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According to the Financial Times, the European Union and the United Kingdom will postpone the 10% tariff on electric vehicles.

On November 11, the Selangor police in Malaysia publicly destroyed 186 seized Bitcoin mining machines, with the state police chief, Shafie, personally driving a bulldozer to crush the equipment. This destruction operation involved 7,445 pieces of evidence seized between 2021 and 2026, with a total value of approximately 1.19 million Malaysian Ringgit, which has been approved by the court.In addition, the Perak police recently collaborated with the national energy company to raid a residential house suspected of stealing electricity for mining, seizing another 48 Bitcoin mining machines. An investigation is currently underway based on relevant criminal and electricity regulations.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, Shin Eun-seop, the director of the Electronic Financial Inspection Bureau of the Financial Supervisory Service of Korea, stated at a discussion held at the Financial Investment Education Institute in Yeouido, Seoul, that if stablecoins are used as a means of electronic payment, it is inevitable that the Electronic Financial Transactions Act will apply from the perspective of fairness with existing electronic payment methods, user protection, and payment settlement stability.

Samsung Electronics plans to complete the development of advanced packaging technology 3D Cube-H by early 2027 and finish the first design kit, followed by evaluations with potential customers. This technology achieves vertical stacking of chips based on hybrid bonding, primarily targeting high-performance AI semiconductors, which can be used to stack logic chips such as GPUs or integrate logic chips on memory chips like HBM.Samsung Electronics has previously developed 3D Cube-T using thermocompression bonding technology and is currently advancing 3D Cube-H with a terminal pitch of about 6 micrometers, while the minimum terminal pitch for thermocompression bonded chips is about 25 micrometers. Hybrid bonding connects copper materials directly between chips, allowing for reduced terminal pitch, increased connection density, and lower energy consumption per bit, with thermal characteristics that differ from thermocompression bonding solutions.

The Bitcoin wallet Electrum announced the release of version 4.8.4 on platform X, stating that this is another security update. According to the GitHub changelog, the release date of this version is November 6, and it fixes vulnerabilities related to Lightning Network onion messages: malformed onion messages from arbitrary sources may cause Electrum to disconnect from its channel peer nodes.Electrum will currently discard all incoming onion messages until practical use cases are implemented. In addition, the new version also fixes issues such as the failure to recover some mnemonic phrases from versions prior to 2. The previous version of Electrum, 4.8.3, was released in late October and fixed a high-risk vulnerability that had been exploited in the wild.

According to a report by the Korean News Agency, the Financial Supervisory Service's electronic disclosure system shows that Lee Jae-young, the representative director and head of the DX division of Samsung Electronics, purchased 3,000 shares of the company's common stock on November 6, at an average transaction price of 210,000 Korean won per share, totaling approximately 630 million Korean won. After the increase, his shareholding rose from 124,280 shares to 127,280 shares.The report states that this move comes at a time when Samsung Electronics' stock price has recently fallen significantly following the U.S. midterm elections, interpreted as a demonstration of a commitment to responsible management. Lee Jae-young previously purchased about 3,045 shares at 230,000 Korean won per share at the end of July. On the same day, Samsung Electronics' stock fell by 6.35%, closing at 188,700 Korean won.

Japanese actress Aoi Sora posted on social media that there have been some situations at work, but she cannot disclose the specifics at the moment. She is taking this opportunity to start self-studying knowledge related to Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies.Aoi Sora stated that she is completely unfamiliar with the current developments in the industry and hopes that friends who are familiar with the relevant fields can provide more introductions and guidance.

According to Gate market data, the South Korean KOSPI index opened down 1.62%, Samsung Electronics fell 2%, and SK Hynix slightly declined.

Tokyo Electron's annual performance outlook exceeds market expectations, with an estimated operating profit of 1.17 trillion yen (approximately 7.4 billion USD) for the fiscal year ending in March next year, a year-on-year increase of 64%.Operating profit for the third quarter rose to 295.4 billion yen, surpassing the market expectation of 256.1 billion yen.

On October 29, the cryptocurrency research institution Delphi Digital released a report titled "The AI Boom Has a Power Problem," authored by Accelxr. The report states that deployable AI computing power depends on chip supply, as well as sites that are powered, cooled, and connected to the grid. Electricity is harder to supplement in the short term than chips, as chip production capacity can expand quarterly, while new power generation and transmission take years.The report cites data indicating that the PJM capacity auction has cleared at the price cap for three consecutive times, with the last two still falling short of reliability targets by 6.6 to 6.8 GW, marking the first time such a gap has occurred in the history of this auction. The scale of large load queues in Texas ERCOT increased from 63 GW at the end of 2024 to 474 GW in June, with about 90% being data centers; the governor requested an audit of the data centers in the queue in August, and ERCOT subsequently suspended power approval for data centers and cryptocurrency miners of 75 MW and above, including 17 projects that had passed stability studies.The report also states that U.S. data centers are expected to account for about 4.7% of the nation's electricity consumption in 2024, with LBNL predicting an increase to 9.5% to 15.3% by 2030, and EPRI estimating a maximum of 17%. In a 1 GW facility, chip depreciation is about $2.8 billion to $3.3 billion per year, equivalent to about $8 million per day. SemiAnalysis predicts that by 2028, the U.S. will have over 40 GW of data center capacity utilizing behind-the-meter power sources; the delivery cycle for large gas turbines is about five years, with GE Vernova, Siemens Energy, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries forming an oligopoly. Wood Mackenzie expects gas turbine prices to reach $600 per kilowatt by the end of 2027, nearly three times the level of 2019.

