The Bitcoin Street Journal Market Update

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin is ripping back to eighty thousand six hundred dollars, up nearly four percent in the last twenty four hours, after bouncing from a low near seventy five thousand seven hundred. Today's biggest story: Riot Platforms just sold seventy nine percent of its Bitcoin stash, shifting one point five billion dollars into AI infrastructure instead. That's a major bitcoin miner betting big on AI over BTC. Fear and Greed is sitting at thirty four, still deep in fear territory. But Ethereum's roaring too, up six percent to twenty four hundred dollars. Markets are clearly shaking off the midterm jitters. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin just rocketed to eighty thousand four hundred dollars, up over four percent in the last twenty-four hours. The biggest story: Bitcoin surged after a Democratic sweep of Congress eased election jitters and sent traders piling back into risk assets. The coin reclaimed seventy-nine thousand dollars within hours of hitting its election-night low, then kept climbing. Strategy wasn't shy either, adding sixty-six million dollars more Bitcoin to its stack. Fear and Greed sits at thirty-four, still in Fear territory, but easing fast as buyers return. Ethereum is riding the wave too, up near seven percent to twenty-four hundred dollars. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Anna's Wednesday Morning Edition, the morning after the midterms: Democrats flipped both the House and the Senate, and the clock is now ticking on the CLARITY Act. If it doesn't pass by January, the new Congress starts from scratch. Bitcoin dropped to a seven-week low on the early returns, then bounced back toward $78K. Plus, Jack Dorsey's Block faces a $764M DOJ settlement, and ZachXBT names a French bank in a $133M+ crypto theft. THE MARKET TODAY Bitcoin: $78,225, up about 2% in 24 hours after an overnight low near $75,600. Down about 3% on the week and 9% on the month. Market cap: $1.57T. Dominance: 59.4%. Total crypto market: $2.64T. Ether: $2,301, up about 2%. Zcash up about 12%. 38% below the all-time high. Fear & Greed: 34, Fear (up from 26). THIS MORNING'S SEGMENTS - The Blue Wave Hits Crypto: citing the AP, Cointelegraph reports Democrats won the Senate, flipping seats in Texas, Ohio, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kansas and Iowa, for 51 seats. They also took the House, with Hakeem Jeffries in line for Speaker and committees getting oversight of Trump-linked crypto ventures. Troy Jackson beat Susan Collins in Maine. Sherrod Brown beat Jon Husted in Ohio, a blow to Fairshake (The Block). The CLARITY Act must pass by January or start over. 1inch's Maylea Ma expects the SEC, CFTC and Treasury to drive the rules. - Dip, Then Rip: Bitcoin briefly sank to $75,700 on early returns (CoinDesk), and long liquidations neared $300M (Cointelegraph). Then a V-shaped comeback toward $78K as the uncertainty faded (CoinDesk). - Block Pays Up: Block faces a $764M DOJ settlement to resolve an anti-money-laundering probe. Its quarterly bitcoin gross profit halved after Cash App cut its trading fees (CoinDesk). Shares rose 6% after hours on a raised $12.63B gross profit forecast (The Block). - The Victim Has a Name: ZachXBT named Crédit Mutuel Arkéa as the alleged victim of a theft of more than $133M. The bank hasn't confirmed (Cointelegraph). He says it's likely not Lazarus (The Block). The Binance hacker keeps swapping stolen SOL into BTC through THORChain (U.Today, citing Lookonchain). THORChain restored swaps on 10 of 13 networks and RUNE rose 15% (Cointelegraph). - Rapid Fire: South Korea's ruling party wants to delay its crypto tax by about two years (CoinDesk, The Block). Justin Drake targets December 2028 for Ethereum's post-quantum upgrade (Cointelegraph). An SEC division calls Canton Coin a digital commodity (The Block). GitBook was hit by an AI-assisted breach, so rotate your keys (Decrypt). - Nostr Desk: Washington changed hands overnight, but nobody gets elected to run Nostr. Open NIPs, portable follow lists, and no algorithm picking who gets heard on election night. ON THE SITE TODAY Free tools tied to this morning's news: the News Explorer, the DCA calculator, the cryptocurrency market capitalization index, the DEX Screener and the Nostr Desk. ADVERTISE Exchanges, wallets, compliance shops and Bitcoin businesses: get seen before the new Congress rewrites the rules, at thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/advertise (first item under Media). Choose site-wide display ads, newsletter sponsorships, sponsor reads on the show or Nostr reach, or mix a custom package. Our team helps with creative and placement. LISTEN ANYWHERE Find every edition on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Fountain, Pocket Casts and Podcast Addict, and watch "The Bitcoin Street Journal" on YouTube. Follow, rate and share. General information only, not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile, so always do your own research.