Bitcoin staking platform b14g suffered a $1.47 million exploit on October 31, losing approximately 97 million CORE tokens through zero-token withdrawal vulnerability. The protocol paused contracts and says staked BTC was unaffected.
A scan by Bitquery has identified 96,000 fake-address outputs that are clogging Bitcoin's unspent transaction output (UTXO) database. The analysis highlights how cheap OP_RETURN repetition and fake-address text impose significantly different costs on Bitcoin nodes.
Dionysios 'Dean' Karakitsos, 57-year-old CEO and co-founder of cryptocurrency data company Bitquery, allegedly embezzled more than $5 million from his own company and deleted 194 expense records before abruptly resigning.