According to market data from RootData, the South Korean KOSPI index fell sharply by 3.00% during the day, currently reported at 5831.67 points. Samsung Electronics dropped nearly 6%, and SK Hynix fell by 0.4%.

Samsung Electronics stated that the investment plan for the chip division will be used to build new fabs and other infrastructure to meet strong demand for AI and HPC, while ensuring readiness in the medium to long term.

According to Bitcoin News monitoring, Electrum released version 4.8.3 on October 24, 2026, fixing a security vulnerability that had been used in real attacks.Malicious servers can present users with forged transactions and induce them to sign transactions that pay the attacker's address when users attempt to accelerate transactions with a replacement fee (RBF); attackers do not need to obtain the user's private key. Electrum stated that it has received two related reports, one of which involved a user losing Bitcoin after increasing the transaction fee, and advised users to update to version 4.8.3.

The shortage caused by the AI boom has extended from GPUs and memory to circuit boards. When planning their supply chains for 2027, HP and Dell found that even previously inconspicuous printed circuit boards could face shortages. In September this year, Amazon invested approximately 1.59 billion New Taiwan Dollars in Taiwanese circuit board manufacturer Gold Circuit Electronics, transitioning from customer to shareholder.AI servers require circuit boards with more layers and lower signal loss, and chip packaging substrates are becoming larger, driving up the demand for key materials such as specialty fiberglass cloth and copper-clad laminates. Suppliers prioritize fulfilling more profitable AI orders, squeezing ordinary servers, with some ordinary server circuit board delivery times approaching one year.It is difficult for the production capacity of key materials to keep up with demand in the short term. TrendForce estimates that Japan's Nitto Denko controls about 90% of the global T-glass specialty fiberglass cloth market, with new production capacity not expected to come online until mid-2027 at the earliest. The chairman of Taiwanese substrate manufacturer Unimicron Technology warned on October 20 that some key materials could be short by about 20% by 2027, with delivery times for some chip substrate production equipment extending to as long as 30 months.

On October 24, the Bitcoin lightweight wallet Electrum disclosed a malicious server attack targeting transaction fee increases and fixed it in version 4.8.3, corresponding to GitHub security advisory GHSA-6jp4-8v48-cc5v. Users may inadvertently sign funds over to the attacker when performing regular fee increases on transactions. Developers stated that the issue arose after users reported losing funds after signing fee increases.The results of two reports differed: one person discovered that transactions in the wallet history were replaced after broadcasting a payment and claimed that the original payment did not enter the Bitcoin peer-to-peer network and was withheld by the server; another person, Raju-K12, reported losing funds due to the fee increase on the replaced transaction. In the attack, the malicious server withheld new transactions broadcasted by the client and inserted a conflicting transaction into the history, replacing the original output with the attacker's address. The replacement transaction was signed invalidly at that time, but the lightweight client did not verify these signatures before displaying unconfirmed transactions; after the user manually increased the fee and signed through RBF, the attacker received the funds. Both individuals claimed that the last four digits of the attacker's address were the same as those of the legitimate receiving address. The announcement did not disclose the amount stolen, transaction identifiers, or the attacker's address.The patch corresponds to commit 90fe308, which checks the signatures of the wallet's own inputs before writing memory pool transactions to local history, but does not overwrite inputs from external addresses of the wallet and does not perform complete consensus verification. The announcement suggests that users who have not upgraded should verify the output address and amount each time they sign; clients connected to their own or trusted servers are not affected by this attack. On the timeline, the issue was first privately disclosed on October 11, received reports of fee loss on October 18, the fixed version was tagged on October 23, and the binary and public disclosure occurred on October 24.

South Korean chip companies Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix will release their third-quarter financial reports next week, with strong demand for artificial intelligence storage chips expected to drive substantial profits for both companies.SK Hynix is scheduled to announce its financial report on Wednesday, while Samsung Electronics will follow closely on Thursday.

The Bitcoin wallet Electrum officially announced the release of version 4.8.3, stating that this update fixes a serious security issue and urges all users to upgrade. The official statement indicates that detailed information about the vulnerability will be released later.Its GitHub changelog marks 4.8.3 as a security update, with a release date of October 23. The Electrum official website reminds users to only download the software from the official website and to verify the GPG digital signature to confirm the source and integrity of the installation package.

According to the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), a patent from Samsung Electronics titled "Electronic Devices and Their Operating Methods Providing Blockchain Service" was officially granted on October 20.This technology allows electronic devices to identify nearby devices that support blockchain services through wireless signals, establish peer-to-peer connections, and select the device with the most recent data to complete blockchain synchronization by comparing the latest block heights stored on each device. This patent can reduce network traffic and energy consumption when devices synchronize block data.

According to the Korea Daily Economic News, Tesla and Nvidia will invest $2.8 billion in Samsung Electronics' factory.