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Like it or not, Jim Chanos’ MSTR short trade was a winner

Jim Chanos’ hedged MSTR short-sale is probably up 15-35% depending on the assumptions you make about his cost basis and fees.

Aug 27, 20254 min

You can now spam JPEGs in Bitcoin private keys

BitMEX Research has invented a new method for storing spam data in Bitcoin transactions wholly outside of the popular OP_RETURN tool.

Aug 27, 20254 min

Opinion: The Gemini XRP credit card is stupid

Gemini’s new XRP Mastercard offers no new features, except “an innovative design for the XRP Army to show their allegiance.”

Aug 27, 20253 min

Zora updates coin guidelines after ZachXBT calls out Sahil collab

Zora is “hiding” sketchy coins under new rules after it’s team was ridiculed for promoting a fake Tyson Fury account tied to a known scammer.

Aug 27, 20254 min

Tyler Winklevoss goes viral for not having the Gemini app

Tyler Winklevoss wanted to boast about Gemini outranking Coinbase in the Apple App Store, but he proved something else entirely.

Aug 27, 20252 min

Qubic continues to wreak havoc on Monero with multiple reorgs

Qubic, the Monero mining pool which previously falsely claimed to 51% attack Monero, has recently pulled off multiple 9-block reorgs.

Aug 27, 20255 min

Michael Saylor continues to dilute MSTR after modifying promise

Michael Saylor is taking advantage of revised corporate guidance that would have limited MSTR dilution between 1x and 2.5x mNAV.

Aug 27, 20253 min

Crypto fugitive Ravid Yosef’s app Embie is still available

Ravid Yosef, a fugitive who once helped lead Crypto Capital Corp, still has her application available despite the charges against her.

Aug 27, 20253 min

Solana stocks keep falling as Wall Street pitches another $1B

Crypto industry leaders think their new Solana treasury stock will somehow perform well despite consistent losses across the leaderboard.

Aug 27, 20253 min

Bitcoin Core devs think it would be easy to attack Knots

Prominent Bitcoin Core developers and influencers were laughing while describing a denial of service (DoS) attack against Knots nodes.

Aug 25, 20254 min

The worst part of yesterday’s bitcoin ‘flash crash’ was social media

Bitcoin investors broadcasted horror onto social media and demanded someone go to jail for a supposed flash crash yesterday.

Aug 25, 20252 min

What is Omar Rossi doing for Tether?

Omar Rossi has worked for a variety of interesting financial firms in Switzerland and the Bahamas and now seems to be involved with Tether.

Aug 25, 20254 min

Scoop: Crypto Capital Corp’s Ravid Yosef is flaunting extradition in Israel

Crypto Capital Corp’s Ravid Yosef made her way to Israel where she very publicly launched new businesses despite being under indictment.

Aug 21, 20255 min

Why billions in Bitcoin treasury purchases can’t pump the price

Public treasury companies have raised about $10 billion this year to buy BTC, yet the spot price keeps falling.

Aug 21, 20254 min

UK mirrors US sanctions against Russian crypto networks

The UK sanctioned several Russian and Kyrgyz crypto entities that are being used to dodge Western sanctions during Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Aug 21, 20253 min

Lazarus hackers have become excellent ETH traders

North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group is up over $40M on the proceeds from last year’s Radiant Capital hack, and is trading ETH like a pro.

Aug 21, 20253 min

US Judge drops Hayden Davis freezing order, frees up 500M LIBRA tokens

The US court order freezing Hayden Davis’s crypto assets was dropped meaning he’s free to move $58M worth of USDC and millions of LIBRA.

Aug 21, 20252 min

Kanye West still hasn’t released a crypto token, despite rumors

Despite no token announcement or address, Kanye West following the YZY MONEY account caused a frenzy among hopeful traders.

Aug 21, 20253 min

Strategy loyalists sell MSTR, say Michael Saylor lied about dilution

According to a few Strategy loyalists, Michael Saylor’s revision of his MSTR dilution promise below 2.5x mNAV means that he lied.

Aug 20, 20253 min

The solution to crypto’s Lazarus problem could be simpler than expected

In just over 18 months, North Korean hackers like Lazarus have used the same “hijacked multisig” technique to steal over $1.75B in crypto.

Aug 20, 20254 min

Is the US targeting Solana devs in Russia with crypto ‘infostealers’?

Security firm Safety fueled speculation that the US could be targeting Russian Solana devs to disrupt Kremlin-linked ransomware gangs.

Aug 20, 20252 min

MicroStrategy abandons MSTR dilution promise after mNAV drop

Anti-dilution guidance from MicroStrategy only lasted two weeks. In its place is revised, vague language about ‘advantageous’ conditions.

Aug 19, 20254 min

The great MSTR Ponzi scheme debate

Tensions are escalating in a spirited debate between MicroStrategy (MSTR) investors and skeptics about whether the stock is a Ponzi scheme.

Aug 18, 20254 min

Bitcoin Core dev Peter Todd shilling a Joker memecoin for $5,000

The Joker themed “HAHA” memecoin shilled by Peter Todd initially rug pulled before buyers sent it rocketing over 4,500% 24 hours later.

Aug 18, 20252 min

ETH unstaking wait queue hit multi-year high

On Sunday, Ethereum users were unstaking $4 billion worth of ETH from the network due to two impactful headlines from finance.

