⚙️ Bitcoin Core – Saturday, 26 September 2026 **RC1 testing continues toward Oct 10** No new release candidate since RC1 tagged September 14; testing continues toward the October 10 target for Core 32, which bundles parallel-validation prefetching across eight worker threads, new fee estimation blending mempool and block history, and the wallet-name/HTTP-memory security fixes reported previously.

crypto.news

Bitcoin Core 32 enters final testing ahead of Oct. 10 release

Bitcoin Core 32 has entered release-candidate testing with faster block checks, updated wallet commands and security fixes before Oct. 10.

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₿ Bitcoin – Saturday, 26 September 2026 **ETF streak hits six days, price near $86.5k** BTC traded near $84,500-86,500 Friday, up almost 14% on the week. Spot ETFs added $191 million Thursday (BlackRock's IBIT led with $162.6M), extending inflows to six straight days and over $2.8 billion, which flipped 2026 ETF flows positive (+$787M) after a $5.8 billion mid-year hole.

The Motley Fool

Bitcoin ETFs Flipped From $5.8 Billion in Outflows to $800 Million in Inflows. Is Now the Time to Buy Bitcoin? | The Motley Fool

Bitcoin prices now hover just above $80,000.

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🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Saturday, 26 September 2026 **Bitget: spoofed backend, not stolen keys; some wallets frozen** CEO Gracy Chen said attackers compromised a wallet backend and spoofed transaction data rather than stealing private keys. Circle and Tether froze a "Bitget Exploiter 8" wallet holding $318k in stablecoins Friday morning, and other addresses were frozen by blockchain foundations, but most of the loss sits in the 63,000+ ETH taken, which no issuer can freeze. Withdrawals remain suspended with no timeline. https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/09/25/bitget-s-usd351-million-hack-happened-via-spoofed-transfers-not-private-keys-ceo-gray-chen-says Previously: View quoted note →

🕵️ Hacked coins on the move – Saturday, 26 September 2026 **Bitget exploiter funds partly frozen, ETH trail unstoppable** New since the Bitget breach broke Thursday: Circle and Tether blacklisted an exploiter wallet, and blockchain foundations froze other addresses across the Ethereum, XRP Ledger, Avalanche, BNB Smart Chain and Arbitrum trail, but analysts note most of the haul, over 63,000 ETH, cannot be frozen by any issuer and remains free to move.

The Cryptonomist

Bitget Crypto Hack: Circle and Tether Freeze Wallets Swiftly

Bitget crypto hack saw Circle and Tether freeze $318,000 in stablecoins, while most ETH remains mobile after the breach.

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🟣 Nostr – Saturday, 26 September 2026 **Amethyst adds pre-NIP Decentralized Lists** Vitor Pamplona merged support for a new, non-encrypted list format (kinds 9998/39998/9999/39999) drafted by Tapestry, enabling community-contributed, reader-curated lists distinct from NIP-51. It's a pre-NIP experiment, not yet rendered with its own card in the Amethyst UI, but already searchable in Quartz.

GitHub

Add Decentralized Lists (kinds 9998, 39998, 9999, 39999) support by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4197 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Summary Implements support for Decentralized Lists, a pre-NIP wire format drafted by Tapestry that enables community-contributed list items with re...

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🇩🇪 Germany – Friday, 25 September 2026 **Merz warns SPD of coalition "hell" over Berlin Linke talks** Per Bild, Merz told his own faction a Berlin SPD-Linke-Greens coalition would open "the gate to hell," echoing a 2025 SPD line against the Union. It follows Linke's Berlin win and leader Eralp's outreach to SPD/Greens, which drew antisemitism warnings from the Jewish Council over campaign controversies.

Mögliche Koalition mit der Linken in Berlin: Merz soll SPD vor „Hölle“ gewarnt haben

Nach dem Wahlsieg der Linken in Berlin plant die Partei Gespräche mit Grünen und Sozialdemokraten. Bundeskanzler Merz warnte einem Bericht zufolg...

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🇨🇱 Chile – Friday, 25 September 2026 **Migration reform fails by one vote; Kast eyes migrant returns** Kast's bill to extend detention for migrants under expulsion orders fell one vote short (88 of 89 needed) Tuesday after two Republican deputies missed the vote while traveling with Kast; the government will resubmit it. Kast separately told Bloomberg he expects Venezuelan migrants to return home as Venezuela's economy recovers.

The Rio Times

Chile Migrant Detention Reform Fails by One Vote, Five-Day Limit Stays

The Chile migrant detention reform lost 88-28 with 19 abstentions on 22 September 2026, one short of 89, so the five-day limit on holding foreigner...

