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Cory Fields says quantum landmines could make Bitcoin theft a losing bet
The Bitcoin developer has floated hidden ownership traps and staked auctions that would force a quantum attacker to post collateral before moving vulnerable coins, as a mailing-list thought experiment
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Ben Edgington files draft to cut Ethereum finality to about four minutes
Ethereum researchers have filed an unfinished proposal to cut transaction finality from roughly 16 minutes to about four, which could lower the cost of moving funds between blockchains.
Bitcoin retreats toward $82,000 as China's CSI 300 enters bear market
Asian stocks fell on Thursday, with the CSI 300 down 20% from its June peak, while Bitcoin gave up gains above $84,000 and oil climbed above $112 a barrel.
Tianjin prosecutors seek confiscation of 61,896 BTC seized in UK Qian case
Prosecutors in Tianjin have applied to confiscate Bitcoin and other assets linked to Zhimin Qian, held in the UK, and a local court has accepted the case.
Cloudflare's Matthew Prince says PHP flaw drew millions of exploit attempts
Cloudflare's chief executive says exploit attempts against two critical PHP vulnerabilities rose from thousands before disclosure to millions afterwards, as the FBI urged organisations to patch or…
Police test Graylark AI that turns interior photos into home addresses
Raven, built by Graylark Technologies, matches room details against real estate and rental listings to infer an address without GPS or metadata. The LAPD and Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office are among…
XRP account says banks and AI agents are adopting the XRP Ledger
A community guide posted by the XRP account, run by Ripple and the XRP Ledger Foundation, sets out institutional custody, tokenised funds and automated payments on the XRP Ledger.
