The Blockchain Association has written to leaders in the U.S. Congress, advocating for tax exemption and clearer tax laws for small cryptocurrency transactions.

[Key indicator: A large buy order of $17.45 million appeared on Binance's BTC/USDT pair.] Funds remain static, yet a subtle tension persists—market dynamics are far from settled.

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Zack Wainwright, a research analyst at Fidelity Digital Assets, stated that as of October 12th, Bitcoin had risen nearly 50% from its June bear market low of approximately $58,000, a trajectory similar to its 2022 recovery. He cautioned that returns in each Bitcoin cycle are narrowing, and past performance is not indicative of future results, but a significant increase in dollar-denominated value remains possible; Bitcoin took nearly 16 years to break the $100,000 mark for the first time, and the jump from $100,000 to $200,000 could be much faster. (Source: Bitcoin News)

Bitcoin Core has changed its approach to handling security vulnerabilities, abandoning long-term secrecy for vulnerabilities easily discovered by AI and instead immediately backporting fixes and releasing new versions. The project merged this policy update this Thursday (GitHub PR bitcoin-core/bitcoincore.org#1281), initiated by Chaincode Labs developer Antoine Poinsot. Large language models have lowered the barrier to discovering vulnerabilities and identifying code fixes, leading to a surge in such vulnerability reports.

Hong Kong's largest bank has introduced stablecoins into 3 million wallets.