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Coinbase Ireland’s customer-cash safeguarding account was short by about €5 million in 2024, a settlement disclosed by the Central Bank of Ireland on Oct. 22 shows. The regulator said the historical failures could have hindered customers’ recovery of their money if the company had become insolvent.The Central Bank found no evidence that consumers suffered actual harm in this case. Coinbase Ireland admitted breaches and accepted a reprimand and a €3,252,618 penalty, according to the regulator’s announcement. Both sanctions still require High Court confirmation before taking effect.The case concerns Coinbase Ireland Limited, the group’s e-money institution. It issues and redeems electronic…
Polling firm Wedgewood admitted on Oct. 20 that it fabricated most of its election surveys, and VoteHub, one of the aggregators that carried its results, is also the data source for recurring Kalshi contracts.Kalshi’s September 2025 regulatory filing names VoteHub as the source agency for those contracts and states that “revisions to the Underlying made after Expiration will not be accounted for in determining the Expiration Value.”The two facts raise a question about what happens to a settled contract when the polling number behind it is later withdrawn or found false.Researchers at FiftyPlusOne requested raw data from Wedgewood’s Mississippi Senate…
Solana validators retired TowerBFT at slot 459,653,000 on 21 October and handed consensus to Alpenglow. Votes from 446 of 654 participating validators certified the handover block, a switch the Solana Foundation timed at about 900 milliseconds. Validator votes no longer travel as transactions, and each voting validator now pays a flat 0.8 SOL fee per epoch. Solana replaced its core voting system on Wednesday with Alpenglow, an upgrade that targets transaction finality in about 150 milliseconds instead of 12.8 seconds. Anza, the core engineering team that built Alpenglow, said validators retired TowerBFT at slot 459,653,000, at about 14:00 UTC that…
Bitcoin briefly lost the $81,000 footing on Oct. 22, while the Nasdaq lost more than 2%, spot gold dropped about 2.7% to $4,025, and silver sank about 5.8% to near $54.63.The 10-year Treasury yield fell from 5.146% to below 5%, marking its biggest one-day drop in more than two years. Brent crude hit an intraday high of $114.70, the highest reading this year.Four assets that usually move in different directions fell together while government bonds rallied.Lower yields mean higher bond prices, reflecting Treasury buying while the Fed’s policy range sits at 3.75% to 4%.The Oct. 22 selloff fits a scenario…
Key takeaways BTC traded around $81,593, above its 50-day EMA at $80,878. Bitcoin’s RSI near 47 and slightly negative MACD suggest recovery momentum remains weak. BTC faces resistance at $85,000, with deeper support at $77,528 and $76,186. Crypto prices stabilize after support tests Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP edged higher on Friday after the previous session’s correction brought all three assets toward important technical support levels. Bitcoin held just near its 50-day Exponential Moving Average, Ethereum found support around its 100-day EMA, and XRP maintained its horizontal floor near $1.300. The modest rebound suggests buyers remain active around these levels. However,…
JPMorgan analysts warned that US crypto regulations could be overturned following the 2028 presidential election without comprehensive market-structure legislation. The Clarity Act failed to advance after a 49–50 Senate vote, although Republican senators have suggested it could be revived after the mid-term elections. The CFTC is developing rules for leveraged crypto trading, while the OCC has finalised stablecoin regulations under the GENIUS Act, effective January 2027. The SEC’s proposed Regulation Crypto Assets framework has gained industry support, although several blockchain firms want stronger legal recognition of digital commodities. US crypto regulation remains a hot topic, particularly following the failure to…
Memecoin investor Murad Mahmudov confirmed an $81 million roundtrip in paper gains during a TOKEN2049 panel, then told moderator Ran Neuner he was “totally” fine with it because he expected the wallets eventually to be worth billions.Neuner asked if Murad “roundtripped eighty-one million dollars,” to which he responded, “Yes.” Murad replied to being “cool with that”:“Yeah, totally, because, uh, I think those wallets are gonna be in the billions eventually.” The remarks came during the Oct. 7 TOKEN2049 Singapore panel, “Memecoins: Dead or Just Getting Started?” Their renewed circulation adds a figure to Murad’s argument that holding through a reported collapse…
Bitcoin dropped to US$80,958 before recovering to US$81,626, while Altcoins also faced headwinds. Global equities weakened amid concerns over AI spending, rising oil prices and geopolitical tensions, with the Nasdaq falling 2.6% and Asian markets also declining. US spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded approximately US$635.6 million in net outflows on Thursday, reversing nearly 60% of the week’s earlier inflows. Despite heavy withdrawals from BlackRock’s IBIT and Fidelity’s FBTC, Bitcoin ETFs remained positive for the week with around US$439 million in net inflows. After topping out at US$84,835 (AU$121,066) in early trading yesterday, Bitcoin (BTC) is clinging to the US$80K (AU$114K) mark.…
Cloudflare chief executive Matthew Prince said exploit attempts climbed from thousands before disclosure to millions after it. The PHP Foundation said a 2024 audit first surfaced one of the flaws and that work on a fix stalled for months. SlowMist told crypto firms to upgrade, and Australia’s cyber agency issued a critical alert on the flaws. Hackers made millions of attempts to exploit two critical flaws in PHP, the programming language behind much of the web, after its developers released fixes on Wednesday, according to Cloudflare. “In the 10 hours before it was publicly announced, across the network we saw…
Indian crypto exchange CoinDCX said it absorbed operational losses after a process for collecting deposits from old wallet addresses failed, adding a new explanation on Oct. 22, hours after denying a fresh breach.In a 12:47 p.m. BST update from CoinDCX, the exchange said some users had continued sending crypto to addresses deprecated after its July 2025 security incident. It said it credited affected customer deposit wallets, while active wallets remained unaffected.The statement followed an allegation by ZachXBT that $15.8 million in user deposits was unaccounted for. CoinDCX did not give a loss amount in its update or specify how long the…