FinCEN withdraws the December 2020 unhosted-wallet proposal and the October 2023 mixing special measure on Oct 5, published Oct 6 — killing a six-year-pending regime that would have reported self-custody transfers over $10,000 — while conceding the mixing rule "could have a chilling effect on legitimate activity"
- the CFTC opens a crypto rulebook the same day with CTX and CAM, Selig saying it will act "regardless of Congress" and leaving spot-only platforms under state licences
- the SEC proposes custody rules on Oct 1 making state trust companies qualified custodians, widely mislabelled as blessing self-custody
- BIP-54 gets only an editorial wording merge on Oct 2 and still has no activation mechanism, parameters or date
- Bitcoin Core 32.0 due Oct 10 with PSBT v2 defaults and two security fixes
- BTC slides from ~$87,300 to $83,759 as Brent passes $101 and the 10-year hits 5.35%, with ~$547M liquidated
- ETF inflows collapse 97% to $82.9M and only IBIT buys
- Metaplanet sells 10,000 BTC and rebuys 11,000 to prove liquidity for a credit rating
- difficulty moves −0.03%, the flattest of 2026
- payjoin-cli hits 1.0 and BTCPay 2.4.5 closes an SSRF hole
- OpenSats applications open.
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