ETFs’ Bitcoin purchases. According to Glassnode, the current price has already dropped below it. On the same day, these ETFs also saw net outflows of $261.5 million, according to SoSoValue.

The leverage side got hit even harder. Nearly $1 billion in positions were liquidated across the market in the past 24 hours, 91.6% of them longs. Long traders got wiped out the most thoroughly 💥

Here’s the contrast: CryptoQuant data shows that in the weeks before the report, whales had already shifted from distributing to accumulating. Holdings outside exchanges and mining pools surged to 3.03 million BTC, the highest level since November 2025. Most of their cost basis sits between $80,000 and $100,000 🐋

Sentiment is split, too. Among retail traders, Santiment found that the ratio of bullish to bearish comments on October 13 was just 0.82. Repeated failures to break through $87,000 have steadily undermined confidence. Among analysts, however, CryptoQuant’s Consensus Index stood at 49.2 on October 14, with 84% of 164 analysts bullish.

Glassnode poured cold water on the rally, saying there wasn’t much new demand behind the price move. Buyers who entered the market over the past two years have cost bases between $88,000 and $100,000, and those two levels have pushed the price back down twice this year. The $88,000 level is also the cost basis for buyers who entered 6–12 months ago and a liquidation zone for short positions.

In plain English, the key level to watch now isn’t simply whether the price goes up or down—it’s $80,000. That’s where the largest buy order sits on the spot order book, and it’s also the 365-day moving average. If the price breaks below $80,000, longs below that level may be forced to cut their positions, exposing the $78,000 Realized Price. On the other hand, a daily close holding above $88,000, together with a return to net ETF inflows, would show that the bulls had truly absorbed the selling pressure 📈

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61,800 Bitcoin tied to a Ponzi scheme from a decade ago are now worth about $5 billion 🦖

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A court in Tianjin has just accepted an application to confiscate proceeds of crime. The assets in question are more than 61,800 Bitcoin and other assets from the Qian Zhimin case, worth about $5 billion at current prices. Qian herself was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison in the UK last year.

The events took place between 2014 and 2017. She ran a Ponzi scheme in China, signing at least 128,409 investment contracts, according to case files. Victims invested a total of about 40.2 billion yuan (roughly £4.1 billion). Around 34.1 billion yuan was returned to some investors. She later converted the money into Bitcoin and transferred it overseas. British police eventually seized 61,000 Bitcoin—the largest Bitcoin seizure in UK history.

On Monday, the High Court in London issued a key ruling on which country's laws should apply to victims' claims. The court ultimately ruled that Chinese law applies, rather than local law ⚖️. The judge's reasoning was straightforward: where the fraud took place and where the money was handed over are where the loss is deemed to have occurred. Local law had been considered more favorable to victims because it could allow them to claim that these Bitcoin were theirs all along.

There are three striking contrasts here. First, Bitcoin's price has multiplied several times over the past few years, but victims may not get a share of that increase. To recover the coins, they must first prove they have a proprietary interest in them—and applying Chinese law raises that bar considerably. Second, the possibility of using the money to plug a hole in the UK's public finances was privately discussed domestically. In other words, it remains unclear who will get the $5 billion. Third, this ruling does not decide who ultimately gets the coins; it only establishes which country's law will be used as the yardstick.

The victims' lawyers have said they will appeal. The details of Chinese law and how it applies will be decided at the next stage ⚠️. In other words, the real fight over who gets the money is only just beginning.

My take: The biggest significance of this case isn't the amount of money involved. It's that it sets a precedent for cross-border assets: the country where the coins are held determines which rules apply. No matter how far assets travel on-chain, in the end they still fall under the jurisdiction of some country 💰

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#btc跌破8.1万美元 #9月cpi来袭原油美债走势如何
Bitcoin ETFs saw $150 million pulled out in a single day, while not one of the ten Ethereum ETFs saw any inflows 🦖

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U.S. September CPI rose 3.7% year over year, up from 3.4% in August and above market expectations. Core CPI climbed to 2.6%. As soon as the data came out, markets immediately repriced the odds of a Fed rate hike in October. The CME FedWatch tool showed the probability briefly surging from around 22% before the release to nearly 47%, before falling back to 26%. Risk assets retreated across the board.

Bitcoin fell below $81,000, briefly testing the $80,000 mark during Asian trading hours, and was down more than 2% over 24 hours. Ethereum fell to $2,357, while XRP and SOL dropped 3.5% to 4%. South Korea’s KOSPI plunged 8% intraday, triggering a circuit breaker, and the Nikkei 225 fell 5% 💥

The institutional flows are what’s really worth watching. U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs saw net outflows of $150.5 million on October 14, wiping out all of the $175.7 million in inflows from the previous day. Spot Ethereum ETFs saw $130 million in net outflows yesterday, with none of the ten products recording a net inflow. Demand is clearly weakening ??

