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Everyone wants to buy alts "when the trend is confirmed” well… ⚠️ Altcoins/Bitcoin (Monthly): First green momentum bar since 2022. Same signal fired in 2017 and 2021 and alts did x20 to x100. Two days until the close.

Dear BitMEX Users, Today, we share with a very heavy heart that BitMEX exchange will shut down its operations, effective 23 September 2026 at 04:00:00 UTC. The owner and operator of BitMEX, HDR Global Trading Limited, has made the difficult decision to close operations following a strategic review of the business. It may not look the same today, but we are proud of our 11+ year legacy and the role we played in shaping the crypto industry. We invented the 100x leverage perpetual swap, which for most of you, was the first step to your crypto trading journey. It is now the most traded financial product in the crypto industry, adopted by thousands of users and exchanges. And we remain proud of our robust security infrastructure, which has allowed us to maintain a flawless track record of 0 customer funds lost to hacks in our entire operating history. We want to reassure you that your assets remain fully safe and under your control during this transition period. This announcement is just to give enough time to ensure a smooth withdrawal process for everyone. From today we strongly encourage all users to close their positions and withdraw their funds as soon as convenient. For more details on the full process, please read our blog: bitmex.com/blog/bitmex-closu… BitMEX was once home to some of the greatest traders today. Our team has dedicated tremendous effort and passion into building the platform into what it is, and we are glad to have reached some of you during your time with us. To everyone who has traded, supported, and grown alongside us - thank you for your trust over the last 11 years. The BitMEX Team

Privacy Hack starts Jan 12 🔒 Build private payments, privacy tooling, or anything with privacy on Solana $70,000 in prizes across 3 tracks 👇

Community alert: Ledger had another data breach via payment processor Global-e leaking the personal data of customers (name & other contact information). Earlier today customers received the email below.

Action required for users impacted by the Browser Extension v2.68 incident: We identified a limited group of ~36k wallets (0.016% of our user base) still having a compromised wallet(s). All impacted users have already been directly notified via a security incident banner on your Trust Wallet Browser Extension. In case the users haven't opened extension to see the banner, we also tried to notify them if the same wallet addresses have been imported to their mobile version, via: •a mobile app notification with action required notice •a pop up when you open the Trust Wallet mobile app If you have been notified, please abandon the old compromised wallet, create a new wallet and move your funds immediately to ensure your assets remain safe. Instruction below. If you have not received a notification, you are not affected and no action is required. Step-by-step guide: short.trustwallet.com/action… This applies to all wallets that used Trust Wallet Browser Extension version 2.68 between December 24-26, 2025.

🚨 NEW: Crypto tax data collection begins across 48 countries ahead of CARF 2027 implementation.

We should all build worlds to inhabit and make noise in our own style. Sam Drew at Lumps (@lumps_uk) with his crazy illustrations has built a unique world and it is loud and fun. Check and check. Lessons learnt. [lumps.design]

My son asked for an iPad for Christmas I said no “Son, tablets are closed-source walled gardens controlled by centralized corporations” Instead I gave him a Ledger He opened it with visible disgust Then something utterly shocking happened My wife’s CrossFit trainer Luca got him the iPad my son wanted “Games should be fun,” he said “Thank you Uncle Luca” my son hugged him for almost a minute I pulled my wife aside and explained that Luca is promoting platform-dependent consumption She mumbled “at least he got him a real gift” That night, while my son was asleep, I took the iPad and went to the store Thanks to a generous holiday return policy, I was able to get a full cash refund of $549 Then I bought a gift for my son that he truly deserves $549 worth of ETH When I came home my son was crying looking for his iPad I explained to my son that centralized hardware is temporary Self-custody is forever I showed him the receipt for the refund Then I took him to Etherscan to see the ETH on his Ledger He started crying and asked when he could play games I said “when the protocol matures” He started shaking and cried even more I smiled “Decentralization takes patience”

🚨 ALERT: ZachXBT reported multiple Trust Wallet users experiencing fund drains following a recent Chrome extension update. Trust Wallet confirms security incident affecting version 2.68 and urges immediate upgrade to 2.69 while they’re working on the issue.