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin is sitting at seventy seven thousand seven hundred dollars, up about one point two percent in the last 24 hours. Top story out of Brazil: exchange Mercado Bitcoin just suffered a thirty eight million dollar hack and has suspended withdrawals, though it's pledging to cover every dollar lost for customers. Fear and Greed is reading 26 right now — that's deep Fear, and traders are clearly spooked. One more number to watch: Ethereum is holding near twenty three hundred dollars, up almost one and a half percent, even as spot ETF outflows keep piling up. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Anna's Tuesday Evening Edition on Election Night: Binance's postmortem shows the $6.3B hack began with a fake job interview and a booby-trapped coding test, so if a "recruiter" asks you to run a file, don't do it on any machine that touches your coins. Binance flipped back to net inflows, the CFTC approved the first U.S. single-stock perpetual futures, and two hacked platforms promised to make users whole. THE MARKET TODAY Bitcoin: $77,599, up about 0.9% in 24 hours (range $76,303 to $77,708). Down about 3.5% on the week and 9% on the month. Market cap: $1.56T. Dominance: 59.3%. Total crypto market: $2.63T, down about 1.8%. Ether: $2,294, up about 2%. 38.5% below the all-time high. Fear & Greed: 26, Fear. TONIGHT'S SEGMENTS - It Started With a Job Offer: Binance's postmortem traces the hack to a tampered package in June, a fake recruiter's "coding assignment" in September, and an internal AI tool used on Oct. 20 to reach more engineers and deployment credentials, before the Oct. 29 theft through the wallet-signing service (Cointelegraph). The last step used Ethereum's EIP-7702 (CoinDesk). Richard Teng: "a months-long campaign." - The Money Comes Back: Binance led all exchanges with $2.3B in 24-hour net inflows after more than $7B out on Monday. Hourly deposits now beat withdrawals, and about 95% of stolen assets are replaced (Cointelegraph). - Wall Street Goes Perpetual: the CFTC approved perpetual futures on individual stocks for U.S. exchanges, a first (The Block). Chair Michael Selig called it a regulated alternative to offshore venues (CoinDesk). HYPE rallied (U.Today). Amazon, Tesla, SpaceX, Netflix, Lam Research and SoFi joined objections to the OKX-ICE tokenized stock venue, now 56 companies (CoinDesk, Decrypt). - Making Users Whole: Mercado Bitcoin will refund users after a ~$40M hack, but withdrawals stay frozen (Decrypt). Tether, Circle and Chainalysis helped freeze $11M (CoinDesk). Liquid is fully backed again after its $320M exploit, with Blockstream funding it (The Block). Kraken restricted accounts tied to a suspected $133M EU theft (Cointelegraph). South Korea weighs a 99% cold wallet rule (U.Today). - Election Night Watch: crypto groups spent about $176M on the midterms (Cointelegraph). BlackRock's IBIT lost $405M Monday, its worst day since June. Markus Thielen still sees $90K by year-end. Justin Sun seeks sanctions against World Liberty Financial (The Block). - Lightning Round: Tether says it holds 150,000 BTC (CoinDesk). The Moscow Exchange plans crypto trading Dec. 1. France scrapped its crypto exit-tax proposals (Cointelegraph). NEAR cut its maximum issuance to 1.6%. - Nostr Desk: a display name can be faked, a signature can't. How to check a NIP-05 address and a key before you trust a DM. ON THE SITE TODAY Free tools tied to tonight's stories: the Crypto Glossary, Wallet Tracker, Tokenized Stock Sectors, the News Terminal and the Nostr Desk. ADVERTISE Security firms, wallets and safety tools: reach this audience at thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/advertise (first stop under Media). Site-wide display ads, newsletter sponsorships, host reads on the show and Nostr reach, alone or as a package, with help on creative and placement. LISTEN ANYWHERE Hear every edition on Pandora, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Fountain, Pocket Casts and Podcast Addict, and find "The Bitcoin Street Journal" on YouTube. Follow, rate and share. General information only, not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile, so always do your own research.