After cloning the token contract on Fantom, the attacker bridged 100M freshly minted GNUS tokens across to Ethereum, where they were sold for 407 ETH.

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04.05.2024

Opinion: Gemini wants you to vote for anti-democracy politicians

Gemini has started using a new tool that grades politicians, giving particularly high grades to those who worked to discard votes.

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04.05.2024

It’s been a messy launch for friend.tech’s FRIEND token

Despite launching last year, FRIEND's user interfaces weren’t working as well as you'd expect from a project with over $50M in fee revenue.

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04.05.2024

Cartier jewelry heir arrested for laundering drug money with USDT

Police in Miami arrested Maximilien de Hoop Cartier, heir to the Cartier jewelry fortune, for allegedly working with a Colombian drug cartel.

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04.05.2024

ZeroHedge will host a weird gold v. bitcoin debate today

ZeroHedge will host a spirited debate tonight that will see two gold bugs who have predicted $0 BTC facing off against two crypto bulls.

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03.05.2024

Creator of rabbit AI assistant has hidden NFT past

Scathing reviews of the rabbit r1 have brought attention to creator Jesse Lyu’s earlier work on a failed NFT project called Gama.

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03.05.2024

Poloniex delists own WBTC product following depeg

The WBTC/BTC pair looks to have been removed from Poloniex completely, and the WBTC/USDT pair states, "Currently trading is disabled."

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03.05.2024

Scoop: Justin Sun falsely claimed diplomatic immunity in lawsuit

Justin Sun claimed his ambassadorial role granted him diplomatic immunity. Unfortunately, this only applies while on official business.

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03.05.2024

New research suggests Bitcoin mining centralized around Bitmain

Antpool by Bitmain claims to generate just one-quarter of Bitcoin’s hash rate but researchers think it might secretly control a majority.

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02.05.2024

Roger Ver arrested for tax fraud while promoting Bitcoin book

Within four weeks of publishing his first full-length book on Bitcoin’s history, Spanish authorities arrested Roger Ver for tax fraud.

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02.05.2024

Block whistleblower says firm ignored compliance, allowed terror groups

Transactions from Jack Dorsey's Block, Cash App, and Square are reportedly being investigated by federal prosecutors over compliance lapses.

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02.05.2024

Former FTX exec pays $1.5M for watch worn by Titanic's richest passenger

Former FTX exec Patrick Gruhn paid $1.5 million for the watch worn by John Jacob Astor IV during the sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912.

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02.05.2024

DeFi lender Pike Finance loses $1.9M to two hacks in less than a week

Pike Finance paused its protocol when it lost $300,000, however, this opened up a new vulnerability that cost it $1.6 million four days later.

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01.05.2024

Hacker jailed for blackmailing therapy patients for bitcoin

The Finnish hacker responsible for blackmailing 30,000 psychotherapy patients for more than $500,000 in bitcoin was jailed for six years.

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01.05.2024

Dune Analytics X account hijacked to shill airdrop

Dune said its account was compromised for 90 minutes during which time it posted a fake airdrop that was live for just a quarter of an hour.

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01.05.2024

Justin Sun’s empire crumbles as USDD depegs again

Sun's USDD is meant to stay priced at a dollar via a series of algorithmic mechanisms but it's deviated 3% and currently trades for $0.97.

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01.05.2024

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months in prison

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao has been sentenced to four months in prison following his guilty plea for violations of the Bank Secrecy Act.

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01.05.2024

CZ to be sentenced in the US today — what to expect

Estimates for the prison sentence that Binance founder Changpeng Zhao will receive today range from no time at all to 36 months behind bars.

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30.04.2024

Nearly 9,000 KGB agents doxxed by Belarus hacking group

The Belarusian hackers behind last week's KGB leak previously turned the passport of president Aleksandr Lukashenko into an NFT.

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30.04.2024

Solana project CEO says ‘sybil attackers’ gamed metric hoping for airdrop

After criticism over data credibility from Martin Shkreli, io.net CEO Ahmad Shadid explained, “We move fast, and sometimes we break things.”

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30.04.2024

Poloniex WBTC depegs threatening Justin Sun’s empire

Poloniex, a Justin Sun-owned exchange, offers a WBTC product on Tron that's currently trading at a more than 20% discount on Poloniex.

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30.04.2024

Russian crypto exchange Beribit freezes withdrawals, offers chocolate instead

Beribit staff reportedly offered chocolate to around 50 people who were demanding the return of over 400 million rubles ($4.2 million).

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27.04.2024

FBI warns it may cause 'financial disruptions'

The FBI has warned Americans that its recent law enforcement operations may cause 'financial disruptions' to users at unregistered MSBs.

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27.04.2024

Phoenix Wallet to be removed from US app store after Samourai crackdown

Phoenix Wallet, a Bitcoin lightning wallet, will be removed from US-based app stores following recent crackdowns on crypto firms.

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27.04.2024

Nilam Resources gives up, no more 24,800 bitcoins

Penny stock Nilam Resources has issued a press release stating that it will no longer be seeking to acquire 24,800 bitcoins.

