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Saylor shares Strategy Bitcoin chart showing 849,327 BTC after sell-off
Michael Saylor posted a chart of Strategy's 849,327 BTC holdings, valued at $64.4bn, days after the company disclosed an 811 BTC purchase and a $208m preferred-stock buyback.
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Qubic says 1,404 wallets drained of $1.3m in QU before validators halted network
Qubic reported that 1,404 wallets lost about 2.94 trillion QU between 17 and 18 October, blamed on predictable wallet seeds from older Apple software. Validators paused the network, trapping most of t
Hyperliquid trader's $98m Bitcoin long nears liquidation as price slips
A Hyperliquid account holding a 40x leveraged Bitcoin long worth about $97.9m is close to its estimated liquidation price after a week in which it lost nearly $9.8m.
US spot Bitcoin ETFs lose about $910m over two weeks as October turns red
Spot Bitcoin funds bled $229m this week after a $681m exit the week before, leaving October down roughly $615m, Decrypt reports.
Bank of Russia says P2P crypto transfers end on 1 July 2027
The Bank of Russia has set 1 July 2027 as the date when residents can no longer send crypto directly to each other or to self-custody wallets, leaving 13 licensed exchanges as the permitted route.
XRP holds near $1.29 as futures open interest slips to $2.77bn
XRP is trading around $1.29 while futures open interest falls 1.32% to $2.77bn, and prediction markets put a 50% chance on the token touching $1.20 before November.
Two 2013 Bitcoin wallets move 416.69 BTC in the same block
Two wallets dormant since 2013 transferred a combined 416.69 BTC, worth about $34m, within seconds at block 971894 on 17 Oct 2026, according to btcparser.com data.