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A Jacksonville woman is taking legal action against Florida-based VyStar Credit Union after suffering major losses from an impersonation scam that drained her accounts. The proposed lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in Jacksonville, Florida and covers about $42,000 in alleged losses from unauthorized account access and transactions, reports News4JAX. Unknown persons accessed her online banking, changed her password and later posed as credit union representatives by phone to obtain her debit card via courier. Between November 13 and November 20, 2025, fraudsters drained roughly $42,000 through internal transfers, ATM withdrawals in Broward and Palm Beach counties, and purchases…

In brief Sparrow Wallet released version 2.5.4 following an AI-assisted code review. Developer Craig Raw said the review produced most of the update’s fixes. He found no signs of exploitation but recommends updating. Privacy-focused Bitcoin wallet developer Sparrow Wallet released version 2.5.4 on Thursday after an AI-assisted code review that yielded most of the update’s fixes, developer Craig Raw told Decrypt.Raw said the review was prompted primarily by the release of unrestricted Chinese AI models and the new ability to search large codebases for potential exploits. He did not identify the models used to review Sparrow.Myriad: When will OpenAI release…

In brief Android 17 adds platform support for Encrypted Client Hello, which encrypts the domain name sent when a connection opens so the network can’t read the destination. Google describes the release as the first broad Encrypted Client Hello rollout on a major mobile OS, built with its Jigsaw team and outside developers. The protection covers only sites and apps that have switched Encrypted Client Hello on; a destination that hasn’t still exposes its domain to carriers, Wi-Fi operators, and network snoops. If you’re an Android user, your internet browsing just got a little more private.Google’s mobile operating system Android…

In brief StarkWare says the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction has been mined on Bitcoin mainnet. The method uses hash-based security without changing Bitcoin’s consensus rules. StarkWare still favors a soft fork as a long-term defense against quantum computers. Starkware, the blockchain infrastructure company behind Ethereum layer-2 network Starknet, says the first quantum-safe Bitcoin transaction has been mined on the Bitcoin mainnet, testing a way to protect funds from future quantum attacks without changing the network’s consensus rules.In a blog post on Wednesday, Starkware said the transaction used Quantum-Safe Bitcoin, or QSB, a method developed by Starkware researcher Avihu Levy. Levy…

In brief About 81,700 Bitcoin options worth $6.44 billion expire on Deribit at 08:00 UTC Friday, split between 44,639 calls and 37,061 puts for a put-to-call ratio of 0.83. Deribit’s max pain level sits between $68,000 and $70,000, roughly $9,000 to $11,000 below Bitcoin’s price near $79,000. Call open interest is concentrated at the $75,000 and $80,000 strikes, with more than $500 million in notional sitting within 5% of spot price. Bitcoin options worth $6.44 billion expire Friday on the cryptocurrency derivatives exchange Deribit. It’s a whopping big number, just as the Bitcoin market heats up again and sentiment shifts…

Japan Bitcoin Industry Co., Ltd. has debuted a self-custodial Bitcoin payments platform designed to help Japanese companies sell to international fans who are often shut out by traditional payment systems. Using this week’s Bitcoin Asia conference in Hong Kong to introduce the product, JPI dropped Aurora — aiming to reach an audience that could not be serviced before.  The pitch is simple: anime, manga, games, and other Japanese content have a massive global following, but the payment rails supporting that content haven’t kept pace.  香港で開催中のbitcoinasiaに当社取締役の加藤( @btc_dakara ) が登壇します。ビットコインとステーブルコインの関係について登壇者の方々とお話しいたします。 https://t.co/8e1aKAvjgv— 日本ビットコイン産業株式会社 (@JBIinc_bitcoin) August 27, 2026 Aurora aims to close that gap…

