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by Brandon Marshall & Kate Parkman
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- Today36 min
A Fake Job Interview Cost Binance $6.3 Billion
Binance's post-mortem traces the $6.3 billion hack to a fake Homebrew download and a fake job interview. Plus Democrats sweep the midterms, Paraguay's Ueno Bank goes dark overnight, Bullish joins the Stacks Bitcoin bonds, and BTCPay Server hot wallets get drained. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: Binance's post-mortem: in June an engineer installed a fake Homebrew found through a search engine. Security caught it, but the attacker had already learned who that engineer worked with. Attackers then posed as recruiters on real job sites and sent one engineer a coding assignment carrying malware. An internal AI tool let them take over other engineers' computers. On October 29 the attacker used EIP-7702 to give a malicious contract partial execution rights over a hot wallet, so freezing withdrawals couldn't stop it. The FBI confirmed North Korea; North Korea denies it. Binance says 98% of impacted assets were replenished by October 31, and deposits are already coming back. Brandon: a week later it's old news. Kate on social engineering: paranoia needs to be on all the time. Brandon on the fake Zoom update trap. Democrats won the House and Senate despite a record $176M from crypto super PACs. About $64M went against Sherrod Brown, who won anyway. Kate expects the Clarity Act to fizzle out by January 3. Brandon flags reporting that House Democrats want to fold its provisions into a broader bill next Congress. Paraguay shut down Ueno Bank after an audit put solvency below half the legal minimum, cutting nearly 3 million customers off overnight. The central bank's president ran Ueno until 2023 and has resigned. BitGo clients can now stake Bitcoin on Stacks from custody. Bond 3 opened at 1,005 BTC with Bullish in the bond, and capacity has roughly doubled each month. BTCPay Server warned that hot wallets on version 2.4.1 or older are being drained. If you run it, upgrade. SoFi's SOFIE tokenized deposit went public at 4.4% APY with FDIC protection. Bull Bitcoin became the first exchange to add Payjoin, and New Jersey dropped its staking case against Coinbase. Treasury tracker: Strategy +810 (849,327), American Bitcoin +127, Strive +124, Block +120, Coinbase +46. Riot sold 8,962, Hut 8 sold 3,000+, Keel sold its whole treasury. Tether says it owns about 150,000. Follow the show on X: @goodforbtc Hosts: Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing Kate Parkman — @katemparkman Subscribe & Follow: goodforbitcoin.com YouTube Spotify Amazon Music Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts RSS
- 1 weeks ago32 min
Binance Got Hacked for $6.3 Billion: SAFU or SBF?
Binance lost an estimated $6.3 billion after an attacker got in through one engineer's laptop, the same playbook that hit Bitget a month earlier. Plus the NYSE's owner wants Hyperliquid perps in the US, Keystone is destroying 18,000 wallets, and Bitwise raises its 2036 target to $1.6M. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: Binance says a compromised DevOps engineer's laptop let an attacker submit unauthorized withdrawals. Estimated impact: $6.3B, no sign of a private key leak, deposits and withdrawals frozen. Binance says its SAFU fund will cover every loss. Tether froze $1.5B in USDT and Circle froze $800M in USDC, but 18,270 BTC looks to be on its way to North Korea. Brandon watched FTX collapse from his seat running social at BlockFi, and he thinks it's far too early to be thanking CZ. Kate's read: people trust Binance to cover it, and they're numb from a year of hacks. The NYSE's owner, ICE, wants to bring Hyperliquid perpetual futures to regulated US markets through Trade XYZ, pending CFTC approval. Kate's favorite reply: "Finally, a fully regulated way to lose your savings in an afternoon." Keystone is destroying more than 18,000 devices after an attacker stole the factory key that proves a device is genuine. Foundation's old customer records leaked into phishing emails. DataVault AI shares fell 50% after it disclosed it hasn't been able to withdraw its Bitcoin from the Biconomy exchange since June. Kate: if you can't withdraw it, you don't own it. UAE real