
Electrum 4.8.3 Fixes Exploited Bitcoin Fee-Bumping Bug
Electrum 4.8.3 has shipped a fix for an exploited bug tied to Bitcoin fee bumping, a transaction workflow that lets users raise a pending transaction's fee to improve its confirmation prospec
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Electrum 4.8.3 has shipped a fix for an exploited bug tied to Bitcoin fee bumping, a transaction workflow that lets users raise a pending transaction's fee to improve its confirmation prospec
Keystone confirmed exposure of customer contact and order information. The company says private keys and recovery phrases were unaffected. Order-specific phishing messages are the main immedi
Initia stopped producing blocks at 15:41:30 UTC on October 23, roughly forty-two minutes after an attacker minted 2,000,000 AUSD out of nothing and fourteen minutes after pseudonymous researc

The crypto crash kept grinding through the week ending October 25, 2026. Four of the five largest non-stablecoin cryptos closed the week in the red, and the two biggest names, $Bitcoin and $E

Evernorth Holdings Inc. has filed a preliminary prospectus with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The San Francisco-based company is seeking to register 5,218,935 shares of Class A comm

DOGE trades near $0.077, below its 50-day and 200-day moving averages, with immediate support between $0.075 and $0.077. Giannis Andreou sees a potential path toward $0.70 if DOGE defends 0.0

Attackers reportedly exploited a fee-increase feature to drain funds from Electrum users before a fix was issued. Electrum Wallet developers have shipped a patch addressing a security flaw th
Technical Difficulties Hit the App on October 24 This Mirex Network News report covers two official X posts published on October 24, 2026. The first acknowledged technical difficulties affect

An account on Polymarket has taken a $360,000 position on the Federal Reserve holding interest rates unchanged in October, a trade size large enough to register as a notable signal in the pre
Malicious Electrum servers replaced users’ just-broadcast bitcoin payments with fake zero-fee transactions paying lookalike addresses. Servers apparently bet victims would raise the fee and s