Google searches for Bitcoin are near a 5-year low. In the US, the week ending August 1 got a Google Trends score of 18 out of 100, which is the kind of grade that gets you a polite email from a teacher.

Then in October, global searches for "bitcoin" and "BTCUSD" hit multi-year lows, so the timeline is not imagining it. Even the relative who explains Bitcoin to everyone at family dinners has gone suspiciously quiet.

Before anyone writes an obituary, a reminder of what Google Trends actually measures. It measures curiosity. It does not measure ownership, trading volume or on chain activity. And a lot of the biggest money, ETFs, pension funds and OTC desks, has never typed a search into Google in its life. Those desks have better things to do than check whether "bitcoin" is trending.

So Bitcoin is not being forgotten, it is being left on read. The coins are still there, the blocks keep coming, and the only thing that went quiet is the search bar.

No price talk and no predictions here, just vibes and a Google Trends score.

Say a small coin dumps 20% in one candle and blows straight past your stop

With Pump fun adding TP/SL for EVM positions now, im curious how people handle that. are you getting filled anywhere near your trigger or just wherever the liquidity is when it hits?

Timeline so far:

- Oct 20: Keystone detects an intrusion on its website

- Oct 24: discloses a customer data leak (names, addresses, order records)

- Oct 26: reveals the attacker also got the WebAuth key used to verify devices as genuine

That key is burned into devices at the factory and can't be changed, so in theory it could let counterfeit wallets pass Keystone's authenticity check. Keystone is destroying 18,835 devices in stock and holding orders until new ones ship with a new key.

Not affected: recovery phrases, private keys, wallet passwords.

Keystone says devices verified before Oct 20 are considered safe. If you got one after Oct 20, they ask you to contact support. And with names and home addresses leaked, expect fake "Keystone support" refund scams. Never type your seed phrase anywhere.

Anyone here using a Keystone? Sticking with it?

I’ve been wondering what people think about Polygon lately.

For those who have been following Polygon:

• Do you think Polygon is still relevant in the crypto space?
• Does POL have real long-term potential, or has it lost its momentum?
• Are developers and users still active on the network?
• Would you buy POL at current prices, hold what you have, or stay away completely?

I bought Polygon a few years ago for around $2,000, and now my investment is worth about $400. I’m thinking about buying more. What do you guys think? Is it worth investing more, or should I cut my losses?

Tether just brought 15 Bitcoin mining players together around one software framework.

Bitmain. MicroBT. Foundry. F2Pool.

The pitch: connect the machines, cut operational friction, and build the foundation for AI automation.

The stakes go deeper.

Shared software could help smaller miners compete. It could also leave independent operators depending on the same code—and exposed to the same mistakes.

Owning the machines doesn’t automatically mean operational independence.

That’s what makes Tether’s MDK worth watching.

Will miners gain more freedom—or become dependent on software they can’t afford to leave?

Measured from chain state today: 19,630 ETH is claimable across 220,827 addresses in six 2016–2017 contracts whose front-ends are long gone. EtherDelta V2 alone accounts for the bulk; the largest single holder is owed 604.22 ETH and hasn't touched the wallet since 2017.

The technical part is trivial and always has been. balanceOf(address token, address user) with token 0x0 returns your ETH balance, and withdraw(uint256) pays msg.sender. No approval, no allowance, no owner involvement — it is permissionless and always was.

So the money isn't stuck because of a bug. It's stuck because nobody knows they have a claim. Of the top 400 holders, 97% signed at least one transaction historically, but only 4.5% have signed anything in the last twelve months.

I built a read-only checker: https://jlicerio.github.io/etherdelta-claims/

It reads all six pools in one public eth_call and prints the exact transaction to release each claim. No wallet connection, no signature, no key input, no cookies, no analytics, no server-side code — it's a static page you can audit, and it prints the raw JSON-RPC body so you can replay it against any node with curl.

Two honest caveats. If you have lost the key to the address, none of this helps and the balance is unrecoverable — that is very likely true for a meaningful share of them. And this is my own tool, so treat it with appropriate suspicion and verify the numbers against Etherscan's Read Contract tab.

The point of the post is that the claim probably exists and takes one transaction to take.

The OCC granted final approval for Ripple National Trust Bank on Oct 26, after conditional approval back in Dec 2025.

What it can do:

- Manage the reserves behind RLUSD

- Act as collateral trustee for RLUSD holders

- Offer crypto custody

What it can't do:

- Take deposits or offer FDIC-insured accounts. It's a trust bank, not a regular bank

- RLUSD is still issued by Standard Custody & Trust Company. The bank adds federal oversight of the reserves

For XRP the effect is indirect at best. Early reaction was pretty muted.

Big step for stablecoins or just a headline? Not financial advice.

Just saw the news about Anthropic filing for an IPO yesterday. Kinda crazy how much hype there is around AI right now.

What’s even crazier is that people are already trading Anthropic’s valuation on crypto platforms before the stock is even listed lol.

Not sure if that’s actually a smart way to get in early or just another way to gamble on hype. Are you trading these pre-IPO markets or not?

Brazilian stocks crashed after Lula’s surprise election win. Investors fear higher spending, rising debt and more government control.

But here's the interesting part.

USDT trading volume on Mercado Bitcoin surged nearly 800%.

Companies were moving money into dollar linked stablecoins to protect themselves from a falling currency.

Morpho’s TVL went from $9.3B to over $17B in a year, the fastest growth of any DeFi lending protocol in 2026.

What stands out to me is how much of that comes through other products. Exchanges and wallets route deposits into it, and curators build vaults on top, so a lot of people are earning on Morpho without ever opening the app.

Is that what’s really driving the growth, or is it the product itself (isolated markets, curated vaults) doing most of the work? And can you think of other protocols that won mainly through distribution, or ones that grew on something else entirely?