Author: 行政

An AI financial adviser receives the same client three times, with the finances and tolerance for risk left unchanged. The first prompt asks for a diversified long-term portfolio. The second introduces bank failures and capital controls, while the third imagines an economy in which autonomous software buys services and pays other machines. The client hasn’t moved an inch, yet Bitcoin can travel from the middle of the pack to the front.Leading language models ranked Bitcoin around fifth among eight forms of money when researchers framed the task around ordinary reliability. The asset moved toward the top once the prompt introduced…

BIP-110, a proposed temporary soft fork restricting some uses of arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions, entered its mandatory-signaling window with miners producing 59 consecutive non-signaling blocks. Nodes enforcing the proposal were left on a two-block branch, 57 blocks behind Bitcoin’s dominant proof-of-work chain.As of 6:34 a.m. UTC on Aug. 9, direct explorer data put the dominant chain at block 961,690, while the BIP-110 enforcing branch remained at 961,633. Its latest block was roughly eight hours and 45 minutes old. Related ReadingBitcoin’s BIP-110 fork fight gives exchanges an August deadline before miners signal supportBGeometrics data show BIP-110 miner signaling at 0.42%…

At 1:30 p.m. UTC on Feb. 21, 2025, Bybit began moving funds from an Ethereum cold wallet to a warm wallet, the sort of routine transfer designed to make custody look boring. Authorized signers reviewed the destination on their screens and approved it, unaware that their screens were actually lying.Bybit later said the signing interface had been manipulated so that the signers saw the address they expected while the transaction underneath gave an attacker control of the wallet. The exchange’s account of the incident put the loss at $1.46 billion, and the FBI attributed the theft to North Korea.CryptoSlate reported…

On March 6, 2025, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, and most of the attention went straight to the grand idea: America had built a digital Fort Knox, the government would stop selling Bitcoin, and Washington could perhaps add more without charging taxpayers.However, the executive order’s operative language was less glamorous but contained several important details that would determine whether the Strategic Reserve succeeded.Every federal agency had 30 days to give Treasury a full accounting of its digital assets, identify the custodial accounts holding them, and review whether eligible Bitcoin could legally be transferred…

US-listed spot Bitcoin and Ethereum exchange-traded funds pulled in more than $1 billion in fresh cash this week, with both groups registering their strongest inflows since April as demand for regulated crypto investment products rebounded.Data from SoSoValue shows that spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted $853.54 million during the week ended Aug. 7, their biggest haul in nearly four months.The funds recorded inflows in every session, including $170.09 million on Monday, $211.49 million on Tuesday and $244.42 million on Wednesday before demand moderated toward the end of the week.The total surpassed the roughly $824 million collected during the week of April 24…

A customer opens an exchange account, copies a string of numbers and follows a path through a Merkle tree. The page processes the request and returns a reassuring result: the customer’s balance was included in the exchange’s proof of reserves.The verification is most likely technically sound, establishing that the account appeared in a dataset and that the exchange controlled wallets that contained enough of a particular asset to cover the balances represented there.However, it can easily leave out whether every customer appears in that dataset, how much the exchange owes to lenders, whether the displayed coins have been pledged as…

U.S. athletes from the 2026 Winter Olympics received an unusual numismatic keepsake at the White House this week: 2026 American Silver Eagles carrying an exclusive “TEAM USA” privy mark. Image shared by US Treasurer Brandon Beach showing the 2026 American Silver Eagle with its exclusive TEAM USA privy mark U.S. Treasurer Brandon Beach revealed the coins in a social media post, saying President Donald Trump honored Team USA’s Olympians with the coins in recognition of their achievements. Beach described them as a tribute to the athletes and to the craftsmanship of the United States Mint. The coins were presented during…

Crypto’s favorite buy-the-dip strategy failed to make money for Ethereum and Cardano investors who stuck with it since the start of 2022.An investor who placed $100 into Ethereum every month from January 2022 through August 2026 would have contributed $5,600 but ended up with about $4,898, a 12.5% loss, CryptoRank data showed. The same strategy applied to Cardano would have left just $2,616, representing a 53.3% loss.Elsewhere, the results were far stronger. The $5,600 invested in Tron’s TRX token would have grown to $16,521, a 195% return. Bitcoin would have produced $8,660, XRP $8,465, and Solana $8,025, leaving all three…

In an institutional bear market, a Bitcoin ETF redemption is almost aggressively boring. An investor sells shares, an authorized participant returns a large block to the trust, and the fund either pays cash or transfers BTC. Its assets shrink while the shares keep trading near net asset value and the custodian carries on.Since the SEC approved in-kind redemptions in July 2025, the coins themselves can leave through this process without forcing the trust to sell them on the market.In 2022, the exit often began with a disabled withdrawal page and ended in bankruptcy court. But now, in 2026, it can…

Bybit sued North Korea, its Reconnaissance General Bureau, and Lazarus Group in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. The exchange won a preliminary injunction blocking unnamed defendants from moving or selling stolen crypto.Public court reporting describes the order as covering those identified assets, without confirming the full $1.5 billion stolen in February 2025 or disclosing the dollar value the injunction protects.This injunction landed roughly 532 days after the hack—about 17 months after North Korean hackers pulled off the largest crypto theft on record. Chainalysis tracked a consistent laundering pattern by DPRK-linked groups after a major theft, moving…