estate firm Standard Asset Company announced a $1.5B plan pairing property with a Bitcoin reserve run by Coinbase Asset Management. Strategy skipped buying on earnings week, bought back $205M of STRC, and posted a record $20.91B Q3 operating income. Daily dividends start November 1 for STRC, and CFO Andrew Kang steps down November 5. Fidelity Digital Assets says Bitcoin holders' unrealized profit metric jumped from 0.09 to 0.36, a level that has historically coincided with a median one-year return of 93%. Bitwise raised its 2036 base case from $1.3M to $1.6M per Bitcoin, with a $130K bear case and a $3.6M bull case. Kate found Dishing Up Bitcoin, DDC Enterprise's Bitcoin cooking show (Jeff Booth was a guest). Treasury tracker: Strive +6,182 BTC (about 43,000, its biggest buy since January), Coinbase +643 (17,954) and Empery Digital sold 161 (1,018). Follow the show on X: @goodforbtc Hosts: Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing Kate Parkman — @katemparkman Subscribe & Follow: goodforbitcoin.com YouTube Spotify Amazon Music Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts RSS
- 2 weeks ago21 min
The McRib Indicator Is Back: PHP Flaws, a Railway Breach, and JPMorgan Picks Bitcoin
Two critical PHP flaws put an estimated 70% of websites at risk, Next.js and Railway got hit the same week, and Brandon flies solo to sort out what it means for your Bitcoin. Plus JPMorgan forecasts Bitcoin beating stocks and gold, Strive launches SATS, and the McRib is back. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon discusses: Kate is moving across the country, so it's a solo show. She should be back next week. Two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the server-side language behind roughly 70% of websites, could let attackers run code remotely, one of the most serious kinds of bug. Next.js, the fourth-largest web framework, had its own major vulnerability, and Railway was breached, exposing customer environment variables, including AI API keys. Brandon's take: painful now, but the internet comes out stronger. Jameson Lopp's open letter: when security controls fail, learn from the failure and architect a more robust system. And plan for what happens to your Bitcoin if something happens to you. AnchorWatch launched a trust company for whales: fixed-dollar custody fees capped at $10,000 a month, a multi-institution option splitting keys across AnchorWatch, BitGo, and CoinCorner, and up to $370M in insurance per client, including kidnapping and coercion. Heatbit unveiled Bitwater, a heating element that mines Bitcoin inside the electric water heater you already have. Brandon's gas heaters don't qualify yet. JPMorgan Asset Management added Bitcoin to its Long-Term Capital Market Assumptions for the first time: a 10% compounded 10-year base case with 55% volatility, ahead of US large caps (7.5%) and gold (5.5%). SoFi announced SoFi Earn, a tokenized deposit paying 4.4% APY with FDIC insurance, something no stablecoin can offer under the GENIUS Act. Strive launched SATS, a preferred paying 15% annualized dividends every business day. SATA targets price stability; SATS targets income stability. It debuted at $90. Bitkey added auto-withdraw from Cash App once your BTC balance hits a threshold: DCA straight into cold storage. The McRib returns 10/27, and McDonald's marketing director nodded to the Bitcoin meme in his announcement. Treasury tracker: Strategy +267 (848,517 BTC) plus $193M of STRC repurchases, with its buyback program raised from $2B to $3B. Strive +1,223 (36,818). Alpha Modus Holdings enters at 3,170 BTC, the 27th-largest public holder. Follow the show on X: @goodforbtc. Hosts: Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing Kate Parkman — @katemparkman Subscribe & Follow: goodforbitcoin.com YouTube Spotify Amazon Music Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts RSS
- 3 weeks ago24 min
Ledger Launched a Phone: Soldiers Charged in Crypto Kidnapping, Choke Point 2.0 Confirmed
