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Three men who forced their way into a man's home in Bristol, England, and assaulted him in a failed attempt to steal <a href="/?post_type=post&p=5742" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">><span class="sc-fe458747-4 eaOPgC">cryptocurrency</span></a> have been jailed, Avon and Somerset Police <a href="https://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/news/2026/10/men-jailed-for-breaking-into-bristol-home-and-threatening-man-for-cryptocurrency/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>said</a> on Friday. Terroll Paul, 31, Mohamed Samagassi, 37, and Pierre Madzou, 30, broke into the victim's home in the early hours of May 15, assaulted him and demanded he hand over a large amount of digital currency. He was hit over the head, suffering a substantial injury that required hospital treatment. Three men who broke into a man's home in Bristol and threatened him in a failed attempt to steal cryptocurrency have been jailed. Terroll Paul, 31, Mohamed Samagassi, 37, and Pierre Madzou, 30, were sentenced yesterday (15 October).<a href="https://t.co/gQf1FuZiY6" data-wpel-link="internal" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://t.co/gQf1FuZiY6</a> — Avon and Somerset Police (@ASPolice) <a href="https://x.com/ASPolice/status/2111134358107033995?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" data-wpel-link="external" rel="nofollow external noopener" target="_blank">October 16, 2026</a> The victim's teenage sister alerted police, and all three men were arrested at the scene. They pleaded guilty to aggravated burglary in August, and were sentenced at Bristol Crown Court on Thursday. Paul, of Barking in London, received six years in prison, Madzou, also of Barking, five and a half years, and Samagassi, of no fixed address, five years. The victim's sister showed "extreme bravery," said PC Gemma Childs, the investigating officer, adding that her actions led directly to "the apprehension of the offenders and preventing her brother from further harm." In a statement read in court, the victim said the break-in had changed him. "Before, I was bubbly, talkative and outgoing but now I would describe myself as tense and apprehensive," he said. The police did not say how much cryptocurrency the men demanded. The case is the latest in a run of so-called "wrench attacks" in the UK, in which criminals target crypto holders in person. In February, three teenagers were <a href="https://decrypt.co/357058/uk-teens-jailed-after-4-3m-wrench-attack-robbery-caught-on-police-video" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS" rel="nofollow">jailed</a> over a $4.3 million wrench attack robbery caught on police video in London, while last month a $10,000 reward was <a href="https://decrypt.co/379186/10k-reward-offered-after-uk-couple-attacked-in-crypto-home-invasion" target="_blank" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS" rel="nofollow">offered</a> after a West Midlands couple was attacked in a crypto home invasion. Wrench attacks cost victims <a href="https://decry
TokenMaxxing: How to Get the Most Out of Your AI Models
<span class="">By <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold" href="/author/jose" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jose Antonio Lanz</a></span></span></span> <span class="">Edited by <span><span class="underline"><a class="text-text-sub-600 gg-dark:text-gray-100 font-semibold " href="/author/guillermo" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Guillermo Jimenez</a></span></span></span> <span class="whitespace-nowrap">Oct 17, 2026Oct 17, 2026</span> Meta employees burned through 60 trillion AI tokens in 30 days earlier this year, chasing spots on an internal leaderboard nicknamed "Claudeonomics." Tech columnist Gergely Orosz <a href="https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/the-pulse-tokenmaxxing-as-a-weird-new-trend/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>estimated the tab</a> at roughly $900 million at Anthropic's list prices, though Meta likely pays far less. Bain & Company consultant Jue Wang sees a quieter version of that waste everywhere: "So many companies, so many users, default to using Opus for everything, including generating emails," she <a href="https://wtop.com/news/2026/07/a-flex-in-corporate-america-ai-tokenmaxxing-fades-as-workplaces-look-to-cut-tech-spending/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>told the Associated Press</a> this summer, referring to Anthropic's high-end models. If you do the same thing, you're hiring Albert Einstein to calculate your change at a MacDonald’s. Every word you type into ChatGPT or Claude, and every word it writes back, is metered in <a href="https://help.openai.com/en/articles/4936856-what-are-tokens-and-how-to-count-them" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>tokens</a>, chunks of text that average about three-quarters of a word. On a $20 subscription that meter decides how fast you hit your usage limit. On the API, the pay-per-token access developers use to plug models into their own apps, it decides the bill. Here's Anthropic's current <a href="https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>price list</a>, per million tokens: Haiku's rate applies to prompts under 100,000 tokens; longer prompts cost five times as much. The top model costs 100 times more than the smallest, and OpenAI's <a href="https://developers.openai.com/api/docs/pricing" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>own lineup</a> runs the same spread, from $10 to $0.10 per million input tokens. Those per-token prices add up fast for the labs—and you: Anthropic's revenue run rate went from about $9 billion at the end of 2025 to more than <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/29/anthropic/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow external noopener" class="sc-adb616fe-0 dJryYS">>$47 billion</a> by May, while OpenAI is fighting a <a href="https://decry
SlowMist releases analysis report on Darksword trojan, iOS crypto wallets face threats
According to a CoinWorld report, SlowMist has released an analysis report on the Darksword trojan, noting that the toolkit exploits vulnerabilities in iOS 18.6–18.7.2 and iOS 26.0–26.1 to carry out automated attacks and is capable of stealing crypto wallet data and consolidating funds. SlowMist advises users to update their iOS systems, avoid clicking untrusted links, and, if a device has visited suspicious pages, to create a new wallet on a clean device and transfer assets, while also revoking unnecessary token approvals.
