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Decrypt is a cryptocurrency and blockchain news outlet covering digital asset markets, Bitcoin, and industry developments.
Ethereum fell 5.5% and XRP 5.1% in 24 hours against Bitcoin's 3.1% after September CPI rose 3.7%, Decrypt reported. Two analysts it quotes split on the cause: one points to the dollar and rate-hike odds, the other to profit-taking after a strong run.
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Solana plans to activate Alpenglow on mainnet around 15:00 UTC on October 21, cutting finality from about 12.8 seconds to a target near 150 milliseconds. Decrypt's Morning Minute says exchanges and payment processors have built around the old window of roughly 13 seconds.
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Zcash fell 11% in 24 hours to an $18.5 billion market cap, per Decrypt data, after a 460% run from its March lows. Liquidated longs came to $17.9 million, under 1% of the roughly $2.3 billion lost, so leverage alone cannot account for the fall.
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Bitcoin traded to just above $80,000 as South Korea's Kospi plunged 8% and triggered circuit breakers, CoinDesk reported. Altcoins took the heavier losses, with the CoinDesk 80 down 2.2% against 0.7% for the CoinDesk 5.
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Floyd Mayweather's accounts pushed a Solana meme coin that peaked near $1 million and fell 96% in three hours, Decrypt reported. Promoter Sahil Arora calls it the start of a second wave of celebrity launches.
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Coinbase, which says it custodies roughly 5% of all bitcoin, argues a new signature algorithm will not make the network quantum-resistant. Its list adds dormant coins, block space, MPC custody and full-node validation, and it wants work to start now.
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Bitcoin traded near $83,000 on Monday, Decrypt and Bitcoin.com both reported. Decrypt put the odds of an October 28 Fed hike at 19.4% on CME FedWatch, yet spot ETFs took in only $21.13 million on Friday after two days of heavy outflows.
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Spot BTC ETFs lost about $680 million last week and $65 million on Monday, Decrypt's Morning Minute reported. Price has done better than flows: BTC at $83,400 is about 4% under last week's high after touching $81,000 on Monday.
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France's Assembly finance committee adopted a rule making holders of €100,000 or more in self-custody crypto report it or face fines up to €10,000. The same committee then voted 31 to 3 against the budget's revenue section, and the government's original text contains none of its crypto amendments.
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REA, an open-source toolkit linking AI coding agents to Ghidra, went from under 10,000 GitHub stars on Oct. 6 to over 100,000 by Oct. 12. Stars are bookmarks. The evidence for cheaper cloning in Decrypt's account is anecdotal.
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Crypto's Fear and Greed Index fell to 56 on Monday from an August peak of 82, a 26-point drop. Decrypt puts Bitcoin's slide at about 6%, to $81,749.83, as oil topped $101; Crypto Briefing records a deeper low near $80,337.
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George Washington University physicists published a formula predicting when chatbots turn bad, after it called 15 of 16 preprint test cases. That evidence comes from six small open models and 300-token chats, a narrow base for the offline safety monitor the authors propose.
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US spot bitcoin ETFs shed $484.9 million on Wednesday, their worst day since June 25, as bitcoin fell to the roughly $83,000 average ETF cost basis. Inflows have historically been slow at breakeven, Bitfinex says, so October's strong seasonal record is a weak guide to positioning.
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Decrypt's self-custodial Solana accounts let readers fund prediction markets, swaps, perps and yield from one balance inside its news app. Sister brand Myriad, which Crypto Briefing reports has handled over $600 million in prediction volume, now gets the newsroom's readers as customers.
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Zcash rose 3% and Monero 2.14% over 24 hours to lead the largest coins, while Bitcoin gained 0.59%. The $30.25 million that left Grayscale's Zcash ETF on Sept. 30 equals about 0.13% of Zcash's $23.18 billion market value.
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Grayscale's Zcash ETF recorded a $30.25 million net outflow on Sept. 30, leaving cumulative net inflows near $268 million. With ZEC 21% below its late-September peak, the next flow prints will show whether the fund's buyers stay with the coin after its run.
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Myriad traders give Bitcoin 48% odds of touching $90,000 in October, a 7.4% climb that is half the month's median gain since 2013. Rates explain that discount better than fund flows do, since September's spot-ETF buyers have so far barely sold.
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Bitcoin gained about 6% in September as the dollar index rose nearly 2% and the 10-year Treasury yield passed 5%. Most of that gain came from a burst of ETF buying, so allocators who treat bitcoin as a bet against the dollar are really underwriting that flow.
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UC San Diego and Inria researchers forged a 1024-bit RSA signature through an HSM in 1,380 core-years, against at least 500,000 to factor the key. The attack only works with raw, unpadded signing access, so how exposed a custodian is depends on how its HSM is configured.
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Bitcoin traded near $83,000, down about 1.8% in 24 hours, after Trump rejected Iran's seven-day ceasefire plan and Brent crude climbed back above $100 a barrel. Futures now price a 64% chance of an October 28 Fed hike, a rough setup for a non-yielding asset.
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