Bitcoin sidechain Liquid pauses after purported ‘white hats’ withdraw $320M in BTC
[Update, Sept. 7, 2026, 7:30 UTC: Added correspondence between the “white hats” and Blockstream.] Bitcoin sidechain Liquid paused operations after actors claiming to be white-hat hackers withdrew about 4,000 Bitcoin worth $320 million from its federation wallet. On Sunday, Liquid said that bridge nodes were disabled, preventing new transactions, while exchanges had halted or were