Bitcoin traders cut futures bets as 30-year Treasury yield climbs to 5.71% separately
Bitcoin traded near $82,800, roughly 4% below Tuesday's high, as the 30-year Treasury yield rose to 5.71% after Fed minutes pointed to another hike. Futures bets shrank at least as fast as prices, the pattern of traders cutting leverage, while an Ethereum Foundation researcher's 'bunker mode' warning split the industry over wallet security.
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Blockstream has not said whether its 11-of-15 federation was bypassed or complied. Until someone publishes what share of Liquid's reserves left on September 6, an L-BTC balance is an unverified claim.
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The attackers who drained 4,000 BTC from Liquid handed back 3,400 after the patch and kept 598.5. Blockstream puts about $47 million on that hold and says it will trace the coins instead of paying.
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Blockstream paused the Liquid bridge after roughly 4,000 BTC left the federation wallet, and the people holding it will send most of it back only once the flaw is fixed, which puts the patch timetable in their hands.
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Blockstream pauses Liquid after $320 million exploit, tries to reach hackers onchain
The withdrawal cleared every control the Liquid Federation actually operates, which is why an 11-of-15 quorum released the bitcoin in 23 minutes. Recovery now depends on whoever holds the coins answering an email address.
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The 11-of-15 federation multisig held and no key was stolen; the node software that tells signers whether a peg-out is backed carried a week-old bug, and about $320m walked out of Blockstream's sidechain.
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- Confidence60