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Unattributed: Security incident

Bitcoin’s whitepaper turned 18 on Oct. 31, bringing fresh attention to Satoshi Nakamoto’s proposal for payments without trusted intermediaries days after Binance reported a $6.3 billion theft. Satoshi Nakamoto’s original announcement, preserved in the mailing-list archive, described an electronic cash…

StatusUnder review
Reported loss$6.3B
ChainBitcoin
Confidence55%

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First seen: 2026-10-31T09:10:00.000Z. Last updated: 2026-10-31T15:17:19.552Z. Revision: 1.