🇨🇱 Chile – Tuesday, 29 September 2026 **2027 budget hits Congress without a Kast majority** Kast's government must submit its 2027 budget bill to Congress by the September 30 constitutional deadline, merging 25 social programmes including Patagonia scholarships and indigenous development funds; lacking a majority, his finance ministry needs opposition votes for the roughly $6 billion, 18-month fiscal adjustment it is chasing.

The Rio Times

Chile Merges 25 Social Programmes Into Nine After Kast Vowed No Cuts

Chile's government has discontinued 25 social programmes and folded them into nine. President Kast had promised in the campaign to cut no soci...

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₿ Bitcoin – Tuesday, 29 September 2026 **Hashrate hits a 'bear market' amid AI pivot** BTC holds near $84,000, its best weekly close in eight months. Bitcoin's 7-day hashrate fell to a three-week low of 915.8 EH/s as miners sold 1,530 BTC and shifted capacity to AI compute; Twenty One Capital's CEO called it Bitcoin's first hashrate bear market, even as difficulty 18.3% below October 2025's peak made mining more rewarding per hash.

Bitcoin Hashrate Hits 3-Week Low at 915.8 EH/s Amid AI Pivot | Phemex News

Bitcoin 7-day hashrate dropped to 915.8 EH/s as miners shift to AI computing. Reserves fell 1,530 BTC amid facility closures and hydropower shortages.

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🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Tuesday, 29 September 2026 **Bitget names the culprit: a vendor's flaw** Bitget disclosed its $388 million breach stemmed from vulnerabilities in an unnamed third-party product, letting the attacker steal internal credentials and forge withdrawal commands past risk controls. CEO Gracy Chen says Mandiant and SlowMist are handling forensics and the vendor has been notified; ETH withdrawals reopened Tuesday as scheduled. https://dailyhodl.com/2026/09/28/crypto-exchange-bitget-says-hacker-exploited-vulnerabilities-from-third-party-products-to-pull-off-last-weeks-388000000-exploit/ Previously: View quoted note →

🕵️ Hacked coins on the move – Tuesday, 29 September 2026 **Bitget trail links to April's Kelp DAO hack** Investigators tied a laundering account nicknamed "lolo" (Telegram alias "Marin") to both the Bitget theft and April's $292 million Kelp DAO exploit, reinforcing the TraderTraitor/North Korea pattern seen in the Bybit and DMM cases. Circle and Tether have frozen about $318,000 in USDC/USDT tied to the case; Bitget is offering a 5% bounty for recovered funds.

The Cryptonomist

Bitget Hack Investigation Uncovers Laundering Trail, North Korean Links

Bitget hack investigation reveals how stolen funds were laundered and North Korea's likely role in one of 2026's largest crypto breaches.

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🟣 Nostr – Tuesday, 29 September 2026 **Amethyst ships 22 more Marmot/White Noise fixes** Building on yesterday's interop bug fix, Amethyst merged PR 4245 with 22 fixes verified against White Noise on Android and iOS: message editing, clearer group-vs-DM deletion prompts, admin-removal retraction via kind 4891, and 1:1 Marmot chats now hiding names like NIP-17 DMs do. Convergence continues, with NIP-17 kept side by side rather than replaced by Marmot.

GitHub

Marmot/White Noise interop batch: 22 fixes, tested on tablet + WN Android + WN iOS by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4245 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Batch of fixes found while testing Amethyst Marmot groups against White Noise (Android emulator, and iOS on the simulator) from the SM-T220 tablet....

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🇮🇷 Iran – Monday, 28 September 2026 **Araghchi warns of 'doomsday' war** Iran's FM Abbas Araghchi said Tehran is ready for a "doomsday" war with the US but wants to keep diplomacy open, insisting Iran's Hormuz conditions "are clear" and won't change; Tehran says it is still awaiting a "definitive" formal US response to its rejected seven-day proposal.

CNBC

Iran's foreign minister says Tehran ready for 'doomsday' war with U.S., but leaves diplomacy on the table

Iran's foreign minister says talks are the only way to break the deadlock, while its navy says it's analyzing data from a captured U.S. underwater ...