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin is trading at seventy-seven thousand six hundred dollars right now, up just under one percent over the last twenty-four hours after bouncing off a low near seventy-six thousand three hundred. The headline everyone's talking about: Binance says its massive six-point-three-four billion dollar hack started with nothing more than a fake job interview targeting an employee. Meanwhile the Fear and Greed Index is stuck at twenty-six — that's solidly in fear territory as traders stay cautious. And Ethereum is holding near twenty-three hundred dollars, actually climbing almost two percent even as the broader market cools. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin's trading at seventy seven thousand two hundred dollars right now, down just under one percent on the day and nearly four percent over the past week. The big story: spot Bitcoin ETFs just bled three hundred ninety eight million dollars in outflows yesterday, with BlackRock leading the redemptions as nerves creep back into the market. And sentiment backs that up — the Fear and Greed Index is sitting at twenty six, deep in fear territory. Meanwhile Ethereum's holding steady around twenty three hundred dollars, basically flat on the day while the broader market cools off. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Anna's Tuesday Morning Edition on Election Day: Binance opened its second withdrawal phase with nine more networks and brought back U.S. dollar withdrawals, so more holders can move their funds now. Arbitrum's Security Council moved $30 million of Binance hack funds without the hacker's key. South Korea is pushing exchanges toward more cold storage, and fear jumped as chip stocks slid ahead of the vote. THE MARKET TODAY Bitcoin: $76,688, down about 1.7% in 24 hours (range $76,303 to $78,287). Down about 3.6% on the week and 9.8% on the month. Market cap: $1.54T. Dominance: 59.3%. Total crypto market: $2.60T, down about 3.2%. Ether: $2,252, down about 1.3%. 39% below the all-time high. Fear & Greed: 26, Fear (down from 37). THIS MORNING'S SEGMENTS - Phase Two Is Live: Binance's second withdrawal phase began at 04:00 UTC Tuesday across BNB Smart Chain, Ethereum, Solana, XRP Ledger, Sui, Arbitrum, Optimism, Tron and Base (Cointelegraph). On Ethereum the list includes LINK, SHIB, WLD, ONDO, ENA and Ripple's RLUSD (U.Today). USD, AED, VND, PHP and IDR withdrawals are back. DefiLlama net outflows slowed to $2.57B Monday from $6.1B Sunday. Binance has spent about half its SAFU Bitcoin (~$580M), and the fund is below its own $800M top-up line (CoinDesk). - Who Holds the Keys?: Arbitrum's 12-member Security Council briefly rewrote a core contract to move $30M of Binance hack funds from an address it had no key for, the second time this year (CoinDesk). Kim Yo Jong denied North Korea's role in the hack (Cointelegraph). - Cold Storage Crackdown: South Korea's FSC urged exchanges to raise cold-wallet ratios above the legal 80% (Upbit 99.17%, Bithumb 94.76%, Coinone 85%). Crypto.com will close its Hong Kong consumer app on Feb. 1, 2027 (Cointelegraph). - Ballots, Chips and Rates: Bitcoin fell under $77K as the Nasdaq 100 slid into a correction. ZEC fell nearly 10% and BNB dropped under $700 (CoinDesk). Australia hiked to 4.85%, an 18-year high. New Jersey dropped its Coinbase staking order and $5M fine (Cointelegraph). - Election Morning Rapid Fire: Lisk shuts down its blockchain and burns 5.23M LSK (U.Today). Ark bought Coinbase, Circle and Robinhood (The Block). The U.K. warns about AI ransomware. Swan's founder says AI is a bigger threat to Bitcoin than quantum computing (Cointelegraph). - Nostr Desk: no council can sign for you. Why your nsec is your account, and how signer apps keep it safe. ON THE SITE TODAY Free tools tied to this morning's stories: the exchange directory, Token Intel, the Real-Time Bitcoin Market Intelligence Dashboard, Top Gainers and Losers, and the Nostr Desk. ADVERTISE Put your brand in front of this audience on a big news day at thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/advertise (top of the Media menu): site-wide display ads, newsletter spots, sponsor reads on the show and Nostr reach. Use one or bundle them, and our team helps with the creative and placement. LISTEN ANYWHERE The Bitcoin Street Journal Market Update is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Fountain, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Podcast Addict and Pocket Casts. Watch "The Bitcoin Street Journal" on YouTube. Follow, rate and share. General information only, not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile, so always do your own research.

