Corrections

When we get something wrong we say so on the story and here, with the date. We do not quietly edit a story and move on: the original stays at its own address, with the correction above it.

• Correction · 2026-09-18

  XRP Surges 6.9% as Bitcoin's Rebound Above $80,000 Revives Golden Cross Talk

  We reported that Bitcoin had rebounded above $800,000. The figure is wrong by a factor of ten: Bitcoin was trading at about $80,900 at the time, and our own price tape recorded $80,933 forty-five seconds before this story was first published. The error came from the summary of the source article we drew on, which read "Bitcoin claws its way above $800,000", and we repeated it in our headline, card, body and share card without checking it against the price data we already held. The figure has been corrected to $80,000 throughout and in all eight editions. A version of this story carrying the wrong figure was also sent to our Telegram channel at 17:33 UTC and cannot be unsent.

• Correction · 2026-08-20

  906 BTC moves on Bitcoin in a single transfer

  From publication on 20 August 2026 until 21 August 2026, this story had no address of its own. A different Bitcoin transfer, published on 15 August, produced an identical headline and therefore an identical URL, and that URL served the 15 August event. A reader who followed this story's canonical ID, BYTE-2026-08-20-0774, was shown the 15 August transaction on a page printing BYTE-2026-08-15-1017 — a different canonical ID than the one they had asked for. The Internet Archive preserved that wrong pairing in a snapshot taken on 20 August at 08:52 UTC, so it is on the public record and is not corrected by this change alone. This story now has its own address. The 15 August story keeps the original one, because it was published first and its URL was the one that worked. Slugs are now made unique when they are minted, and the canonical-ID resolver no longer resolves through them.

• Correction · 2026-08-19

  the on-chain ledger

  The ERC-20 watcher recorded each transfer LEG of a transaction as a separate movement. Where a transaction's legs net out — a token routed through an intermediary and back, which is most of what a bridge or a market maker does — the ledger reported money moving that never moved. 71 rows published on 2026-08-18 and 2026-08-19, claiming a combined $9,236,295,454, were wrong and have been withdrawn from this page and from /api/v1/whales.json. The watcher now collapses a transaction's transfers per address before the recording threshold is applied, so a net-zero transaction records nothing. The superseded rows are kept verbatim in data/onchain_corrections/ — the record of what we published is not edited, only marked.