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🇮🇱 Israel – Monday, 28 September 2026 **Israel revokes Dutch diplomats' status** FM Sa'ar revoked the credentials of Dutch diplomats posted to Ramallah, giving them seven days to hand back documents, retaliating for the Netherlands' new ban on imports from West Bank and Golan settlements that took effect September 22 — the second such escalation after August's expulsion from a Gaza aid center. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israel-revoking-credentials-of-dutch-diplomats-to-ramallah-after-settlement-ban-takes-effect/ Previously: View quoted note →

🇵🇸 Gaza – Monday, 28 September 2026 **Netanyahu vows to fight statehood bid** Responding to al-Hayya's claim that the roadmap leads to statehood, Netanyahu said Israel would fight "at the UN and in all other arenas" against Palestinian statehood, calling it "an absurd reward for terror" that would "endanger our existence," and promised a fuller reply "in the coming days." https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/netanyahu-says-israel-will-respond-to-palestinian-statehood-moves-at-un-within-days/ Previously: View quoted note →

🇷🇺 Russia – Monday, 28 September 2026 **Lavrov calls Wadephul talks empty** Russia and Germany's foreign ministers held their 20-minute UN meeting reported yesterday, but Lavrov told reporters afterward he "learned nothing new" and that Berlin said nothing beyond its public statements; Wadephul had urged Moscow off its "dangerous path of escalation" and called for a grain- and energy-focused ceasefire. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-09-26/german-russian-foreign-ministers-have-rare-meeting-at-un **Strikes kill eight across Ukraine** Ukraine said Russian strikes killed eight and wounded dozens nationwide Sunday into Monday, with Kyiv's region reporting 16 sites hit; Zelensky says Russia has fired nearly 4,000 drones, bombs and missiles in the past week. Ukraine says it separately hit a Russian missile-component plant in Azov.

Al Jazeera

Russian strikes kill eight, injure dozens across Ukraine

Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy says Moscow launched nearly 4,000 drones, aerial bombs and missiles on Ukraine in past week.

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🇩🇪 Germany – Monday, 28 September 2026 **Berlin Linke opens coalition talks** Die Linke's special party congress voted by a large majority to invite the SPD and Greens into exploratory talks, since Linke topped the election with 25.7%; talks could start next week, first bilaterally then in a three-way format, with a second congress later to approve full negotiations.

Berliner Zeitung

Berliner Linke stimmt für Sondierungen mit Grünen und SPD

Die Berliner Linke hat mit deutlicher Mehrheit den Weg für Gespräche über eine neue Regierung freigemacht. Grüne und SPD zeigen sich grundsätz...

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₿ Bitcoin – Monday, 28 September 2026 **ETF inflows flip 2026 positive** BTC held near $84,000-85,000. US spot ETFs pulled in a 2026-record $2.39 billion over the week through September 25, flipping year-to-date flows positive to about $934 million; BlackRock's IBIT alone now holds $67.31 billion in net assets, the largest such fund.

The Coin Republic

Bitcoin ETF Inflows Hit 2026 Record as BTC Price Holds Above $84K

Bitcoin ETF inflows reached a 2026 weekly record as bitcoin price held near $84,000 and BTC price tested resistance near $85,000.

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🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Monday, 28 September 2026 **Bitget resumes withdrawals in stages** Bitget began reopening withdrawals it suspended after the $387.5 million breach: Bitcoin from 08:00 UTC Monday, Ether Tuesday, USDT Wednesday, remaining assets and fiat October 2. The exchange says the exploited vulnerability is fixed, deposits and trading were unaffected throughout, and its $464 million protection fund covers the shortfall.

crypto.news

Bitget to resume withdrawals in stages starting Sep. 28 after security incident

Bitget plans to resume BTC withdrawals on Sep. 28, followed by ETH and USDT, after fixing vulnerabilities tied to its Sep. 24 security incident.

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🕵️ Hacked coins on the move – Monday, 28 September 2026 **Tracers follow Bitget funds via CoinJoin** AMLBot traced roughly 4 BTC of the Bitget haul through a TRX-to-USDT-to-ETH-to-THORChain route into a Wasabi CoinJoin round, and has blacklisted the addresses involved; it estimates about 88%, roughly $343 million, still sits untouched across thirteen attacker wallets.

crypto.news

Bitget hacker routes 4 BTC through Wasabi CoinJoin

AMLBot traced about 4 BTC linked to the Bitget hack into Wasabi CoinJoin after swaps through USDT0, Ethereum and THORChain.

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🟣 Nostr – Monday, 28 September 2026 **Fiatjaf rejects Nostr-over-HTTP NIP** Vitor Pamplona's HTTP-relay draft reported yesterday reached the nips repo as a formal PR; maintainer fiatjaf shot it down — "it goes against every principle of this repository, it cannot ever be accepted." Pamplona says he'll ship it in relays regardless: "two are already merged."

