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The dispatches, month by month
The whole corpus on the calendar. Each month is headed by the market as it stood then — the price, and the drawdown regime it sat inside. That pairing is temporal context, never cause: the market that month moved for a thousand reasons, and these pieces are one lens on it.
dispatch record begins Feb 1, 2026July 4, 2026
Context, not cause · Each mark is a piece placed on the calendar, colored by beat — a record of what the desk was watching and when, never a claim that a dispatch moved the market.
GeopoliticsJune 28, 2026
IRGC Missiles Reach Bahrain and Kuwait
GeopoliticsJune 27, 2026
Drone Strike Tests the Hormuz Bitcoin-Toll Ceasefire
IntelJune 23, 2026
Trump Executive Order Moves Federal PQC Deadline to 2031
ThreatsJune 22, 2026
$1.7 Million Drained Through a Single Forged Proof on Taiko
5GWJune 20, 2026
G7 Designates $6.75B North Korea Crypto Theft Security Threat
OpSecJune 19, 2026
Microsoft Identifies a USB Worm Swapping Crypto Addresses on Windows
GeopoliticsJune 18, 2026
Predatory Sparrow Sent Nobitex's $90M to Unspendable Addresses
GeopoliticsJune 17, 2026
Geneva Deal June 19 Ends Iran's Bitcoin Toll
ThreatsJune 16, 2026
FTX Repays Bitcoin Creditors at $16,871 Petition-Date Price
IntelJune 14, 2026
Islamabad Declaration Trades Iran's Bitcoin Toll for Sanctions Relief
ThreatsJune 13, 2026
AudiA6 Takedown Hits $389M Wash for 20 Ransomware Groups
SurveillanceJune 12, 2026
Tether Froze $72M After ZachXBT Traced $120M Through Monero
SurveillanceJune 11, 2026
EU's 21st Russia Package Adds a Country-Level Crypto Kill-Switch
OpSecJune 10, 2026
A 3-of-6 Multisig on One Laptop. $36M Gone.
IntelJune 9, 2026
NY Court Halts Bid for 39,069 Dormant Bitcoin Wallets
GeopoliticsJune 8, 2026
Iran-Israel Strikes Resume: Hormuz Still at 5 Percent Volume
SurveillanceJune 6, 2026
Treasury Tells Stablecoin Issuers to Screen Your Self-Custody Transfers
OpSecJune 5, 2026
Four Years Undetected: Zcash Patches Orchard Counterfeit Bug
SurveillanceJune 3, 2026
OFAC Sanctions Four Iranian Crypto Exchanges in Largest Action
5GWJune 2, 2026
Iran Threatens Hormuz Closure as Bitcoin Toll Enters Talks
5GWMay 31, 2026
Trafficking Victims Unpaid as 127,000 BTC Sit in Reserve
SurveillanceMay 30, 2026
Bessent Details Operation Economic Fury's $1B Keystroke Seizure
ThreatsMay 27, 2026
AI Finds DeFi Exploits for $1.22 in Compute
GeopoliticsMay 26, 2026
Bitcoin Settles Insurance Premium for IRGC Missile Strike
SurveillanceMay 24, 2026
EU Bans Russia's Entire Crypto Ecosystem
ThreatsMay 22, 2026
Sui Validators Reversed a $223M DEX Exploit by Vote
GeopoliticsMay 19, 2026
Hormuz Safe: Iran Settles Sanctioned Marine Insurance in Bitcoin
SurveillanceMay 18, 2026
Bitcoin Depot Bankruptcy Turns KYC Database Into Asset
OpSecMay 17, 2026
$4B Leaves LayerZero for Chainlink After Kelp DAO Exploit
ThreatsMay 15, 2026
ThorChain Loses $10M on the Rail Lazarus Uses
SurveillanceMay 12, 2026
Circle's Arc Chain Makes Validators the Freeze List
ThreatsMay 5, 2026
Aave's $71M Emergency Motion Invokes Common-Law Theft Doctrine
ThreatsMay 4, 2026
Tether's $344M OFAC Freeze Makes Sanctions a Stablecoin Feature
GeopoliticsMay 4, 2026
First Blocking-Statute Invocation: Beijing Orders Defiance of US Iran Sanctions
ThreatsMay 3, 2026
Binance Adds a Withdrawal Lock as Wrench Attacks Climb 75%
GeopoliticsMay 1, 2026
328,372 BTC and No Authority to Buy More
IntelApr 30, 2026
Project Eleven's 15-Bit Quantum Bounty, Reproduced in 20 Python Lines
ThreatsApr 30, 2026
$629M Drained in April, the Worst Crypto-Theft Month Since 2024
ThreatsApr 29, 2026
Drift Hack Began With Months of In-Person DPRK Social Engineering
IntelApr 28, 2026
Postquant Labs Shipped Quantum Protection Without a Bitcoin Soft Fork
ThreatsApr 24, 2026
UNC1069 Is Deepfaking CEOs on Zoom to Drain Crypto Wallets
IntelApr 22, 2026
Coinbase's Quantum Board Flags 6.9 Million Bitcoin as Vulnerable
ThreatsApr 21, 2026
$292M rsETH Exploit Is 2026's Largest DeFi Hit
GeopoliticsApr 21, 2026
At Least One Ship Paid Bitcoin to Fake Hormuz Authorities
ThreatsApr 16, 2026
Fake Ledger App Drained $9.5M From Apple's App Store
IntelApr 15, 2026
BIP-361 Would Freeze Bitcoin That Doesn't Migrate to Quantum-Safe Addresses
