Episode Details

Electrum, one of the oldest Bitcoin wallets, disclosed a high-severity flaw exploited in the wild, as Bitcoin spends Saturday night fighting for $80,000. In the Evening Edition, Anna covers the wallet alert, the week's split ETF scoreboard, Iran and Israel headlines moving money, and the trillion-dollar A.I. data center race.

THE MARKET TONIGHT (Saturday, October 24, 2026)

- Bitcoin: about $80,400, down about 1.2% on the day (low about $79,300)

- 7 days: -0.8% | 30 days: -4.7%

- About 36% below the all-time high of $126,080

- Market cap: about $1.62 trillion | Dominance: about 59.5%

- Total crypto market: about $2.71 trillion, down about 4%

- Ether: about $2,340 | Solana: about $101

- Fear and Greed Index: 51 (Neutral)

SECURITY ALERT

- Electrum discloses a high-severity flaw exploited in the wild, with user funds lost (PANews). Update from the official site only

THE ETF SCOREBOARD

- BlackRock's IBIT drives $301M in weekly net inflows (CoinTurk)

- $773M out over two days and $239M in BTC longs liquidated below $80K

- Ethereum down 12% in October, $671M out of Ether ETFs

- Peter Schiff sees $75K next (Blockonomi); three tests for Bitcoin before November (AMBCrypto)

GEOPOLITICS AND MONEY

- Trump-Iran tensions weigh on Bitcoin (Cointribune); Houthis vow more attacks on a Saudi airport

- Bank of Israel rejects a plan to use crypto to get around sanctions

- Tether backs peso and mining integrations in Latin America

THE A.I. MONEY MACHINE

- Morgan Stanley sees $2.9T in data center spending and a $1.5T funding hole

- Musk says agentic A.I. demand is growing faster than anything he's seen

- Miners and A.I. now compete for the same power

EVENING SPEED ROUND

- Pump.fun passes Hyperliquid in daily revenue

- Aave slides 6% to about $135

- Franklin Templeton adds $150M in tokenized fund shares on the XRP Ledger

- Ripple's Swell conference heads to New York

- Tesla unveils Optimus Academy for self-teaching robots

NOSTR DESK

- Your Nostr key is your identity: how to keep it safe

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This episode is for general information only and is not investment advice. Digital assets are volatile. Do your own research.