**🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Monday, 5 October 2026** **Core Lightning: embargo was deliberate** Beyond the 26.06.8 patch reported yesterday, it emerged developers deliberately withheld the fix's source code for two weeks before disclosure, to give operators time to update before attackers could reverse-engineer the flaws from the diff. Despite that, attackers are now actively targeting nodes still running 26.06.7 or earlier.

crypto.news

Bitcoin Lightning security alert issued as attackers target older Core Lightning nodes

Core Lightning has urged Bitcoin node operators to upgrade immediately after receiving reports of attackers targeting nodes running version 26.06.7...

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**🕵️ Hacked coins on the move – Monday, 5 October 2026** **Chainalysis used AI to trace Bitget funds** Beyond the DPRK attribution reported yesterday, Chainalysis detailed how its in-house AI cut 20-plus hours of manual bridge reconciliation to under 10 minutes, mapping the $387.5 million across 23 transfers in three hours onto four chains: Ethereum (49.7%), XRP (40.8%), Zcash (7.6%) and Tron (1.8%). The firm says investigators still directed the analysis, not the AI.

crypto.news

Chainalysis AI traces $387M Bitget hack in under 10 minutes

Chainalysis used AI to trace funds from Bitget’s $387m hack, cutting cross-chain matching from over 20 hours to under 10 minutes.

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**🟣 Nostr – Monday, 5 October 2026** **Marmot interop breaks above 16 relays** A bug surfaced October 5 in marmot-ts: groups whose routing state lists more than 16 relays can't be joined by White Noise/MDK users, since MDK silently drops oversized Welcome messages — a divergence from spec that the fix closes by enforcing the same 1-16 relay cap marmot-ts had been missing. A reminder that Amethyst's verified Marmot interop with White Noise, reported last month, remains a moving target as edge cases surface.

GitHub

fix: limit nostr routing state to 16 relays (MDK drops larger Welcomes) by jooray · Pull Request #87 · marmot-protocol/marmot-ts

Problem A group whose marmot.transport.nostr.routing.v1 state lists more than 16 relays can't be joined by White Noise (MDK) users, and a routi...

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**🌍 World news – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **Brazil votes for president** More than 150 million Brazilians vote today in the first round of the presidential election, pitting incumbent Lula da Silva against Flávio Bolsonaro, son of the jailed former president, alongside races for 27 governorships and most of Congress. A run-off follows October 25 if no one wins outright.

Al Jazeera

What to know about Brazil’s 2026 presidential election

Polls show tight race between incumbent Lula and right-wing rival Flavio Bolsonaro amid concerns over crime and economy.

**RSF strike kills 35 in Kordofan** Beyond North Kordofan's fall reported yesterday, an RSF drone strike killed 35 people in South Kordofan as the paramilitary's siege tightened; the SPLM-N said it had cut the main road between Dilling and state capital Kadugli, reimposing a blockade on both cities. https://sudantribune.com/article/308860 **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🇮🇷 Iran – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **Tankers hit in Hormuz, rial crashes** Iran's IRGC-linked Fars News reported two more tankers struck in the Strait of Hormuz on October 3; UKMTO confirmed two vessels hit by unidentified projectiles. Iran's rial hit record lows, the euro topping 3 million rials, despite the central bank's $2 billion injection to defend the currency. https://www.iranintl.com/en/liveblog/202610033293 **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🇮🇱 Israel – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **Eisenkot ties flydubai scare to no-inquiry stance** Opposition leader and former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot said on October 3 that Netanyahu's refusal to impanel a state commission of inquiry into October 7 left Israel exposed to disasters like the flydubai attack, writing that "180 Israelis were saved thanks to...heroism" despite government failures he says persist. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/eisenkot-links-netanyahus-rejection-of-state-inquiry-into-oct-7-to-near-disaster-on-flydubai-flight/ **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🇷🇺 Russia – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **Kyiv's Northern Bridge hit again, Ukraine strikes back** Russia struck Kyiv's Northern Bridge on October 3, injuring two and cutting trolleybus power, a day after five strikes disabled the Southern Bridge, mayor Klitschko said. Ukrainian strikes on Russian-occupied Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia, and on Russia's Belgorod region, killed several, local officials said. Moscow says the bridges carry Ukrainian troops and supplies. https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20261003-russia-strikes-another-major-bridge-in-kyiv **Zelensky alleges Russian "doctrine" to empty Kyiv** Zelensky says captured Russian intelligence documents describe a strategy of striking roads, schools and hospitals to pressure civilians to leave Kyiv and other cities; Russia has not addressed the claim. NATO's Rutte separately dismissed Putin's Kaliningrad nuclear threat as not "real" while vowing to defend allied territory.

