Bitcoin BTC$84,048.79 is back above $84,000, shrugging off big ETF outflows last week as oil prices slip. As of this writing, the leading cryptocurrency by market value traded near $84,050, according to CoinDesk, after slipping to around $83,500 earlier Monday. That is close to Sunday’s high of around $84,145. Other major currencies such as ether
Willy Woo’s post referenced estimates attributed to Opus 5.5, which assigned a 0.5% probability to quantum computing breaking Bitcoin’s signatures within two years and a 0.8% probability to classical mathematics or AI achieving the same outcome. While those figures appear relatively modest, the potential consequences of such a breakthrough make the question particularly interesting, especially
Lightning Development Kit (LDK), a library for building Bitcoin Lightning wallets and payment applications, has patched a flaw that could let a malicious channel peer steal the value of a forwarded payment by lying after reconnecting. Affected application developers need to incorporate the fix into the software they deploy. The October 1-dated v0.2.7 and v0.1.13
Bitcoin’s price is knocking on the door of $84,000, but the technical picture suggests the bulls haven’t quite found the key. Trading at $83,771.70, the leading cryptocurrency has advanced 0.9% over the past 24 hours, with its $1.683 trillion market capitalization reflecting a market that has recovered some ground without establishing a convincing breakout. The
Bitcoin’s transaction landscape is shifting as whales have accumulated approximately 84,000 $BTC over the past month, according to a recent tweet from Bitfinex. This surge in accumulation suggests a potential recovery in demand, as the apparent demand metric has changed from -205,000 $BTC to -22,000 $BTC. A return to positive demand could further indicate broader
Liquid Network Peg-Outs Remain Frozen as 598.5 $BTC Stays in Attacker’s Wallet Liquid users are still unable to redeem LBTC for bitcoin, with the protocol’s peg-out operations still suspended. The ordeal began more than a month ago when self-described white hat hackers exploited the layer two (L2) network and made off with nearly 4,000 $BTC.
Following Bitcoin’s recent surge above $85,000, the indicator known as the “Seller Exhaustion Indicator” has resurfaced. According to analyst Darkfost, this indicator, which assesses both the supply of profitable assets and market volatility, has reached a point where potential selling pressure is rapidly increasing. The change in the indicator is particularly noticeable among short-term Bitcoin
The Bitcoin [BTC] bullish structure AMBCrypto reported on recently was still in play, but the market sentiment could be shifting. In a post on X, crypto intelligence platform Alphractal observed that the market sentiment was no longer bullish. Source: Alphractal on X The Sentiment Gauge score has fallen below 50 after the market-wide correction earlier
Bitcoin’s price has settled within a narrow $82,900–$83,000 range, coming close to a psychologically important support level. After a strong autumn rally, the cryptocurrency has entered a phase that technical analysts call a “hard retest” — a situation in which the price returns to a previous breakout level to confirm the strength of buyers. The
Strategy chair Michael Saylor teased investors watching Sunday for a signal of the company’s recent Bitcoin purchases with the message “There’s always room for more orange,” in a post on X. However, any official notification via a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission won’t likely come before Tuesday, as federal offices will be