Anna's Monday Evening Edition on Election Eve: Binance delivered its proof of reserves, so users can now verify 1:1 backing for their own balances. At the same time, Brazil's largest exchange, Mercado Bitcoin, froze deposits and withdrawals after a roughly $40 million breach. The Binance hackers are swapping stolen tokens into Bitcoin, Strategy and Bitmine kept buying, and traders are positioning for a post-midterm move. THE MARKET TODAY Bitcoin: $76,946, down about 1.2% in 24 hours (range $76,783 to $78,728). Down about 4.1% on the week and 9.5% on the month. Market cap: $1.55T. Dominance: 59.3%. Total crypto market: $2.60T, down about 2.7%. Ether: $2,250, down about 0.5%. 39% below the all-time high. Fear & Greed: 37, Fear. TONIGHT'S SEGMENTS - The Receipts Are In: Binance completed its proof of reserves. Users can verify 1:1 backing for BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP and more (The Block). XRP coverage is 100.99% and RLUSD 100.83%, built on Merkle trees and zk proofs. Binance put up $6.34B+ of its own capital (U.Today). Its SAFU Bitcoin wallet was halved to about 7,500 BTC, with no refill timeline (Cointelegraph). - Breaking in Brazil: Mercado Bitcoin halted deposits and withdrawals after a security incident. Hypernative flagged $40M+ in suspicious transfers across at least 10 chains. Tether froze 4.5M+ USDT and 6.7M XLM sits at an attacker address. The exchange says customers lost nothing (Decrypt, CoinDesk, U.Today). ZachXBT suspects an EU entity lost $106M from exchange accounts, laundered via ether, instant exchanges and Monero (CoinDesk). - Follow the Loot: the Binance hackers are swapping about $46M in stolen tokens for Bitcoin via Relay after emptying their Tron wallets. About $3B is frozen and an estimated $3.5B is still under their control. Gate froze two accounts (Cointelegraph). Elliptic found no proof the hackers used AI, just scripts (CoinDesk). - The Buyers Don't Blink: Strategy bought 811 BTC for $65.5M (849,327 BTC total) and spent $208.2M on STRC buybacks (Decrypt). Strive added 124 BTC (The Block). Bitmine added 8,573 ETH to reach 4.9% of supply, and Tom Lee calls the muted hack reaction "very constructive" (Decrypt). Morgan Stanley downgraded Coinbase and cut its price target 53% (CoinDesk). - Election Eve: traders eye a post-midterm rally as exchange outflows hint at a supply squeeze, and options show a volatility bump around the vote (CoinDesk). - Night Shift Speed Round: Trezor passphrases now go up to 128 characters. The XRP Ledger stablecoin flaw fix is due Wednesday. NYSE taps Broadridge for tokenized-stock voting. FATF is reviewing crypto hubs. - Nostr Desk: why relays mean no single switch can freeze your voice, plus boosts and zaps. ON THE SITE TODAY Free tools tied to tonight's stories: Ask Satoshi, the Bitcoin Guides, the Digital Asset Treasury Tracker, RWA Markets and the Nostr Desk. ADVERTISE Help people protect their coins? Reach them at thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/advertise (first link under Media): site ads, newsletter sponsorship, podcast reads and Nostr reach, alone or bundled, with help on placement and creative. LISTEN ANYWHERE The Bitcoin Street Journal Market Update is on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Fountain, Pocket Casts and Podcast Addict. Watch "The Bitcoin Street Journal" on YouTube. Follow, rate and share. General information only, not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile, so always do your own research.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin sits at seventy-six thousand eight hundred dollars, down about one percent in the last twenty-four hours. The big story: Bitcoin is weathering a six-point-three billion dollar hack scare, as fears of wider contagion start to ease. Fear and Greed is reading thirty-seven — still in Fear territory. Ethereum is holding near twenty-three hundred dollars, barely budging, while the total crypto market cap slipped two-point-seven percent to two-point-six trillion dollars. Strategy keeps buying the dip, Strive is climbing the corporate treasury ranks, and traders are watching the Fed's cash squeeze into year-end. Midterms are also on the radar as markets stay choppy. