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Binance is changing its chief financial officer and winding down some European accounts, while bitcoin ETFs ended the week negative for 2026. In health, spreading short stair climbs through the workday modestly improved adherence; other small trials cover blood pressure, older-adult function and clinical rehabilitation. Locally, Fairfax has 279 new affordable apartments, Reston is set for 78 space-sector jobs, and a Virginia raccoon’s merchandise is helping pay for animal-control body cameras.
Aave is buying its way into fixed-rate lending, while Immutable plans to become an Ethereum rollup. Health has practical lifting comparisons: longer rests preserved late-set bench repetitions, and a small leg-press trial separated endurance from strength gains. A Nature Aging longevity result is in mice, not a human supplement plan. October hiring beat expectations, Manassas has an airport-and-housing agenda Monday, and two South Carolina piglets were detained for ‘fleeing and squealing.
Bitcoin gave back its whole post-election bounce, falling to about $76,000 as a Nasdaq rout spilled into crypto and wiped out more than $1.1 billion in leveraged bets. Zcash’s NU7 and Base’s Denim upgrades are both live, and Ethereum’s Glamsterdam fork is delayed again. Health leads with a 97-study meta-analysis of caffeine in team-sport athletes, plus lifting for back pain and sleep apnea and a mouse study tying bone force-sensing to longer life.
Bitcoin is back above $80,000 after the Democratic sweep, but the crypto industry is rethinking its whole Washington plan. A French bank, Crédit Mutuel Arkéa, confirmed it was hacked, with $133 million or more turned into crypto. Health leads with elite female boxers, where light weights with blood-flow cuffs or cluster sets beat standard heavy training, and a Cell mouse study in which eating less cut DNA mutations. In Virginia, Shannon Taylor declared victory over Rob Wittman in VA-1, Fairfax voters passed both bonds, and the Dow had its best day since April 2025.
Democrats won both houses of Congress, and in Virginia Mark Warner, Suhas Subramanyam and Eugene Vindman all won while all three constitutional amendments passed. Manassas City Council is now all-Democratic, and a School Board seat came down to 13 votes. Binance explained how its $6.3 billion hack happened: a tampered Homebrew package and a fake job interview. Bitcoin dipped below $76,000 on the results, then bounced back to about $78,300. Health leads with recreational athletes, where heavy squats made sprinters faster but jump squats didn’t, and older adults, where light leg work with blood-flow cuffs matched heavy lifting.
Binance opened a second wave of withdrawals and published its zero-knowledge proof of reserves, while Brazil’s largest exchange, Mercado Bitcoin, lost about $38–49 million to a hot-wallet hack. Bitcoin slipped below $77,000 on Election Day. Health leads with highly trained runners, where seven easy hot-weather runs built heat tolerance equally in women and men, plus a trial pinning the best workout intensity for thinking skills near 67% of heart-rate reserve. Science has two specialists re-proving a 60-year-old graph problem first cracked by AI, and a curious idea about the Moon squeezing out Earth’s first continents.
Binance’s first full day of reopened withdrawals saw a net $3.64 billion leave, about 2% of customer assets, and no run. Bitcoin is back near $78,600. Health leads with a longevity cohort of adults 65 and older, where diet quality, not just eating plants, tracked with survival, plus a Cell mouse study on taurine and age-related inflammation. Locally, NOVEC bills just went up about $13 a month, and Election Day is tomorrow.
Clocks fell back overnight, so enjoy the extra hour. Binance started reopening withdrawals this morning after saying it has covered about 95% of the $6.3 billion stolen, and the FBI formally blamed North Korea. Bitcoin is holding near $78,000. Health leads with athletes: a HIIT layer that lifts VO2max, a six-day interval block, and hamstring norms for masters athletes. Locally, Prince William won’t let Justice Department monitors inside polling places on Tuesday.
Happy Halloween. Binance says its $6.3 billion breach went wider than one laptop and is aiming to restart withdrawals around Sunday, while Aave froze lending on 16 networks to keep the stolen money out. Bitcoin is near $76,000–77,000. Health leads with trained people: beetroot for soreness and creatine for coming back from an injury, plus exercise for older women’s cognition and good news for weekend warriors. Stocks slid again Friday, Gainesville residents want a data center pause, and Florida had a Grim Reaper ringing doorbells.
Binance lost about $6.3 billion overnight in the largest crypto theft on record, and Bitcoin slid toward $78,000. Polymarket and Summer Finance were drained too. Health leads with a lower-fatigue way to squat, jump squats for in-season athletes and a time-efficient sprint block. Q3 growth came in hot at 3.4%, but so did inflation. Manassas has an interim mayor. And Manassas Park police have a sheep in custody.
Blockchain: Binance’s record hack, more drains, tokenized funds keep coming Binance loses about $6.
