https://unspentthoughts.comThe AI and Bitcoin news that earned its placeSat, 07 Nov 2026 12:33:03 GMThttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-05-openai-says-its-ai-found-948-linux-kernel-flaws-and-wrote-an-7e36999ahttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-05-openai-says-its-ai-found-948-linux-kernel-flaws-and-wrote-an-7e36999a2026-11-05 00:00:00 GMTOpenAI says its AI found 948 security flaws in the Linux kernel and wrote a working attack for each one, at a cost of $1,279 per flaw, according to CoinDesk.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-05-riots-28-billion-anthropic-deal-comes-with-a-12-interest-kic-f4cb5cbehttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-05-riots-28-billion-anthropic-deal-comes-with-a-12-interest-kic-f4cb5cbe2026-11-05 00:00:00 GMTRiot Platforms has signed a $28 billion, 15-year agreement to host Anthropic's AI compute in Texas, and the number worth staring at is not the headline figure. It is the interest rate. Riot could end up paying Anthropic, its own tenant, 12% a year on billions in construction costhttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-04-openais-kernel-pipeline-turned-2308-candidates-into-948-root-a4f4c423https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-04-openais-kernel-pipeline-turned-2308-candidates-into-948-root-a4f4c4232026-11-04 00:00:00 GMTOpenAI says a prototype pipeline built on an upcoming cyber model scanned the Linux kernel and produced 948 local privilege escalation (LPE) exploits, the kind that turn an unprivileged local user into root.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-04-schroders-puts-an-emerging-markets-bond-fund-on-solana-6b98a34bhttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-04-schroders-puts-an-emerging-markets-bond-fund-on-solana-6b98a34b2026-11-04 00:00:00 GMTSchroders, the London-based asset manager overseeing $1.1 trillion, is bringing an emerging markets bond fund to Solana, its first deployment on the network, CoinDesk reported Wednesday.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-03-cftc-clears-perpetual-futures-on-stocks-and-wall-street-sues-b4427db7https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-03-cftc-clears-perpetual-futures-on-stocks-and-wall-street-sues-b4427db72026-11-03 00:00:00 GMTThe Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) cleared perpetual futures tied to individual stocks to trade on regulated U.S. exchanges on Tuesday, marking the first time this crypto-origin derivative has been approved for traditional equities.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-03-arbitrums-council-rewrote-a-contract-to-move-30-million-from-f85746dehttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-03-arbitrums-council-rewrote-a-contract-to-move-30-million-from-f85746de2026-11-03 00:00:00 GMTArbitrum's Security Council moved about $30 million out of an address tied to the Binance exploit last Friday, and it did it without the hacker's signature, CoinDesk reports. No private key, no approval from the wallet's owner. Nine people agreed, and the money moved.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-03-sec-staff-views-canton-coin-as-a-digital-commodity-in-no-act-6ba5163dhttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-03-sec-staff-views-canton-coin-as-a-digital-commodity-in-no-act-6ba5163d2026-11-03 00:00:00 GMTThe SEC's Division of Corporation Finance said Tuesday it views Canton Coin (CC) as a digital commodity and will not recommend enforcement action over the token's programmatic issuance, according to a no-action letter reported by The Block.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-03-liquids-lbtc-is-fully-backed-again-but-who-paid-for-it-is-st-a7816c98https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-03-liquids-lbtc-is-fully-backed-again-but-who-paid-for-it-is-st-a7816c982026-11-03 00:00:00 GMTEvery LBTC on the Liquid Network is backed by a real bitcoin again, nearly two months after a software bug let an attacker drain almost the entire reserve, CoinDesk reports.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-anthropics-17-billion-quarter-ended-in-a-567-million-operati-746378c8https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-anthropics-17-billion-quarter-ended-in-a-567-million-operati-746378c82026-11-02 00:00:00 GMTAnthropic swung to a $567 million operating loss in the third quarter, reversing a $974 million profit from Q2, according to an amended IPO filing reported by CoinDesk. The timing is awkward. The company is weeks away from its planned November IPO.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-mercado-bitcoin-halts-withdrawals-after-40-million-drained-a-850f576ehttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-mercado-bitcoin-halts-withdrawals-after-40-million-drained-a-850f576e2026-11-02 00:00:00 GMTBrazil's Mercado Bitcoin froze deposits and withdrawals on Monday after wallets tied to the exchange were drained across at least 10 blockchains, with security firms estimating the loss at $40 million or more, CoinDesk reports.