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin's sitting at seventy-six thousand nine hundred dollars, down a little over one percent in the last twenty-four hours. The big story: Brazil's Mercado Bitcoin just halted withdrawals after a security breach, with researchers tracking around forty million dollars in suspicious outflows. Tether's already blacklisted two of the attacker's addresses, freezing stolen USDT in its tracks. Meanwhile the Binance hacker keeps moving funds, mixing Bitcoin through CoinJoin as Elliptic tracks over three billion dollars still out there. The Fear and Greed Index sits at thirty-seven, firmly in Fear territory. Ethereum's holding near twenty-three hundred dollars, barely budging on the day. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin's sitting at seventy-seven thousand nine hundred dollars, basically flat on the day, down just a sliver in twenty-four hours. Big story: Binance has reopened withdrawals as its hack recovery enters week two, a major signal the exchange is stabilizing. Meanwhile Strategy keeps stacking, buying over eight hundred more BTC and pushing its holdings past eight hundred forty nine thousand coins. Fear and Greed is sitting at thirty seven, still in Fear territory, so sentiment remains cautious. Ethereum's holding near twenty three hundred dollars, up almost one percent, bucking the broader market dip. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Anna's Monday Morning Edition opens election week with a plot twist: a THORChain refund bug triggered by an Ethereum block reorg halted swaps on ten networks and, per Chainalysis, slowed North Korea's laundering of the Binance loot. BTCPay Server told merchants to shut down servers after hot wallet drains on older versions. Binance's proof-of-reserves day arrives with two outflow scoreboards that don't match, the hacker's XRP is moving, and strangers are sending the thief sub-dollar pleas for help. THE MARKET TODAY Bitcoin: $78,042, up about 0.4% in 24 hours (range $77,616 to $78,733). Down about 2.5% on the week and 7.7% on the month. Market cap: $1.57T. Dominance: 60.0%. Total crypto market: $2.61T. Ether: $2,281, up about 0.7%. 38% below the all-time high. Fear & Greed: 37, Fear (up from 34 on Sunday). THIS MORNING'S SEGMENTS - Saved by the Bug: a one-block Ethereum reorg erased a 10 ETH deposit THORChain had already credited, the protocol double-refunded, and an automatic pause halted swaps on ten networks including Bitcoin, Ethereum and Tron. Chainalysis says it "inadvertently delayed" laundering of Binance funds. The co-founder had opposed halting for the FBI (Cointelegraph). - Pull the Plug: BTCPay Server warned operators to shut down after hot wallet thefts. The attack path hits version 2.4.1 or older; no credible drains reported on 2.4.7. No loss figure yet. Second scare since an August Lightning credential attack (Cointelegraph, CoinDesk). - Receipts Day: Binance's zero-knowledge proof of reserves is due Monday. Binance counted $3.6B net outflows; DefiLlama shows $5.8B over 24 hours, possibly including internal transfers. CZ: "98% choose to stay!" USDT led withdrawals, then USDC and BTC. About 95% of stolen funds replaced; Richard Teng rejects the one-laptop theory (Cointelegraph). A "Binance Hack 2026" wallet sent two 40M XRP transfers, about $101M, to unknown addresses (Whale Alert via U.Today). - Dear Mister Hacker: the 19 wallets holding 18,270 stolen BTC have received only sub-dollar payments carrying messages, from pleas to laundering pitches (CoinDesk). - Election Eve Money: Bitcoin clawed back toward $79K as Zcash led the majors and oil slid on a Trump-Iran diplomacy report. Friday's $643M ETF outflow was the largest since June 25 and leaves 2026 flows barely green (CoinDesk, The Block). Midterms are Tuesday. - Monday Lightning Round: the Bank of Korea is surveying 18 banks and 13 brokerages on crypto risk (Cointelegraph). Fifty companies, including Nvidia, Nike, Costco and JPMorgan, object to OKX-ICE tokenized trading of their shares (U.Today). Zcash holds near $1,266. - Nostr Desk: skip the dust-payment fan mail and zap the people who make the ecosystem safer. ON THE SITE TODAY Free tools tied to this morning's stories: the DEX Screener, Token Intel, the satoshi calculator, the Digital Asset Market Dashboard and the Nostr Desk. ADVERTISE Sell security, wallets or payment tools? Reach a security-minded audience at thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/advertise (first link under Media): site display ads, daily newsletter sponsorship, podcast reads and Nostr reach, alone or bundled, with help on placement and creative. LISTEN ANYWHERE The Bitcoin Street Journal Market Update is on iHeartRadio, Pandora, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Fountain, Pocket Casts and Podcast Addict. Watch "The Bitcoin Street Journal" on YouTube. Follow, rate and share. General information only, not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile, so always do your own research.