📯 CC 186: A holiday in Buenos Aires doesn't stop the CC. 🔴 Tuesday, 6 PM Argentina time, live on YouTube On the agenda: 🏆 Closing the biweekly ranking 🔀 Bull Bitcoin adds payjoins 🎆 The end of the year is coming And more. 👇🔗

✂️ CC185: NFC payments are about to change. Ever feel a little exposed when you pay with your card? Worried someone could tap you and drain your funds? Then this might interest you... Want more? 🔴 Watch the full CC here (spanish):

🟠 When you don't have a CEO, you don't have to worry about any screw-ups he might make. Nvidia -21k aura Bitcoin +21k aura

🟠 A GLIMMER OF HOPE Aren’t you tired of living like this? Working overtime. Even giving up your weekends. Everything you put off while trying to save enough for that plan that keeps getting pushed further and further away... With money that’s worth less and less, planning gets harder and harder. Fixing the house has to wait because the price goes up every month. You have to cut back. All you can do is anxiously wait for your next paycheck. Life keeps getting faster and more superficial. Relationships are increasingly fleeting and transactional. Nobody takes their time anymore. Food is more of the same: fast, generic, mass-produced. There’s no love in it. To top it off, you find out that <insert politician’s name here> got a new car and now lives in a gated community, in a more luxurious house. And, of course, can’t explain how they afford it. But none of that matters, because you know <insert politician’s name here> will surely win the next election anyway, handing out benefits and subsidies that you’ll end up paying for, along with the rest of us suckers who pay taxes. You’re tired of all that, aren’t you? Now imagine: A fairer, more balanced system. Where saving doesn’t mean constantly trying to catch up. Where all you have to worry about is doing your job, and you can sleep soundly knowing the value of your work is preserved. A calmer, more stable system, where we can plan more and consume less. Where quality matters more than quantity. Where adult life doesn’t feel like a race (to nowhere), but something we build slowly and patiently. A system that takes public service seriously. Where entering politics means sacrifice and competence. Where <insert politician’s name here> has to watch every penny because winning elections is no longer so easy, and voters scrutinize every move they make in public office. A system like that is possible. A world like that isn’t a utopian fantasy. Bitcoin is the tool designed for this. Not just to change the money we use, but to change our relationship with it: to understand its rules, verify them, and decide what we do with what we work so hard to earn. The tool is here. Now it’s up to us to get past the fear and use it. Practice, a little at a time. Join Bitcoin communities, ask questions, learn the basics, help, share, and then have the patience to explain it to someone else. Hope takes that work. Time to learn, to support each other, to do things properly. We’ve already spent too many hours surviving the present. It’s time to start building our future. 🟣 If you’d like to learn more, join us at [discord.lacrypta.ar](https://discord.lacrypta.ar/) and get to know us. 🫡

🟠 Meanwhile in our Discord... 👥 Politics and economics: country risk came up, and @Fabricio gave a mini class on forward rates. @Fierillo summed it up as “riesgo kuka”. @cyberpunk shared the news about Peña and Ueno. 🗼 Obelisk: a group was set up to share the notes taken during @AmityAge course held at EL TEMPLO. There was also a discussion about how to sign in on iPhone without pasting the NSEC. STACK SATS: Some guys asked about zaps from Iris that weren't arriving. A problem with Alby or the node was suggested, but no diagnosis has been confirmed yet. 🟣 Want to learn more? Join us at [discord.lacrypta.ar](https://discord.lacrypta.ar/) and get to know us. 🫡

🟠 BANK RUN IN PARAGUAY What happened? Paraguay's Central Bank (BCP) started a resolution procedure for Ueno Bank: its solvency fell below 50% of the required minimum. The bank says it has about 3 million customers, as reported by [ABC Color](https://www.abc.com.py/economia/2026/11/03/ueno-bank-el-bcp-anuncia-procedimiento-de-resolucion/). Does resolution mean it closed for good? Not necessarily. It's a procedure under Law 2.334/03: administrators review the bank's assets, and assets and liabilities stay frozen until the “exclusion balance” is drawn up. The [official resolution notice](

Poder Judicial

Corte Suprema de Justicia socializa comunicación de la Superintendencia de Bancos sobre Ueno Bank S.A.

