
NYT investigation points to Adam Back as Bitcoin’s possible creator
The New York Times published a 12,000‑word investigation suggesting British cryptographer Adam Back could be Satoshi Nakamoto, citing linguistic quirks, libertarian ties, and his Hashcash legacy. Back publicly rejected the claim, calling the evidence a mix of coincidence and similarity. The story joins previous misidentifications of Bitcoin’s founder.
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Bitcoin has held above $110,000 driven by sustained US buying that has produced a noticeable Coinbase-US premium, but market structure signals rising risk: long-dormant coins are re-entering circulation and derivatives activity—open interest and leverage—has surged. Those flows have kept prices elevated in the short term, yet the combination of renewed coin movement and heavy options/futures positioning suggests increased volatility and potential for sharp reversals. For traders and institutions, the current dynamic raises both opportunity for outsized gains and heightened margin/liquidity risks that could amplify price swings.
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Two brothers, Anton and James Peraire-Bueno, appeared in U.S. court this week over allegations they used a miner-extractable-value (MEV) bot to exploit the Ethereum blockchain and siphon roughly $25 million. The case centers on whether their trading strategy constituted criminal...

The real bull on #Altcoins happens when there's a more risk-on appetite. As long as Gold continues to rally, then, the money rotation towards riskier assets won't happen. It's up 155% in less than 3 years. Absolutely insane if you're holding Gold. Absolutely...

$SUI broke down from the ascending triangle in the flash crash That old support trendline is now acting as resistance If it reclaims that line and gets back inside the ascending triangle → bullish setup resumes. If it gets rejected again, that...

Bitcoin’s upside through October is contingent on shifting Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations, fresh BTC ETF inflows and whether the Nasdaq and large-cap tech stocks continue to rally. Traders are watching Fed pricing and ETF flows as the main drivers of...

Voltage executive Bobby Shell argues that corporate Bitcoin treasuries should shift from passive holdings to active use on the Lightning Network, deploying idle BTC into liquidity channels to earn native, noncustodial yield via routing fees and transaction-volume rewards. The move...

Thiel-backed challenger bank Erebor won U.S. regulatory approval to operate, marking one of the most significant new bank charters tied to digital assets since the 2023 regional banking crisis. The approval positions Erebor to compete with Silicon Valley Bank-style lenders...

In this episode the hosts analyze Jerome Powell’s recent comments suggesting an end to the Federal Reserve’s quantitative tightening, arguing it could trigger a massive rally in Bitcoin, Ethereum and leading altcoins such as Chainlink, Solana and XRP. They break...

Dogecoin holders have been accumulating after a 66% flash crash on Oct. 10 that wiped out $365 million in long positions, and onchain metrics suggest the market has not reached euphoric top conditions. Short-term holder accumulation, rising share of coins...

Omnichain versions of Tether’s USDT and tokenized gold XAUT — labelled USDT0 and XAUt0 — have launched on Solana via the Legacy Mesh protocol, enabling native transfers of dollar and gold tokens across multiple blockchains. The move aims to aggregate...

The structure hasn't changed on $SUI. It's still above a crucial support zone and it's still making higher lows. I think that this one is eager to make a new ATH in the coming period, when the markets reversing, as it's been...
Permissionless chains optimized for execution are necessary for transparent fair global markets. This is the hill I am willing to die on.

Bitcoin traders warned of a potential plunge to as low as $102,000 after price action signaled a need to ‘fill’ local lows on Binance, reigniting sell-side pressure in the crypto market. At the same time, gold surged to record highs...

Bitcoin’s history doesn’t exactly repeat, but it certainly rhymes... https://t.co/46QBKlmyeE
This one chain is 70% of ethereum and all the L2s combined. 🦾🦾🦾

The Monad protocol opened its airdrop portal as it prepares for an imminent token launch, enabling users to claim allocations ahead of distribution and signaling a key milestone in its rollout. The announcement comes alongside broader crypto infrastructure updates—Ethereum’s Sepolia...
Building on Bitcoin...happening RN. https://t.co/PKCBFocIYM @unchained
All goes back to Leo Melamed quote it 2017 "We will regulate, make Bitcoin not wild, nor wilder. We'll tame it into a regular type instrument of trade with rules…”
Live with Crypto Crow https://t.co/v8MATEH0cl