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin's sitting at seventy-seven thousand six hundred dollars, barely budging, up a tenth of a percent in the last 24 hours. The big story: Binance is resuming phased withdrawals after a staggering six point three billion dollar breach, with over three and a half billion in net outflows as users rush for the exits. Fear and Greed just hit 34 — that's Fear territory, traders are nervous. Meanwhile Ethereum's holding near twenty-three hundred dollars, down a third of a percent, as the broader market cools. Bitcoin's basically flat on the week, holding above seventy-seven K heading into the US midterms. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Anna's Sunday Evening Edition keeps score on day one of Binance withdrawals: $3.64B in net outflows in under ten hours, and Bitcoin dominance touching 60%. North Korean hackers laundered about $242M of the stolen funds through Tron while the FBI's watch list skipped Tron entirely. Spot Bitcoin ETFs had their worst day of October, the Coinbase Premium sank to a one-year low, and crypto PACs made a late Republican push ahead of Tuesday's midterms. THE MARKET TONIGHT Bitcoin: $77,884, up about 0.3% in 24 hours (range $77,370 to $78,134). Down about 3.5% on the week and 8% on the month. Market cap: $1.57T. Dominance: 60.0%. Total crypto market: $2.61T. Ether: $2,262, about flat. 38% below the all-time high. Fear & Greed: 34, Fear (no change since the morning). TONIGHT'S SEGMENTS - The Great Withdrawal: in its first 9.5 hours of withdrawals, Binance paid out $4.65B and took in $1.01B in deposits, for $3.64B net out, or 2.1% of $171B in assets. Withdrawals are "stabilising as expected." 531 of 552 coins were still suspended late morning. Binance's BTC balance fell about 19,289 BTC while Coinbase and Kraken gained. A zero-knowledge proof of reserves is due Monday (The Block). - The Tron Back Door: about $242M was laundered via Tron in two days, through Relay ($48M), THORChain ($44M), Chainflip ($32.1M), Symbiosis ($16M) and Bitget Wallet ($41.7M). Tether froze 378.7M USDT. The FBI listed 608 ETH, 19 BTC and 1 SOL addresses, and no Tron addresses (SomaXBT via The Block). CZ credits the FBI with limiting the price drop (U.Today). - Wall Street Flinches: spot Bitcoin ETFs lost $643.2M Friday, erasing a $441M four-day inflow run. October ended about $516M negative. Ether ETFs lost about $1.61B in October (Decrypt). The Coinbase Premium hit a yearly low near -0.06%, mostly because the Binance freeze blocked arbitrage (U.Today). - Ballots and Bitcoin: crypto PACs made a late Republican push even though polls favor Democrats in Congress. Sherrod Brown's Ohio race is the industry's $63M question (CoinDesk). - Sunday Night Speed Round: AI agents bypassed crypto spending limits in a test, and researchers built Countersign as the fix (CoinDesk). Tokenized stocks on Ethereum grew 170% to $827M (Token Terminal via U.Today). XRP is holding $1.25. The hacker dumped 499B SHIB. ZEC hit $1,280 amid a grant fight. Binance warns of fake voucher campaigns. - Nostr Desk: check the signing key (npub), not the display name, to beat impostor accounts. ON THE SITE TODAY Free tools tied to tonight's stories: the Crypto Glossary, the Wallet Tracker, the Digital Asset Treasury Tracker, the News Explorer, Tokenized Stock Sectors and the Nostr Desk. ADVERTISE Be seen while billions move. Visit thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/advertise (top of the Media menu) for site banners, daily newsletter slots, podcast sponsor reads and reach into our Nostr community. Mix and match, and our team helps build the creative. LISTEN ANYWHERE The Bitcoin Street Journal Market Update is on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pandora, iHeartRadio, Fountain, Pocket Casts and Podcast Addict. Watch "The Bitcoin Street Journal" on YouTube. Follow, rate and share. General information only, not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile, so always do your own research.