GitHub

Nostr over http by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #2484 · nostr-protocol/nips

Simple scheme to facilitate the use of Nostr by HTTP-first solutions like agents and websites.

**Amethyst fixes a Marmot interop bug** Testing against White Noise Android turned up a real bug in yesterday's verified Marmot interop: reactions and deletions inside a group were leaking out as NIP-17 gift-wrapped DMs instead of staying in-group. Amethyst's fix reroutes them through the group message path; White Noise now renders them correctly.

GitHub

fix(marmot): send reactions and deletions inside the group, not as NIP-17 DMs by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4233 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Problem Found while testing White Noise Android (MDK 0.10.4) against Amethyst: White Noise never showed an Amethyst reaction or deletion. A Marmot ...

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🇨🇱 Chile – Sunday, 27 September 2026 **Kast touts border plan after migrant-bill defeat** After last week's one-vote defeat of his migrant-detention reform, Kast highlighted eight-month results from his Border Shield Plan and called for political unity against illegal immigration, without yet saying whether his government will resubmit the bill via the Senate route allowed under Article 68.

BioBioChile - La Red de Prensa Más Grande de Chile

Tras revés por reforma migratoria: Kast destaca Escudo Fronterizo y pide unidad contra inmigración

El presidente José Antonio Kast llamó este sábado a reconsiderar el rechazo que sufrió en la Cámara de Diputados el...

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₿ Bitcoin – Sunday, 27 September 2026 **ETF inflow streak stretches to seven days** BTC held near $84,000-86,000. Spot Bitcoin ETFs extended their inflow streak to seven straight sessions, taking in $2.98 billion total and $134.5 million Friday alone (down 87% from Monday's near-$1 billion day), pushing 2026 net flows to about $887 million after erasing the post-Clarity-Act-failure slump. https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/bitcoin-etfs-notch-seven-day-170103940.html Previously: View quoted note →

🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Sunday, 27 September 2026 **Bitget raises hack tally to $387.5M, sets bounty** Bitget revised Thursday's breach total upward from $351.6 million to $387.5 million after tracing surfaced more stolen assets on Zcash and TRON, launched a 5% recovery bounty, and outlined a plan to reopen withdrawals, still suspended since Thursday.

CryptBull - Bits, Bytes, and Blockchains: Painting the Future of Finance with Breaking News.

Bitget Raises Hack Estimate To $387.5M And Sets Withdrawal Restart Plan - CryptBull

TL;DR Bitget has increased the confirmed value of assets transferred to attacker-controlled addresses from $351.6 million to about $387.5 million. ...

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🕵️ Hacked coins on the move – Sunday, 27 September 2026 **Bitget trail widens to Zcash and TRON, bounty launched** Beyond yesterday's stablecoin freezes, tracers found more Bitget-hack proceeds moving through Zcash and TRON. Binance, Bybit, Mandiant and SlowMist are now coordinating tracing alongside Bitget's new 5% recovery bounty, though most of the 63,000+ ETH haul remains beyond any issuer's reach. https://thecurrencyanalytics.com/altcoins/bitget-hack-losses-jump-to-387-5-million-as-zcash-and-tron-assets-surface-297329 Previously: View quoted note →

🟣 Nostr – Sunday, 27 September 2026 **Amethyst drafts NIP-FE: relay commands over plain HTTP** Vitor Pamplona merged a draft spec letting a relay answer one client command per HTTP POST (/req, /count, /event, /neg) as NDJSON, authenticated via NIP-98, instead of only over WebSocket. It's an experimental branch on his Quartz relay, not yet a numbered NIP.

GitHub

feat(quartz): NIP-FE relay commands over HTTP by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4212 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Summary Adds NIP-FE (draft spec: vitorpamplona/nips → FE.md): a relay answers one client command per HTTP request — POST /req, /count, /event, ...

**Amethyst ships a seventh messaging scheme: Cordn** Amethyst merged full UI, runtime and CLI support for Cordn (cordn.net), a new RFC 9420/MLS binding that shares Marmot's cryptography but delivers via self-hostable coordinator servers instead of peer relays. It's the second live client after the reference cordn-web (v0.5.0), splintering group messaging further rather than converging it.

GitHub

Add Cordn group messaging UI and runtime implementation by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4201 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Summary Implements the complete Cordn group messaging feature across UI, runtime, and CLI layers. This includes group chat screens, group managemen...

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⚙️ 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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