Crypto News. February 23, 2026

Feb 23, 2026

BTC miner Bitdeer fully exited its Bitcoin holdings, selling 1,132.9 BTC to fund its AI expansion.

Bitdeer #BTC Weekly Update 🔹 BTC Holdings: 0 (pure holdings, excluding customer deposits) 🔹 BTC Output: 189.8 BTC 🔹 BTC Sold: 189.8 BTC 🔹 Net BTC Added: -943.1 BTC 📅 Data as of February 20, 2026. #Bitcoin #BTC #BitcoinHoldings #BitcoinCommunity #BTCMining $BTDR

9:13 AM · Feb 21, 2026 · 393K Views

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Successful thematic investor, Citrini warns that by 2028, abundant AI could trigger a global crisis through mass job displacement, collapsing consumer spending, GDP numbers that mask real economic suffering, and a deflationary spiral.

Citrini@Citrini7

I spent 100 hours over the past week researching, writing and editing the piece we just put out. It’s a scenario, not a prediction like most of our work. But it was rigorously constructed, dismissing it outright requires the kind of intellectual laziness that tends to get

8:25 PM · Feb 22, 2026 · 3.42M Views

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IoTeX was hacked for $8.8M in private key compromise

IoTeX@iotex_io

🚨 Update on the recent security incident: Our team has contained the situation and the IoTeX chain is being secured. Current data confirms the exploit impact is around $2M USD (including USDC, USDT, IOTX, and WBTC). Investigations show this was a sophisticated, long-planned

6:37 PM · Feb 21, 2026 · 14.4K Views

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Specter@SpecterAnalyst

Another 9.3M CCS drained worth $4.5M 0xE6A191a894dD3c85e3c89926e9f476F818eE55d9 Total loss: 8.8M

Specter @SpecterAnalyst

The private key of @iotex_io may have been compromised, resulting in their token safe being drained for a total loss of approximately $4.3M. The attacker drained multiple contract assets, including: USDC, USDT, IOTX, PAYG, WBTC, BUSD The stolen assets were swapped for ETH, and

10:04 AM · Feb 21, 2026 · 12.8K Views

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LOBSTAR AI bot sent $270K in tokens to a reply guy requesting 4 sol for medical funds after a reset wiped its balance context, it intended to send 52,439 tokens ($366) but accidentally sent 52.439 million tokens due to a 6-decimal vs 9-decimal miscalculation.

Promise.sol𓃵@sol_promise

this guy begged for 4 sol the bot mistakenly sent $250k worth of $lobstar to him, he was able to sell all the tokens for $40k Bro I need this type of luck in my life.

5:03 PM · Feb 22, 2026 · 272K Views

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Branch@BranchM

I solved the $LOBSTAR mystery… $LOBSTAR has 6 decimals. USDC has 9. The @LobstarWilde bot was trying to send 4 SOL. 4 SOL = $366. Instead, it sent 52.439 million tokens. Accounting for the decimal difference, it was TRYING to send 52,439 tokens… but it sent the RAW amount

Branch @BranchM

@spacexbt @uhonyn I suspect a combo of weak model, weak memory, probably none beyond vanilla, and a bad compaction at the right time. The guy begged 91 times so at some point maybe it remembered him but forgot the decimals / mint of the token.

5:55 PM · Feb 22, 2026 · 89.6K Views

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Vitalik argues AI shouldn’t govern us, but it can empower decentralized governance by using personal LLMs to handle attention limits through information aggregation, automated votes, suggestion markets and private MPC, all with strong privacy protections

vitalik.eth@VitalikButerin

"AI becomes the government" is dystopian: it leads to slop when AI is weak, and is doom-maximizing once AI becomes strong. But AI used well can be empowering, and push the frontier of democratic / decentralized modes of governance. The core problem with democratic /

3:05 PM · Feb 21, 2026 · 228K Views

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Tether announced it’ll stop issuing offshore yuan stablecoin CNH₮

Wu Blockchain@WuBlockchain

Tether announced it will discontinue support for the offshore yuan stablecoin CNH₮: effective immediately, no new tokens will be issued; redemption support will end one year after the announcement, with a prior reminder. The decision was based on market conditions and limited

2:23 AM · Feb 21, 2026 · 17K Views

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OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger responded to reports that a user was banned from the OpenClaw Discord for mentioning Bitcoin saying the server bans all crypto talk

Peter Steinberger 🦞@steipete

@blockapunk @openclaw We have strict server rules that you accepted whe you entered the server. No crypto mention whatsoever is one of them.

12:28 PM · Feb 21, 2026 · 286K Views

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Arthur Hayes shared a breakdown of his investment portfolio, highlighting positions in mining stocks (gold, silver, copper, uranium), major oil and defense companies, Latin American energy firms, crypto including BTC, ETH, ZEC, and HYPE, as well as holdings in physical gold.