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Live updates: Binance records $6 billion outflows after starting withdrawals, less then 4% of total holdings
2026-11-02
The outflows followed a 45-hour withdrawal freeze after a $6.3 billion theft, with rival exchanges attracting deposits as customers regained access to their fun…
China’s Communist Party calls for a crackdown on corruption that uses crypto and blockchain
2026-11-02
China's Communist Party has named virtual currency and blockchain in a new anti-corruption call.
Why stealing billions from a crypto exchange can be harder to stop than a bank theft
2026-11-02
The $6.3 billion Binance breach has revived a debate over whether crypto exchanges are less secure than banks or simply harder to protect once hackers get insid…
Bitcoin ETFs lost $643 million in outflows Friday, and 2026 is barely green now
2026-11-02
The first trading day after the Binance hack saw the biggest ETF outflow since June 25.
Strangers are begging the Binance hacker for bitcoin, one ‘help me bro’ at a time
2026-11-02
The 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have taken in nothing since Thursday except payments worth under a dollar, each carrying a message, from pleas to laund…
Bitcoin claws back toward $79,000 as markets shake off crypto's biggest hack
2026-11-02
ZEC led the majors and oil slid on a report that Trump wants to give Iran diplomacy more time, with U. S. midterm elections on Tuesday.
BTCPay, a bitcoin payment tool, tells users to switch off their servers after reports of drained wallets
2026-11-02
The open-source project says it is still investigating and hasn't given a loss figure or announced a fix. Its founder said the reports appear to involve version…
The crypto reader's guide to the 2026 midterm election: State of Crypto
2026-11-02
America is going to the polls, and the results will shape crypto legislation and regulation over the next two years. Here's what to know.
AI agents bypassed crypto spending limits without human approval, researchers find in a new test
2026-11-02
The researchers say any approval an agent can reach is unreliable, and they built Countersign, an app tying approval to a physical action the agent can’t fake.