The strategy increased its holdings by 267 BTC, bringing total holdings to 848,517 BTC.
According to CoinWorld news, Strategy recently purchased 267 BTC, increasing its total holdings to 848,517 BTC.
GoPlusSecurity: Qubic weak seed vulnerability led to 1,404 wallets being stolen, with losses of approximately $1.3 million.
According to CoinWorld news, GoPlusSecurity reported that the Qubic platform suffered a weak seed vulnerability attack between October 17 and 18, resulting in the theft of 1,404 Apple platform wallets and losses of approximately $1.3 million. The attacker exploited the official web wallet (webkit / javascriptcore) on the Apple platform, where generated seeds used math.random(), and offline enumerated all 2^32 possible pseudo-random seeds, matching 1,404 funded wallets and stealing 2,939,606,531,944 Qubic (approximately $1.3 million). Qubic subsequently initiated a protective shutdown, and 87.1% of the stolen funds have been frozen on-chain, while the remaining 12.9% was transferred to MEXC, and the receiving accounts have been frozen. Qubic has released version v4.26.4, switching to crypto.getrandomvalues, and affected users should update promptly. The common feature of the 1,404 affected wallet addresses is that the seeds were generated by the official Qubic client under a weak entropy environment.
AMD off-exchange short sale volume reported at 49.08%.
CoinWorld US stock data: AMD's off-exchange short selling volume accounted for 49.08% that day.
ENS DAO launches voting on the ENSv2 mainnet activation proposal.
According to CoinWorld news, ENS DAO is currently conducting an on-chain vote on the ENSv2 mainnet activation proposal. If the proposal passes, new registrations of the V1 version will be frozen, and unmigrated domains will be allowed to renew. After the upgrade, ENSv2 will allow owners to customize subdomain registries and grant resolution rights, and ENS Labs will hand over management authority to ENS DAO. Existing domains can continue to be used; migration is voluntary and irreversible, and revenue will be allocated to the ENS fund. Currently, 6 addresses have cast 531,300 ENS tokens, with a support rate of nearly 100%. The vote will end on October 25 at 13:32 (UTC+8).
BTC and ETH leverage pushes higher, $192 million in positions enters the high-sensitivity liquidation zone.
Biji Network data: Leverage in the BTC and ETH markets is pushing higher, with the positions of 11 large accounts at the ten-million-dollar level sitting less than 5% away from their estimated liquidation prices. A combined total of approximately $192 million in positions has entered a highly liquidation-sensitive zone, with both longs and shorts facing passive liquidation risk.
The protocol reported $66.1492 million in fees over the past 24 hours.
CoinWorld data: During the period, the protocol's fees over the past 24 hours amounted to $66.1492 million, an increase of 6.79% compared with the previous statistical period under the same methodology.
Sam Altman's World launches a human identity verification tool to help banks guard against $40 billion in AI fraud risk.
Coin World news, Decrypt reports, Sam Altman's World company has launched a set of tools called World ID, aimed at helping financial institutions confirm that there is a real person behind transactions, trades, and customer requests. The tools include three types of cryptographic proofs: "Proof of Human," which confirms identity through one-time access to a World device; "Proof of Presence," which uses a mobile phone selfie for liveness detection; and "Proof of Attribute," which confirms nationality or age from a government ID. These tools will help banks require verified human approval for ACH and wire transfers without collecting documents or storing personal data. World has also launched the AgentKit developer toolkit, allowing users to delegate certain proofs to AI agents for transactions. In addition, World ID has integrated with Zoom, where participants can receive a "Human Badge" after verification during a video call. According to World's data, more than 18 million people currently hold human identity verification, and the World Foundation raised $52.5 million this year to expand the network.