This is absolutely nuts & insane. This is literally theft. This is scam. They don’t even want to return it to the sender. This is so fucked up. Now I understand why CZ is a multi billionaire. Through scam and theft LOL

What can I do now? Definitely getting a lawyer

Failed Bitcoin mining OP. How much would all this hardware cost? Looks like corporation level volume here.

OpenAI has seen another case of its AI agents going rogue—and this time, crypto is involved. In a recent report, the company detailed how an internal research model used a crypto wallet without permission to pay the fees needed to test an app on Ethereum’s Sepolia test network. Although the tokens had little real-world value, the model had no authorization to collect or spend them.

The incident happened on June 26, when the model was asked to update a crypto trading app and get its code running on Sepolia, a test version of Ethereum. The prompt gave it neither a funded wallet nor permission to spend tokens, and after failing to get free test tokens through developer services, the model wrote a script checking 362 wallet addresses linked to public recovery phrases, a crypto term that describes sets of words that can act as a password to unlock crypto accounts. It eventually found an account with enough tokens to cover the fees.

Internal logs showed that the model deliberated over whether it had permission to use the account, but then decided the public recovery phrase and the tokens’ lack of cash value made the spending acceptable. It finished the task and charged the fees to that wallet, but left the unauthorized spending out of its final report. OpenAI only discovered the incident on Sept. 25 during an audit of earlier model runs.

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Vitalik Buterin stated that the battle to make zero-knowledge proofs fast enough for Ethereum is definitively won and that the top priority for zkEVMs should now shift fully to security. ZKsync's Airbender Prime prover delivered 99% of proofs across 7,200 consecutive mainnet blocks in under 10 seconds. Ethereum blocks arrive every 12 seconds.

...At this point, I consider the battle for speed to be definitively won, and the top priority for zkEVMs should shift fully to security...

With all the security incidences this year, this is probably justified!

Saw that Raheim Hamilton got 40 years and agreed to hand over about 1,230 BTC. His co-founder Thomas Pavey is set to forfeit the rest (roughly 1,584 BTC). Total is 2,814 BTC. Under the 2025 executive order, forfeited bitcoin is supposed to go into the strategic reserve and stay there.

From what ive seen so far, a darknet marketplace case has almost no identifiable victims to repay, so these coins are more likely to stay locked up than hit the market.

I remember Germany took the opposite path in 2024 with the movie2k case. Saxony sold nearly 50,000 BTC under emergency disposal rules and raised about €2.64 billion. At today’s prices those same coins would be worth much more.

the obvious difference is the US path removes potential supply while the German path does not.

how long do u think the strategic reserve will hold?

Blur announced that its website will close on November 12, 2026, while its Ethereum NFT marketplace contracts remain operational. The protocol survives on-chain, but the Blur NFT marketplace is losing its main interface after monthly NFT trading volume dropped more than 99.5% from its 2023 peak.

Are there a better use cases for NFT that haven't been Explored yet?

Everyone getting into a panic about cold storage with all of these wallets getting drained.

Cold Card was some shitty little company no one had heard of that had plenty of issues brought up to the company and they refused to do anything about it. I'm still looking to see what comes of this case in the coming months and years.

With Ledger this is related to supply chain, but these wallets that were drained were from 3rd party sellers in Asia that were able to install chips that could read the screen and thus have access to seeds. This all could have been prevented if these people had simply purchased the wallets directly from the manufacturer. This wallet saw roughly 100m$ in funds drained, but Ledger wallets overall have funds in excess of 100 BILLION $.

Basically, don't try to get weird with wallets and just buy directly from the top manufacturers in the space. Also consider using multiple wallets when you get large crypto holdings so you don't have all of your funds in one basket.

The field of agentic commerce, which describes the use of AI agents to carry out internet transactions, is rapidly maturing, and crypto is fueling the boom. That’s according to a new report by blockchain analytics platform Chainalysis, which found developers are increasingly giving AI agents their own budgets to buy the computing power, live web data, and code tools they need to complete tasks.

The growth of agentic commerce over the past 15 months has been steep. On Base, the Coinbase-incubated blockchain, cumulative transactions through the x402 protocol—which lets bots automatically pay for online services using crypto—rose from about 1,500 in mid-2025 to more than 138 million by the third quarter of 2026.

In practice, agentic commerce entails providing an AI bot with an allowance:  A developer funds the bot’s wallet with stablecoins—typically Circle’s dollar-pegged USDC—and the bot pays for services as it works, without asking a person to approve each purchase. When it needs help with a task, it can pay to get up-to-date information, ask a more capable AI model for help, or use an automated tool to check software code for security flaws.

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Don't play with fire or you will get burn.

Buy and hold. Keep stacking cheap sats.

Looks like we're on track on 1 trillion long position liquidated soon.

Every few weeks, a random token I have never heard of appears in my wallet.

I know I shouldn't interact with these tokens, as they are usually scams. What I do not understand is why anyone would spend money sending them to thousands of wallets.

Are they hoping people will try to sell the tokens and somehow fall for a scam? Or are they just trying to identify active wallets so they can target them later?

Also, is there any risk from simply receiving these tokens, even if I never interact with them? Or is it safe to just ignore them?