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-btcpay-server-tells-users-to-shut-down-after-reports-of-drai-a5259763https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-btcpay-server-tells-users-to-shut-down-after-reports-of-drai-a52597632026-11-02 00:00:00 GMTBTCPay Server, the free open‑source tool that enables businesses to accept Bitcoin without a custodial intermediary, issued an urgent advisory on Sunday urging operators to shut down their servers.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-morgan-stanley-downgrades-coinbase-cuts-price-target-53-49b79a7bhttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-morgan-stanley-downgrades-coinbase-cuts-price-target-53-49b79a7b2026-11-02 00:00:00 GMTMorgan Stanley downgraded Coinbase to underweight from equalweight on Monday and cut its price target to $120 from $258, a 53% reduction, CoinDesk reports. Analyst Michael Cyprys said the exchange's earnings recovery looks weaker than expected.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-researcher-says-an-ai-agent-planned-and-carried-out-brain-su-f92fef77https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-02-researcher-says-an-ai-agent-planned-and-carried-out-brain-su-f92fef772026-11-02 00:00:00 GMTAn AI agent planned and carried out brain surgery on a mouse last night, according to a thread posted on X by Gabriel Ocana-Santero. There is no paper yet and no outside confirmation. It is still one of the strangest lab stories I have read this year.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-01-fbi-names-north-koreas-tradertraitor-group-in-6-billion-bina-b78be0f1https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-11-01-fbi-names-north-koreas-tradertraitor-group-in-6-billion-bina-b78be0f12026-11-01 00:00:00 GMTThe FBI has formally blamed North Korea for the largest crypto theft on record, confirming Saturday that the TraderTraitor hacking group carried out Thursday's raid on Binance, which lost more than $6 billion.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-31-chainalysis-says-ai-assisted-hacker-accessed-customer-names-92484b73https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-31-chainalysis-says-ai-assisted-hacker-accessed-customer-names-92484b732026-10-31 00:00:00 GMTChainalysis, the blockchain analytics firm that tracks crypto hackers for a living, says a hacker using AI broke into its own systems this month.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-31-binance-says-it-has-replaced-90-of-the-crypto-stolen-in-its-9a4add69https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-31-binance-says-it-has-replaced-90-of-the-crypto-stolen-in-its-9a4add692026-10-31 00:00:00 GMTBinance says it has replenished 90% of the cryptocurrency stolen in Thursday's $6.3 billion hack and expects to reopen withdrawals on Sunday, Nov. 1, according to CoinDesk.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-binance-loses-over-6-billion-in-the-largest-crypto-hack-on-r-74ca9507https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-binance-loses-over-6-billion-in-the-largest-crypto-hack-on-r-74ca95072026-10-30 00:00:00 GMTBinance, the world's largest crypto exchange by volume, was exploited on Thursday for more than $6 billion, making it the biggest crypto theft on record. The company estimates the damage at around $6.3 billion in stolen assets. Chainalysis later updated its estimate to roughly $5https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-north-koreas-tradertraitor-likely-behind-the-63-billion-bina-3366d82chttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-north-koreas-tradertraitor-likely-behind-the-63-billion-bina-3366d82c2026-10-30 00:00:00 GMTBinance lost roughly $6.3 billion to hackers on Thursday, and the firms that trace stolen crypto for a living say North Korea is probably responsible.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-binance-says-the-63-billion-breach-goes-beyond-one-laptop-6e10d385https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-binance-says-the-63-billion-breach-goes-beyond-one-laptop-6e10d3852026-10-30 00:00:00 GMTBinance's investigation into the record $6.3 billion hack has uncovered security breaches beyond the compromised employee laptop it first suspected, co-CEO Richard Teng said Friday, according to CoinDesk.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-binance-says-it-will-cover-the-63-billion-hack-with-its-own-16bb4140https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-binance-says-it-will-cover-the-63-billion-hack-with-its-own-16bb41402026-10-30 00:00:00 GMTBinance lost an estimated $6.3 billion to attackers on Thursday, the largest crypto theft in history, and the exchange says it will cover the whole thing with company money.