Should fund managers dealing in Bitcoin be worried about the threat of quantum computing?  The short answer is yes — but there’s time to prepare and solutions are already being found. One of them? Post-quantum Bitcoin transactions on the mainnet. And the first one happened this week thanks to the Starknet Foundation.  JUST IN: The first post-quantum resistant Bitcoin transaction was mined today.”It required no soft forks. It required no hard forks. It required no core protocol upgrades. And it’s live today.” pic.twitter.com/YyZbHhm8HI— Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) August 27, 2026 Speaking at Bitcoin Asia in Hong Kong on Thursday, Damian Chen,…

In brief Bitcoin trades at $80,526, up 1.9% on the day, after getting rejected near $81,265 earlier this week. The Fed’s Jackson Hole symposium opened today under the theme “Financial Innovation: Implications for Payments and Policy,” with new Chair Kevin Warsh’s keynote due Friday. The charts are signaling overbought conditions for BTC, even as the broader trend score seems bullish. Bitcoin is knocking on the door of its next major resistance wall right as the world’s most-watched central banking conference gets underway with an agenda that, for once, is actually about crypto’s own back yard.BTC is changing hands at $80,526,…

In brief U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs have seen inflows of $2.8 billion across eight consecutive trading sessions. Daily inflows have retreated from a peak of $606 million on August 20 to $232 million on Wednesday. HashKey’s Tim Sun told Decrypt the streak matters more than any single day, though its shrinking size points to weakening buying pressure. Bitcoin traded around $79,520 on Thursday, up 1.1% over the past day after touching an intraday high of $80,475, according to CoinGecko data, as U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs extended a run that has drawn $2.8 billion across eight consecutive trading sessions.BlackRock’s IBIT accounted…

A flaw in software used by at least five crypto wallets made some recovery phrases predictable enough for attackers to reconstruct, contributing to at least $5.69 million in traced thefts since May.Earlier this month, blockchain security firm Coinspect said RRWallet, Bexo Wallet, NanChat, Bitcoin Libre and Milo used a weak random-number generator from the CryptoJS library to create some crypto wallet recovery phrases.According to the security firm:“The vulnerable implementation was introduced in June 2014 as part of an attempt to strengthen WordArray.random() in response to GitHub issue #7, “randomBytes is not random enough”, and was implemented in commit ff1f003.”Malicious attackers…

In brief Flock Safety CEO Garrett Langley told Fox News that the country has to prioritize a compromise between privacy and safety. He compared calls for an outright ban to banning vehicles, pointing to drunk driving and seatbelt laws as the better model. Langley’s remarks followed a Washington Post investigation that found police departments were not auditing how officers used the cameras. The CEO of Flock Safety has called for “compromise” amid a growing backlash against the company’s AI-powered license plate cameras, which have been vandalized across the country and have drawn bipartisan fire in Congress.”What we have to prioritize…

August 27th, 2026 – Singapore, Singapore TermMax, a fixed-rate lending protocol built by Term Structure Labs, announced on August 26 that it has received a strategic investment from YZi Labs. Terms were not disclosed. TermMax was selected for YZi Labs’ EASY Residency Season 3 and has raised more than $8 million to date. Its earlier backers include Cumberland DRW — which led the 2023 seed round — HashKey Capital, Decima Fund, Longling Capital and MZ Web3 Fund. The protocol has been live on mainnet since April 2025 and now runs across 10 EVM-compatible chains, with 60 fixed-rate markets, 40 strategy…

Morning Minute is a daily newsletter written by Tyler Warner. The analysis and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Decrypt.GM!Today’s top news: Crypto majors are green led by SOL +7%; BTC at $79.4k ETF inflow streak continues, ETH outperforms Pump hits another local high in revenue, adds HyperEVM Ansem and Cashcat hit major new ATHs as onchain levels up ACK’s ‘Argonauts’ sell out in 5 mins, see 1,600 ETH secondary action 📈 Robinhood Chain Levels Up as Memes and RWAs SoarRobinhood Chain is heating up, and it’s cat, dog and infrastructure plays driving the run.…