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Sep 7A Bug Printed Bitcoin Out of Thin Air — and Liquid's Federation Wired Out $320M in Real BTC●Sep 3A Blockchain Just Hit Undo on Two Hours of Everyone's Transactions●Sep 3You Did Everything Right and Lost It Anyway: The $116M Coldcard Hack●Sep 3Ledger Is Getting Sued for $500M — and Not a Single Private Key Was Hacked●Jul 8Trump Says Iran Ceasefire Is 'Over' — $450M in Crypto Liquidated in Hours●Jul 8The SEC Just Surrendered: Startups Can Now Raise $75M in Crypto Without Getting Sued●Jul 7The U.S. Has $20 Billion in Bitcoin and Nobody's in Charge of It●Jul 7Strategy Sold 3,588 Bitcoin at a $15,000-Per-Coin Loss — to Pay Its Own Dividends●Jul 6A Hacker Borrowed $65 Million, Gave It All Back, and Kept $6 Million●Jul 6Someone Spent $4M to Vote $20M Out of BonkDAO's Treasury — And It Was All 'Legal'●Sep 7A Bug Printed Bitcoin Out of Thin Air — and Liquid's Federation Wired Out $320M in Real BTC●Sep 3A Blockchain Just Hit Undo on Two Hours of Everyone's Transactions●Sep 3You Did Everything Right and Lost It Anyway: The $116M Coldcard Hack●Sep 3Ledger Is Getting Sued for $500M — and Not a Single Private Key Was Hacked●Jul 8Trump Says Iran Ceasefire Is 'Over' — $450M in Crypto Liquidated in Hours●Jul 8The SEC Just Surrendered: Startups Can Now Raise $75M in Crypto Without Getting Sued●Jul 7The U.S. Has $20 Billion in Bitcoin and Nobody's in Charge of It●Jul 7Strategy Sold 3,588 Bitcoin at a $15,000-Per-Coin Loss — to Pay Its Own Dividends●Jul 6A Hacker Borrowed $65 Million, Gave It All Back, and Kept $6 Million●Jul 6Someone Spent $4M to Vote $20M Out of BonkDAO's Treasury — And It Was All 'Legal'●

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A Bug Printed Bitcoin Out of Thin Air — and Liquid's Federation Wired Out $320M in Real BTC

Sep 7, 2026 · 7 min read

Someone submitted 4,000 L-BTC that was never backed by anything. Twenty-three minutes later the Liquid Federation released 3,996 real Bitcoin. Then the recipient carved 'we are whitehats' into the blockchain and asked for a patch.