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-how-an-ethereum-upgrade-helped-an-attacker-drain-25-billion-e3e972f4https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-30-how-an-ethereum-upgrade-helped-an-attacker-drain-25-billion-e3e972f42026-10-30 00:00:00 GMTBinance says an attacker stole roughly $6.3 billion from its wallets across several blockchains on Thursday. The largest single chunk - about $2.5 billion in ether and tokens - left one Ethereum wallet in under four minutes. According to CoinDesk's reconstruction of the on‑chain https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-29-quantum-model-cuts-the-hardware-needed-to-break-bitcoin-keys-046f5ffchttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-29-quantum-model-cuts-the-hardware-needed-to-break-bitcoin-keys-046f5ffc2026-10-29 00:00:00 GMTA machine with about 30,000 physical qubits could break the cryptography protecting bitcoin wallets in just over an hour. That is the new estimate from researchers at quantum computing firm Alice & Bob, reported by CoinDesk.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-29-nyse-owner-partners-with-hyperliquid-builder-on-us-perpetual-bf2f4668https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-29-nyse-owner-partners-with-hyperliquid-builder-on-us-perpetual-bf2f46682026-10-29 00:00:00 GMTIntercontinental Exchange, the company that owns the New York Stock Exchange, plans to bring perpetual futures to U.S. traders through a partnership with Trade[XYZ], the largest builder of markets on the decentralized exchange Hyperliquid. The venue, branded ICE[XYZ], needs CFTC https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-29-ai-found-a-way-to-crash-bitcoin-nodes-and-core-published-it-f2713dfdhttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-29-ai-found-a-way-to-crash-bitcoin-nodes-and-core-published-it-f2713dfd2026-10-29 00:00:00 GMTBitcoin Core has disclosed three vulnerabilities found by an AI scan, and one of them lets a stranger crash your node. Any computer connected to a node running Windows, macOS, or BSD could flood it with data until it ran out of memory and died, according to CoinDesk.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-28-gemini-4-carbon-arrives-with-top-cyber-benchmarks-and-a-defe-185e559chttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-28-gemini-4-carbon-arrives-with-top-cyber-benchmarks-and-a-defe-185e559c2026-10-28 00:00:00 GMTGoogle announced Gemini 4 Carbon on October 28, and the pitch is not a friendlier chatbot but a better security researcher. Google calls it "our strongest model," with the gains concentrated in cybersecurity and long-horizon agentic work.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-28-dtcc-launches-tokenized-securities-service-with-20-wall-stre-36d0ead1https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-28-dtcc-launches-tokenized-securities-service-with-20-wall-stre-36d0ead12026-10-28 00:00:00 GMTThe Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation went live with its tokenization service on Wednesday, and 20 Wall Street firms, including JPMorgan, Citi, Morgan Stanley, Bank of America and UBS, have signed agreements to use it, CoinDesk reports.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-28-google-previews-mpc-security-system-for-institutional-crypto-1786ba9ehttps://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-28-google-previews-mpc-security-system-for-institutional-crypto-1786ba9e2026-10-28 00:00:00 GMTGoogle is unveiling a security system for institutional crypto custody at its inaugural digital assets symposium in New York City on Wednesday, CoinDesk reports. The product, called Google Multi-Party Compute (MPC), is in private preview. Several major financial institutions are https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-27-ripple-gets-final-occ-approval-for-its-national-trust-bank-58b1d414https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-27-ripple-gets-final-occ-approval-for-its-national-trust-bank-58b1d4142026-10-27 00:00:00 GMTRipple now has a federally supervised bank. The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency gave final approval to Ripple National Trust Bank (RNTB), CEO Brad Garlinghouse announced on X late Monday, according to CoinDesk and Cointelegraph.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-27-keystone-is-destroying-18835-unsold-wallets-after-a-breach-l-b1b914e5https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-27-keystone-is-destroying-18835-unsold-wallets-after-a-breach-l-b1b914e52026-10-27 00:00:00 GMTKeystone is destroying 18,835 unsold hardware wallets and suspending shipments after a breach of its website exposed customer data and, worse, a key that lets counterfeit devices pass the company's authenticity checks.https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-27-janus-henderson-launches-a-tokenized-nasdaq-100-fund-on-stel-a9f5d030https://unspentthoughts.com/posts/2026-10-27-janus-henderson-launches-a-tokenized-nasdaq-100-fund-on-stel-a9f5d0302026-10-27 00:00:00 GMTJanus Henderson, the London‑based asset manager overseeing roughly $500 billion, launched a tokenized fund tracking the Nasdaq‑100 on the Stellar blockchain Tuesday, built with tokenization platform Centrifuge under a licensing deal with Nasdaq.