The “Steal My Bitcoin” site, which has not been patched for the PHP2Shell vulnerabilities, protected a Bitcoin wallet key worth around $2,000 and remained accessible for 25 hours as several government agencies took critical websites offline. Solana launched Alpenglow on its mainnet, cutting transaction finality from about 12.8 seconds to 150 milliseconds, with a first phase expected to reduce the headline transaction count by roughly 60%. Starknet’s community backed research into becoming an independent, post-quantum layer-1 blockchain with 93.52% of voting power, although the transition still requires a separate binding vote. Senator Richard Blumenthal requested information from Tether about a $6.3 million deal, while New York’s attorney general is seeking $1.37 billion from NovaTech’s founders. Total crypto market capitalization stood at $2.68 trillion, with Bitcoin at $80,549 and Ethereum at $2,343, while Bitcoin Core eased its security disclosure policy because large language models make vulnerabilities easier to rediscover.
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