Hack or Be Hacked
In September 2026, Chainalysis confirmed what we all knew when it published a figure that should have been front-page news across every crypto publication. Instances of malware instructions written directly into on-chain transactions and smart contracts had risen 440% in under a year, climbing from roughly two cases a day to eleven. The cause wasn’t […]
Inside Core Lightning’s AI-Triggered Security Crisis
The Bugs, the Blackout, and What CLN Node Operators Need to Know 2026 has not been a good year for Blockstream; for fourteen days starting in late August 2026, anyone running a Core Lightning node was asked to operate on trust rather than evidence. No public CVE details, no exploit description, no severity breakdown just […]
3,400 BTC Returned To The Liquid Network
Liquid Network Follow-Up: 3,400 BTC Returned, But the Math on Recovering the Rest Doesn’t Work. It’s been a wild 24 hours in the Bitcoin space, while the main chain remains unaffected. Tick tick, next block! While Bitcoin’s price hasn’t moved dramatically, the Liquid side chain has been decimated and, ironically, has had more eyes on […]
The Liquid Network Gets Hacked
On September 6, 2026, Blockstream’s Liquid Network — A Bitcoin federated sidechain — watched roughly 4,000 of the 4,200 BTC in its federation reserve walk out the door in a single, devastating peg-out. At Bitcoin’s price of around $79,750, that’s approximately $320 million, drained from the exact wallet that’s supposed to back every unit of […]