New evidence has emerged that contradicts previous reports suggesting that Hal Finney was the pseudonymous creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto. Jameson Lopp, co-founder of Bitcoin custody firm Casa, presented new evidence challenging the theory, including race data showing that Finney was participating in a 10-mile race at the same time that Nakamoto was conducting transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain and responding to emails.

Bitcoin reached a new three-month high on October 23, surpassing $30,000 for the first time since the summer and approaching key long-term resistance levels. Analysts suggest that Bitcoin may experience a significant move higher, with similarities to just before the year-to-date high.

Investors have shown confidence in risk-bet assets, leading to significant gains in the crypto market despite geopolitical turmoil and macroeconomic concerns. The fear and greed index indicates a neutral sentiment in the market, but is moving towards "greed" territory. Pepe Coin, Chainlink, Fantom, and Aptos are among the top gainers in the market. Aptos has experienced recent gains in performance, which is reflected in its chart. There are rumors of a potential acquisition of the Wikimedia Foundation by Elon Musk.

Bitcoin continues to rally, surpassing $30,000, but there are concerns as short positions pile up. Crypto analyst Ali Martinez notes that about 60% of Binance accounts holding open BTC futures positions are taking short positions.

Bitcoin Lightning Network, a solution designed to speed up transactions on the Bitcoin blockchain, has been found to have a major vulnerability. The flaw, known as "replacement cycling attacks," could allow attackers to disrupt the normal flow of transactions and potentially cause loss of funds within the network's channels.

Bitcoin (BTC) has been boosted by bullish signals from traditional rate-sensitive assets like gold, with the cryptocurrency reaching its highest value since July 15 at $30,797 during Monday's Asian trading hours. While gold has seen a 6.7% gain in the past month, BTC has risen by 14%.

Javier Milei, a pro-Bitcoin presidential candidate in Argentina, did not win the first round of the election and will now compete in a run-off vote on November 19th. With over 90% of the vote counted, economy minister Sergio Massa was in the lead with over 36% support, while Milei trailed at just over 30%.

Data shows that in the past 4 hours, the total liquidation on the entire network was $44.725 million, with long positions liquidated at $4.364 million and short positions liquidated at $40.3633 million. BTC liquidation was $11.2242 million and ETH liquidation was $14.1435 million.

According to Coinglass data, the total liquidation in the past hour was 29.2659 million US dollars, with ETH liquidation of 9.9327 million US dollars and BTC liquidation of 9.2296 million US dollars. Short positions liquidation was 27.6788 million US dollars, accounting for about 94.5%.

October 23rd, the BitVol (Bitcoin volatility) index launched by financial index company T3 Index in collaboration with Bitcoin options trading platform LedgerX rose to 51.08, with a daily increase of 6.57%. BlockBeats note: The BitVol index measures the 30-day expected implied volatility derived from tradable Bitcoin options prices. Implied volatility refers to the volatility implied by the actual option price.

yuga.eth, a senior software engineer at Coinbase, posted on X platform that he believes one of the most important things that needs to be addressed in cryptocurrency is a fundamental way to connect Bitcoin and Ethereum, beyond custodial BTC like wBTC. The joint BIP/EIP has opened up a way for BTC to be bridged internally/externally in Ethereum.

According to BTC.com data, the current number of unconfirmed transactions on the Bitcoin network is 12,369, the network's computing power is 437.68 EH/s, and the 24-hour transaction rate is 2.95 transactions/s. The current network difficulty is 61.03 T, and the next difficulty adjustment is predicted to increase by 1.82% to 62.14T, which is 7 days away.

MicroStrategy purchased approximately 54,450 bitcoins for around $147.3 million between August 1, 2023 and September 24, 2023. As per the company's purchase documents, as of September 24, 2023, MicroStrategy holds approximately 158,245 bitcoins with a total purchase price of around $4.68 billion. In the midst of a volatile market, the profitability of MicroStrategy's bitcoin holdings has improved. With an average total purchase price of $29,582 per bitcoin, the company has currently realized a total profit of around $67.4 million with bitcoin trading at $30,000.

