A bitcoin BTC$83,696.96 whale that received its coins days before the Covid crash of March 2020 and sat through it has moved $377.6 million worth of them. The wallet, 18VmXvkF4cgLi35RtMiHHDpvMjUCyVpQ9x, sent roughly 4,582 BTC to five addresses on Monday, according to blockchain data from Arkham… Read More
The “interim final” status of the one rule means it becomes immediate policy but will be open for public input as it’s implemented. The other rule proposal explicitly folds “event contracts, including those based on sports, politics, cultural, and weather-related events” that are routinely traded… Read More
Wallets linked to the U.S. government moved 12,267 bitcoin BTC$81,429.31, worth about $1.01 billion, on Thursday, according to data provided by blockchain intelligence firm Arkham. The coins left a wallet holding funds seized in the 2016 Bitfinex hack and went to a new, unlabeled address,… Read More
Circle and Tether, the companies behind dollar-linked tokens USDC and USDT, have already frozen about $320,000 in stablecoins connected to the breach. Their tokens contain controls that allow the companies to blacklist addresses. Read More: Circle and Tether step in to freeze hacker wallet after… Read More
The concern extends to banks. Van der Chijs believes AI could expose vulnerabilities in legacy banking software, threatening confidence in institutions that depend on interconnected systems. Within crypto, he sees exchanges and other businesses built around bitcoin as more vulnerable than the underlying network. His… Read More
Metaplanet shifted 3,881 BTC, worth about $247 million, across several transactions over three hours on Wednesday, per Arkham data. The move went from the company’s cold wallets to new addresses it also controls, not to an exchange. Transfers to fresh self-custody wallets don’t add to… Read More