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin's sitting at seventy-seven thousand nine hundred dollars, up a modest point three percent over the last day, but still down from last week's highs. The big story: a record six billion dollar Binance hack is shaking the market, with ETF investors reportedly heading for the exits and a massive price gap opening up between Binance and Coinbase. The hacker's even been caught dumping stolen Solana for Bitcoin, adding fuel to the fire. Fear and Greed just slipped to thirty-four, firmly in Fear territory. Ethereum's holding near twenty-three hundred dollars, up slightly on the day. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin's trading at seventy-eight thousand dollars, up about eight tenths of a percent on the day after bouncing between seventy-seven and seventy-eight thousand. The big story: Binance has restored withdrawals across fifteen networks after last week's hack, saying ninety-five percent of the stolen funds are already replenished. Michael Saylor is teasing another Strategy Bitcoin buy, right as BlackRock's IBIT pulls in over five hundred million dollars in weekly inflows. Fear and Greed is sitting at thirty-four, still stuck in Fear. Ethereum's holding near twenty-three hundred dollars, up roughly one percent, as total crypto market cap slips back toward two point six trillion. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Anna's Sunday Morning Edition opens November with Binance reopening withdrawals, Bitcoin network first, after its record $6.3B hack. The FBI says North Korea's "TraderTraitor" group did it and asks DeFi and node operators to block the hackers' addresses. Bloomberg Intelligence's Mike McGlone flags $80,000 as Bitcoin's line in the sand against Treasury bonds. Plus a warning against using old iPhones as cold wallets, and a London phone-theft story that cost one man $14,000. THE MARKET TODAY Bitcoin: $77,964, up about 0.7% in 24 hours (range $77,303 to $78,134). Down about 2.9% on the week. Market cap: $1.57T. Dominance: 59.9%. Total crypto market: $2.61T, down about 1.9% in a day. Ether: $2,270, up about 1.1%. 38% below the all-time high. Fear & Greed: 34, Fear (up from 30). THIS MORNING'S SEGMENTS - The Doors Reopen: Binance opens the Bitcoin network in phase one of resuming withdrawals (Cointelegraph). Phase one is set to cover 15 networks, including Ethereum, XRP Ledger, BNB Smart Chain, Tron, Dogecoin, plus USDT and USDC. 95% of affected assets are recovered (U.Today). Expect congestion and delays. Proof of reserves is due Monday. - Pyongyang's Fingerprints: The FBI blames North Korea's TraderTraitor group, which is converting the loot mostly to ether. It urges THORChain nodes, RPC providers, instant exchanges and DeFi services to block the hackers' addresses (Cointelegraph). The notice lists hundreds of addresses, but Chainalysis says the hackers already use thousands (CoinDesk). North Korea-linked groups took over $2B of 2025's roughly $3.4B in hack losses (CertiK via Cointelegraph). - Eighty or Bust?: McGlone says Bitcoin may be rolling over against long-dated Treasuries. His IBIT/TLT ratio read 81 on Oct. 30 (base 100 at end of 2024), and $80K is his key level (U.Today). PCE inflation ran 3.6% year over year after the Fed held rates. - Guard Your Keys: OneKey founder Yishi Wang warns that iPhone 11-generation and older phones shouldn't hold recovery phrases, because of boot-code flaws like checkm8 (U.Today). In London, two strangers outside a bar led to Magnus Ahmad losing $14,000 in crypto and bank access (CoinDesk). - First-of-the-Month Flash: Ripple unlocks 1B XRP from escrow. XRP slips under its 200-day average. NEAR open interest tops a reported $1.1B (U.Today). - Nostr Desk: keep your nsec in one place by using signer apps and remote signing instead of pasting your key into every client. ON THE SITE TODAY Free tools tied to today's stories: the exchange directory, the Crypto news desk, the Real-Time Bitcoin Market Intelligence Dashboard, the DCA calculator and the Nostr Desk. ADVERTISE New month, new budgets. Get seen at thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/advertise (first under the Media menu): website placements, daily newsletter sponsorships, podcast reads and our Nostr following. Combine any of them, and our team helps with placement and creative. LISTEN ANYWHERE The Bitcoin Street Journal Market Update is on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeartRadio, Pandora, Fountain, Pocket Casts and Podcast Addict. Watch "The Bitcoin Street Journal" on YouTube. Follow, rate and share. General information only, not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile, so always do your own research.

