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Blockstream has drawn a hard line in the Liquid hack, refusing to pay a ransom for the return of roughly $47 million in Bitcoin still held by the exploiters and branding the demand exactly what it believes it to be: theft.
The report puts a hard number on an event that Blockstream, the company behind Liquid, has so far described in approximate terms. And it raises the stakes for a network built to move Bitcoin faster and more privately than the main chain.
Standard Chartered thinks SKY, the governance token of the protocol formerly known as MakerDAO, could be worth five times its recent price by the end of 2028, calling Sky nothing less than "DeFi's federal bank.
The confirmed core comes straight from Blockstream. Its initial incident report, displayed as September 7 at 12:14 AM, says purported white-hat hackers withdrew approximately 4,000 BTC , then valued by the company at roughly $320 million, from the Liquid Federation wallet.
Ripple's chief technology officer has stepped into a fresh online brawl over the XRP Ledger, pushing back on a viral claim that bots and spam accounts drive 93% of network activity. David Schwartz did not deny the numbers.
Bitcoin is holding steady while Wall Street stalls, and the reason traces back to one place: the oil market. A fresh energy shock has revived talk that the Federal Reserve could keep rates higher for longer, and crypto is caught in the crossfire.
One number is being floated as Bitcoin's line in the sand: $72,000-$73,000. The pitch is simple.
The case, centered on a Mexican musician and a Bitcoin wallet killing, rests entirely on secondary reporting. No prosecutor statement, court filing, or on-chain record has been independently obtained, which means every element below is an attributed allegation, not an established fact.
Malone Lam has pleaded guilty in connection with a $245 million Bitcoin theft, marking a major turn in one of the largest crypto-theft cases to reach a courtroom.
IonQ has unveiled a quantum computer it calls the Superion 256, a launch landing at the same moment Bitcoin developers are said to be debating their next moves. That juxtaposition is the whole story, and, for now, it is where the verified facts end.
Jack Dorsey's Block has applied for a bank charter with the stated purpose of custodying Bitcoin, putting the payments company on a path toward holding the asset under a regulated structure.
Jack Dorsey's Block is seeking approval from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to establish a national trust bank built to custody Bitcoin and stablecoins, a move that would place the payments company inside the federal banking perimeter.