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🚀 Falcon 9's final destination: the Moon

The upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 from the January 2025 Blue Ghost mission has struck the Moon, just as astronomer Bill Grey predicted in April. The rocket burned nearly all its fuel delivering two lunar landers to orbit, leaving nothing for a controlled disposal.

The impact hit the sunlit side, so direct observation wasn't possible. The VLT in Chile caught the confirmation: a sodium-lithium plume tens of kilometres wide, lasting up to ten minutes. NASA estimates the crater at roughly 18 metres across.

The precedent matters more than the crater. Lunar traffic is growing, disposal standards for high-energy trajectories don't exist, and NASA has already called a lunar impact a "technically accepted method" — per The Guardian.

Engadget

🔓 BTCPay exploit drained Lightning nodes overnight

BTCPay Server is an open-source payment processor for bitcoin merchants. On Friday night, attackers exploited a flaw that let anyone remotely grab .macaroon files — the master keys to an LND-based Lightning node — without authentication. Keys in hand, you close the channels and sweep the funds.

Hardware-wallet maker Foundation and bitcoin publication Citadel21 were among the victims. BTCPay pushed an emergency update to 2.4.2: patch now or go offline. Standard on-chain wallets were not affected.

The bug had already been reported by the Bitcoin Red Team, a group running AI models over bitcoin codebases. They published fast on the theory that others would find it anyway. Apparently, they did.

Too early to bury Lightning. Too late to sleep on your macaroons.

CoinDesk

🎛️ William Orbit, producer behind *Ray of Light*, dies at 69

William Orbit, the British musician and producer, died on July 23, 2026. His family confirmed the news via his official Instagram account. No cause of death was given.

Orbit held three Grammy Awards, all for his work with Madonna on *Ray of Light* (1998): best pop album, best dance recording, and best song written for visual media for "Beautiful Stranger."

Beyond Madonna, he produced Blur's *13*, Beth Orton's debut *Superpinkymandy*, and worked with U2, All Saints, Britney Spears, No Doubt and Melanie C. His Guerilla Studios hosted the Cocteau Twins, Gary Numan and Sting, among others.

His most recent solo releases were *The Painter* (2022) and *WFO* (2024), per Variety. He was 69.

💸 Crypto With an Iranian Accent

Iran has long used crypto to dodge sanctions — and the U.S. has long been watching. Treasury just put Shelbit Exchange and Aban Tether on the SDN list: assets frozen, anyone still dealing with them risks secondary sanctions.

The key figure is Siavash Kayvanpour, operating out of the UAE and Georgia. His Shelbit moved crypto for Iranian military-linked wallets — $1M in, $2M out, plus another $2M to the already-sanctioned Nobitex. Aban Tether ran millions through a chain of blacklisted Iranian platforms.

The UAE regulator had warned Shelbit twice. The exchange kept going. The third warning came from Treasury. Per Decrypt, the U.S. has seized roughly $1 billion in Iranian crypto since the campaign began.

Two formal warnings, zero response. The SDN list proved more persuasive.

⚽ From Newcastle legend to Arsenal signing

Bruno Guimarães spent three years dragging Newcastle back from the brink of relegation, became the first Newcastle captain in seven decades to lift a major domestic trophy, helped the club into the Champions League twice — and has just signed for Arsenal for £75m.

He calls it one of the toughest decisions of his life. Easy to believe. Though Declan Rice reportedly messaged him "come here and please no more fights, now we're friends", which does make the decision sound slightly less agonising.

Newcastle, now sitting 12th after their 2025 EFL Cup glory, said they wished him and his family well. A gracious send-off — especially at that price.

The man who saved the club is leaving to win trophies with a rival. Football's version of a thank-you note, signed and sold.

BBC Sport

🪙 Crypto check
₿ BTC $63,873 📈 +0.3% (24h)
Ξ ETH $1,897 📈 +0.5% (24h)

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