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According to a report by The Block, Galaxy Research stated that the Bitcoin bear market ended in June, and it is currently an attractive time to buy and hold.The report noted that Bitcoin has closed above the 50-week moving average for five consecutive weeks as of October 18, after being below that average for 44 weeks; the monthly moving volume of Bitcoin in long-term holding wallets has decreased from 67,000 BTC in 2024 to 34,000 BTC in 2026. Galaxy Research Director Alex Thorn also pointed out that if Bitcoin's weekly close falls below the 50-week moving average of $76,540 and fails to recover within a month, this bullish outlook will be challenged.

Cryptocurrency trader Ansem posted that he is currently bearish on Bitcoin, Ethereum, and large-cap stocks, but he does not believe that ordinary retail speculation will significantly cool down as a result. He expects significant two-way volatility in the market in the fourth quarter, and some on-chain assets are still expected to perform well.Ansem pointed out that this week's Federal Reserve interest rate decision and important earnings reports from several companies will bring significant event risks. AI popular stocks have formed lower highs after peaking and have lost their original trend. However, the current judgment is not bearish on the longer-term market trend; the market may still experience a round of correction before continuing to rise.

According to SoSoValue data, as of 8 AM Eastern Time on October 26, 2026, the total net purchase of Bitcoin by publicly listed companies worldwide (excluding mining companies) for the week was $510 million, an increase of 42.5% compared to two weeks ago.Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) did not purchase Bitcoin last week.The Japanese listed company Metaplanet did not purchase Bitcoin last week.In addition, three other companies announced their Bitcoin purchases or holdings last week. Asset management company Strive announced on October 26 that it spent approximately $510 million last week to purchase 6,182 Bitcoins at a price of $82,732, bringing its total holdings to approximately 43,000 Bitcoins; the UK Bitcoin treasury company The Smarter Web Company announced on October 23 that it invested $1.65 million to purchase 20 Bitcoins at a price of $82,286, bringing its total holdings to 2,850 Bitcoins; French fabless semiconductor company Sequans Communications announced that as of October 23, it held a total of 1,018 Bitcoins, with specific total purchase amounts and average Bitcoin costs undisclosed.As of the time of publication, the total amount of Bitcoin held by the publicly listed companies included in the statistics (excluding mining companies) is 1,167,845 Bitcoins, an increase of 0.5% compared to two weeks ago, with a current market value of approximately $93.64 billion, accounting for 5.8% of Bitcoin's circulating market value.

Blockstream Chief Marketing Officer Peter Bain stated in a recent interview that Bitcoin has maintained the $81,000 mark amid stock market sell-offs, rising 10-year U.S. Treasury yields, and turmoil in Europe, which he described as "a very, very strong signal." He made this statement during a conversation with Grace Remington and Sean Hagan.Bain emphasized that technological development precedes price and discussed topics such as adoption, stablecoins, and tokenized stocks. He introduced Blockstream's new center established in Lugano and a new consulting department aimed at institutional clients, while explaining why treasury companies are mainly concentrated in the United States and why Switzerland will become the next market—Switzerland's clear regulatory framework and strong banking foundation make it an ideal launch market.Regarding quantum computing, Bain believes that the related threats will take decades to materialize, and that Bitcoin's real weaknesses lie elsewhere. He referenced the PHP vulnerability incident, stating that the industry needs to rethink the way software is released, and introduced Blockstream's research on quantum-resistant signature solutions, how consensus can be reached for quantum upgrades, and the Bitcoin Security Alliance. Additionally, he provided the first update on the Liquid Network event progress: the exchange service has been restored, the network is back online, and users can transfer Bitcoin back to the main chain. Looking ahead to 2027, Bain stated that institutional clients believe Bitcoin "is expected to usher in a major bull market."

According to Catcher Predict monitoring, in the market prediction event "Bitcoin Breakthrough on October 26" on Polymarket, the "Yes" option in the sub-market "80,000" experienced severe fluctuations in winning probability, plummeting from 72.5% an hour ago to the current 43% (a fluctuation of 29.5%). Please note the impact of related breaking news.

A researcher successfully cracked the "Steal My Bitcoin" challenge using a PHP vulnerability.The prize for the challenge was 0.02511679 BTC. However, the challenge operators later discovered that the server had saved the wrong wallet key, and ultimately had to manually transfer the prize to the researcher.

