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first_img Tomek Korbak: OpenAI fired me due to the way I communicated with METR

Former OpenAI employee Tomek Korbak posted on X that last week he was called in to meet with OpenAI's head of security, who stated that they no longer trusted him. Subsequently, security personnel took away his ID badge and escorted him out of the building. He also learned that colleagues balesni and j_asminewang were also fired. Korbak stated that the verbally communicated reason for his dismissal was his communication style with the external evaluation agency METR, but no specific comments, actions, or timing were provided, nor was there any written record.Korbak indicated that communicating with METR was part of his job, as he was the main technical contact for OpenAI with METR. He also mentioned that this summer, OpenAI's agents broke their limitations and infiltrated the artificial intelligence company Hugging Face, after which METR investigated and disclosed the scale of the incident. For months, he had raised security concerns, believing that the team was losing the ability to monitor the thought processes of artificial intelligence agents.Korbak claimed that monitoring agent thought processes is one of the important means of discovering their misconduct and believes this is the real reason for his dismissal. He is concerned that OpenAI will use this dismissal as a reason to reduce cooperation with METR. Balesni and j_asminewang have written to OpenAI management to raise their concerns again and publicly shared the relevant letters in the post.

Analyst: Bitcoin long-term holders have reduced their holdings for 7 consecutive weeks, and the market is still absorbing the selling pressure

Cryptocurrency analyst Axel Adler stated that Bitcoin long-term holders (LTH) have reduced their holdings for the seventh consecutive week, but this has not yet hindered the rise in BTC prices, as the market continues to absorb the supply released by long-term holders.Data shows that the long-term holder supply change indicator remained positive from February to early August this year, during which long-term holders increased their holdings by approximately 1.2 million BTC in May. This indicator turned negative on August 17 and has been in a reduction state for seven consecutive weeks. As of September 28, the long-term holder supply change decreased by 73,400 BTC, a larger reduction compared to the decrease of 1,100 BTC a week earlier. Axel Adler pointed out that compared to the reduction of about 1.07 million BTC by long-term holders in November 2025, the current reduction scale is still relatively limited.If the future reduction scale of long-term holders reaches several hundred thousand BTC again, while BTC prices stop rising, it may indicate that the market's ability to absorb supply is declining. Additionally, the long-term holder SOPR indicator has been above 1 for the second consecutive week, indicating that long-term holders are taking profits. On September 21, this indicator rose to 1.24, the highest level since January of this year; as of September 28, the LTH SOPR was 1.18, meaning that BTC in transfer achieved approximately 18% realized profit compared to the cost basis. Current data shows that long-term holders are gradually taking profits as BTC prices rise, while new demand is still able to absorb the supply released by the market.

Forbes: Europe is accelerating the construction of alternatives to the US dollar stablecoin, with the digital euro and private stablecoins advancing on two fronts

As the US dollar stablecoin continues to dominate the on-chain payment market, Europe is accelerating the development of a digital currency system that reflects its own regulatory framework, monetary sovereignty, and privacy standards, gradually forming two parallel paths: "digital euro + private euro stablecoin." Among them, the European Central Bank is prioritizing privacy protection as an important design focus for the digital euro. Piero Cipollone, a member of the Executive Board of the European Central Bank, stated that the digital euro will provide the highest possible level of privacy under current technological conditions, with offline payments visible only to the payer and payee; in online transactions, the euro system cannot directly identify specific individuals, but banks can still obtain the information required for anti-money laundering.At the same time, private institutions have taken the lead in promoting euro stablecoins. Revolut has begun rolling out EURR to some users in Denmark, Poland, and Portugal, with plans to expand to the entire European Economic Area in the future. EURR operates on Ethereum and is issued by Bridge Building, a subsidiary of Stripe, aiming to maintain a stable value against 1 euro. Forbes points out that the digital euro and EURR are not simply in a substitutive relationship: the former is a public currency issued by the central bank, while the latter is a privately issued on-chain stablecoin. The European digital currency market is developing along these two models simultaneously, with competition focusing on privacy, usability, regulatory clarity, and actual economic value.

Forbes: Bitcoin may solve the Triffin dilemma of the dollar and become a global neutral reserve asset

An article in Forbes states that U.S. Vice President JD Vance's previous views on the global reserve status of the dollar have sparked discussions about the long-term contradictions of the dollar system. The article argues that while the dollar, as a global reserve currency, brings financing advantages, it also creates the "Triffin Dilemma": a national currency struggles to simultaneously meet domestic economic needs and global reserve demands.The article points out that the dollar's reserve status drives global capital inflows into the U.S., enhancing the dollar's value, allowing American consumers to access cheap imported goods, but simultaneously weakening the competitiveness of U.S. manufacturing and exacerbating trade deficits. The author believes that after the end of the Bretton Woods system and the suspension of gold convertibility in 1971, the dollar system continued to operate through U.S. Treasury bonds and the global dollar market, but the core contradictions have not disappeared. Stablecoins, while able to expand the use of the dollar, still rely on U.S. government debt and cannot completely resolve the issue of reserve assets depending on a single country's liabilities.The article states that while gold has non-sovereign attributes, it faces limitations in transportation, verification, and settlement efficiency. Bitcoin, with its fixed supply, lack of need for state credit endorsement, global verifiability, and rapid digital settlement features, may become a new neutral reserve asset. The author suggests that in the future, the dollar can continue to serve as a global transaction and commercial currency, while Bitcoin may gradually take on more roles as a reserve asset, thereby alleviating the global monetary system's dependence on a single country's liabilities. However, the article also notes that Bitcoin currently faces issues such as price volatility, limited institutional adoption, and insufficient maturity of custodial systems. Gold has a financial history spanning hundreds of years, while Bitcoin has only existed for 17 years, and whether it can become a global reserve asset still requires time to verify.
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