BitMEX Hit With 623 BTC Lawsuit After Announcing Shutdown

BKX Services Inc. and David Namdar have filed a class action lawsuit against BitMEX. The plaintiffs accuse the exchange of market manipulation and misappropriating nearly 623 BTC due to forced liquidations. Lawsuit Questions BitMEX’s Liquidation Practices Filed on the same day the exchange announced it would shut down, the two claim that BitMEX’s internal trading…

Here’s Why Bitcoin Dipped Below $64K Today

Bitcoin’s mid-week price rally that drove it to a monthly peak of $67,000 came to a halt, and the asset dipped below $64,000 earlier today, erasing essentially all the gains it had recorded. Here are the two possible reasons behind this nosedive. ETF Investor Exodus At first, we begin with the spot exchange-traded funds tracking…

A 7 year Ledger bug lets attackers rebuild a private key from five signatures in seconds

Zilliqa has suspended native transactions after discovering that roughly five affected signatures from the same private key may provide enough information to reconstruct that key, creating a recovery problem that an ordinary transfer cannot safely solve. The vulnerability is confined to Schnorr signatures generated for native, non-EVM transactions through the Zilliqa Ledger app, according to…

CLARITY Act splits Wall Street and crypto as Goldman Sachs breaks with banks and Charles Hoskinson backs Warren

The revised CLARITY Act is exposing unusual divisions across Wall Street, Washington and the crypto industry as lawmakers struggle to build support for a Senate vote. Senate Republicans this week released a new draft that would bar the president and other federal officials from issuing or sponsoring digital assets. The changes have drawn sharply different…