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Australia orders Cryptolink Bitcoin ATMs offline over ‘basic reporting’ failures

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Australia’s financial watchdog has suspended Cryptolink’s registration for three months, adding to a crackdown that previously saw the Bitcoin ATM operator fined $56,340.

Published Date: 2026-08-10 04:32:36
Creator: Cointelegraph by Felix Ng
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Crypto’s first quantum attack will look like unexplained breach: Quantus founder

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Bad actors with access to a cryptography-breaking quantum computer probably won’t try to announce it to the world by hacking Satoshi Nakamoto’s high-profile Bitcoin wallets, crypto executives say.

Published Date: 2026-08-10 03:34:53
Creator: Cointelegraph by Felix Ng
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BIP-110 dies with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9

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BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.

Published Date: 2026-08-10 00:32:21
Creator: Cointelegraph by Andrew Fenton
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BIP-110 ends with a whimper, CLARITY vote punted: Hodler’s Digest, Aug. 9

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BIP-110 forks itself into oblivion with a “2-block chain” and CLARITY will finally get a Senate vote in September. The odds say that vote will be a No.

Published Date: 2026-08-10 00:32:21
Creator: Cointelegraph by Andrew Fenton
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Ex-US defense secretary calls CLARITY Act a ‘national security bill’

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Former US Defense Secretary Mark Esper says the CLARITY Act is not merely a financial services bill, its a national security one.

Published Date: 2026-08-10 00:31:34
Creator: Cointelegraph by Felix Ng
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BIP-110 Bitcoin branch stalls after two blocks as gap widens

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The enforcing fork remains stuck at Bitcoin’s full mining difficulty as mandatory signaling proceeds with little hashpower support.

Published Date: 2026-08-09 11:00:53
Creator: Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra
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Brazil targets crypto fraud with up to 24-hour transfer hold

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The rules, effective Jan. 1, 2027, cover transactions above $10,000 sent to overseas providers or self-custody wallets, along with other transfers flagged for review.

Published Date: 2026-08-09 09:10:39
Creator: Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra
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BTCPay restricts remote Lightning access after attackers steal funds

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Foundation and Citadel21 reported drained Lightning nodes, but the total amount stolen and number of affected operators remain unknown.

Published Date: 2026-08-09 05:46:07
Creator: Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra
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Bitcoin’s BIP-110 enters mandatory signaling with miner support below 3%

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The deployment milestone tests whether enforcing nodes can sustain the change amid limited miner signaling and discussion of a hard-fork fallback.

Published Date: 2026-08-08 21:17:08
Creator: Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra
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US spot Bitcoin ETFs post best week since April with $1B inflows

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The spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds registered their third-strongest showing since October as institutional demand showed signs of renewed momentum.

Published Date: 2026-08-08 16:20:17
Creator: Cointelegraph by Sam Bourgi
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