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The actors returned 85% of the Bitcoin withdrawn from Liquid’s federation wallet following the security incident. Purported white-hat hackers returned 3,400 Bitcoin worth about $270 million to the Liquid Federation wallet after withdrawing roughly $320 million from the Bitcoin sidechain’s reserves.  On Monday, JAN3 CEO and former Blockstream executive Samson Mow said the return followed confirmation from Blockstream that the affected bridge nodes had been patched. He said about 598 BTC remains outstanding and that Blockstream continues to engage with the actors. The return follows a Sunday security incident in which hackers withdrew about 4,000 BTC from the wallet’s roughly 4,200 BTC. Onchain records show that exactly 3,400 BTC was transferred back to the federation’s wallet address.  Read more

Strong jobs give the Fed room to focus on inflation, but September data could still change the tightening path. The post Strong jobs just triggered a hawkish UBS reversal that could pressure Bitcoin through December appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A live reading is already 18, showing why institutions need more than one decentralization metric. The post Solana beats Bitcoin on one key metric, but a single software bug could still take down the network appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin’s struggle to break $80,000 comes as markets price in a growing chance of a September rate hike, putting monetary conditions back in focus. Crypto fund flows are becoming increasingly sensitive to changes in the US interest-rate outlook, with CoinShares arguing that Federal Reserve policy remains a key barrier to Bitcoin (BTC) breaking above $80,000 despite continued investor demand for crypto. In his latest market update, CoinShares head of research James Butterfil argued that “Bitcoin is trading like gold again, but the Fed still sets the ceiling” at around $80,000. That sensitivity was evident after Fed Chair Kevin Warsh’s speech at Jackson Hole. Warsh said progress on inflation had been modest and that price pressures were not easing quickly enough to give the central bank’s policy makers the confidence inflation was returning to its 2% target. Roughly $100 million exited digital asset investment products immediately after the speech, as markets sharply increased the probability of a September rat...

Capital B’s latest Bitcoin purchase was its largest in nearly a year, pushing the French company ahead of H100 Group among publicly traded BTC holders. French Bitcoin treasury company Capital B has acquired 376 Bitcoin (BTC) for 25.3 million euros ($29.5 million), bringing its total holdings to 3,521 BTC. The purchase was funded after Capital B completed roughly 30.1 million euros ($35 million) in capital raises, including a private placement backed by investors Adam Back and TOBAM, according to a Monday announcement. The company bought the Bitcoin at an average price of 67,182 euros apiece, with Swissquote Bank Europe executing the purchase and Taurus providing custody. Read more

Bitcoin price fell 2% in low-liquidity conditions as the US Labor Day holiday saw $80,000 once again slip from bulls’ grasp. Bitcoin (BTC) drifted lower on Monday as a low-liquidity environment erased the weekend’s gains above $80,000. Key points: Read more

Researchers examining the roughly $320 million Liquid Network incident have identified an alleged failure in the software’s transaction-validation cache, offering a more specific explanation for how unbacked tokens could be redeemed for real Bitcoin. Accounts also raise a deployment question. Mononaut said the exploited bug had entered Elements’ master development branch the previous week but […] The post Tokens created out of thin air may explain how $320 million in Bitcoin left the Liquid sidechain appeared first on CryptoSlate.

This week’s CPI and PPI prints, along with the Fed’s Sept. 16 rate decision, could determine whether Bitcoin can secure $80,000 as a support level. Bitcoin (BTC) sees its first weekly close above $80,000 since early May as clouds gather over the US inflation outlook. Key points: Read more

Galaxy said 82% of Bitcoin stolen across all Coldcard attacks remains in the original addresses, with 18% moved in apparent laundering. The exploiter behind the third wave of the Coldcard wallet hack has moved about 45% of their Bitcoin (BTC) haul, routing the funds through THORChain or into CoinJoin transactions, according to Galaxy Research. In a Monday update, Galaxy said the exploiter began moving funds to Ethereum through THORChain on Sept. 2. The latest movements sent Bitcoin into CoinJoin rounds, which combine multiple users’ payments into a single transaction to make funds harder to trace. Galaxy said the third-wave exploiter had created 293 two-of-two multisignature vaults to hold victims’ coins and was moving funds from the largest vaults in descending order of size. Funds from the 11 largest vaults have now been moved. Read more

SideSwap says bug-created L-BTC passed a valid authorization as bridge nodes paused and reserve reconciliation became the restart test. The post A whitehat hacker is holding $320 million in drained Bitcoin until developers prove they patched a fatal network flaw appeared first on CryptoSlate.