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27.04.2024

ConsenSys says the SEC designated ETH a security but won't say where

Apparently, unless ConsenSys is lying in a new lawsuit it filed on Thursday, the SEC has classified ETH as a security.

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26.04.2024

Who are Samourai Wallet's Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill?

Samourai Wallet has had its website seized, its app removed by Google, and developers Rodriguez and Hill have been arrested.

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26.04.2024

Using bitcoin to buy this flame-throwing robot dog saves you 10%

Four-legged flamethrower 'Thermonator' is priced at $9,420 but designer Throwflame says buyers can knock off $942 if they buy with bitcoin.

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26.04.2024

What to do if you’ve used Samourai Wallet

If you follow these steps carefully, should be able to privately disentangle your Bitcoin wallet from Samourai’s shuttered service.

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26.04.2024

Bitcoin Sign Guy sells the Bitcoin sign

Christian Langalis, a.k.a. the 'Bitcoin Sign Guy,' has decided to auction off the piece of paper that he held up behind Janet Yellen in 2017.

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26.04.2024

Bitcoin historian creates lore website tracking memes

A marketing director at Blockstream has created a website that documents popular Bitcoin meme images posted to X.

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25.04.2024

Do Kwon appeal claims lawyers had 20 mins to review docs before hearing

Do Kwon has appealed his extradition again, accusing Montenegrin courts of making 'unfounded and illegal' decisions and favoring the US.

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25.04.2024

Reuters says crypto bro’s WW3 ‘video’ actually from WW2

A video shared by crypto influencer and alleged rug-puller Matt Wallace claiming to depict the start of WW3 has been debunked as CGI.

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25.04.2024

Getting a job in crypto just got easier thanks to US FTC

The FTC, the powerful US trade regulator, has nullified tens of millions of non-compete agreements. Crypto jobseekers rejoice.

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25.04.2024

Depeg of $3B restaking token ezETH causes over $60M in DeFi liquidations

Renzo Protocol’s liquid restaking token ezETH, suffered a sharp depeg in response to an unpopular and misleading tokenomics announcement.

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25.04.2024

Solana pre-sale meme coin founders abandon their crashing projects

Solana meme coin founders are abandoning their projects, leaving pre-sale buyers with nothing but a cute ticker symbol.

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24.04.2024

Prices of Bitcoin Runes dip two days after launch

Bitcoin Runes, the new type of fungible token protocol using the Bitcoin blockchain, has proven to be less popular than many anticipated.

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24.04.2024

Hacker leaks source code for El Salvador Chivo ATMs

El Salvador’s bitcoin wallet Chivo has experienced another major hack, this time targeting cash-dispensing ATMs.

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Opinion: Gemini wants you to vote for anti-democracy politicians

It’s been a messy launch for friend.tech’s FRIEND token

Cartier jewelry heir arrested for laundering drug money with USDT

ZeroHedge will host a weird gold v. bitcoin debate today

Creator of rabbit AI assistant has hidden NFT past

Poloniex delists own WBTC product following depeg

Scoop: Justin Sun falsely claimed diplomatic immunity in lawsuit

New research suggests Bitcoin mining centralized around Bitmain

Roger Ver arrested for tax fraud while promoting Bitcoin book

Block whistleblower says firm ignored compliance, allowed terror groups

Former FTX exec pays $1.5M for watch worn by Titanic's richest passenger

DeFi lender Pike Finance loses $1.9M to two hacks in less than a week

Hacker jailed for blackmailing therapy patients for bitcoin

Dune Analytics X account hijacked to shill airdrop

Justin Sun’s empire crumbles as USDD depegs again

Binance founder Changpeng Zhao sentenced to 4 months in prison

CZ to be sentenced in the US today — what to expect

Nearly 9,000 KGB agents doxxed by Belarus hacking group

Solana project CEO says ‘sybil attackers’ gamed metric hoping for airdrop

Poloniex WBTC depegs threatening Justin Sun’s empire

Russian crypto exchange Beribit freezes withdrawals, offers chocolate instead

FBI warns it may cause 'financial disruptions'

Phoenix Wallet to be removed from US app store after Samourai crackdown

Nilam Resources gives up, no more 24,800 bitcoins

ConsenSys says the SEC designated ETH a security but won't say where

Who are Samourai Wallet's Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill?

Using bitcoin to buy this flame-throwing robot dog saves you 10%

What to do if you’ve used Samourai Wallet

Bitcoin Sign Guy sells the Bitcoin sign

Bitcoin historian creates lore website tracking memes

Do Kwon appeal claims lawyers had 20 mins to review docs before hearing

Reuters says crypto bro’s WW3 ‘video’ actually from WW2

Getting a job in crypto just got easier thanks to US FTC

Depeg of $3B restaking token ezETH causes over $60M in DeFi liquidations

Solana pre-sale meme coin founders abandon their crashing projects

Prices of Bitcoin Runes dip two days after launch

Hacker leaks source code for El Salvador Chivo ATMs

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