BTCPay Server Tells Operators to Shut Down After Hot-Wallet Sweeps

An open-source, self-hosted payments processor telling operators to shut down rather than patch is a notable escalation, and the missing version and patch details leave operators unable to scope their own exposure. The immediate concern is concentrated among merchants and node runners who hold funds in BTCPay's hot wallets rather than in cold storage, since the alert points to wallet-level compromise rather than a broader network issue. Whether the project can identify affected versions and publish remediation is the open question, and until then the practical signal is how much of the self-hosted merchant base treats shutdown as the safe default.