**₿ Bitcoin – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **ETF flows swing back to green** BTC trades near $85,000, little changed after touching a 2026 high of $87,200 on Friday. US spot Bitcoin ETFs reversed Thursday's $148.7 million outflow with a $195.6 million inflow on October 3, led by BlackRock's IBIT.

BlackRock’s $195.6 million Inflow Push Bitcoin ETFs Back Into Green

**Tether brings USDT back to Bitcoin** Tether-backed Utexo secured a license to issue USDT on Bitcoin this month via the RGB protocol, enabling private transfers and native BTC swaps without wrapped tokens. CEO Paolo Ardoino called it "coming home" for the stablecoin, which first launched on Bitcoin's Omni layer in 2014; Lightning support is planned next.

The Cryptonomist

USDT on Bitcoin Network Relaunches via Utexo in October

Discover how USDT on Bitcoin network returns with Utexo, offering private transfers and native BTC-USDT swaps using RGB and UTXO.

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**🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **NEAR Intents hacker returns $3.8M** The attacker who exploited NEAR Intents' Omni deposit system on October 1 returned the full $3.8 million after a 48-hour deadline. NEAR said the breach was isolated to USDT on BSC and traced to infrastructure tied to its HOT Bridge treasury, caught by its SHIELD monitoring layer.

CoinCentral

NEAR Intents Hacker Returns $3.8 Million After 48 Hour Deadline - CoinCentral

NEAR Intents confirms the full return of $3.8 million lost in an October exploit tied to its Omni deposit and withdrawal system.

**Bitget CEO: little recovery expected** Bitget CEO Gracy Chen told CNBC on October 2 she is "not expecting to recover a lot" of the $388 million stolen, with only $1.1 million frozen so far. She said the exchange rebuilt its protection fund above $300 million from its own capital rather than passing losses to users.

CNBC

Bitget 'not expecting to recover a lot' from $388 million hack, CEO tells CNBC

Bitget has frozen a tiny fraction of the $387.5 million stolen in last week’s hack, and restored much of its protection fund.

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**🕵️ Hacked coins on the move – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Coldcard thief launders $7.8M more** The Wave 3 Coldcard exploit attacker moved another $7.8 million in Bitcoin through mixers and cross-chain swaps on October 1, bringing total laundered funds to roughly 97 BTC; about 82% of the stolen crypto remains in attacker-controlled addresses.

Coldcard Hacker Moves to Launder $7.8M in BTC

Galaxy says the attacker has laundered 97.09 BTC so far, with 82% of the stolen funds still in attacker-controlled addresses

**Bitget freezes grow, still tiny** Trackers now put Bitget-hack freezes at $1.1 million of the $388 million taken, up from the roughly $318,000 reported yesterday, as most of the stolen funds continue moving through the Wasabi, Tron and THORChain routes already reported. https://qz.com/bitget-frozen-funds-crypto-hack-recovery-100226 **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🟣 Nostr – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Nostur ships DM retry, WoT threading** Nostur 1.32.0, released October 1, added retry with clearer delivery status for failed direct messages and improved reply-count/nested-thread rendering with Web-of-Trust filtering, plus QR-code profile sharing carrying verified relay info — reliability polish rather than a scheme change.

Freedom.Tech

Nostur 1.32.0

Nostur adds QR code profile sharing, message retry logic, improved feed scrolling with position restoration, and better…

**Amethyst keeps shipping daily** Beyond Wednesday's Buzz interop and NIP-17 group fixes, Amethyst merged further small changes on October 1-2 including NIP-42 relay-auth event rendering (PR 4316) and a chat-UI preview-text refactor, continuing its rapid-fire cadence without a new stance on DMs, replies or signers.

GitHub

Add NIP-42 relay auth event rendering and preview support by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4316 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Summary Adds UI rendering for NIP-42 relay authentication events (kind 22242) and improves signer consent previews. When a relay requests authentic...

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**🌍 World news – Friday, 2 October 2026** **Trump cuts off Caracas outreach** Trump instructed envoy Richard Grenell to end all diplomatic contact with Venezuela, a sharp escalation, as Caracas reported security operations in Bolívar state dismantling ELN and FARC-dissident camps in its mineral-rich mining areas.