Younger brother came into town for the holidays, we were talking about crypto yesterday. Trying to figure out why it's been so weak, even with strong equity markets. He threw me a curveball. "Crypto isn't that cool anymore." Blew my mind. The kid is 22. "Prediction markets are better, and stocks too because they don't get rugged 24/7". I looked much deeper last night...and what I'm observing under the surface is not technical or fundamental. It's cultural. A social shift. Attention has relocated. Starts on youtube. Views are down across anything related to crypto. A crypto youtuber with 139K subscribers said that his viewership had dropped more in the last 2 weeks than anything he's seen in 5 years. Second point. Attention is shifting from the top. The biggest crypto influencers are publicly "losing interest" in crypto, and switching to stocks (sources attached). Third point. Crypto has long been a free-spirited, lawless, young man's game. But with legacy brokerages like Schwab/JPMorgan getting involved + gov't interest, is crypto losing the demographic that made it popular in the first place? Potentially...as the perception's changed. Fourth point. Optionality. Every vehicle is becoming more accessible. From $COIN adding stock trading, to $HOOD adding 0DTE options, to prediction markets as a whole... Everything's right there...without the perceived risk of a rug-pull via the “lawless” crypto landscape that defined crypto’s appeal in the first place. Question is...does real-world crypto utility generate enough demand to offset a sustained decline in retail participation? All I'm saying is the divergence of the once highly correlated $BTC - $QQQ pair is highly suspect. And it's only getting wider. Yes, you can argue some of these things happen in every crypto bear market, but there's new variables & moving parts now (optionality + legacy brokerages participation + gov't interest) that change the game. Crypto seems to be in a transition phase...from a momentum asset to an infrastructure asset. Fundamental transitions like this are usually not kind to price in the medium term. Long term, I'm bullish on the crypto's utility and think it will be everywhere, but the real world utility/adoption (and subsequent growing pains...) is something I'm watching in 2026.

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Today @jpmorgan, the world's largest bank by market cap per @WSJ, announced they're launching their first ever tokenized money market fund—MONY—on Ethereum. The firm is seeding the fund with $100M of its own capital before opening to outside investors on Tuesday.

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I recovered another wallet by partial seed phrase, this time 3 words were lost and 9 words were in correct position : after i dropped the script to recover 2 lost words in an hour which was mathematically not possible but somehow it was tricked, so i started to recover 3 words and see if its even possible to crack 3 words : each missing word had 2048 possible values (BIP39 wordlist), so total combinations were 2048³ = ~8.6 billion possibilities but with the BIP39 checksum filter, a 12 word seed has 4 bits of checksum, in simple words only 1 in 16 combinations are valid so real number of valid seeds = ~8.6b/16 ≈ 536 million possibilities there was one more difficulty this time which made it harder to crack that is, it was not the first addresses on that seed, it was the second one, what do i mean by that ? BIP44 : correct derivation path for modern MetaMask is m/44'/60'/0'/0/i first address on phrase X = m/44'/60'/0'/0/0 second address on phrase X = m/44'/60'/0'/0/1 and so on that means for every valid seed i had to derive two addresses, check both index 0 and index 1 so total derivations ≈ 536M × 2 ≈ 1B generations that would take years if combined with balance check reason : while checking if those possible wallets were active onchain and to filter wallets with 0 onchain history the major issue is blockchain RPC calls to check balances, it is slow and rate limits again and again limiting upto 30-150 attempts/sec, even if you use indexed APIs like Covalent it would still rate limit (~4 requests per second) , to tackle this there was only 1 option use Target_Address because even using multiple RPCs to back up each other the amount of requests you need to check per second still over powers the capacity of multiple rpc limits by using Target_Address i was lucky enough to hit the seed early so i did not need to filter all 536 million possibilities, it took around 8 hours until i hit on the actual phrase : m/44'/60'/0'/1 with the balance i believe the time can be reduced heavily by renting powerful cloud GPUs along with little bit of luck i modified the script i dropped publicly 2 days before whichrecovers 2 words and that source script is really powerful if modified further hope you learnt something new from my experience today

The Tether folks are in the early innings of running a massive interest rate trade. How I read this audit is they think the Fed will cut rates which crushes their interest income. In response, they are buying gold and $BTC that should in theory moon as the price of money falls. A roughly 30% decline in the gold + $BTC position would wipe out their equity, and then USDT would be in theory insolvent. I'm sure some large holders and exchanges will demand a real-time view of their B/S so they can assess the solvency risk of Tether. Get out your popcorn, I expect the MSM to run wild with this, especially all the editors with TDS who want to shit on Lutnick and Cantor for backing this stablecoin.

After seven years, it's time to say goodbye.

DUMMIES GUIDE TO BEING QUANTUM SAFE. In the past it was about protecting your PRIVATE KEY (your seed phrase). In the age of big scary quantum computers (BSQC) that are coming, you need to protect your PUBLIC KEY also. Basically a BSQC can figure out your private key from a public key. The present day taproot addresses (the latest format) are NOT safe, these are addresses starting with "bc1p" and they embed the public key into the address, not good. Prior formats hide the public key behind a hash, so a BSQC can't easily crack it. Do this: 1) create a new segwit wallet. It will start with "bc1q" (NOT "bc1p"), you can use older formats too like ones starting with "1" and "3" 2) send all your BTC into this new address 3) you can continue to stack sats into this new address 4) NEVER send BTC out of it, once you do you're BSQC hackable because your public key is revealed 5) wait for Bitcoin to upgrade to a quantum safe protocol, this may take 7 years, who knows 6) send your BTC into the new quantum safe address when the network is NOT congested, once you send, you reveal the private key for a short time. It's unlikely a BSQC will steal your coins in that short window

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