Your 60-second Bitcoin news flash from The Bitcoin Street Journal. Bitcoin's sitting at seventy-seven thousand four hundred dollars, up point eight percent on the day, but still down nearly four percent on the week. The big story: stolen Bitcoin from the Binance hack now exceeds Tesla's entire BTC holdings, closing in on SpaceX, and more than double El Salvador's reserve. Strive's CEO says Bitcoin's holding up fine after the hack, but he's warning everyone not to call a bottom just yet. Fear and Greed is sitting at thirty, deep in Fear territory as sentiment stays shaky. Ethereum's hanging near twenty-three hundred dollars, up about half a percent, holding its ground while Bitcoin wobbles. More at https://thebitcoinstreetjournal.com General information only, not investment advice.

Anna's Halloween Evening Edition marks 18 years since Satoshi Nakamoto published the Bitcoin whitepaper. Binance says it has refilled 90% of the assets stolen in its record hack. Chainalysis discloses a breach by an AI-assisted attacker, and a dozen DeFi sites registered through Name.com are hijacked to drain wallets. Plus Strive's "early spring" call, a company weighing a $450M Bitcoin sale, and Uber's tokenization pilot. THE MARKET TODAY Bitcoin: $77,517, up about 0.4% in 24 hours (range $76,338 to $77,604). Down about 3.3% on the week and 7.9% on the month. Market cap: $1.56T. Dominance: about 59.2%. Total crypto market: $2.63T, down about 2.3% in a day. Ether: $2,250, slightly higher. 38.5% below the all-time high. Fear & Greed: 30, Fear. October's monthly candle closes at midnight UTC. TONIGHT'S SEGMENTS - Refilling the Vault: Binance says 90% of stolen assets are replenished (up from 80%), using its corporate treasury, part of SAFU and part of its futures insurance fund. Withdrawals are still targeted for Sunday, and BTC, ETH and eight other assets are fully backed. CertiK sought more detail, and the full zero-knowledge reserves proof takes 40 to 50 hours to generate (Cointelegraph). - Who Watches the Watchers?: Chainalysis says a hacker using "offensive agentic techniques" accessed customer names, emails and IDs, and that the breach is unrelated to Binance. It also says the Binance attackers are using a Tron protocol to dodge stablecoin freezes (The Block). - Hijacked: 12 DeFi domains, all registered with Name.com, served the Step Drainer kit. About $138,000 has been stolen so far, and 10 of the domains are now suspended (The Block, Blockaid). - Happy Birthday, Whitepaper: Bitcoin turns 18 (Cointelegraph, CoinDesk). Strive CEO Matt Cole says Bitcoin held up better than expected and sees an "early spring" (Cointelegraph). Next Technology Holding authorizes sales or loans against its 5,833 BTC, citing exchange security and quantum risk (CoinDesk). - Wall Street Goes On-Chain: Uber tests tokenized money-market cash with HSBC and Franklin Templeton. An ANT pre-IPO contract tied to Anthropic falls about 20% in its first hour on Hyperliquid (CoinDesk). - Trick-or-Treat Round: Dogecoin is down about 20.5% in October. XRP's burn rate is up 147%. Shiba Inu lost about 2,500 holders (U.Today). Institutions keep staking as yields shrink, and retail mining services emerge as big miners chase AI (CoinDesk). - Nostr Desk: why a Nostr identity is a key you own, not a domain you rent. ON THE SITE TODAY Free tools tied to tonight's stories: the Token Search Engine (250+ chains), the Bitcoin Guides, the RWA Markets index, the Halving Guide and the Nostr Desk. ADVERTISE Building tools that protect people from drainers and hijacks? Reach this audience at thebitcoinstreetjournal.com/advertise (first in the Media menu): site display spots, the daily newsletter, podcast mentions and Nostr reach, alone or bundled, with creative help. LISTEN ANYWHERE Find The Bitcoin Street Journal Market Update on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeartRadio, Fountain, Pocket Casts and Podcast Addict, and watch "The Bitcoin Street Journal" on YouTube. Follow, rate and share. General information only, not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile, so always do your own research.