According to Dune data, the amount of Ordinal Inscriptions has significantly decreased since mid-September, leading to a reduction in the number of confirmed Bitcoin transactions per day. The amount of Inscriptions plummeted on September 24, 2023 and has not rebounded since. As of block height 813,333, the amount of Inscriptions is 35,377,327. From September 1 to September 15, 2023, the average daily number of Bitcoin transactions was 528,503. This month is completely different: from October 1 to October 21, the average daily number of transactions is 284,704. This means that the average daily number of transactions in the first half of September was 46.13% higher than the first three weeks of October. In September 2023, the average daily number of confirmed Bitcoin transactions was about 489,165. In August, the average daily number of confirmed transactions was 464,969; in July it was 455,893; in June, this number was 404,906. So far, the average daily number of transactions in 2023 is about 392,170; in 2022, this number was 255,085. Despite the 46% decrease in the average daily number of Bitcoin transactions in October compared to September, it has increased by 53% compared to the same period last year. (Bitcoin.com)

The encrypted KOL Bitcoin Archive posted on X platform, stating that according to FactSet data, as of October 20th, Bitcoin has been the best-performing asset class since August 2020 (when MicroStrategy first bought Bitcoin). During this period, Bitcoin rose by 147%, while the S&P 500 index rose by 26% and the Nasdaq index rose by 18%; gold fell by 3%, silver fell by 19%, and bonds fell by 24%.

Bitcoin infrastructure company Blockstream has issued a warning on the X platform that someone has impersonated Blockstream and sent a phishing email. The team is currently investigating and during this time, please note: - Do not click on any suspicious emails claiming to be from Blockstream. Blockstream will never ask for personal information via email; - Never enter your seed phrase online or share it with anyone, even if they claim to be from the Blockstream support team. - Users should only update their Jade hardware wallet through the BlockstreamGreen wallet application or dedicated firmware website.

On October 21st, a developer named mononaut shared a new vulnerability in the Bitcoin Lightning Network called the "replacement loop attack" on X, which prompted well-known security researchers and developers, including Antoine Riard, to resign from their positions in the Lightning Network development team. This attack exploits a specific mechanism in the Lightning Network transaction process, potentially causing economic losses to users participating in the channel. The attack unfolds in multiple steps. Initially, when a payment is routed from Alice to Carol through a user (such as Bob), the payment is protected by the HTLC output in each peer's pre-signed channel commitment with Bob. One key feature of this setup is the time lock mechanism, which ensures that the outgoing HTLC to Carol expires before the incoming HTLC from Alice, providing Bob with a window to react in case of any issues. The attacker's goal is to exploit this mechanism by forcing Bob to time out the on-chain transaction when Carol fails to reveal the payment preimage before the time lock expires in block T. After doing so, Bob broadcasts a transaction to close the channel with Carol and reclaim the funds through an "htlc-timeout" transaction. The attacker then quickly broadcasts a higher fee "htlc-preimage" transaction to replace Bob's transaction in the mempool. This loop is repeated to prevent Bob's attempts to reclaim the funds, and if the loop continues for multiple blocks, it eventually allows Alice to time out the HTLC on another channel, causing Bob to suffer economic losses.

According to Coinglass data, the total liquidation in the past hour was $14.175 million, with $4.1142 million in BTC liquidation and $1.0217 million in LINK liquidation. Long positions accounted for about 92.9% of the total liquidation, with a liquidation of $13.174 million.

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According to CoinGecko data, Bitcoin's market share has risen to a new high since April 2021, currently reported at 49.85%; Ethereum's market share is currently reported at 16.6%; USDT's market share is currently reported at 7.22%. The current total market value of cryptocurrencies on the entire network is approximately $1.1695 trillion, with a daily increase of 0.55%.