Informed Crypto News

Crypto companies are already removing their Pudgy Penguin profile pictures after a collab weekend that was overshadowed by Bitcoin’s price.

Max Burwick announced his bid for mayor yesterday and said he would take on Zohran Mamdani “with a common-sense, New York-first platform.”

Demand for Bitcoin blockspace is so low that some node operators want to reduce transaction fee minimums from about $0.18 to less than $0.01.

Bitcoin has led the rally in digital assets, but it wasn’t the only native token of a blockchain to rally to a new all-time high yesterday.

James Wynn returned to social media this week and immediately embarrassed himself by shorting BTC right before its all-time high.

Synonym CEO John Carvalho shared a screenshot that he says shows Wolf of All Streets offering him an appearance in return for $20K.

The DeFi sector is a financial frontier zone, home to some of crypto’s riskiest experiments. As such, chaos isn’t the exception but the rule.

Hayden Davis reportedly sent $1.27M worth of stablecoin USDC to an exchange address one day before LIBRA’s launch.

Justin Sun and TronDAO’s purchases of WLFI and $TRUMP coins have donated over $60M to President Donald Trump.

USDC stablecoin issuer Circle has been criticized for not freezing $9M taken in the GMX protocol hack quickly enough.

While bragging about the growth of Coinbase, Brian Armstrong probably doxxed the location of Michael Saylor’s BTC.

Disgruntled suit traders are planning legal action against Polymarket and have accused the crypto platform of market manipulation and fraud.

Ammar Zaeem has been branded a “fraudster” by a Revolving Games investor who claims he reneged on his promise to refund a $100K investment.

BTC worth over $8B stolen in March 2011 from Mt. Gox is the target of a sophisticated phishing attack using Salomon Brothers’ brand.

So-called “synthetic dollar” USDf, which is backed by controversial market maker DWF Labs, is off-peg and has hit a low of $0.98.

Crypto influencers are alleging that GCR engaged in insider trading years before correctly predicting the demise of Do Kwon’s Terra LUNA.

There are some technical analysts who believe an offset chart of M2 global money supply can somehow predict BTC prices.

Social media influencers are confusing their audiences about the basic operations of brokerages and MicroStrategy shares like Strife (STRF).

Bitcoin social media sprung into alarm after senior Bitcoin developer Jon Atack tweeted his arrest by El Salvadoran law enforcement.

Police arrested 21-year-old Ildar Ilham over the $30M rug pull orchestrated by crypto betting platform ZKasino.

The controversial Volodymyr Zelenskyy market is now up for final review after UMA token holders refused to accept that he wore a suit.

OpenAI has taken to X to remind the crypto community that Robinhood’s much-hyped “stock tokens” don’t represent equity in the business.

Roman Storm had to raise another $2M as the legal fees from the US case against crypto mixer Tornado Cash continue to pile up.

Fans of Michael Saylor believed that non-dilutive preferred shares would displace dilutive ATMs, but MicroStrategy just admitted the opposite.

Bitcoin treasury company mania was a unique moment in time in early May 2025. However, shares are now fading as rationality returns.

Darkweb reporters shared an odd BTC transfer amid speculation that Abacus Market is either exit scamming or being seized by the US.

FreeWallet is one of the oldest custodial crypto wallets. For certain legacy customers, it charges 50 USDT in monthly inactivity fees.

Do Kwon’s lawyers hinted at altering a money laundering charge while they continue to hold “productive” talks with US prosecutors.

There are at least a dozen explanations for why the price of BTC is refusing to rally in 2025. Here’s why BTC is so boring this year.

Users are currently bidding for the Elon Musk Instagram handle, which could be used to promote a sketchy memecoin.

The team behind blockchain bridge Across has been accused of funnelling $23M worth of treasury funds into its own company, Risk Labs.

The alleged “IntelBroker” hacker was reportedly already arrested by UK police in 2018 over thousands of hoax bomb threats.

Investors in MetaPlanet are concerned about short-sellers and are blaming banks for an attack that probably never happened.

Judge Colleen McMahon combined two Pump Fun lawsuits and reduced the potential awarded attorney costs for the legal firms involved.

The same judge who granted Ripple a massive victory over the SEC has just denied a request to reduce its fine by tens of millions of dollars.

The FHFA ordered government-sponsored mortgage buyers to prepare a proposal that treats crypto as a legitimate asset for risk assessments.

On the news that Green Minerals wanted to join the ranks of BTC treasury companies like MicroStrategy, its stock price quadrupled.

MoriCoin creator, the pseudonymous Professor Moriarty, also runs a Russian-language YouTube channel with over 3.2M followers.

Tether has made BTC an important part of its reserves, but does that make Tether vulnerable if BTC falls?

Barclays banned customers from buying crypto with its credit card despite previously investing $131M into a BTC ETF.

The hacker behind the $12M Cork Protocol exploit has sent $11M of stolen ETH through Tornado Cash and donated $24K to Storm’s legal fund.

Michael Saylor has unveiled a magically bullish calculator to evaluate the credit and BTC risks of MicroStrategy debt.

MicroStrategy insiders have sold tens of millions of dollars worth of MSTR stock over the last three months.

Ira Kleiman argued that Craig Wright has evaded paying $143 million in fees while virtually no steps have been taken to enforce the judgment.

Justin Sun’s USDD is receiving most of its assets from HTX and is depositing them into new vaults launched without approval from a DAO.

XRP Ledger co-creator Arthur Britto has returned to X after years of silence, earning millions of impressions.

A controversial ban list of Bitcoin Knots operators allows you to disconnect and excommunicate them from your node.

During the 2015 block size debate, a key area of contention concerned how BTC-denominated payments will scale to a global userbase.

CoinMarketCap and Cointelegraph were compromised to serve wallet drainers via malicious pop-ups, while Trezor’s contact form was hacked.

ZachXBT tracked the furry/crypto scammer and discovered he stole over $4M by impersonating Coinbase support staff.