Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
BTCPay Server urged operators to shut down their servers after receiving reports of unauthorized attackers draining funds from hot wallets.Update (Nov. 3, 2026, 7:00 am UTC): This article has been updated to include comments from a BTCPay Server spok...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The central bank is surveying 31 financial institutions on how a major exchange shutdown, prolonged crypto downturn or losses at another firm could affect their operations.The Bank of Korea has reportedly asked banks and brokerages about cryptocurren...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
THORChain node operators paused swaps involving assets on 10 networks, including Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana and Tron.THORChain halted swaps across multiple blockchains on Saturday after an Ethereum block reorganization exposed a refund bug, which may...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The exchange says withdrawals surged after some services resumed but have since slowed, with the outflows representing a fraction of its roughly $171 billion in customer assets. Binance has recorded $5.8 billion in net outflows over the past 24 hours...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Binance has reopened withdrawals following the world’s biggest ever hack, and THORChain co-founder argues it should not halt the protocol to comply with FBI demands.Binance has reopened withdrawals for 15 blockchain networks, after $6.3 billion was s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Binance has reopened withdrawals following the world’s biggest ever hack, and THORChain co-founder argues it should not halt the protocol to comply with FBI demands.Binance has reopened withdrawals for 15 blockchain networks, after $6.3 billion was s...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The proposal comes amid intense competition among AI developers, including US companies Anthropic and OpenAI, the SCMP said.Chinese artificial intelligence company DeepSeek has revealed a design to increase the autonomy of AI coding assistants so the...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The crypto exchange said it has begun phased withdrawals after the record hack the FBI has blamed on North Korea.Binance said it has reopened its Bitcoin network in phase one of resuming withdrawals after a major hack of about $6.3 billion in funds.T...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
US agency seeks private-sector help to block further money-laundering of stolen digital assets.The FBI said that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (North Korea) was responsible for the theft of about $6.3 billion in digital assets from crypto...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Less-liquid tokens make up the remaining shortfall as Binance continues buying replacement assets through market and over-the-counter trades.Binance said Saturday it had replenished 90% of the assets stolen in its $6.3 billion hack, up from 80% a day...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Strive CEO Matt Cole says the Binance hack has not changed his long-term case for Bitcoin, but cautions it is too early to call a market bottom.Bitcoin has held up better than expected following the $6.3 billion Binance hack, according to Strive CEO...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
In typical Bitcoin style, the number one cryptocurrency turns 18 today, amid AI-driven security threats, quantum fears and the biggest exchange hack in crypto history. Eighteen years ago today, pseudonymous cypherpunk Satoshi Nakamoto posted the Bitc...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Home invasions became the most common form of crypto wrench attacks worldwide during the first half of 2026, rising to 20 incidents from one.Raymond Christian Garcia and Isiah Angelo Garcia, both of Waller, Texas, were sentenced to 180 months and 186...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The company said some non-sensitive customer data was exposed, including user IDs, names and email addresses.Blockchain analytics company Chainalysis said it was targeted in a cybersecurity incident, similar to those suffered recently by other platfo...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Some political and administration figures tried to make hay of the biggest-ever crypto heist. Soon after the $6.3 billion hack of Binance, the biggest in crypto history, some political and administration figures began offering opinions with a US elec...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Some political and administration figures tried to make hay of the biggest-ever crypto heist. Soon after the $6.3 billion hack of Binance, the biggest in crypto history, some political and administration figures began offering their opinions with a U...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Attackers raced to convert stolen stablecoins into crypto that issuers could not freeze as industry players like Tether and Circle moved to immobilize billions of dollars in assets.Attackers behind Binance’s estimated $6.3 billion hack still control...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
The stablecoin issuer’s US Treasury holdings are comparable to those of major foreign holders, while its Bitcoin reserves were valued at $8.37 billion at the end of September.Tether reported $1.5 billion in third-quarter operating profit as its exces...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Circle, Strategy and other crypto-linked stocks fell sharply Friday, a day after Binance disclosed a $6.3 billion security breach.Shares of publicly traded cryptocurrency companies fell sharply Friday, with Coinbase dropping more than 13% a day after...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin faces mounting quantum security concerns as Ripple secures a US banking charter, USDC gains ground in Europe and VanEck adds BTC to a new ETF.The debate over quantum computing has raised serious questions about Bitcoin’s long-term security, b...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
A recap of Cointelegraph’s live coverage of the Binance hack, including early breach reports and the exchange’s full reimbursement pledge.This recap summarizes Cointelegraph’s reporting on the Binance hack and has been updated with the exchange’s lat...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
How Binance’s $6.3 billion hack unfolded, from the first onchain alerts to $3 billion in frozen funds and a widening security investigation.Live coverage has ended. The updates below document Cointelegraph’s reporting on the record $6.3 billion Binan...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Bitcoin circled $77,000 as crypto markets navigated US stock-market downside, while the gold price fell to its lowest in a year.Bitcoin (BTC) stayed under pressure below $80,000 at Friday’s Wall Street open as AI fears returned to intensify a broader...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
A US fusion startup says it has turned mercury into gold. Could a potential increase in the gold supply strengthen Bitcoin’s claim to be a better form of digital gold?They say all that glitters is not gold, and that took on a completely different mea...
Cryptocoins News / The Cointelegraph - 1 week ago
Follow live updates as Binance says $6.3 billion in assets have been stolen in a major hack. Around $3 billion in stolen funds have been frozen. Oct. 30 at 2:34 pm UTCBinance is aiming to resume withdrawals within 40 hours and publish a full proof-of...