Aug 18, 20253 min

Ripple’s XRPL EVM mainnet is live — top exchange did $26 volume in a day

Ripple trumpeted “years of building and testing” to launch the XRPL EVM mainnet, which would usher in “a new era of cross-chain DeFi.”

Aug 11, 20253 min

The state of crypto is a million dildos who think they’re interesting

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The latest cringe-inducing crypto story involves “investors” throwing green dildos onto WNBA courts to try to meme their way to relevance.

Aug 11, 20255 min

Gamestop’s Ryan Cohen is unfollowing Bitcoiners en masse

Gamestop’s Ryan Cohen could have bought over $1.4B worth of BTC. He hasn’t, and he just unfollowed all BTC accounts on X.

Aug 11, 20252 min

What does Roman Storm’s guilty verdict mean for the wider DeFi sector?

DeFi advocates are concerned that the Roman Storm verdict could set a precedent for developers of other protocols.

Aug 11, 20254 min

Solana Labs and Jito Labs served Pump Fun lawsuit

Solana Labs and Jito Labs have been served a Pump Fun lawsuit that accuses them of aiding the memecoin platform’s illegal casino enterprise.

Aug 11, 20252 min

$12B BSV delisting claim against Binance, Kraken hits UK Supreme Court

UK BSV holders are continuing to fight for $11.9 billion in damages from Binance and Kraken by requesting to appeal to the UK Supreme Court.

Aug 8, 20252 min

Jury finds Roman Storm guilty of 1 of 3 counts in Tornado Cash trial

Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm won’t be going to prison just yet as the judge overseeing his case rejects the idea that he is a flight risk.

Aug 8, 20253 min

Bitcoin devs warn of fork risk to miners as fees crash

Bitcoin mining pool operators achieved a dramatic reduction in minimum fees yet inadvertently shot themselves in the foot.

Aug 7, 20255 min

China wants a yuan stablecoin, but why?

Reports claim that China wants to issue a yuan stablecoin, but it is not clear how that is compatible with its goals.

Aug 6, 20254 min

Bored Ape minter finally sells after 92% fall from peak

Someone minted Bored Apes and waited four years to sell. The NFT portfolio, once worth $4.3 million, has declined to a few hundred thousand.

Aug 6, 20252 min

CHART: Stablecoins are growing fast since the GENIUS Act

Stablecoins have seen their market cap increase from $251B to approximately $268B since Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law.

Aug 6, 20252 min

Liberland urgently wants a market maker for its LLM token

Justin Sun’s Liberland wants to pay a market maker $4,000 a month to provide liquidity for its Liberland Merit token.

Aug 6, 20253 min

Bitcoin’s transaction fees have fallen to a multi-year low

The percent of BTC miner revenue from fees has hit its lowest rate since 2022 and is suffering from a 90% reduction in fee minimums.

Aug 6, 20252 min

Coinbase Base network halts for 44 minutes due to ‘unsafe head delay’

“Unsafe head delay” has been blamed for the Coinbase Base downtime, according to its status page. Four components had a major outage today.

Aug 6, 20252 min

Bitcoin treasury chief David Bailey wants $200M for new Bitcoin PAC

Bitcoin treasury company executives rejoiced when Donald Trump became President, and they want to win again in the 2026 mid-term elections.

Aug 6, 20254 min

Scammers using AI tools to steal crypto via deepfakes and wallet drainers

Whether boosting “social engineering” scams, or writing crypto-stealing code, AI is helping scammers to relieve users of their tokens.

Aug 4, 20253 min

One small step for Justin Sun, one giant leap for financial impunity

Justin Sun has taken his long-awaited trip to space, four years after he bid millions for a seat on Blue Origin’s first manned mission.

Aug 4, 20253 min

No, China didn’t ban crypto again

Wild rumors of a crypto ban in China started on Telegram and reached millions via Elon Musk’s X account. Thing is, it was fake news.

Aug 4, 20253 min

Songs for pumping and dumping: crypto’s Spotify leak

The Panama Playlists have revealed the musical tastes of some of the crypto industry’s most high-profile key opinion leaders.

Aug 4, 20253 min

DeFi shake-up: Lido cuts staff, Curve rethinks L2s

Despite a DeFi resurgence, Lido announced a 15% cut of contributors, while a Curve governance proposal suggests cutting Layer Two development.

Aug 4, 20253 min

Tesla Diner is a car wreck of ‘epic’ proportions

Tesla Diner reviews have slammed its dirty bathrooms, sloppy food, an absent Optimus Robot, and a lack of rollerskating waitresses.

Aug 4, 20254 min

Ripple co-founder explains why most banks don’t use XRP

XRP holders have celebrated Ripple’s banking partnerships for years, but David Schwartz admits that most banks don’t need the XRP token.

Aug 1, 20252 min

Tether claims billions in profits as it grows ‘secured loans’

Tether, the world’s largest stablecoin company, has continued to grow its secured loans business even after promising to eliminate it.

Aug 1, 20253 min

Former OpenSea manager’s insider trading conviction overturned

Nathaniel Chastain, a former OpenSea product manager, had his insider trading conviction overturned on appeal.

Aug 1, 20251 min

CoinDCX hack: $44M gone after dev opens file from side gig

CoinDCX developer Rahul Agarwal used his work laptop to carry out side gigs for private parties “without being aware of their credentials.”

Aug 1, 20253 min