<p>La Corte Suprema de Justicia pone en conocimiento de los magistrados de Tribunales y Juzgados de la Republica del Paraguay, funcionarios y auxil...

explains the procedure. Frozen in what sense? The bank stopped operating: according to the BCP, the app, cards and other services were shut down. The exclusion balance has a deadline of up to 15 days, according to [ABC Color's report](https://www.abc.com.py/economia/2026/11/03/ueno-bank-bcp-explica-la-resolucion-y-que-va-a-pasar-ahora/). How did it get here? The BCP says that since June it had been reviewing loans to companies linked to the group that controls the bank. [BBC reported](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/ckx2qj89lggxo) that several executives had been detained. And the case reached the presidency. What does the president have to do with it? Santiago Peña declared shares in Ueno Holding in 2023. According to [ABC Color](https://www.abc.com.py/politica/2025/04/04/santi-pena-venta-de-sus-acciones-se-comunico-recien-hace-instantes-al-banco-central/), in 2025 the holding reported the reimbursement and cancellation of those shares. He has denied any link to the bank. So why the impeachment trial? The [Chamber of Deputies](

H. Cámara de Diputados del Paraguay

Diputados aprueba juicio político al presidente de la República, Santiago Peña | H. Cámara de Diputados del Paraguay

La Cámara de Diputados aprobó este jueves, con 78 votos a favor, el pedido de juicio político contra el presidente de la República, Santiago Pe...

accused him of misconduct in office, with charges including conflicts of interest and funds from the Social Security Institute (IPS) placed in Ueno. This is an impeachment proceeding, not a criminal trial, and the Senate decides. Hadn't he resigned? He submitted his resignation on Nov 5, but it wasn't accepted and the trial went on. On Nov 6, the [Senate voted to remove him from office](

Senado destituye a Santiago Peña tras declararlo culpable en juicio político

and [Pedro Alliana was sworn in as president](

Pedro Alliana juró como nuevo presidente de la República

to complete the 2023–2028 term. What about depositors' money? The deposit guarantee covers up to 75 minimum monthly wages: ₲228.3 million per depositor, per institution. [BBC put that at about US$38,200 on Nov 3](https://www.bbc.com/mundo/articles/ckx2qj89lggxo). Anything above the cap depends on the recovery process. When does it arrive? In groups. [ABC Color reported on Nov 5](https://www.abc.com.py/economia/2026/11/05/bcp-inicia-pago-a-ahorristas-de-ueno-bank-quienes-cobran-primero-y-quienes-no/) that the BCP had started paying depositors with up to ₲10 million, no debts with Ueno and an account at another bank. That report gave no dates for the rest. Could this happen at any bank? The BCP says it's an isolated case. But at any bank, your balance is a debt the bank owes you. If the bank goes into resolution, when and how much you get back is determined by the procedure. And with bitcoin? It depends on where you hold it. On an exchange, you also depend on a third party. With your own keys, you can move your coins without a bank's authorization. Keeping those keys safe is your responsibility. 🟣 Want to learn more? Join us at [discord.lacrypta.ar](https://discord.lacrypta.ar/) and get to know us. 🫡

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📯 CC 185: The post-LaBitconf episode 🔴 Tuesday 6 PM (Buenos Aires), live on YouTube AGENDA: 🔁 The Month of Synergy starts now 🐾 What if La Crypta had an animal of its own? 🦍 What LABITCONF left us 🎃 A bitcoin-only Halloween 🗿 Satoshi gets a monument 🚨 Binance got hacked ⚠️ BTCPay Server told everyone to shut down 🐧 The Linux bug that could take down your LND node

📯 COWORK TUESDAYS ⌛️ Every Tuesday · 12 to 6 PM (🇦🇷) 📍 Villanueva 1367, Belgrano Spend a nice afternoon surrounded by great people who'll teach you a ton while you keep working as usual. cowork.lacrypta.ar

🔁 THE MONTH OF SYNERGY STARTS NOW. La Crypta has SEVEN main values. 🤍 🔁 👈 🐍 🧠 🧎 🏅 💡 What do you think is SYNERGY about?

