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The bscn crew also jumped in to alert that connecting wallets lets scammers snag approvals and yoink tokens without needing passwords fr 🕸️.

Shib Scene Keeps Facing Those Dark Lures 🦇

Meme coins like shib got huge fanbases so scams pop up nonstop. Recent threats involved fake sou nft drops too. Official spots only for claims and never hit random links or share seeds ever lol. Earlier fakes copied the site with bogus promos to hook wallets into traps.

Shib Price Vibes Under The Moon 🌙

Shib dipped almost 12% this week mostly from the broader market slide not just scam drama tho. Rn it sits around 0.000005163 per coingecko way down from that 2021 peak. Exchange holdings hit a low near 87.2 trillion which looks kinda bullish since less immediate sell pressure 📉.

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Shib army peeps been getting hit hard with those nasty drainer scams again 🖤. Always such a bummer when hackers try to mess with our bags rn.

Watch Out Its A Drain Snare 💀

Lately some shady x account been posting about a shib airdrop coming back and saying u gotta verify ur wallet or whatever. Sounds sus af so skip those links bc theyre total drains 😈. Community legend marzael.shib dropped a warning tweet that no airdrop exists and told everyone to report instead of clicking The bscn crew also jumped in to alert that connecting wallets lets scammers snag approvals and yoink tokens without needing passwords fr 🕸️.

Shib Scene Keeps Facing Those Dark Lures 🦇

Meme coins like shib got huge fanbases so scams pop up nonstop. Recent threats involved fake sou nft drops too. Official spots only for claims and never hit random links or share seeds ever lol. Earlier fakes copied the site with bogus promos to hook wallets into traps.

Shib Price Vibes Under The Moon 🌙

Shib dipped almost 12% this week mostly from the broader market slide not just scam drama tho. Rn it sits around 0.000005163 per coingecko way down from that 2021 peak. Exchange holdings hit a low near 87.2 trillion which looks kinda bullish since less immediate sell pressure 📉.

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Jameson Lopp dropped some spicy truth that handing Bitcoin to any third party never magically fixes your losses no matter what kinda scenario pops up. 😈 This sparked a whole messy debate with analyst Willy Woo and random X users on whether pros holding your keys are actually safer than you managing your own.

A Custody Spat Unfolds on X 💀

Lopp fired back in a post straight at the vibe that an ETF just wipes away all BTC worry fr. “There is objectively NO type of loss that can be solved by giving your bitcoin to a third party,” he wrote. “Third party custody is exposed to every self custody risk PLUS MORE!” 👀
Dima agreed custodians add that extra counterparty risk on top but pushed that most folks get wrecked by their own slip ups like lost seeds or phished wallets anyway. Some ETFs even got bankruptcy remote setups now keeping your stuff separate which is way better than old exchange days. Lopp clapped back saying most people totally could self custody if they stopped being lazy and put in the work. Segregation means nothing if the base asset vanishes tho. He pointed to his own Casa crew helping older clients who don’t wanna deal with it themselves.
Woo hit with the numbers next: 1.57 million BTC gone via self custody, 1.51 million on exchanges and zero from spot ETF custodians per that River report. He said modern pros beat “moms and pops at home” any day. Lopp replied ETFs are too new to have crashed yet and most pile into the same custodian anyway. He asked if spreading risk over millions of noobs beats concentrating it with one expert.
Woo noted Coinbase Custody hasn’t lost a single coin in over eight years while self custody dropped 136,000 BTC and exchanges lost 13,000 in that span. He called it no real choice since both options hang on one party nailing the job but pros dodge physical threats like wrench attacks way better. 🔥

Coinbase Track Record Gets Questioned 🌑

Lopp fired again saying the zero loss flex “seems to be in dispute” and pointed straight at Ari Paul dragging Coinbase for supposedly losing 25 million belonging to BlockTower years back plus covering up hacks that hit over a billion across firms. Those claims are still unproven with legal stuff ongoing but Coinbase did reach out to check it. 🔗💸

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Bitcoin just hit that 87k mark early in October and a bunch of analysts were hyped thinking a fresh bull run was kicking off fr. 🖤 But instead of a wild moon mission we got mad volatility rn and its chilling at 83,500 per CoinGecko right now. ✨

The Crucial Barrier 🦇

This doesn’t mean the bull scenario is totally dead tho. Popular trader Ali Martinez is eyeing the 84k zone as the real trigger since it lines up with the 50 SMA and might just unlock the next leg up. He dropped this take on X. A 4-hour close above it could confirm the next leg higher to 93,000 he projected. 💀 Martinez also noticed whales scooped over 16,000 BTC in roughly five days pushing their bag to around 5.26 million coins total. That buying puts a rebound in focus but Bitcoin has a hurdle to clear first. On-chain data shows nearly 800,000 BTC were previously traded around 84,569. A break above this supply zone would strengthen the case for a move higher he added. 🕸️ Other voices like Scient and Toz jumped in too. Scient spotted the cleanest cup and handle pattern ever on BTC targeting 105,000. Toz thinks it might copy that late-2022 dip then massive climb vibe.

Golden Cross Vibes 🌑

Crypto Rover shared a chart noting BTCs 50-day moving average just crossed above the 100-day MA. The last time Bitcoin flashed this Golden Cross it marked the END of the bear market. BTC went on to rally over 500 percent. 🕷️ This signals bullish energy but remember the classic version needs the 50-day crossing the 200-day instead. Back in September last year BTC printed that real golden cross south of 110,000 then spiked to a fresh ATH above 126,000 about a month later. 🦇

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Pi Network’s squad is gearing up to drop another big ecosystem update later this week but it’s still unclear if that’ll spark a surge for the native token or even land on schedule 😈. PI keeps dragging with a 60% nosedive over the past year and is now trading just above its all-time lows 🖤.

What’s Brewing Next? ✨

2026 has already been packed with protocol drops for Pi Network. The core crew kicked things off early by rolling out version 19.6 then pushed v20.2 to set up smart contracts and more. Summer brought versions 25 and 26 even after missing the first deadlines and the latest was v27 which missed its September 15 target before finally arriving late. All eyes are locked on protocol update v28 dropping later this week. X user Giannis Andreou noted the upgrade is already live on Pi Testnet with mainnet activation eyed for October 16 and node operators must upgrade by tomorrow October 13. “The update improves transaction-data handling and lets developers upgrade groups of smart contracts together. A deadline for operators as PI prepares its next network upgrade” he added 🔥.

Biggest Week Loading? 🌙

X user sunday peter chimed in claiming Pi Network’s “biggest week of 2026 is finally here” with the protocol upgrade smart contracts now live on GitHub for testing audits and building the Lotus Cars partnership plus the Open USD collab. The project teamed up with Open Standard behind the new stablecoin which could bring OUSD rewards and extra utility to the ecosystem down the line. Pi News pointed out “The interesting part isn’t just the partnership it’s the potential utility that can come from it. If Pi can connect OUSD with rewards payments and ecosystem applications this could become a meaningful infrastructure layer for Pioneers. Waiting to see the implementation details.”

PI Price Outlook 📉

Right now the altcoin sits just north of 0.08 a massive 97% crash from its all-time high near 3 at the start of 2025. Traders might hope this upgrade triggers a rebound but past updates haven’t always pumped the price and delays are kinda the norm here 👀. X user Crypto With Gopal spotted a potential double bottom on the daily chart with support holding around 0.075-0.085 after the long downtrend. “Buyers are attempting to stabilize price but a bullish reversal is not confirmed yet. A breakout above 0.10-0.12 could strengthen recovery momentum. Losing 0.075 would weaken the setup” he noted 🚀.

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