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NEWS

U.S.-Sanctioned Moscow Exchange Will List Bitcoin on Dec. 1 as Russia Pulls Crypto Trading Home

Micah Zimmerman -
Russia's largest exchange, Moscow Exchange,. will open bitcoin trading on Dec. 1 under the country's new crypto law, with retail buyers tested and capped at 300,000 rubles a year.
MARKETS

Bitcoin Price Crashes Over 5% to $75,000 as Tech Rout Wipes Out Leveraged Longs

Micah Zimmerman -
Bitcoin price fell from above $80,800 to near $76,600 on Thursday morning as a Nasdaq selloff in chip and AI stocks spilled into crypto.
NEWS

Ukraine Central Bank Refuses to Back Crypto Bill Cleared for Second Reading

Micah Zimmerman -
Ukraine's National Bank says draft law 10225-d on virtual assets lacks safeguards on foreign tokens and platform licensing.
NEWS

Fed and OCC Quiz U.S. Banks After $6.3 Billion Binance Hack

Micah Zimmerman -
Federal Reserve and OCC supervisors contacted U.S. banks this week to check for vulnerabilities after the Binance hack.
NEWS

Tether and Tron Quietly Scrapped T3 Crime Unit Two Months Before $6.3 Billion Binance Hack

Micah Zimmerman -
The T3 Financial Crime Unit, which said it froze more than $450 million in illicit USDT with authorities in 23 jurisdictions, wound down in late August.
NEWS

Riot (RIOT) Names Anthropic as Tenant in $28 Billion Texas Lease, Could Owe It 12% Interest

Micah Zimmerman -
Riot's 10-Q identifies Anthropic as the AI lab behind its 910 MW Corsicana lease and shows Riot could owe the tenant 12% interest on up to $3.6 billion in build costs.
MARKETS

Bitcoin Price Trades Near $79,600 as Oil Rebounds and Bank of England Hikes Rates

Micah Zimmerman -
Bitcoin price slipped back below $80,000 on Thursday morning.
NEWS

American Bitcoin (ABTC) Posts $126 Million Profit as Holdings Gain $197 Million

Micah Zimmerman -
American Bitcoin swung to about $126 million in third-quarter net income after a $197.3 million gain on its bitcoin holdings, reversing a $57.2 million loss in the prior quarter.
NEWS

Judge Lets Stock Perpetual Futures Keep Trading but Says CFTC Likely Overstepped Its Authority

Micah Zimmerman -
A federal judge refused to halt stock perpetual futures on Kalshi, Coinbase Derivatives and Bitnomial but found a Cboe- and Citadel Securities-backed group likely to prove the CFTC exceeded its authority.
NEWS

Huizenga Loses House Seat Despite $1 Million From Crypto PAC Fairshake

Micah Zimmerman -
Rep. Bill Huizenga, vice chair of the House Financial Services Committee, lost despite $1 million from Fairshake.
NEWS

French Bank Credit Mutuel Arkea Confirms Cyberattack as ZachXBT Puts Losses Above $133 Million

Micah Zimmerman -
Credit Mutuel Arkea says a cyberattack through a service provider enabled fraudulent transfers from its own account, while ZachXBT puts the theft above $133 million, a figure the bank has not confirmed.
NEWS

House Democrats Eye Their Own Crypto Market Structure Bill With a Bigger SEC Role After Sweep

Micah Zimmerman -
House Democrats are discussing a crypto market structure bill built on Rep. Maxine Waters' rejected Clarity Act amendments, with a bigger SEC role, a smaller CFTC role and new ethics limits on President Trump.
MARKETS

Bitcoin Price Holds Near $80,000 as Democratic Sweep Sparks Short Squeeze

Micah Zimmerman -
Bitcoin price holds near $80,000 after rebounding from an election-night low of $75,600, as a short squeeze, a stock rally and a 9% drop in oil follow the Democratic sweep of Congress.
NEWS

Matt Corallo Flags Critical Linux Kernel Flaw; Lightning Labs Ships LND Mitigation

Juan Galt -
Bitcoin Core and Lightning developer Matt Corallo highlighted CVE-2026-98432 on October 30, a use-after-free in the Linux kernel IPv4 TCP handshake code scored CVSS 9.8. Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team demonstrated a remote root exploit against systems with a Multipath TCP listener.
NEWS

Strategy’s STRC Hits $100 Par for First Time Since May After Over $2 Billion in Buybacks

Micah Zimmerman -
Strategy’s STRC preferred hit $100 par on Wednesday for the first time since May, after billions in buybacks, a 12% dividend rate and a switch to daily payouts.
NEWS