Al Jazeera

Russia’s ‘new doctrine’ targets civilian sites in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says

Ukrainian president says new intelligence shows Moscow aims to 'pressure people to leave' Kyiv and other cities.

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**🇩🇪 Germany – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **Berlin coalition talks move to next week** Linke, Grüne and SPD met again Saturday at the Haus der Statistik as expected, but again reached no common line on antisemitism, racism or organized crime, calling the exchange only "constructive." The three parties have now agreed to continue preliminary talks next week rather than conclude this weekend.

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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**₿ Bitcoin – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **SEC approves first 3x leveraged BTC/ETH ETPs** BTC holds near $84,800, little changed after Friday's failed push above $87,000, with support at $82,000 and resistance at $88,000. The SEC on October 2 approved the first 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ether exchange-traded products, alongside matching triple-leveraged funds for gold, silver, oil and natural gas.

CryptoTicker.io

SEC clears 3x leveraged Bitcoin and Ether ETPs

The SEC approved six 3x leveraged ETPs on bitcoin, ether and commodities. What the daily reset costs and why the products stay out of German accounts.

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**🔓 Bitcoin hacks – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **Core Lightning patches actively exploited bugs** Core Lightning shipped version 26.06.8 on October 3, fixing three vulnerabilities present in 26.06.7 and earlier: a sender-node crash, a memory-exhaustion flaw in its REST interface, and a channel-closing bug that could trigger a penalty mechanism costing users funds. Developers warned attackers are actively targeting unpatched nodes. https://crowdfundinsider.com/2026/10/315000-open-source-bitcoin-lightning-implementation-core-lightning-warns-that-attackers-are-targeting-unpatched-nodes **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🕵️ Hacked coins on the move – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **DPRK crypto theft tops $1 billion for 2026** Chainalysis now attributes the Bitget hack to North Korea's Lazarus-linked apparatus, citing on-chain links between stolen XRP and ether from an earlier DPRK theft. Combined with Bitget's $387.5 million, confirmed North Korean crypto theft in 2026 has passed $1 billion, the largest annual total on record.

How Did Lazarus Steal $80K From Bitget CEO Gracy Chen in a Fake Zoom Interview?

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**🟣 Nostr – Sunday, 4 October 2026** **0xchat ships reliability fixes, no scheme change** 0xchat 1.5.6, released October 1, stopped release builds from writing logs to the device console (closing a credential-leak risk), added failure errors for undelivered messages, exponential-backoff relay reconnection and NIP-55 signer-session fixes — polish rather than any move on its MLS "Circles" or NIP-17 DMs.

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

**Concord gains a third interoperating client** Amethyst merged fixes making its Concord communities interoperate with Soapbox's Armada and a newer client, Accordion, after bugs where "Accordion showed none of our events" and "Armada couldn't join communities we created." Concord, which Vector dropped Marmot for in July, now has at least three converging implementations.

GitHub

fix(concord): cross-client interop with Armada and Accordion by vitorpamplona · Pull Request #4265 · vitorpamplona/amethyst

Cross-client Concord interop fixes, found by running Amethyst (Android + amy) against the live Armada (armada.buzz) and Accordion (accordion.chat) ...

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**🌍 World news – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Ethiopia and Eritrea sever ties** Eritrea cut diplomatic relations with Ethiopia on October 1, retaliating after Addis Ababa closed Eritrea's embassy and expelled ten Eritrean diplomats, reversing the 2018 rapprochement that won PM Abiy Ahmed the Nobel Peace Prize. The rupture followed explosions near Ethiopia's military headquarters in Addis Ababa.

Al Jazeera

Eritrea severs diplomatic ties with Ethiopia in tit-for-tat move

Ethiopia says it will shut its embassy in Asmara, declares 10 Eritrean diplomats persona non grata.

**Sudan's army seizes RSF stronghold** Beyond Sodri reported yesterday, Sudan's army said on October 2 it captured al-Mazroub, the RSF's largest stronghold in North Kordofan, aiming to cut the paramilitary's supply lines, as a separate RSF drone strike near a courthouse in Umm Rawaba killed 13 civilians.

Al Jazeera

Sudan’s army says it captured RSF stronghold in North Kordofan

Sudanese Armed Forces reportedly retake al-Mazroub, advancing the army's goal of cutting the RSF’s supply lines.

