BTC News Today: Coldcard Exploit Rattles Bitcoin Price as BlockchainFX ($BFX) Hits $15M Presale Milestone

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BTC News Today: Coldcard Exploit Rattles Bitcoin Price as BlockchainFX ($BFX) Hits $15M Presale Milestone
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BTC News Today: Coldcard Exploit Rattles Bitcoin Price as BlockchainFX ($BFX) Hits $15M Presale Milestone

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Bitcoin trades near $63,600 today, down about 1% on the week, as a wallet security scare, cooling ETF demand, and a large corporate sell-off combine to sour short-term sentiment, even though the bigger picture for BTC price stays mixed rather than clearly bearish.

While established coins like Bitcoin work through this rough patch, newer projects run on their own timeline. BlockchainFX ($BFX) is one example, having just closed its presale and moved into a pre-launch phase, a reminder that crypto news today spans both mature assets under pressure and early-stage projects preparing to launch.

Why Did Bitcoin Price Drop This Week?

The most immediate driver is the Coldcard hardware wallet exploit. Coinkite, the company behind the device, warned users that BTC stored on certain affected firmware versions could be at risk. Reports say attackers have drained roughly $88.6 million in Bitcoin across multiple waves, with one analyst at Galaxy Digital noting the transaction pattern matched earlier confirmed attacks. That kind of news rattles confidence in self-custody broadly, and it shows up fast in sentiment trackers. Santiment reported that Bitcoin’s positive-to-negative social media commentary ratio fell to its lowest point since the firm began tracking it.

Security scares alone rarely move price this much on their own, but they tend to compound other weak spots. That is what happened here.

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