Days after spy-chipped devices from one of its resellers drained Ledger users, Ledger unveiled a phone. Plus three Canadian soldiers are charged in the kidnapping of a crypto exchange owner, the OCC confirms Operation Choke Point 2.0 was real, and Binance shuts down its mining pool. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: The Ledger theft traces back to CryptoBilis, a third-party reseller in Southeast Asia. Thieves allegedly paid it to plant SIM-card implants that sent out recovery phrases. Brandon: you shouldn't have to crack open your hardware wallet to check every chip. Then Ledger unveiled Atom, a phone-shaped device running Android next to Ledger's secure OS, built with Solana Mobile so AI agents can request transactions you approve. Brandon says read the room. Kate: the comments just want the devices to be safe. Trezor is scaling back its third-party reseller program and cutting a large share of its resellers starting in 2027. Binance is shutting down its mining pool on November 10 after six years and 22,188 blocks, the third major pool to go this year after SBI Crypto and Poolin. Brandon: every four years your profits get cut in half. Block is teasing a Square credit card that earns 3% back in Bitcoin, listed as in progress on its public roadmap. Seven men, three of them Canadian Armed Forces members, face 82 charges for kidnapping a Toronto crypto exchange owner at gunpoint in July. Brandon's defense: time locks and multisig from services like Casa and Unchained. The OCC's debanking report found all nine of the largest banks it supervises had debanking policies from 2020 to 2025, confirming Operation Choke Point 2.0. Crypto, coal, firearms, and tobacco were all targeted. Treasury hit Bank of America with a $1.2B fine for money laundering and sanctions violations, its third-largest penalty ever behind Binance ($4B) and TD Bank ($3B). Brandon: it's not isolated to crypto. Binance.US is looking to raise up to $100M at a roughly $1B valuation, per Bloomberg. OKX is teasing a Mastercard-powered stablecoin card for the US with 2% cash back, up to 10% for VIP members. Treasury tracker: Strategy +250 (848,250 BTC), Strive +2,822 (35,595, now the fourth-largest treasury company), CleanSpark sold 173 (13,530), Smarter Web Company +83 (2,830), BitFuFu +15 (1,388), and Super League made its first buy, 1 BTC. Follow the show on X: @goodforbtc. Hosts: Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing Kate Parkman — @katemparkman Subscribe & Follow: goodforbitcoin.com YouTube Spotify Amazon Music Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts RSS
- 4 weeks ago30 min
Strike Launched Stacks: Treasury Kills the Unhosted Wallet Rule, Robinhood Buys Bitcoin
Strike named its new savings buckets "Stacks," and when Brandon pointed out Stacks already exists, a Strike team member called it an affinity scam. Plus Treasury withdraws the unhosted wallet and mixer rules, the CFTC builds a federal crypto license without Congress, and Robinhood buys Bitcoin. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: Strike launched Stacks, named buckets for your Bitcoin and cash savings. Brandon replied that Stacks already exists, and Strike's Matt Carvalho, formerly of Swan, answered that STX is too irrelevant to be a brand conflict. Kate: it's not a good look. Strike also now pays 3.6% interest on cash, paid out in Bitcoin, FDIC insured, with no minimums or maximums. Treasury formally withdrew FinCEN's 2020 unhosted wallet proposal and its 2023 rule labeling international crypto mixing a primary money laundering concern. Brandon calls it a win for self-custody and privacy, and shouts out Coin Center for fighting both. CFTC Chairman Michael Selig announced the agency's first crypto market rules, Regulation CTX and Regulation CAM, aiming for one federal exchange license instead of state-by-state licenses. Brandon's read: clarity without the Clarity Act. The US government moved a little over 12,000 BTC, about $1B, with some landing at Coinbase Prime. Kate thinks it's a custody shuffle tied to the Bitfinex hack, and Brandon tells the story of the time he met Razzlekhan at a Bitcoin conference. Buyers of tampered Ledger devices from a third-party reseller lost around $86M by Kate's count. Ledger says it wasn't them. Brandon's advice: buy direct from the manufacturer, or use multisig. OKX filed to trade tokenized shares of 63 US companies around the clock, from Nvidia and Tesla to McDonald's, and raised money at a $25B valuation from Circle, Ripple, SC Ventures, and Qube Research & Technologies. Vibewatch update: the Vibe Index wrapped with over 300 payments made by AI agents over x402, and a new repliability score (is this worth jumping into?) is in closed beta. Xverse closed a round from Draper Associates and Trust Machines. Treasury tracker: Strategy +334 to an even 848,000 BTC, Metaplanet ends an 11-week pause with +1,000 (44,000), Strive +2,000 (29,462), Silvia Inc. sold 165 (4,965), Remixpoint +7.45 (1,509), and Robinhood joins the treasury club with about 294 BTC. Follow the show on X: @goodforbtc. Hosts: Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing Kate Parkman — @katemparkman Subscribe & Follow: goodforbitcoin.com YouTube Spotify Amazon Music Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts RSS