Security Council Report

Sudan

In October, the Security Council is expected to receive the regular 120-day briefing on the situation in Sudan. During the month, the Security C...

**Sudan's army retakes Sodri** Sudan's army said it recaptured Sodri in North Kordofan from the paramilitary RSF, while a separate RSF drone strike killed two civilians in El Obeid, as the 2026 civil war continues to shift front lines.

Security Council Report

Sudan

In October, the Security Council is expected to receive the regular 120-day briefing on the situation in Sudan. During the month, the Security C...

**Floods kill dozens in Myanmar, Thailand** Flooding and landslides have killed at least eight people each in Myanmar and Thailand, with 20-30 still missing in Tanintharyi Region and over 1.7 million people affected across Bangkok and 27 Thai provinces. https://www.crisisgroup.org/sco/global/our-radar **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🇮🇷 Iran – Friday, 2 October 2026** **UK accuses Iran over airbase scare** Beyond Monday's expulsion of Iran's delegation, UK PM Andy Burnham said there are "strong indications" Iran was behind suspicious vans near RAF Fairford, a US-linked base. Araghchi dismissed the claim as "barking up the wrong tree," noting the five arrested suspects were released on bail with no explosives found.

Türkiye Today

Araghchi tells Burnham he

Iran

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**🇮🇱 Israel – Friday, 2 October 2026** **FlyDubai suspect moved to UAE** Saudi Arabia handed the Omani co-pilot accused of stabbing the flydubai captain over to UAE custody in Abu Dhabi, where investigators are probing possible accomplices and ideological motive. The wounded Indian captain was also moved to Abu Dhabi and is "recovering well."

The Tribune

Saudi Arabia hands over flydubai co-pilot to UAE as investigators probe midair stabbing incident - The Tribune

Saudi Arabian authorities have handed over the flydubai co-pilot accused of stabbing the flight’s captain during a midair attack to the United Ar...

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**🇵🇸 Gaza – Friday, 2 October 2026** **Gaza toll rises, vehicle strike kills five** Israeli strikes across Gaza on October 1 killed eight Palestinians, up from yesterday's seven; a strike on a civilian vehicle in Tal al-Hawa killed five and wounded 15, more than the four reported in that same strike yesterday. Total deaths since last year's ceasefire now stand at about 1,430.

Middle East Eye

Israel kills eight in Gaza as ceasefire violations continue a year on

Strike on civilian transport vehicle in Gaza City kills five as Palestinians say there is ‘no safe place’ a year into the truce

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**🇷🇺 Russia – Friday, 2 October 2026** **Kyiv power cuts after new strikes** Russia's defense ministry said it struck a Kyiv communications hub, energy facilities and Izmail port infrastructure with drones and precision weapons; Ukrainian officials said the barrage, the heaviest in months, killed seven and forced the first emergency power cuts since spring in Kyiv and three regions. Zelensky said Ukraine approved new long-range strikes for October after Putin rejected a proposed halt to energy-infrastructure attacks.

CNBC

Russia launches massive strikes on Ukraine’s energy grid, forcing power cuts ahead of winter

Seven people were killed in the attack and emergency power cuts were imposed in Kyiv and three other regions.

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**🇩🇪 Germany – Friday, 2 October 2026** **Berlin antisemitism talks stall** Yesterday's opening coalition talks between Die Linke, the Greens and SPD ended after roughly five hours without agreement on antisemitism, racism or organized crime, the prerequisite the Greens had set. All three parties said they want to continue talks.

Vorgespräche werden fortgesetzt: Berliner Linke, Grüne und SPD wollen kommende Woche weiterreden

Linke, Grüne und SPD setzen Vorgespräche fort + CDU-Fraktionschef Evers wirft Linke „Politik im Sinne der Clans“ vor + Ex-Linken-Vorsitzender...

