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The post Treasury Transfers ≠ Selling: How to Read Bitcoin Flows appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. You see a massive Bitcoin transfer hit the chain. A treasury wallet shuffles coins. Twitter lights up. Everyone yells sell. But there is no spike in exchange inflows. So what actually happened? This piece is a playbook for reading treasury-sized moves without getting trapped by scary-looking transactions. We will break down why coins move, how to check if it is heading toward market liquidity, and what signals matter more than a single splashy transaction. The short version: movement is not intent. Coins can shift for security, accounting, or settlement reasons without touching an order book. Let’s get precise. Aspect What to Know Exchange flows vs. internal moves Only deposits to known exchange clusters add immediate sell pressure. Internal or custodian hops do not. Common non-selling reasons Custody migration, multi-sig rotation, UTXO consolidation, OTC se

The post Who Is Michael Coates? The Former Twitter Security Chief Now Tasked With Securing Solana appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Key Highlights Michael Coates has joined the Solana Foundation as its new Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). Before joining Solana, Coates served as Twitter’s first CISO, led security at Mozilla, and later became COO and CISO at CoinList. Coates says his focus will include application security, crypto-native threats, AI-driven risks and cybersecurity policy. This week, Web3 found another connection to Elon Musk. Though this was not through Dogecoin or meme coins. Instead, it was through a major executive appointment by the leading blockchain Solana. The network foundation tapped one of Silicon Valley’s most respected cybersecurity leaders for a pivotal role. The Solana Foundation appointed Michael Coates, Twitter’s first Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) and former Head of Security at Mozilla, as it Chief Information Security Officer. Co

The post Zuckerberg Breaks 3-Year Silence On X (Twitter) With AI Announcement appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Mark Zuckerberg broke a three-year silence on X (Twitter) on Thursday to unveil Muse Spark 1.1 and the Meta Model API, the company’s first paid platform for outside developers. The launch pushes Meta against OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google. The model competes on cost, and Meta is betting a lower price will win developers and pressure rivals’ margins. Yet META stock barely moved, rising only 2% after the news. META Stock Performance. Source: TradingView What Muse Spark 1.1 Can Do Muse Spark 1.1 is what the industry calls an agentic model. It is built to act, not just answer questions. It can plan a task, use software and tools, and operate a computer across desktop, mobile, and browser. We’re excited to introduce Muse Spark 1.1, a significant upgrade from the first Muse Spark model we released earlier this year. Along with this release, we are launching a public preview of th

The following article originally appeared on Charity Majors’s Substack and is being republished here with the author’s permission. I recently attended a talk where one of the presenters made some pretty…astonishing claims about what they had achieved by the pure, uncut power of vibe coding. Difficult engineering problems solved, backlogs cleared. Rewrites that would have […]

The post Judge Approves $1.5 Million Penalty for Elon Musk in Twitter SEC Case appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. A federal judge has approved Elon Musk’s $1.5 million settlement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), ending the case over his delayed disclosure of Twitter stock purchases in 2022. US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan signed off on the agreement on July 8 after warning she would not rubber-stamp the deal. Why the Judge Scrutinized the Musk SEC Settlement The SEC sued Musk in January 2025, according to the case docket. Its complaint said he crossed Twitter’s 5% ownership threshold on March 14, 2022, but disclosed his stake 11 days after the March 24 deadline. By then, Musk had quietly built a 9% position. Twitter shares jumped more than 27% once he disclosed, and the SEC claimed the delay saved him at least $150 million. Twitter (TWTR) Stock Performance in March 2022. Source: TradingView Sooknanan rejected Musk’s bid to dismiss the case in February. At a M

The settlement's leniency may undermine the deterrent effect of disclosure rules, potentially encouraging similar future violations by investors. The post Judge approves Elon Musk settlement with US SEC over Twitter disclosures appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

Michael Coates, Twitter's first-ever CISO, joins the Solana Foundation to lead security across a network processing billions in daily stablecoin volume. The post SOL Just Hired Twitter’s First-Ever CISO: Is This the Security Upgrade a Trillion Network Needs? appeared first on 99Bitcoins.

The post Solana Foundation appoints former Twitter security chief Michael Coates as CISO appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. Michael Coates has joined the Solana Foundation as its Chief Information Security Officer after a career spanning leadership roles at Mozilla, Twitter and enterprise security startup Altitude Networks. Summary Michael Coates has joined the Solana Foundation as Chief Information Security Officer after previously leading security at Mozilla, Twitter and Altitude Networks. Coates said Solana’s transaction scale and multi billion dollar daily stablecoin activity influenced his decision to join the foundation. His work will focus on strengthening crypto security, improving application security practices and working with policymakers on cybersecurity standards. According to a post shared by Michael Coates on X, he has taken over as CISO of the Solana Foundation, where he will lead security efforts across the network as blockchain adoption and institutional activity co