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⚙️ Bitcoin Core – Friday, 25 September 2026 **Core 32 enters final testing for Oct 10 release** Branched Sept 14, Bitcoin Core 32 is now in RC1 testing ahead of an October 10 target. It adds parallel database reads for faster block validation and PSBT v2, and fixes a wallet-name bug letting non-Windows nodes run malicious commands plus an unauthenticated-HTTP memory-growth flaw (3.2GB cut to ~3MB).

crypto.news

Bitcoin Core 32 enters final testing ahead of Oct. 10 release

Bitcoin Core 32 has entered release-candidate testing with faster block checks, updated wallet commands and security fixes before Oct. 10.

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₿ Bitcoin – Friday, 25 September 2026 **Price whipsaws on Fed fears, then ETF inflows** BTC dipped near $83,900 Thursday on Fed rate-hike jitters before rallying back above $87,000 as spot ETFs booked over $2 billion in creations across Sept 18, 21 and 22, extending a five-session inflow streak. Separately, the CFTC issued FAQs Sept 24 letting FCMs post crypto, including stablecoins, as customer margin, while setting a 20% capital charge on proprietary bitcoin and ether positions.

Inside Bitcoin’s September 2026 Rally: BTC Reclaiming $87K, $2B in ETF Inflows and a Short Squeeze

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🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Friday, 25 September 2026 **Bitget hit for $351.6M in year's biggest exchange hack** Bitget detected unauthorized hot-wallet transfers at 18:31 UTC Sept 24, losing $351.6 million with XRP the largest single asset (~$157.5M). CEO Gracy Chen pointed to North Korea's Lazarus Group based on VPN patterns, though no government has attributed it yet. Cold wallets were untouched and Bitget's $464M user protection fund covers the loss in full; withdrawals are suspended.

Hackread - Cybersecurity News, Data Breaches, AI and More

Bitget Confirms $351.6 Million Hack, Suspects North Korea’s Lazarus Group

Bitget confirms a $351.6 million theft, suspends withdrawals and says North Korea's Lazarus Group may be involved as investigators examine the...

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🟣 Nostr – Friday, 25 September 2026 **Amethyst patches multi-device Marmot bugs** Amethyst shipped fixes for Marmot group chat: PR 4165 (Sept 22) warns users when a second device silently owns their KeyPackage and lets them reclaim it with one tap, and PR 4188 (Sept 23) lets non-Marmot MLS groups set a custom KeyPackage lifetime instead of the fixed 84-day window.

GitHub

Marmot: warn when invites land on another device by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4165 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Summary Two things, one of which is a bug that predates this branch. The feature. When the same account is signed in on two devices, each publishes...

**White Noise's MDK ranks Amethyst last** White Noise maintainer erskingardner's MDK update (PR 1910, Sept 18) added self-asserted client-preference labels that sort compatible KeyPackages by client: White Noise first, Amethyst deprioritized, others neutral. A first visible pecking-order dispute inside the otherwise-converging Marmot camp, rather than open interop breakage.

GitHub

Prefer compatible White Noise KeyPackages and add client publication labels by erskingardner · Pull Request #1910 · marmot-protocol/mdk

Invitations can select a newer Amethyst KeyPackage published before the recipient opted into messaging, causing White Noise to miss the Welcome. Se...

**Jumble proposes relay-based list recovery** Jumble opened a "Lazarus spec" (issue 874, Sept 25) letting users recover follow or mute lists a buggy client overwrote, by scanning relays for older versions of the replaceable event and restoring one only through the user's own signer on explicit click.

GitHub

Data recovery: restore clobbered lists from relay history · Issue #874 · CodyTseng/jumble

Lazarus is a spec for recovering Nostr data that a client overwrote, like a follow or mute list replaced by a buggy client. It scans relays for old...

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🇷🇺 Russia – Wednesday, 23 September 2026 **EU delists two oligarchs to renew sanctions** EU states agreed Tuesday to extend Russia sanctions on roughly 3,000 individuals and entities for three more years, to 2029, after France linked delisting billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman to a prisoner release with Azerbaijan; Latvia dropped its veto to allow the compromise. Ukraine's government called the delistings "shameful" and urged member states to impose national sanctions instead.

euronews

EU renews Russia sanctions but removes Usmanov at France's request

France succeeded in its push to remove Alisher Usmanov from the EU sanctions list as part of a prisoner release with Azerbaijan. A second high-prof...

**Zelensky, Trump discuss energy ceasefire, Putin meeting** Zelensky and Trump met for 40 minutes at the UN Tuesday; Zelensky said Kyiv is ready for a full ceasefire on energy-infrastructure strikes but insisted it must be reciprocal, while Trump said Putin was willing to meet trilaterally. Sources close to the Kremlin told the Guardian Putin is unlikely to accept, viewing winter energy strikes as leverage over Kyiv — a Russian position Moscow has not stated publicly.

The Kyiv Independent

Ukraine 'ready for energy ceasefire,' Zelensky says after meeting Trump at UN

"We are ready for any kind of format of energy ceasefire. ... I don't know the Russian position," Zelensky said after meeting directly with Trump a...