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**🇨🇱 Chile – Friday, 2 October 2026** **Opposition presses Kast on cuts** Reacting to Thursday's budget submission, Socialist deputy Andrea Macías said "the numbers do not add up" and Broad Front president Gael Yeomans demanded clarity on which of 632 programs would be cut, while governing-coalition ally Ximena Ossandón (RN) called the spending rise "more than we expected."

CNN Chile

Diputados oficialistas y de oposición reaccionan al primer Presupuesto del Gobierno de Kast

El anuncio de la Ley de Presupuesto 2027 del Presidente José Antonio Kast en cadena nacional generó diversas reacciones tanto en el oficialismo c...

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**⚙️ Bitcoin Core – Friday, 2 October 2026** **RC3 tagged for Core 32** Bitcoin Core bumped the 32.x branch to v32.0rc3 on October 1, a further testing iteration beyond RC2's wallet-name and memory-exhaustion fixes reported previously, as the project continues toward its October 10 target.

GitHub

[32.x] 32.0rc3 by fanquake · Pull Request #36400 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Bump 32.x to rc3.

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**₿ Bitcoin – Friday, 2 October 2026** **ETF inflows tick back up** BTC trades near $86,600, up 3.1% in 24 hours. After Wednesday's sharp inflow slowdown, US spot Bitcoin ETFs took in $102.7 million on October 1, modestly rebounding; September's total of $2.65 billion was still the second-largest monthly haul since October 2025. https://www.theblock.co/news/markets/2026-10-02-spot-bitcoin-etfs-september-inflows-417547 **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Friday, 2 October 2026** **Bitget names no vendor yet** Bitget's own post-mortem, corroborating SlowMist, confirmed the $387.5 million theft ran through a zero-day in an unnamed third-party security tool (referred to only as "Product A/B"), still withholding the vendor's identity as of October 1.

The Hacker News

Bitget Confirms Third-Party Zero-Day Behind $387.5 Million Cryptocurrency Theft

Bitget says attackers exploited a third-party zero-day to steal $387.5 million and move laterally into its wallet environment.

**NEAR Intents hacked days after freeze** NEAR Intents, which days earlier helped block roughly $50 million of the Bitget hacker's swap attempts, was itself exploited for $3.8 million on October 1 via a flaw in how its Omni deposit/withdrawal system interacts with the swap contract, hitting eleven networks.

CryptoTicker.io

NEAR Intents: exploit of $3.8 million confirmed

NEAR Intents confirms an exploit of $3.8 million and halts deposits and withdrawals on eleven networks. What to check on your own holdings.

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**🕵️ Hacked coins on the move – Friday, 2 October 2026** **Bitget funds hit Wasabi, Tron** Beyond the Zcash shielding reported yesterday, Bitget hacker funds have now also passed through the Wasabi CoinJoin mixer while a separate DAI stream flowed onto Tron, per on-chain trackers. Circle and Tether have frozen only about $318,000 of the $387.5 million stolen, under 0.1%.

Bitget Hack Funds Hit Wasabi CoinJoin as DAI Flows to Tron, Freezes Catch Just $318K

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**🟣 Nostr – Friday, 2 October 2026** **0xchat patches gift-wrap forgery bug** 0xchat shipped 1.5.6 on September 30/October 1 fixing a gift-wrap forgery flaw in its NIP-17 implementation, plus a Cashu P2PK oracle and WebView-signing fix, and stopped logging upload credentials and ecash tokens on release builds, a concrete hardening of the mainstream DM scheme rather than a shift between schemes.

Freedom.Tech

0xchat 1.5.6

0xchat 1.5.6 fixes relay reconnection backoff, security logging, failed message handling, and NIP-55 signer connection issues

**Amethyst, Buzz test interop live** Vitor Pamplona merged PR 4295 fixing cross-client bugs found testing Amethyst against Buzz Desktop: images weren't arriving (needed authenticated Blossom uploads), relay rejections showed as stuck "waiting," and nostr:nprofile mentions rendered as raw links instead of names, a rare direct two-client interop pass rather than a spec fight.

GitHub

fix(buzz): Buzz Desktop interop fixes from a live two-way test by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4295 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Drove Buzz Desktop (v0.5.26, test workspace test-amy-buzz) against Amethyst on the emulator and tested both directions: messages, reactions, edits,...

