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OpenAI says it broke a maths conjecture. Bitcoin’s keys are a different problem
OpenAI's SAT result is subexponential, not polynomial, and nobody has shown an encoding from it to secp256k1 keys or SHA-256 mining.
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Coinbase says customer contact details leaked at an analytics supplier
Coinbase says an incident at analytics vendor Amplitude exposed contact details for a "small subset" of customers. No number, no list of fields.
Bitcoin Core will stop sitting on bugs an AI can find
Bitcoin Core will release fixes immediately for flaws an AI could rediscover in a single prompt, ending the embargoes that once ran for months.
Stellar’s next upgrade adds quantum-resistant checks, with limits
Bell lets Stellar smart contracts verify post-quantum signatures. That is not the same as making the network quantum-proof, and the gap matters.
Trezor is cutting resellers after supply-chain incidents
Trezor has dropped at least one reseller and is trimming the rest, calling the move preventive and saying there is no evidence devices were tampered with.
Solana’s 21 October upgrade will shrink its headline transaction count
Anza has set 21 October for Alpenglow, targeting 150-millisecond finality and removing validator votes from blocks, which will cut reported TPS.
Ledger halts a reseller’s sales after buyers reported losses
Ledger has paused a listed reseller covering Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines, and told buyers from the last 90 days not to initialise devices.
Ledger says a drained device contained a hardware implant
Ledger says the device belonging to a user who lost funds had been physically modified before delivery. The reseller has now halted all wallet sales.
Coldcard says a phishing post appeared on its own X account
Coldcard says a phishing link posted from its official X account led to a fake migration site built to collect wallet recovery phrases.