- Oct 2, 202638 min
Bitget Lost $387M to a Zero-Day: Muneeb Runs Stacks Labs, Anchorage Adds Bitcoin Staking
Hackers used zero-day flaws in Bitget's third-party security tools to make $387M in withdrawals look like internal transfers, and a $464M protection fund made every user whole. Plus Muneeb takes over Stacks Labs, Anchorage clients can stake Bitcoin, and we ask whether a fruit fly brain can mine Bitcoin.In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: Bitget lost $387M from its hot and warm wallets. Attackers used zero-day flaws in third-party security tools to write withdrawals into the backend that looked internally generated. Cold wallets were untouched, and a $464M protection fund covers every user. Kate notes on-chain patterns match North Korea-linked attackers. NEAR Intents lost about $3.8M in USDT through a bug on BNB Chain, patched it within an hour, called out the attacker, and got the funds back. Adam Back replied to last week's clip: 25,000 BTC versus 0.6 BTC. Brandon's answer: it was a joke, and Adam is welcome on the show anytime. Anchorage Digital clients can now fund a Bitcoin bond on Stacks from their Anchorage account and earn BTC rewards self-custodially. Muneeb becomes CEO of Stacks Labs in mid-October, focused on Bitcoin capital markets, privacy, and post-quantum. Kate says STX nearly doubled on the news. A shielded Bitcoin white paper promises private L1 transfers with no soft fork, operators, or bridges. The peg-in and peg-out design is saved for part two, so Brandon is reserving judgment. Coinbase launched fixed-rate USDC loans backed by Bitcoin. Your BTC can still be liquidated on LTV or a missed due date. Can a fruit fly brain mine Bitcoin? A mining hardware maker claims real neurons could hash 10 times more efficiently than today's ASICs. Blink Wallet custodial accounts were drained and customers made whole, and a French family was held in a crypto extortion attempt. Brandon's wrench-attack advice: time delays and multisig. Quick headlines: SoFi settles its $25B card program in stablecoins on Mastercard's network, the SEC proposes looser adviser custody rules, and Treasury's first GENIUS Act rule sends stablecoins over $10B to federal oversight. Treasury tracker: Strategy holds 847,666 BTC, back above its pre-summer-sales stack, and repurchased $152M of STRC. Strive +1,107 (27,462), Capital B +13 (3,538), and Metaplanet sat out an 11th straight week. Follow the show on X: @goodforbtc. Hosts: Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixing Kate Parkman — @katemparkman Subscribe & Follow: goodforbitcoin.com YouTube Spotify Amazon Music Apple Podcasts Pocket Casts RSS
- Sep 18, 202625 min
The Clarity Act Just Died: SEC Greenlights Tokenized Stocks, Bitcoin Reserve Bill Advances
The Clarity Act failed its cloture vote 49 to 50, and Polymarket now gives it 8% this year. Brandon argues two-thirds of the crypto market already has its clarity; Kate warns agency rules can be undone by the next administration. Plus tokenized stocks get an SEC exemption and Revolut gets breached. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: The Clarity Act failed to advance: it needed 60 votes and got 49 yes, 50 no. Polymarket's odds for this year fell from 75% in May to 8%. Brandon's take: Bitcoin is already a commodity to the SEC, CFTC, and IRS, and with GENIUS Act stablecoins that's roughly two-thirds of the crypto market with the clarity it needs. Kate's worry: rules made by agencies instead of Congress can be reversed by the next administration.The Digital Asset Tax Certainty Act did advance: a de minimis exemption for small transactions, wash sale rules that close the sell-at-a-loss-and-rebuy loophole, and clearer tax treatment for mining and staking.The House Financial Services Committee voted 28 to 21 to advance H.R. 8957, codifying the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve with a 20-year no-sale lockup and quarterly proof-of-reserve audits. It commits the U.S. to holding, not buying.The SEC's innovation exemption greenlights tokenized stocks: on-chain trading with no registration for five years, for real shares with dividends and voting rights, not synthetics. Issuers get 30 days to object.Circle launched Arc, its own chain with USDC as native gas, sub-second finality, and EVM compatibility.Revolut disclosed a KYC breach after attackers spent six months inside Italian law enforcement systems, using them to request data from Revolut.Quick headlines: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says classified Bitcoin efforts are underway inside the Pentagon, and Franklin Templeton says it's no longer TradFi or DeFi, just Fi.Treasury tracker: Strive +469 BTC (25,000), Capital B +4 (3,525), ProCap -51 (5,254) and renaming to Silvia. Strategy repurchased $139M of STRC. Satsuma sold all 669 BTC to return $41.4M to shareholders, and Adam Back's Bitcoin Standard Treasury Co. terminated its SPAC with a $15M fee.We're off next week and back in two weeks.Follow the show on X: @goodforbtc. Hosts: Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixingKate Parkman — @katemparkman Subscribe & Follow: goodforbitcoin.comYouTubeSpotifyAmazon MusicApple PodcastsPocket CastsRSS
- Sep 11, 202634 min
Hackers Minted 4,000 BTC on Liquid: Blockstream Won't Pay, Trezor Leak Grows, Genesis Bond Sold Out
A dormant bug in Liquid's confidential transactions let an attacker mint roughly 4,000 BTC nobody could see, then bridge it out. They returned 3,400, kept 600, and are negotiating with Blockstream in OP_RETURN messages. Plus Trezor's leak grows to 80,000 customers, the Stacks Genesis Bond sells out in 24 hours, and Brian Armstrong calls $400K Bitcoin by 2030 reasonable. In this episode of Good For Bitcoin, Brandon and Kate discuss: Liquid was exploited for roughly 4,000 BTC: a dormant bug in Elements' confidential transactions got a fix that introduced a new one, and the attacker minted BTC nobody could see, then bridged it out like a normal withdrawal. They returned 3,400 BTC, kept 600, and negotiated with Blockstream through OP_RETURN messages demanding a 10% bounty. Blockstream says no ransom, calls it theft, and shipped a patched Elements Wednesday.Trezor's data leak got worse: shipping vendor ShipMonk kept customer records past its 90-day deletion policy, and another 67,000 U.S. customers who ordered between November 2019 and August 2021 had names, emails, phone numbers, and addresses exposed. About 80,000 are now affected. Kate's tip: set a family safe word before the AI voice-clone calls start.The Stacks Genesis Bond sold out in 24 hours: 230 BTC time-locked on Bitcoin's L1, no bridge and no custodian handoff, paired with STX to target a 3% yield over a six-month bond. UTXO Management, HashKey Cloud, Cypher Capital, and 21Shares anchored the first round; the next opens around October 10. Also: Bullish listed STX and sBTC.Clarity Act crunch: Senator Cynthia Lummis says if the Senate doesn't pass it next week there's no realistic shot before the end of the decade. The bill grew from 616 to 630 pages with over 100 Democrat-requested changes, including CFTC registration for DeFi that's decentralized in name only. Polymarket puts enactment in 2026 at 18%.Quick headlines: SoFi and Kraken's parent Payward partner on 24/7 USD settlement, River argues Bitcoin could hit $840,000 within five years, Block applies for an OCC trust bank charter, Hunter Biden's LAPTOP token crashes 99% in hours, Luke Dashjr leaves Ocean, and Brian Armstrong tells CNBC the bottom is in.Treasury tracker: Strategy +4,603 BTC (845,050), its first buy since June, plus $167M of STRC repurchased and the buyback doubled to $2B. Strive +1,375 (24,531), Boyaa Interactive +115 (4,316), Capital B +376 (3,521), CleanSpark -228 (13,703).Follow the show on X: @goodforbtc. Hosts: Brandon Marshall — @marshallmixingKate Parkman — @katemparkman Subscribe & Follow: goodforbitcoin.comYouTubeSpotifyAmazon MusicApple PodcastsPocket CastsRSS
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