$BBD Gotta bounce here if it's going to so still a nice R:R for upside. https://t.co/UWz6WqGlyz
pull stablecoin transactions. very cool
Whoa garbled circuit ran in production on bitcoin

Bitcoin to follow this Gold fractal 👇 https://t.co/65UYQt7Sla
ALL I WANT IS A STRAIGHT LINE BACK TO $300 FOR $SOL
The technical underpinnings of @arc's consensus engine which provides deterministic settlement finality, scale and speed. A deep dive. https://t.co/J3Lj6kSIyV
There’s an idea that is widespread among software engineers that goes: “Sure BLAKE3 is faster in software, but CPU makers put dedicated hardware for SHA256 into their CPUs so SHA256 is faster than, or at least as fast as, BLAKE3...

FED GOV WALLER: several large incumbents have collected significant rents in payments, incl banks & certain networks (hint hint). Waller just embraced #stablecoins as a way to bring competition to the large rent-seekers 👏 https://t.co/geps4SEpVU

Sfdp stake is 10% of the total stake. https://t.co/xVmJteF0ci

REMINDER: Binance founder CZ said "maybe we haven't hit the real bull market yet." https://t.co/q7qPKpWmCd

I was just wondering if Coinbase was ever going to add $BNB but wasn't sure if it was a conflict of interest or something. They could've added it when BNB was $3 though I would've enjoyed that. Now retail is probably...
Real GDP onchain

According to the 4-year cycle, Bitcoin is likely to reach its cycle top soon. https://t.co/KLEs2I9zDm

Nothing changed on the #Altcoin bull market. The trend remains to be up, and every dip is one to be bought. I assume we'll continue to do that and break through the ATHs during this quarter. https://t.co/K6bdU7nSGs
Had a fun and in-depth conversation with @Manisha3005 of @CNBCTV18Live earlier today about @CoinDCX's new fundraising from @Coinbase, current crypto adoption in India, our plans for future growth, where I see India 10 years from now, and more. Do give it...
We’re improving the experience for asset issuers to interface with Coinbase 👇
Tydro, the native lending protocol on Kraken’s Ink Chain, is now live, delivering a seamless, whitelabel lending experience powered by @aave.
If you can hold only one cryptocurrency for the entire Q4, which one would you choose?
Bitcoin isn’t hedging the system. It’s replacing it. This isn’t a "trade". It’s a transition. Bitcoin has no top because fiat has no bottom. Buy Bitcoin. It’s really that simple. https://t.co/LtJRkHiPWE
Crypto market cap: ~$4T. Global equities market cap: ~$100T. 25x bigger. Bringing the outdated financial system onchain is a huge opportunity.
The biggest thing to happen on Bitcoin in a long time.
No CEX on the first date.
The next Zcash Crosslink workshop coming a week from today! Join in and test out our prototype of a Proof-of-Stake+Proof-of-Work hybrid upgrade for Zcash! https://t.co/GKr0aX8uBR (Requires Zoom this time around.)

BITCOIN: WILL THE SIMULATION REPEAT EXACTLY THIS TIME AGAIN!!!?!!! REMINDER: INSTITUTIONS DID NOT MAKE US LESS R****ED; THIS MARKET IS JUST AS CRAZY AS 5 YEARS AGO; LAST WEEK PROVED IT!!!! https://t.co/Euc9wfbuHD

Erebor gets preliminary conditional approval under OCC. New era of de novo charters is dawning. https://t.co/M3cfN1yF0u (CIV is an investor in Erebor) https://t.co/vzijS8R192

If $ETH drops back to $3,400, I’m going ALL-IN! https://t.co/e82xGPgJNL
No gov will bail out crypto, but we do what we can. Glad to see people sharing what they received.
1. Fiat currencies are not fake, obviously. Their weakness is that governments control issuance, and issuance is often quite high as a result. 2. Advantage of BTC is that issuance is programmed + decentralized, thus immutable. Energy, i.e. PoW is not...
🧠 Thought you were hedged with perps? Think again. During the crash, ADLs, oracle glitches & spread manipulation made perps fail as a hedge.