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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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Kieran Warwick says AI could unleash 100,000 short-lived crypto meme games
Illuvium's co-founder says AI tools have cut the cost of building speculative crypto games to days and about $1,000, and predicts a flood of them within a year.
Bitcoin ETF inflows hit $1.08bn in three days but lag rally pace, CoinDesk says
US-listed spot Bitcoin ETFs took in more than $1bn in the week of 19 October, but CoinDesk's analysis says daily inflows remain well below the pace that accompanied past steep rallies.
Bitcoin slips back to $82,500 support after brief run at $85,000
Bitcoin gave back a late-Wednesday climb to nearly $85,000 and traded just under $82,800, with analysts watching $82,500 as tech futures fell on AI spending doubts.
Ripple says SEC crypto plan needs trading safeguards in 20 Oct filing
Ripple has backed the SEC's proposed crypto framework but asked for protections covering exchanges, brokers and token holders, arguing that binding rules are better than case-by-case enforcement.
PHP Foundation says resource shortfall delayed critical security fix
The PHP Foundation has called its slow response to a critical flaw first spotted in 2024 a "structural failure", as governments and crypto firms took sites offline while emergency patches were issued.
Colombian broker Leonardo Zuluaga Duque gets 160 months in USDT laundering case
A US court sentenced the Colombian crypto broker to more than 13 years for laundering about $14.5m in drug proceeds through Tether's USDT and for a cocaine importation conspiracy.