🚨 IF YOU RUN BTCPay Server, SHUT IT DOWN NOW. BTCPay Server is receiving reports of hot wallets being swept by unauthorized attackers. They ask anyone running an instance to shut it down until they finish investigating: ./btcpay-down.sh

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🎃 On Halloween night, 2008, someone left a message. Nine pages, one name, and then he vanished. They say he's still around. Come… see if you can find him. halloween.lacrypta.ar La Crypta Halloween Saturday 10/31, from 9 PM Villanueva 1367, Belgrano, Buenos Aires

🚨 If you run LND on Linux, read this CVE-2026-98432 is out: a critical Linux kernel bug (CVSS 9.8). Peter Todd and Matt Corallo warn that a node with open ports is exposed through MPTCP. This isn't lnd's fault. MPTCP (Multipath TCP) lets one connection use several network paths at once. A home node doesn't need it, but recent Go versions turn it on by default for listeners. NVD describes the bug as a use-after-free in TCP/IPv4 and doesn't mention MPTCP. The MPTCP angle comes from Todd and Corallo. Is your kernel already fixed? Check the version: uname -r Fixed: 5.10.272, 5.15.223, 6.1.190, 6.6.159, 6.12.113, 6.18.56, 7.2.10 or later. If it isn't, check for MPTCP sockets (read-only): ss -Mlnp If anything shows up, you're potentially exposed. To see which process owns it: sudo ss -Mlnp To turn MPTCP off (reversible, doesn't touch channels or funds): sudo sysctl -w net.mptcp.enabled=0 echo 'net.mptcp.enabled=0' | sudo tee /etc/sysctl.d/99-disable-mptcp.conf Restart your services or the machine. Then this should return 0: sysctl net.mptcp.enabled And ss -Mlnp should come back empty. To undo it: sudo sysctl -w net.mptcp.enabled=1 Then delete the file. On Umbrel, changes in /etc can be lost on an update, so check again after each one. On one real Umbrel, the MPTCP sockets were Tailscale's, not LND's. Check everything. Update your kernel as soon as your distro ships the fix.

🚨 IMPORTANT UPDATE Binance confirms it was hacked. All deposits and withdrawals are suspended. Binance says it will cover all losses. 🏆 This is now the largest crypto hack ever. About US$2.76B in ETH on-chain plus 18,267 BTC (per mononaut) already tops Bybit (US$1.46B) and LuBian (US$3.5B). 🧊 Frozen: about US$3B per Binance, more than US$2.83B per ZachXBT. - Tether: 1.567B USDT - Circle: more than 800M USDC - Ripple: RLUSD (no amount published) - Arbitrum Security Council: about US$30.5M Arkham has now made the attacker entity official, so the US$5.8B+ figure is no longer just user-made labels. https://arkm.com/explorer/entity/binance-hacker-2 Likely culprit is Lazarus Group (North Korea), per ZachXBT. Not confirmed. Binance hasn't confirmed a total yet. Not your keys, not your coins. View quoted note →

🚨 Binance may have just suffered the second-largest hack in crypto history. About US$2.7B left through addresses you can verify on-chain, all of it on Ethereum. Etherscan already labels the receiving address "Binance Hot Wallet Exploiter". Roughly US$2.3B is already frozen: Tether froze 1.567B USDT and Circle more than 800M USDC. The rest is ETH and other Ethereum tokens. Binance hasn't officially confirmed a hack. It's calling it a "technical error" on withdrawals. You may see a US$5.8B figure going around. It comes from a user-made label on Arkham, so it isn't confirmed. Not your keys, not your coins. 🫡