The actors told Blockstream they would return most of the 4,000 BTC after the Elements vulnerability is patched across the network. Bitcoin sidechain Liquid paused operations after actors claiming to be white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 Bitcoin worth $320 million from its federation wallet.  On Sunday, Liquid said that bridge nodes were disabled, preventing new transactions, while exchanges had halted or were preparing to halt L-BTC deposits and withdrawals. Blockstream, Liquid’s technology provider, started contacting the actors through signed onchain messages. Subsequent messages show the actors told Blockstream to patch the vulnerability and ensure every node was updated before they would return most of the Bitcoin.  Read more

Bitcoin's current rally started when the Treasury Department announced on Aug. 19 that, beginning Sept. 9, it would at least double the maximum size of certain buyback operations for government bonds with 10 to 30 years left to maturity, raising the cap from $2 billion to $4 billion per operation. Simply put, the Treasury was […] The post Bitcoin’s faces a weird new macro reality as the Fed turns off the tap and Treasury opens the floodgates appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Seven funds posted positive flows Thursday, but only IBIT and FBTC did on Sept. 4, ahead of Monday's US exchange closure. The post Bitcoin ETF inflows fall 76% entering Labor Day break as only BlackRock and Fidelity attract fresh money appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin's best and newest large buyer has no face, no investment committee, and no public opinion about whether the price looks cheap. It appears near the end of the US trading day as an entry beside an ETF ticker, and on Aug. 27 that entry showed $277.6 million flowing into IBIT while the entire US […] The post The $63 billion revolving door carrying the entire US Bitcoin ETF market appeared first on CryptoSlate.

At 14:59:59 UTC, Bitcoin perpetual futures look like any other electronic market, with prices flickering and orders flowing from traders around the world. But when the clock turns to 15:00:00, the market instantly becomes busier: more trades go through, more money turns over, and prices cover more ground during the next ten seconds, even though […] The post Inside the 15-minute trading pulse that moves $14 billion in Bitcoin perpetual futures appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin price forecasting has accumulated an unusually colorful collection of methods. You have basic scarcity models that convert the halving schedule into a price, and run-of-the-mill on-chain models that turn address or transaction activity into value. The highly contested power-law charts draw an ascending corridor through Bitcoin's history, and machine-learning systems feed market and macroeconomic […] The post From power laws to AI networks, why complex Bitcoin price models memorize market noise appeared first on CryptoSlate.

Bitcoin has frequently been criticized for behaving more like a leveraged tech stock rather than 'digital gold,' but this hasn't been the case lately.

US spot Bitcoin ETFs drew nearly $1 billion in the latest week as Friday inflows stayed positive despite Bitcoin briefly falling below $79,000. US-listed spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have recorded their strongest three-week inflow stretch of 2026 as Bitcoin traded around $80,000. The funds attracted $986.9 million in the week ending Friday, bringing net inflows over the past three weeks to $3.8 billion, according to SoSoValue data. Total net assets across the funds stood at $101.3 billion on Friday after briefly rising to $103.3 billion a day earlier, while cumulative net inflows reached $55.6 billion. Read more

August payrolls weakened the case for patience, leaving Sept. 11 CPI as Bitcoin’s next decisive volatility test. The post Bitcoin dips below $80,000 as a hot August jobs report shifts Fed policy expectations appeared first on CryptoSlate.

A new IMF disclosure says no public resources funded the accumulation since its first review, exposing a gap in the country's one-Bitcoin-a-day message. The post El Salvador added 1,540 Bitcoin, but the IMF says Bukele’s government didn’t pay for them appeared first on CryptoSlate.