**Flood toll climbs in Myanmar** The Myanmar death toll has risen sharply since yesterday, from eight to at least 41 in Tanintharyi region, with dozens still missing and more than 120 villages hit by landslides; Thailand's toll stands at 23 with over 2.6 million people affected.

ucanews.com

Floods kill 41 in Myanmar’s Tanintharyi Region- UCA News

Rescue efforts are hampered by landslides, conflict and damaged communications

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**🇮🇷 Iran – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Trump ties flydubai plot to Iran** Beyond the "barking up the wrong tree" exchange over RAF Fairford, Trump said Iran would be struck "very hard" if investigators confirm the flydubai co-pilot who tried to crash a Dubai–Tel Aviv flight had Iranian links, linking the two standoffs for the first time. https://www.fdd.org/overnight-brief/october-2-2026/ **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🇮🇱 Israel – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Flydubai co-pilot named, vetting lapse exposed** Sources named the co-pilot as Hamam al-Hamami; Omani surveillance had flagged him visiting radical websites, but flydubai hired him without clearing it with Oman first, Al Jazeera reports, as Abu Dhabi investigators probe possible accomplices.

Al Jazeera

How was the Flydubai co-pilot who attacked his captain cleared to fly?

The Flydubai scare has raised several questions for Israel and the civil aviation industry.

**Arab Israeli indicted for spying** Israel indicted a 25-year-old Arab Israeli today on suspicion of spying for Iran, one more case in a string of Iran-linked espionage arrests during the war, as campaigning intensifies ahead of the October 27 Knesset election. https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog-october-02-2026/ **Previously:** View quoted note →

**🇵🇸 Gaza – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Ex-negotiator: war could've ended sooner** A former Israeli hostage negotiator said publicly on October 2 that Israel could have ended the Gaza war and freed captives months sooner, a rare domestic admission even as strikes and ceasefire violations continue to kill Palestinians daily, per the territory's health ministry.

Al Jazeera

Israel could’ve ended Gaza war, freed captives sooner: Israel ex-negotiator

Retired General Nitzan Alon says more captives could have returned alive and a deal was possible 'maybe a year earlier'.

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**🇷🇺 Russia – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Kyiv bridges struck four days running** Ukrainian officials say Russian drones hit Kyiv's Northern Bridge on October 3, a day after striking the Southern Bridge — the third and fourth such strikes on Dnipro River crossings since Wednesday. Mayor Klitschko reported deck and power-line damage and halted traffic; Russia's defense ministry has not commented specifically on the bridge strikes.

The Kyiv Independent

Russia strikes second Kyiv bridge during 3rd straight day of infrastructure attacks

Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that the bridge's surface as well as trolleybus overhead power lines have been damaged in the attack. Movement over the...

**Putin threatens "all weapons" over Kaliningrad** Putin told Moscow's Valdai forum on October 1 that Russia would use its full arsenal, including nuclear weapons, if NATO attacked Kaliningrad, after Russian embassies said Moscow had intelligence of a planned NATO blockade of the exclave, a claim NATO did not confirm. NATO called the remarks "irresponsible nuclear rhetoric" and said it would defend allied territory.

ABC News

Putin warns of using 'all weapons' in its arsenal if any Russia territory is attacked

Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated that Russia will respond to aggression with all available weapons in its arsenal if it comes under ...

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**🇩🇪 Germany – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Berlin talks may resume today** After Thursday's roughly five-hour preliminary talks ended without agreement on antisemitism, racism or organized crime, Linke, Grüne and SPD agreed to keep further discussions confidential. Reporting indicates the next round could happen today, October 3, though none of the three party leaders has confirmed a time.

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 – Saturday, 3 October 2026** **Budget 2027 timeline now set** Congress set formal dates for Kast's first budget: the government presents the Presupuesto 2027 to the Chamber of Deputies on October 5, with the Special Joint Budget Commission hearing the Q3 public-finance report on October 6, following Thursday's clashing reactions to its 1.5% growth figure.

CNN Chile

Este miércoles vence el plazo del Presupuesto 2027: ¿Qué está definiendo el Gobierno y por qué es clave para el país?

La Constitución fija el 30 de septiembre como plazo máximo para que el Ejecutivo envíe el proyecto de Ley de Presupuestos al Congreso.

**Bachelet urges opposition unity** After her bid for UN Secretary-General collapsed, Michelle Bachelet told six opposition party leaders and President Boric in La Pintana on October 1 to "work united" against insecurity and unemployment, while ruling out withdrawing from public life.

El Mostrador

Kast anuncia Presupuesto 2027 con alza de 1,5 % y Bachelet llama a la unidad opositora | El Mostrador

Kast anunció un alza de 1,5 % del gasto sin precisar la meta fiscal. Bachelet llamó a la unidad opositora y descartó retirarse. El Congreso ...

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**₿ 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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