Jack Dorsey’s Block (XYZ) Sets Aside $764 Million for DOJ Settlement as Bitcoin Profit Halves

Micah Zimmerman -
Block agreed in principle to a $764 million deferred-prosecution deal over anti-money-laundering failures at Cash App, a sum that exceeds its $566 million Q3 profit, while bitcoin gross profit fell 50% after the company cut trading fees.
NEWS

Librería de Satoshi Rebrands to ISMOS, Launches Global Platform to Train One Million Bitcoin Developers

Juan Galt -
Dulce Villarreal’s ISMOS rebrands from Latin America’s Librería de Satoshi and launches a multilingual open-source platform to train one million Bitcoin and Freedom Tech developers worldwide, backed by Btrust and the Human Rights Foundation.
NEWS

Democrats to Target Trump’s Crypto Ventures After Taking Congress

Micah Zimmerman -
Democrats are reportedly preparing subpoenas targeting President Trump's World Liberty Financial ties, its $500 million Emirati stake and the Changpeng Zhao pardon.
NEWS

TD Cowen: Democratic Sweep Makes a Crypto-Backed CLARITY Act ‘Impossible’

Micah Zimmerman -
The Democratic sweep and Sherrod Brown’s return may kill the CLARITY Act for two years and may make any industry-backed version impossible as Democrats investigate Trump’s crypto ties, TD Cowen analysts write.
NEWS

Riot (RIOT) and Hut 8 (HUT) Sell Thousands of Bitcoin to Fund AI Ventures, Share Buybacks 

Micah Zimmerman -
Riot has sold 20,264 bitcoin this year to fund AI data centers, leaving it with 2,418 BTC, while Hut 8 sold 3,102 to buy back $250 million of stock.
NEWS

Circle (CRCL) Cuts About 5% of Workforce as Q3 Revenue Hits $865M

Micah Zimmerman -
Circle cut about 5% of its workforce and booked a $9.1 million restructuring charge in a quarter where revenue rose 17% to $865 million.
NEWS

Bitcoin Price Soars Above $79,000 After Democratic Sweep of Congress

Micah Zimmerman -
Bitcoin trades near $79,000 after a dip to $75,600 as Democrats sweep both chambers of Congress.
BUSINESS

Bitcoin Bonds: Protect Your Principal, Capture BTC’s Upside.

Peoples Reserve -
Bitcoin Bonds pair U.S. Treasuries with spot Bitcoin. The structure is bespoke, based on interest rates at the time of issuance. Get both principal protection from U.S. Treasuries and uncapped upside from BTC. Here’s how they work, where the return comes from, and what you give up.
NEWS

Tether Holds 150,000 Bitcoin CEO Says, 50,000 More Than Its Reserve Report Shows

Micah Zimmerman -
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said in Lugano that the company holds about 150,000 bitcoin worth $11.5 billion.
NEWS

TD Cowen: Democratic Congress Would Sink CLARITY Act for Two Years

Micah Zimmerman -
TD Cowen’s Jaret Seiberg says a Democratic sweep of Congress would kill the CLARITY Act for two years, hand Elizabeth Warren the Banking Committee and let Democrats block Trump’s picks for the SEC and CFTC.
NEWS

Binance Says $6.34 Billion Hack Began With Fake Job Interview 

Micah Zimmerman -
Binance’s incident report says the $6.34 billion Oct. 29 theft was a five-month campaign that began with a fake job interview and a poisoned developer tool.
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Andrew Hohns: Why Bitcoin Can Fix America’s Debt Spiral

Patrick Green -
Battery Finance’s Andrew Hohns explains why taxes won’t fix the $40T debt, how a Bitcoin reserve defeases it, and why Treasury should pilot BitBonds.
NEWS

CFTC Opens U.S. Stock Market to Equity Perpetual Futures

Micah Zimmerman -
The CFTC has cleared perpetual futures on individual stocks to trade on dual-registered U.S. exchanges for the first time.
NEWS

New Jersey Drops Coinbase Staking Order After Three Years

Micah Zimmerman -
New Jersey’s securities regulator has rescinded its 2023 cease-and-desist order and $5 million penalty against Coinbase’s staking service.
MARKETS

Bitcoin Price Trades Near $77,500 as Midterm Voting Begins

Micah Zimmerman -
Bitcoin price trades near $77,500 as midterm voting begins, pressured by a record $6.3 billion Binance hack, ETF outflows, a Fed leaning toward a December hike and oil above $100 on Iran tensions.
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