**Amethyst extends NIP-17 groups** Amethyst also merged a NIP-17 group chat subject-rename system message (PR 4304) on October 1, continuing to build out gift-wrap group features alongside its Marmot and Concord group tracks rather than retiring NIP-17 for groups.

GitHub

Add NIP-17 group chat subject rename system message by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4304 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Summary Adds support for rendering NIP-17 group chat subject (name) changes as system messages. When a participant renames a conversation, the chan...

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**🌍 World news – Thursday, 1 October 2026** **US exits Iraq, mission ends** The US completed its full withdrawal from Iraq on September 30, with the last troops departing Erbil Air Base, ending the 12-year anti-ISIS mission under the 2024 deal. Baghdad marked the moment with a four-day "Sovereignty Days" holiday through October 3, while officials warn of a security vacuum.

@theweek

Operation Inherent Resolve ends: What does the US exit mean for Iraq?

Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi declared October 1 a new day marking the country's complete national sovereignty

**Lee softens tone on DMZ mine** Despite UN Command's armistice-violation finding reported yesterday, South Korean President Lee called the blast an "unfortunate accident" in his October 1 Armed Forces Day speech, avoided directly blaming Pyongyang, and said Seoul will keep pursuing dialogue and trust-building steps. https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/defense/20261001/president-keeps-nk-dialogue-push-amid-dmz-mine-dispute **Typhoon Surigae crosses Izu Islands** Surigae passed near Aogashima in the southern Izu Islands around 3am October 1, weakening and disorganizing as it moved northeast, cancelling ferries and flights around Hachijojima. It is expected to become an extratropical low east of Japan by October 2.

News On Japan

Another Body Found After Landslide in Kanagawa

A woman believed to be in her 20s has been found dead at an apartment building struck by a landslide in Miura City, Kanagawa Prefecture, following ...

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**🇮🇷 Iran – Thursday, 1 October 2026** **Rubio cuts Iranian delegation's trip short** Instead of the formal response Araghchi said he expected, Secretary of State Rubio told Iran's delegation to leave the US a day early. Trump reiterated there are "no talks or conversations going on, or scheduled" with Tehran, deepening the diplomatic freeze around Ghalibaf's infrastructure-strike threat reported yesterday.

PBS News

A timeline of tensions over Iran's nuclear program as talks with U.S. approach

Iran and the United States are due to hold new talks in Geneva on Thursday over Tehran's nuclear program.

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**🇮🇱 Israel – Thursday, 1 October 2026** **FlyDubai hijack bid shakes election** An Omani co-pilot allegedly stabbed the captain and tried to crash a Dubai-Tel Aviv flight carrying 174 passengers before being subdued; it landed safely in Saudi Arabia. Netanyahu said the crew "prevented a 9/11 disaster." Investigators call it a lone-wolf act, with Saudi Arabia leading the interrogation. https://us.cnn.com/2026/10/01/world/live-news/flydubai-flight-israel-pilot-passengers-intl **Lapid, Bennett accuse Netanyahu again** The incident hardened yesterday's spat: Lapid said flydubai was never mentioned in his Netanyahu security briefing and accused him of "hitching a pathetic ride" on the passengers who stopped the attack, while Bennett said "it's exactly like October 7" and demanded Netanyahu take responsibility instead of just warning. https://www.timesofisrael.com/flydubai-attack-becomes-election-flashpoint-as-opponents-draw-oct-7-parallels/ **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🇵🇸 Gaza – Thursday, 1 October 2026** **Gaza strike toll climbs to seven** Separate Israeli strikes on October 1 killed at least seven, up from the three reported yesterday: an apartment strike in Gaza City killed a woman, a vehicle strike in Tel Al-Hawa killed four, and a strike near a Khan Younis mosque killed local journalist Mohammad Al-Najar.

The Nation

Woman among 7 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza

Gaza - The death toll from two Israeli strikes in Gaza today has climbed from four to seven, according to health officials from the Strip. In Gaza

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