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An old Bitcoin address holding millions in Bitcoin that had not made any transactions in over 14 years suddenly reactivated yesterday. Per Galaxy Research’s monitoring, the Bitcoin address beginning in “1EBz” first took in the Bitcoin on July 16, 2011, when BTC traded under $15. It sat untouched until 20:14 UTC on August 6, 2026,…

A warning posted on X on Aug. 5 urged Bitcoin users to avoid entering their own wallet addresses into public block explorers. It alleged that explorers log visitors’ internet protocol addresses, sell the information to Chainalysis, and ultimately expose it to government agencies.

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador, Aug. 06, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Bitget Wallet, a self-custodial crypto wallet for everyday finance, has opened its execution infrastructure to professional solvers through theBitget Wallet X Solver Partner Program, providing dedicated quoting and execution capabilities across intent protocols including CoW Swap, 1inch Fusion, and UniswapX. The launch comes as decentralized…

Coldcard users are fuming after a weakness known since 2021 allowed hackers to steal their Bitcoin. Photo: Coldcard

A Bitcoin wallet identified in a ransom demand connected to Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance could still yield evidence six months after the 84-year-old vanished from her Arizona home.

A new report reveals scammers are using Bitcoin ATMs, or BTMs, as a tool to defraud victims, particularly seniors, by tricking them into depositing large sums.

A third wave of attacks targeting vulnerable Coldcard-generated Bitcoin wallets has drained another 208 BTC from 1,912 addresses, pushing total losses to 1,367 BTC—worth nearly $89 million— The latest wave occurred between Friday midday and Saturday morning UTC, signaling that the attacker continues exploiting wallets created with compromised keys

Users can now supplement or replace device-generated randomness with coin flips and dice rolls when creating a Bitcoin wallet

In a 25-minute sweep that ended at 21:56 ET on Thursday night, an attacker drained roughly 594 bitcoin — worth approximately $38 million at current prices — from around 500 Bitcoin wallets, all of them secured by a Coldcard hardware wallet whose firmware had been silently bypassing its own dedicated random number generator since March…

Coldcard users are being urged to move their Bitcoin to newly generated wallets over a security flaw linked to the theft of $38 million.