My view is that ETF inflows have been the engine behind this rally. Once the engine stalls, the gap in spot buying becomes immediately apparent. Leverage can prop up prices for a while, but it can’t drive them to new highs. Institutions aren’t necessarily turning bearish; they’re stepping aside to avoid uncertainty around the data. Every upcoming inflation and employment report will be scrutinized more intensely by the market. No one wants to be fully invested before the results come in ⚖️

Another way to look at it: a single day of outflows doesn’t have to signal a trend. Around the last few data releases, funds first moved to the sidelines and then returned. The key is whether ETFs buy back the money they pulled out over the next three days. If net outflows continue, then $80,000 won’t just be support—it’ll be a turning point for the trend 📉

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555 financial institutions inspected in one sweep; 130 failed; 100,000 customer records exposed ⚖️🦖

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South Korea’s Financial Services Commission announced the results of a cybersecurity inspection covering 555 financial companies. It found cybersecurity weaknesses at 130 of them—nearly one in four. The inspection followed several security incidents involving 16 institutions, including crypto trading platforms and banks. Around 100,000 customer records were exposed, including names, contact details, and national ID numbers.

Two crypto platforms were on the list. The operator of one had previously acknowledged that an October 2 attack exposed some customers’ personal information. Regulators say they are still investigating whether the incidents involved artificial intelligence and whether the same group of attackers was responsible. 💥

The next steps are specific: large financial institutions must conduct vulnerability assessments at least twice a year; industry threat-intelligence sharing will be upgraded; and smaller companies are considering using AI for security monitoring. Regulators also want a spare key: the authority to conduct surprise inspections outside the regular assessment schedule when an urgent threat arises.

My take: what’s really changing this time isn’t the technology—it’s accountability. The new rules explicitly call for stronger personal accountability for executives. We all know the old script: an incident happens, a statement is issued, a small sum is paid in compensation, and executives keep their bonuses and their jobs. Now that responsibility is being assigned to individuals, incentives may finally change. ⚠️

Two details are worth noting. First, the inspection covered banks as well as crypto platforms, showing that this kind of risk is no longer confined to one corner of the industry. Second, regulators suspect attackers may have used AI while also planning to use AI for defense. Both sides of the cybersecurity battle have chosen the same tool—a new dynamic emerging this year.

In the broader picture, South Korean regulators have been taking action one after another this year: stablecoins, trading platforms, cybersecurity, and market access. Together, these measures aim to bring crypto out of the gray zone and into mainstream finance. The cost is higher compliance expenses for all platforms, which could further squeeze smaller players. 📉

Do you think inspecting the industry first and setting rules afterward will make ordinary people’s data safer? Or will the costs simply be passed on to users and smaller platforms? Let’s talk in the comments.

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The US is still arguing over crypto legislation, while Australia has already put the rules in writing. The bar: $9.7 million ⚖️🦖

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On Thursday, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) launched a public consultation on capital, custody and trading rules for crypto platforms. Consultation Paper CP 392 proposes that platforms without a qualified third-party custodian hold at least A$14 million (about US$9.7 million) in net tangible assets, or 10% of their average revenue over the past period—whichever is higher.

The consultation paper also includes three other measures: first, it sets out three possible capital models; second, it restricts platforms from using their own funds to trade on their own account; and third, it requires them to report quarterly on the wallets holding client assets. It also proposes allowing offshore custody, while raising a key question: if an overseas parent or affiliate goes under, should the Australian platform have emergency access to the private keys? 💰

For context, in April this year the Australian Parliament passed the digital asset framework provisions in an amendment to the Corporations Act. This consultation is the final round of feedback before the rules are implemented, with 2027 as the target date.

My take: these rules are expensive—and just expensive enough. Industry players themselves say the standards are reasonably strict, because they reward those who invested early in compliance and custody, while penalising those who kept waiting. US$9.7 million is pocket change for the biggest platforms, but a matter of survival for smaller ones. So the real effect isn’t protecting users—it’s reshuffling the industry. 📊

The global picture makes this clearer. The EU’s MiCA has been in effect for a while, while US legislation remains stuck in Congress. Australia has chosen a third path: lay out the guidance first, then enforce it in 2027. Not aiming to be the fastest, but to eliminate uncertainty first.

The two things to watch are offshore custody and emergency access to private keys. Once these rules are finalised, they’ll directly determine whether small platforms can keep operating in Australia—and whose hands users’ money is actually in.

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