ThreatsApr 15, 2026
An Insider Already Reached Kraken Before the Extortion Demand
ThreatsApr 13, 2026
Your AI Agent's Plumbing Can Steal Your Crypto
IntelApr 10, 2026
Bitcoin Quantum Prototypes Work Without Changing the Protocol
IntelApr 9, 2026
Two Papers Reframe Bitcoin's Quantum Threat as Mostly Misunderstood
OpSecApr 7, 2026
Judge to Tornado Cash Prosecutor: 'Doing Better Before You Started Talking'
IntelApr 6, 2026
Solana's Post-Drift Security Program Wouldn't Have Stopped Drift
IntelApr 5, 2026
Four Bitcoin Proposals for Surviving a Quantum Attack
ThreatsApr 3, 2026
FBI's Own Token Showed Most Crypto Volume Is Manufactured
ThreatsApr 2, 2026
Fake $500 Token, Stolen Key, $285M Drained From Drift
IntelApr 1, 2026
DOL's 401(k) Bitcoin Rule Bakes In a Custody Problem
IntelMar 31, 2026
Google Cut the Estimated Qubit Threshold for Breaking Bitcoin by 20x
SurveillanceMar 30, 2026
Brazil's New Anti-Gang Law Treats Encrypted Messaging as a Sentencing Aggravator
OpSecMar 29, 2026
Samourai Founders Jailed Against FinCEN's Own CoinJoin Guidance
ThreatsMar 27, 2026
One Phone Call Drove 59% of Q1's $480M Crypto Losses
OpSecMar 25, 2026
DOJ Is Trying Roman Storm for Code the Treasury Cleared
IntelMar 24, 2026
Brooklyn Court Orders DOJ to Account for 127,271 Bitcoin
SurveillanceMar 23, 2026
Hong Kong Can Now Compel You to Unlock Your Hardware Wallet
IntelMar 19, 2026
SEC Ends a Decade of Silence on Crypto Classification
ThreatsMar 18, 2026
Lazarus Hacked Bitrefill Through One Compromised Laptop
OpSecMar 17, 2026
Where Monero's Privacy Holds and Where It Breaks
ThreatsMar 17, 2026
How Chinese Criminal Networks Turned Pig Butchering Into a Global Industry
GeopoliticsMar 17, 2026
In Iran, Civilians Went to Bitcoin. The State Went to Stablecoins.
ThreatsMar 16, 2026
Fake Trezor Rep Steals $282 Million in a Phone Call
OpSecMar 16, 2026
Treasury Tells Congress Mixers Are Legal. DOJ Still Prosecutes Samourai.
ThreatsMar 13, 2026
How AI Turned Crypto Scams Into a $17 Billion Industry
IntelMar 12, 2026
One Custodian Holds 90% of All U.S. Bitcoin ETF Assets
IntelMar 7, 2026
Citi Moves Into Bitcoin Custody, Inheriting the Counterparty Risk
IntelMar 4, 2026
What Kraken's Federal Reserve Master Account Actually Changes About Crypto Banking
GeopoliticsFeb 28, 2026
Where Wealth Runs to in a Live War
ThreatsFeb 27, 2026
OnlyFake Shut Down. The KYC Bypass Market Didn't.
ThreatsFeb 24, 2026
Social Engineering Drove 84% of January's $370 Million Theft
GeopoliticsFeb 23, 2026
20 Countries Are Racing to Stack Bitcoin
IntelFeb 23, 2026
What the New US Crypto Framework Doesn't Change for Self-Custody
SurveillanceFeb 22, 2026
Your Exchange Data Is About to Reach 48 Governments
GeopoliticsFeb 22, 2026
Inside North Korea's $6.75 Billion Crypto Hacking Operation
GeopoliticsFeb 22, 2026
The US Holds 328,000 Bitcoin With No Plan
ThreatsFeb 21, 2026
Bybit Lost $1.5 Billion in a Single Hack
OpSecFeb 21, 2026
How to Use Bitcoin Without the Internet
SurveillanceFeb 20, 2026
CBDCs Are a Surveillance Architecture by Design
ThreatsFeb 19, 2026
The Coinbase Insider Breach Made KYC Your Biggest Vulnerability
ThreatsFeb 19, 2026
Your Phone Number Is the Weakest Security Credential You Own
OpSecFeb 18, 2026
The $5 Wrench Is Now the #1 Threat to Your Bitcoin
ThreatsFeb 17, 2026
Deepfake Scams Now Account for 40% of High-Value Crypto Fraud
OpSecFeb 17, 2026
BIP-39 Passphrases and the Art of the Duress Wallet
OpSecFeb 16, 2026
Multi-Sig Should Be the Default Self-Custody Setup in 2026
ThreatsFeb 15, 2026
One Wrong Paste, $50 Million Lost to Address Poisoning
OpSecFeb 10, 2026
The $6 Trillion Bitcoin Inheritance Problem Almost Nobody Has Solved
ThreatsFeb 9, 2026
The Psychology That Makes Smart People Fall for Crypto Fraud
IntelFeb 7, 2026
Bitcoin ETFs Cross $54 Billion With No Holder Keys
ThreatsFeb 6, 2026
Americans Lost $333 Million to Bitcoin ATM Scams in 2025
SurveillanceFeb 5, 2026
Form 1099-DA Gives the IRS Every Crypto Trade
OpSecFeb 4, 2026
A Complete Bitcoin Security Setup for Under $300
ThreatsFeb 3, 2026
AI Voice Cloning Made Virtual Kidnapping a Scalable Scam
OpSecFeb 2, 2026
70% of Crypto Theft Starts With a Compromised Seed Phrase
SurveillanceFeb 1, 2026
The Digital Euro's Architecture Alarms Privacy Researchers