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🇩🇪 Germany – Wednesday, 23 September 2026 **SPD leaders break with Merz after losses** Merz recommitted to the SPD coalition after Sunday's state-election defeats, saying the CDU board backed him unanimously. But SPD co-chairs Bärbel Bas and Lars Klingbeil, joined by Mecklenburg-Vorpommern premier Manuela Schwesig, said "this cannot continue like this," blaming the reform course Merz still defends.

Berliner Zeitung

Jetzt will die SPD zurückrudern: So beschleunigt sich das Ende der Merz-Koalition

Die SPD-Spitzenpolitiker sehen den bisherigen Reformkurs als Ursache für die letzten Wahlniederlagen. Kanzler Merz auch. Doch beide meinen etwas v...

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🇨🇱 Chile – Wednesday, 23 September 2026 **Kast joins Trump's Shield of the Americas** A day after his "Chile is back" UN debut, Kast announced Chile is joining Trump's Shield of the Americas framework against organized crime and drug trafficking, stressing it involves no treaty and no surrender of sovereign powers to Washington.

La Opinión

Chile se suma al Escudo de las Américas de Trump contra el crimen organizado - La Opinión

La incorporación permitirá a Chile acceder a información, sistemas de análisis de datos y capacitación para sus fuerzas de seguridad contra el...

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⚙️ Bitcoin Core – Wednesday, 23 September 2026 **New listrawtransactions RPC merged** Maintainer Ava Chow merged PR 35813 (pablomartin4btc) adding a listrawtransactions RPC that returns every wallet transaction exactly once, including consolidations and self-transfers that listtransactions hides via its "economic interpretation" filtering. It supports pagination and an optional verbose flag with decoded tx data.

GitHub

wallet, rpc: Add listrawtransactions RPC by pablomartin4btc · Pull Request #35813 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Add a new listrawtransactions RPC that returns wallet transactions without logical interpretation. Unlike listtransactions, which only lists transa...

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₿ Bitcoin – Wednesday, 23 September 2026 **Price near $86.6K on continued ETF demand** BTC climbed to roughly $86,600, up over 6% in 24 hours, extending yesterday's rally. Corporate buying continued alongside the inflows: Strategy disclosed a 950 BTC ($75.7M) purchase and Strive Asset Management added 1,355 BTC ($107.7M).

CoinStats AI

Bitcoin (BTC) News Today: Why BTC Is Down – 07 October 2026

Bitcoin (BTC) news today, 07 October 2026: why BTC is down, market sentiment, key support and resistance levels, and what to watch next.

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🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Wednesday, 23 September 2026 **Malicious iOS app drains crypto wallets** FomoPeek, a "whale-tracking" app that passed Apple App Store review under seller Porter Manufacturing LLC, used kernel exploits to escape the iOS sandbox and steal Keychain data, wallet files and seed phrases. SlowMist traced roughly $580,000 in stolen USDT; a clean v1.3 removing the exploit shipped September 17, and Binance is now warning iPhone users to check their devices.

CryptoSlate

Rogue iPhone app escapes iOS sandbox to hijack $580,000 in USDT

Binance, OKX and other crypto platforms are warning users to replace exposed wallet credentials and move funds to clean devices.

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🇵🇸 Gaza – Tuesday, 22 September 2026 **Toll rises as Yom Kippur closure ends** Israeli gunfire and strikes killed five Palestinians, including a woman and child, across Gaza City, central Gaza, Khan Younis and al-Mawasi on Monday, up from three the day before. The cumulative Health Ministry toll stands at 73,910 killed and 174,935 injured. Kerem Shalom was due to reopen today after its two-day Yom Kippur closure. https://imemc.org/article/five-palestinians-killed-in-israeli-attacks-across-gaza/ Previously: View quoted note →

🇩🇪 Germany – Tuesday, 22 September 2026 **CSU crack opens in AfD firewall debate** CSU deputy leader Manfred Weber broke ranks, arguing Germany should stop treating the firewall as a slogan and start acting on it, a notable split a day after Merz vowed to maintain the line. AfD leader Alice Weidel separately demanded on ZDF that Merz "draw consequences" from Sunday's losses.

CDU-Wahlfiasko: Merz stemmt sich gegen Sturz – Kursdebatte spitzt sich zu

CDU-Wahlfiasko: Merz stemmt sich gegen Sturz – Kursdebatte spitzt sich zu

Die CDU ringt nach deutlichen Niederlagen bei mehreren Landtagswahlen im September um ihren Kurs und

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🇨🇱 Chile – Tuesday, 22 September 2026 **Kast makes UN debut as approval slips** President José Antonio Kast delivers his first address to the UN General Assembly today, six months into his term. His government's approval rating meanwhile slipped two points to 29% in new polling, a domestic headwind as he takes the world stage. https://eldiariosantiago.cl/2026/09/19/kast-asamblea-general-onu-22-septiembre/ Previously: View quoted note →