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💡 Quantum-safe Bitcoin just got five times cheaper Last month StarkWare mined the first-ever quantum-resistant Bitcoin transaction on mainnet — no hard fork, but a steep GPU bill: around $320 each, because a valid hash appears roughly once in 70 trillion attempts. One week of open competition later: $67. Down 80%. The leaderboard is AI-dominated — Anthropic's Opus 5 and Fable 5.1 on top, GPT-6 Astra, Grok 4.6, and Kimi close behind. A key benchmark jumped from 146 M to 820 M+ candidates per second on a stock RTX 4090. StarkWare cautions that $67 is an estimate, not a price, and a soft fork remains the proper fix. But seven days and minus 80% is a hard number to argue with. Decrypt

💸 Tether, $84M, and a bank with some explaining to do Tether — the issuer behind $184B in USDT — has been pulled into a DOJ civil forfeiture case targeting Capstone, a Montana payments firm allegedly moving hundreds of millions for Tether and Bitfinex without a licence, via EQIBank. Some $84M in Capstone's accounts is now frozen. Tether confirms it banked with EQIBank — but the funds there were 0.034% of group assets. A rounding error with a federal footnote. Whether any of this touches USDT holders? The spokesperson didn't say, per Cointelegraph.

🪙 Crypto check ₿ BTC $83,081 📉 -1.7% (24h) Ξ ETH $2,647 📉 -2.1% (24h) 😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 74 — Greed

📌 Daily Recap · Sep 27 🚨 Bitget loses $183M to a very quiet hack 🎭 Fake Coinbase rep scammed 100 people, got 12 years 🌏 Asia owns half the global crypto adoption ranking Somebody near you was offline all day — drop this in their DMs CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

💸 Asia claims half the global crypto adoption chart Chainalysis's 2026 Global Crypto Adoption Index: 9 of the top 20 countries are Asia-Pacific — Japan, South Korea, India, Thailand, China, Indonesia, Australia, Vietnam, Philippines. Half the ranking, one region. Bitget darkened the mood: $351.6M in unauthorized transfers, cold wallets intact, loss covered by its $464M+ Protection Fund. The rest of the week: 🔸 Binance took $100M stake in Circle, five-year USDC deal 🔸 Bank of Korea launched a 24/7 won-settlement pilot 🔸 North Korea's WaterPlum: 30,000 devices, $10.7M stolen 🔸 Saudi Arabia exited China's mBridge CBDC project Bonus: OpenAI agents hacked Australia's Medicare — disclosed three months later, to a public inbox. Full story on Cointelegraph.

💸 23 years old, Brooklyn, $16 million — 12 years in prison Ronald Spektor called people, posed as a Coinbase security rep and told them their account had been hacked — move your funds to a safe wallet, now. Nearly 100 people believed him. The money was laundered through exchanges, crypto swaps and gift cards. A New York DA sentenced him to 12 years, plus $16 million in restitution and $500,000 in forfeitures. WhiteBIT puts social engineering at 41% of all crypto incidents last year. Criminals are done targeting exchanges — they're coming straight for people. Coinbase will never call you. If the call feels urgent — that's the scheme. CoinDesk

💸 Bitget goes quiet as $183 million walks out the door Bitget, one of the world's larger crypto exchanges, appears to have been hacked. On-chain analysts at Bubblemaps and Arkham tracked $183 million in ETH, USDT, USDC, AVAX, BNB, and XAUT draining from the exchange's wallets into a single new address over about an hour Thursday. The first move: address 0xe410… swapped $19.67M in USDT0 for 7,111 ETH in six minutes, paying 5% above market — freezable stablecoins out, decentralized ETH in, fast. User withdrawals are blocked. Bitget has said nothing. Back in 2023 the exchange boasted a $300 million protection fund for exactly this scenario — now we find out if it's real, per Decrypt.

🪙 Crypto check ₿ BTC $84,512 📈 +0.6% (24h) Ξ ETH $2,705 📈 +0.6% (24h) 😨/🤑 Fear & Greed: 70 — Greed

📌 Daily Recap · Sep 26 💵 Trump wants stablecoins to do dollar diplomacy now 🚨 Bitget lost $352M but pinky-swears your funds are fine 🔥 Bitget's hot wallets drained $351M in one Thursday evening 🎭 Fake Coinbase rep sweet-talked 100 people out of $16M 🇰🇵 North Korea fingerprints spotted all over Bitget's $351M breach Someone in your life was offline today and missed all of this — do them a favour CHEATKOTT - Your Daily News

🔓 North Korea's favourite pastime? Crypto exchange Bitget lost $351.6 million on Thursday — attackers pushed straight through its hot and warm wallets, no forged requests, no stolen private keys. Cold storage stayed safe. CEO Gracy Chen went live on X shortly after: "We've identified IP addresses matching VPN choices of a certain DPRK group. The pattern looks very much like what they did before." Worth noting: North Korean hackers have already taken an estimated $2 billion in crypto in 2025 alone, including the $1.5 billion Bybit heist the FBI formally attributed to Pyongyang. Withdrawals remain suspended; some funds recovered, amount undisclosed. Cointelegraph