Empery Digital (NASDAQ: EMPD) plans to invest $65 million to acquire a 25% stake in a private entity that is acquiring an AI data center property in the Midwest of the United States. The facility currently has approximately 150 MW of power capacity and its own substation, with the potential to expand to about 300 MW in the future.According to information previously disclosed by the company, the project is expected to adopt a 15-year triple net lease (NNN) model, with a potential total lease payment of approximately $1 billion. Based on prior plans, the lease income corresponding to the 25% stake held by Empery is expected to exceed $440 million during the lease term, with payments expected to begin in early 2027. However, the relevant lease arrangements are still subject to the final signed formal agreement.This investment reflects that Empery is expanding its business layout from Bitcoin treasury to the AI infrastructure sector. The company previously stated that its financial commitment to the project is limited to $65 million, and potential tenants will bear the costs of data center renovation, electricity, and operational expenses.

According to Watcher.Guru, asset management giant Vanguard disclosed the purchase of $7.5 million worth of shares in the Japanese Bitcoin treasury listed company Metaplanet (3350.T), indirectly positioning itself in Bitcoin through this investment.

According to data from the Strategy official website, Strategy did not purchase Bitcoin last week, and the Bitcoin holdings remain at 848,517 coins.During the same period, the circulating face value of its STRC preferred stock decreased from approximately $8.598 billion to approximately $8.391 billion, a reduction of about $207 million; the annualized total preferred stock dividend decreased from approximately $1.534 billion to approximately $1.509 billion.

According to CoinDesk, a snapshot from Galaxy Research in October shows that out of approximately 21 million mined Bitcoins, about 11.1 million (approximately 55%) are held in addresses that cannot be linked to exchanges, funds, governments, or other known entities. Alex Thorn, the head of research at Galaxy, stated that this indicates that despite the increasing institutionalization, a significant amount of Bitcoin may still be self-custodied by individuals. Xapo Bank believes this reflects the fact that retail investors have been in the market for over a decade.However, this portion of unallocated Bitcoin does not all belong to individuals who have been self-custodying for the long term; it may also include coins that are inaccessible due to lost private keys or the death of the holder, holdings from institutions or over-the-counter traders that Galaxy has not yet identified, as well as custodial assets spread across multiple addresses. The remaining 45% has been allocated, including ETFs from issuers like exchanges and BlackRock, as well as the U.S. government; among them, the single largest holder is "Satoshi Nakamoto (Patoshi model)," holding 1,123,658 BTC.

According to Bitcoin.com, Yuridia Trujillo, a tax preparer from Meriden, Connecticut, is accused of fabricating stock and cryptocurrency trading losses in tax returns prepared for clients through her company, Yuri's LLC, for the tax years 2017 to 2024, for assets that the clients never actually held. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stated that she is also suspected of using Form 8888 to divert part of the clients' tax refunds into bank accounts belonging to herself and an associated individual.A federal grand jury indicted her on October 7, and she was arrested on October 9. She is currently out on bail of $50,000 and faces 19 counts of aiding in the preparation of false income tax returns, with each conviction carrying a maximum sentence of three years in prison. The case remains an accusation, and she is presumed innocent until proven guilty. Previously, Texas Bitcoin investor Frank Richard Ahlgren III was sentenced to two years in prison in December 2024 for inflating the cost of Bitcoin purchases and was ordered to pay approximately $1.095 million in restitution.

On October 24, the Bitcoin lightweight wallet Electrum disclosed a malicious server attack targeting transaction fee increases and fixed it in version 4.8.3, corresponding to GitHub security advisory GHSA-6jp4-8v48-cc5v. Users may inadvertently sign funds over to the attacker when performing regular fee increases on transactions. Developers stated that the issue arose after users reported losing funds after signing fee increases.The results of two reports differed: one person discovered that transactions in the wallet history were replaced after broadcasting a payment and claimed that the original payment did not enter the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network and was withheld by the server; another person, Raju-K12, reported losing funds due to the fee increase on the replaced transaction. In the attack, the malicious server withheld new transactions broadcasted by the client and inserted a conflicting transaction into the history, replacing the original output with the attacker's address. The replacement transaction was signed invalidly at that time, but the lightweight client did not verify these signatures before displaying unconfirmed transactions; after the user manually increased the fee and signed through RBF, the attacker received the funds. Both individuals claimed that the last four digits of the attacker's address were the same as those of the legitimate receiving address. The announcement did not disclose the amount stolen, transaction identifiers, or the attacker's address.The patch corresponds to commit 90fe308, which checks the signatures of the wallet's own inputs before writing memory pool transactions to local history, but does not overwrite inputs from external addresses of the wallet and does not perform complete consensus verification. The announcement suggests that users who have not upgraded should verify the output address and amount each time they sign; clients connected to their own or trusted servers are not affected by this attack. On the timeline, the issue was first privately disclosed on October 11, received reports of fee loss on October 18, the fixed version was tagged on October 23, and the binary and public disclosure occurred on October 24.

