Uber Eats gift cards are how the FBI says it unmasked the alleged money man behind eight malware-laced games that drained at least $220,000 from crypto wallets. How did a Bitcoin trail lead to a home and a dorm? • Zyaire Wilkins, 21, of North Lauderdale, Florida, is charged with conspiracy over the scheme • The games, including PirateFi and BlockBlasters, infected about 8,000 devices and reached about 80 crypto wallets • The FBI says Bitcoin payments from the scheme went to Bitrefill, which sold 150+ gift cards, Uber Eats among them • Uber's records tied those cards to his home address and University of West Florida dorms • The FBI says he financed and marketed the operation but did not develop the malware These are allegations, and he is presumed innocent. But the pattern is the part worth your attention: the ledger is where the FBI started, but the records that got to a home address came from a delivery app that keeps accounts and logs. The victims, meanwhile, lost coins because they ran a game on a machine that held their wallets. Be aware that a game can empty a wallet sitting on the same computer, and that bitcoin spent through accounts tied to your name is only as private as those accounts.
Bitcoin as a medium of exchange for AI agents is decades away, says @_checkmatey_, and he thinks nobody should stress about it. "We are decades away from that being like a centerpiece of the equation."
Britain paid a record £404.3 million in September to constrain wind power, and £30 million went to wind and gas generators on 30 September alone. A record 1.8 TWh of wind was shut off. Scotland has power with nowhere to go, so why isn't more of it being used?
Bitcoin traded as high as $76,152 a week ago. On Saturday it hit $63,280, the lowest price since Aug 17 and 16.9% below that high. It fell 2.6% in about 35 minutes this afternoon and is down 6.8% over 24 hours.
Hackers' AI agents handed Amazon their own campaign records. Amazon's decoy servers, posing as AI model APIs, caught requests from Oct. 3 to Nov. 5 that carried the agents' operating memory. So who was running them? • Amazon assesses with moderate confidence the agents ran on ARTEX, an open-source AI pentesting framework, citing prompt references to ARTEX tooling • It points to separate Chinese-nexus groups, based on simplified Chinese prompts, China time-zone settings and common tooling • One campaign stole credentials to reach AI models, and the stolen keys paid for further LLM inference • Another used real-time deepfake injection to try to get past a crypto exchange's KYC • The FBI has issued a flash alert, and Censys counted 1,465 hosts with exposed ARTEX consoles as of Nov. 4 Amazon says none of the techniques were new, and that is the point. Open-source tooling plus stolen keys makes this cheap to run at scale, and the developer has since closed the source anyway. If agents can fake a face in real time to go after an exchange's selfie check, why would anyone want their face sitting in a KYC database in the first place?
Bitcoin's UTXO set cannot be forked or replicated, and @_checkmatey_ says that is why Zcash and every other coin fall short. "There is only one original invention of digital scarcity."
Only about 32,000 of the 426,000 federal workers who left since January 2025 were fired. Most resigned or retired. So did government get smaller, or just emptier? The Washington Post puts the net cut at about 255,000 jobs, or 12%, after new hires.
Bitcoin matched the big semiconductor ETF since January 2023, bear market included, and @_checkmatey_ says AI did not eat its lunch. "A lot of ink has been spilled about how AI has eaten Bitcoin's lunch."
Bitcoin at 73K sits in the bottom 25% of its trading history, and @_checkmatey_ says you will never regret accumulating in that zone. "I love a pullback. Here's the pullback, guys. What do you do with it?"
