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Borderless.xyz says a $200 stablecoin-funded remittance costs a median $2 against $12.72 on the World Bank's average, an 84% saving. Payout completion runs from 73% in Costa Rica to 98.6% in Mexico, so a sender comparing fees also has to compare whether the money arrives.
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Australia's Treasury released a draft bill on October 15 to write the OECD's crypto reporting framework into law, with comment open until October 28. Cross-border exchanges are planned for 2028, and the OECD counts 77 jurisdictions committed by 2029.
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Ethereum researcher Justin Drake says ECDSA could break in the worst case within months and wants coins moved to fresh addresses. Of six other people Cointelegraph quotes, one shares his alarm, two dispute the evidence and three question the remedy.
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Sam Bankman-Fried's Supreme Court petition now waits on a government reply due Nov. 16 instead of Oct. 15. Cointelegraph reports the justices could decide whether to hear the case in late 2026 or early 2027.
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Bitcoin closed the week at about $83,700, 1.4% above $82,500 support, as markets forecast September CPI at 3.7% against 3.4% in August. The cushion is under half of last week's 3.2% loss, and a December hike is already at 70.6%.
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X user Johannes says his MediaMarkt Ledger holds an early version of the implant tied to an estimated $93.4 million in Asian losses. Ledger has not confirmed the link or the estimate, so retail buyers have no official answer on provenance.
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Bitcoin fell below $83,000 as Brent crude reached $102 a barrel and US Treasury yields climbed to their highest since 2002. Oil set the timing, but the fall landed on a futures market that had shed $2.8 billion of open interest since September 22, CryptoQuant data show.
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Cointelegraph is looking for a buyer after a Google penalty in October 2025 cut its traffic by about 80%, CoinDesk reported. Whoever buys gets a 2013 brand and its archive on a domain that Crypto Briefing says still draws almost no Google search traffic.
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The bill grew again last week, and the new pages delegate the hard definition to regulators while the ethics language Democrats made their price stayed out. Trump has not said what curbs he will accept.
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El Salvador drew $138 million from its $1.4 billion IMF loan after the Fund waived missed Bitcoin targets and kept state purchases barred. From here the reserve grows only through documented donations, so its dollar value now depends mostly on the Bitcoin price.
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BIS data on 130 economies show stablecoin flows rise with currency stress, as dollar deposits do, while appearing less affected by capital controls. Turkey's roughly $38 billion of lira swapped into stablecoins in a year shows how large that harder-to-block channel already is.
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Illinois has published draft rules for its 0.2% tax on the value of crypto transactions, owed from Jan. 1, 2027 whether a trade gains or loses. The carve-outs make a fee paid to a broker or protocol the trigger for much of the tax, so active traders on venues that charge fees would pay most of it.
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HIFI, Atum and MeshWallet raised $60.5 million for stablecoin payments in the week to Sep. 25, most of crypto's disclosed private funding. The week's one direct bet on a token price came from Forward Industries selling $25 million of stock to buy more Solana.
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Crypto tax firms say the first 1099-DA forms left out basis and trades, reporting one client's $300,000-plus of stablecoin trades as under $100,000. Holders who moved coins between platforms now pay to rebuild that basis before they file.
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SlowMist says its evidence for the iPhone Safari attack on crypto wallet keys covers iOS 18.4 to 18.6.2 and that it has confirmed no theft victim. The firm calls this week's iOS 13 to 26.5 warnings preliminary and still tells iPhone users to install security updates.
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Cryptobriefing traces every dollar of crypto's $740 billion gain since late August to the Treasury's expanded bond buybacks. Cointelegraph, reporting the same prices on the same day, does not mention it. Perpetual futures leverage is near $160 billion in both accounts.
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The company says nearly $5 billion of roughly $5,500 Ether perpetual trades came from programs that pay market makers to post resting orders, and its evidence is that the maker lost money to takers who kept winning.
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Bitcoin gained about 3% to $79,000 and took back its 50-week average at $77,430 after Trump said Iran wants a deal. Crude dipped but held above $100, and CME's FedWatch tool puts Wednesday's quarter-point hike at 92.7%.
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LONG's own figures put more than $425 million of stock-paired volume against almost $12 million of locked liquidity. Angelo Aspris blames thin reserves for a tokenized HIMS price that came apart from the real one.
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The August print matched expectations, the 30-year touched its highest since June 2004 before settling at 5.309%, and QCP Capital says the competing risk-free rate is the worst mix Bitcoin can face.
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