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Северокорейские хакеры похитили данные 7000 криптокошельков и украли $10,8 млн

Северокорейская хакерская группировка WaterPlum с помощью фейковых вакансий заразила около 30 000 устройств, похитила данные 7000 криптокошельков и украла $10,8 млн, сообщают правоохранительные органы Германии.

Проекты Fetch и NuNet после взлома потеряли $2 млн

Неизвестный злоумышленник взломал криптопроекты Fetch.ai и NuNet, работающие с технологиями искусственного интеллекта, и вывел активы примерно на $2,01 млн. Об атаке сообщили аналитики блокчейн-компании PeckShield.

Чарльз Хоскинсон: Для ИИ-вычислений больше не нужны крупные дата-центры

Основатель Cardano Чарльз Хоскинсон (Charles Hoskinson) верит, что в ближайшие пять-десять лет криптоиндустрия будет тесно связана с искусственным интеллектом, однако нынешний ажиотаж на строительство и расширение дата-центров для ИИ неизбежно спадет.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #423

This week’s newsletter summarizes an analysis of mining pool difficulty controllers stranding slowed miners, describes a proposed improvement to Utreexo’s initial block download, and links to a draft BIP for specifying unspendable taproot internal keys. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Виталик Бутерин предложил доказывать безопасность кода с помощью ИИ

Сооснователь Эфириума Виталик Бутерин заявил, что даже если злоумышленники смогут быстрее находить уязвимости и проводить изощренные атаки с помощью искусственного интеллекта, эту же технологию можно использовать для создания более мощных инструментов защиты.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #422 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt and Mike Schmidt are joined by Adam Gibson and Rob Segers to discuss Newsletter #422.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #422

This week’s newsletter describes a proposed protocol for probabilistic coinjoins disguised as covert bets and summarizes benchmarks of a silent payments indexing server against compact block filters for light clients. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #421 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by average_gary, Erick Cestari, Conduition, and Greg Sanders to discuss Newsletter #421.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #421

This week’s newsletter describes an idea for pools to pay miners using silent payments in the coinbase transaction and summarizes the responsible disclosure of a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting older versions of Core Lightning. Also included are our regular sections summarizing proposals and discussion about changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules, announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #420 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Níckolas Goline, Optout, Abubakar Sadiq Ismail, and Moonsettler to discuss Newsletter #420.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #420

This week’s newsletter relays advance notice of a planned Core Lightning security release, summarizes a discussion about opt-in replay protection for potential future forks, notes that the Hardware Wallet Interface (HWI) project will enter maintenance mode, and describes a request for comments on using block-range filters. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #419 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Bastien Teinturier, Salvatore Ingala, and spacebear to discuss Newsletter #419.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #419

This week’s newsletter summarizes the disclosure of a fixed reorg vulnerability in LND’s channel closes and describes a draft BIP for the rawtr() output script descriptor. Also included are our regular sections describing recent changes to services and client software and notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #418 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Michael Ford (fanquake) and Martin Zumsande to discuss Newsletter #418.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #418

This week’s newsletter describes a proposed contract protocol for mitigating Lightning Network channel jamming, reports on the availability of static Bitcoin Core binaries for testing, and summarizes a change replacing Bitcoin Core’s per-peer transaction rate-limiting with a global approach. Also included are our regular sections announcing new releases and release candidates, and describing notable changes to popular Bitcoin infrastructure software.

Bitcoin Optech Newsletter #417 Recap Podcast

Mark “Murch” Erhardt, Gustavo Flores Echaiz, and Mike Schmidt are joined by Conduition, Ram, and Fabian Jahr to discuss Newsletter #417.

Monero GUI 0.18.5.2 'Fluorine Fermi' released

Bitcoin Core 29.4 released

<p>Bitcoin Core version 29.4 is now available for <a href="/en/download">download</a>. See the <a href="/en/releases/29.4/">release notes</a> for more information about the bug fixes in this release.</p> <p>If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom (<a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/bitcoin">IRC</a>, <a href="https://web.libera.chat/#bitcoin">web</a>) and we’ll do our best to help you.</p> <p><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/07/13/release-29.4/">Bitcoin Core 29.4 released</a> was originally published by Bitcoin Core at <a href="https://bitcoincore.org">Bitcoin Core</a> on July 13, 2026.</p>

Bitcoin Core 31.1 released

<p>Bitcoin Core version 31.1 is now available for <a href="/en/download">download</a>. See the <a href="/en/releases/31.1/">release notes</a> for more information about the bug fixes in this release.</p> <p>If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom (<a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/bitcoin">IRC</a>, <a href="https://web.libera.chat/#bitcoin">web</a>) and we’ll do our best to help you.</p> <p><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/07/08/release-31.1/">Bitcoin Core 31.1 released</a> was originally published by Bitcoin Core at <a href="https://bitcoincore.org">Bitcoin Core</a> on July 08, 2026.</p>

Bitcoin Core 30.3 released

<p>Bitcoin Core version 30.3 is now available for <a href="/en/download">download</a>. See the <a href="/en/releases/30.3/">release notes</a> for more information about the bug fixes in this release.</p> <p>If you have any questions, please stop by the #bitcoin IRC chatroom (<a href="irc://irc.libera.chat/bitcoin">IRC</a>, <a href="https://web.libera.chat/#bitcoin">web</a>) and we’ll do our best to help you.</p> <p><a href="https://bitcoincore.org/en/2026/07/08/release-30.3/">Bitcoin Core 30.3 released</a> was originally published by Bitcoin Core at <a href="https://bitcoincore.org">Bitcoin Core</a> on July 08, 2026.</p>

Monero GUI 0.18.5.1 'Fluorine Fermi' released

Monero 0.18.5.1 'Fluorine Fermi' released

Private Broadcast May Reveal Sender IP Address in Bitcoin Core 31.0

<p>We have become aware of a privacy bug in the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">-privatebroadcast</code> feature, newly introduced in Bitcoin Core 31.0, that may cause the originator’s IP address to be revealed to the receiving peer under certain network conditions. A fix is forthcoming and will be released with 31.1. Users of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">-privatebroadcast</code> are advised to apply one of the workarounds below until 31.1 is released.</p> <h2 id="affected-users">Affected users</h2> <p>This bug affects users where all the following are true:</p> <ul> <li>The node is running Bitcoin Core 31.0 and <code class="language-plaintext highlig