According to BBX data, last weekend, publicly listed companies and brokerages worldwide disclosed the latest developments in digital asset treasury allocation and trading channel services, with the core information as follows:The Smarter Web Company increased its holdings by 20 bitcoins: The London-listed technology company The Smarter Web Company officially announced that it recently made another asset allocation, increasing its holdings by 20 bitcoins. After this purchase, the company's total bitcoin holdings on its balance sheet have steadily risen to 2,850 BTC.Marinade released Q3 financial report, SOL staking volume increased significantly by 21.2%: The well-known Solana staking ecosystem project Marinade released its third-quarter financial report. The data shows that its SOL staking volume achieved significant growth, increasing by 21.2% to 7.94 million SOL. The company generated approximately $1 million in revenue for the quarter, demonstrating a robust cash flow in the on-chain staking ecosystem.Futu Securities (Hong Kong) launched BNB deposit and withdrawal services for qualified professional investors: Futu Holdings' Futu Securities International (Hong Kong) Limited officially announced the full launch of BNB deposit and withdrawal services for qualified professional investors (PI) in Hong Kong. Qualified investors can now use the BNB Smart Chain (BEP20) network to deposit funds from self-custody wallets to Futu crypto accounts or withdraw to verified whitelist addresses. Previously, Futu's wholly-owned licensed virtual asset trading platform in Hong Kong, PantherTrade, had already launched BNB trading pairs.

According to USA Today, McDonald's McRib is set to return and will be available for a limited time in select U.S. cities, with confirmed cities including Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, Atlanta, Philadelphia, and Dallas.Related discussions mention that historically, every time McDonald's McRib returns, Bitcoin has seen a significant increase, prompting some users in the crypto community to urge investors not to short McRib.

According to Bitcoin.com News, Timothy Wadsworth, a man from Rochester, New York, was sentenced to 51 months in prison for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, and was ordered to pay approximately $810,000 in restitution.The U.S. Department of Justice stated that between March and May 2020, Wadsworth initiated 310 unauthorized payments totaling approximately $1.6736 million using account information provided by accomplices through the payment service provider Stripe, of which 116 transactions were successful, amounting to approximately $730,700. He then transferred some of the funds to bank accounts under his control and purchased Bitcoin through Coinbase, which he then transferred to his accomplices.

According to U.S. SEC filings, Franklin Templeton has registered two index ETFs that reinvest stock dividends into Bitcoin for listing on Nasdaq, namely the Franklin US Equity Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FBEQ) and the Franklin US Innovation Bitcoin DRIP Index ETF (FIBT).

Utexo co-founder Viktor Ihnatiuk tweeted that the bridged version of USDT launched on the Bitcoin network will initially be aimed at institutions, as there is currently a strong demand from institutions for minting, redeeming, and fund transfers.He pointed out that large fund transfers need to avoid wallet activity being viewed by others and front-running trades, and the launch arrangements for retail users will be announced later.

Bitcoin News posted on the X platform that Lightning Labs has opened Wavelength to all users. The AI agent can autonomously send and receive payments on the Bitcoin mainnet via the Lightning Network and L402 without requiring manual approval for each transaction.The AI agent can use its payment API to call fees, purchase data, and trade with other agents, with single transaction fees as low as less than 1 cent; developers can integrate payment functionality into their applications without running a Lightning Network node, managing channels, or raising liquidity. This self-hosted toolkit supports independent on-chain exits, with an initial limit of 300,000 satoshis per wallet, and the Lightning Network payments incur a service fee of 0.25%. Wavelength is currently still in the Alpha stage and plans to support stablecoins.