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World Liberty Financial claims no relationship with $TRUMP firm
World Liberty Financial, the Trump-affiliated “DeFi” firm, claims no relationship with Fight, FIght, Fight, LLC, a firm behind $TRUMP.

LIBRA case judge orders full disclosure of Javier Milei bank accounts
A judge ordered the bank secrecy requirements of Javier Milei and his sister to be lifted as part of the LIBRA fraud case.

Coinbase leak prompts KYC criticism from crypto execs
A growing number of crypto players are attacking KYC protocols after Coinbase revealed its support staff had leaked credentials.

Which US cryptocurrency stocks have gone up?
More crypto firms are choosing to publicly list their stock, but exactly how well are those stocks performing?

Bitcoin dev Gloria Zhao deletes X account over OP_RETURN drama
Bitcoin developer Zhao has had enough of the ongoing OP_RETURN drama on X and has deleted her account entirely.

Coinbase says staff leaked customer data, refuses to pay $20M ransom
Coinbase countered the blackmail attempt by announcing a bounty for anyone with information that may lead to the arrest of the attackers.

Coinbase mocked over four-hour candle launch: ‘What next, full-screen mode?’
Users online mocked Coinbase for introducing a four-hour candle and joked about the $67B S&P 500 firm celebrating the “small wins.”

Europol raids $24 million ‘mafia crypto bank’
The network, which was raided in January, allegedly offered crypto services to human traffickers and the drug trade.

CHART: Trump’s World Liberty Financial portfolio is a mixed bag
Trump-endorsed World Liberty Financial boasts a portfolio that includes a number of cryptocurrencies that have lost value.

French minister steps in to help stop crypto kidnappings
France’s interior minister says his government must “take measures to protect” crypto professionals after another kidnapping attempt.

David Bailey explains why Nakamoto would sell bitcoin
Nakamoto CEO David Bailey has explained the circumstances under which he would sell his treasury of bitcoin.

Exclusive: Why this Facebook group is putting the news on NFTs
What’s Going on QC, a new website in the Quad Cities that grew out of a Facebook page, integrates NFTs as core infrastructure.

We check the accuracy of 20 Arthur Hayes market calls
A selection of 20 recent crypto market predictions by Maelstrom CIO Arthur Hayes reveals a less-than-stellar track record.

Curve Finance warns users after website and X account hacks
Curve Finance has warned users to avoid its curve.fi website due to a DNS hijacking attack, which redirects users to a wallet drainer.

SafeMoon’s image was carefully curated — and misleading, witness says
Henry “Hank” Wyatt says that John Karony approved website content that misrepresented the nature of SafeMoon’s tokenomics.

David Bailey’s Nakamoto exceeded 23X mNAV, 11X higher than MSTR
A possible merger called Nakamoto between Kindly, BTC Inc, and UTXO briefly created a BTC mNAV exceeding 20X this morning.

UK court slaps Craig Wright with three-year legal restraining order
The judgment handed down against Craig Wright ordered him to pay $132,000 in legal fees and referred him to the UK Attorney General.

Lido oracle key compromise — was $23B really at risk?
While some commentators called the compromised oracle key “alarming,” others stressed that fears were overblown.

Frank DeGods walks away from NFT project DeGods
DeGods founder Rohun Vora, aka Frank DeGods, announced his departure while claiming he’s “not on the run” and hasn’t done anything illegal.

Knots ‘warning’ escalates Bitcoin OP_RETURN war
The debate between conservatives and progressives in Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN data storage war is becoming emotional.

Alex Mashinsky’s prison listed as one of America’s ‘cushiest’
Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky will reportedly spend 12 years in a facility described as “Bernie Madoff’s desired retirement home.”

Bitcoiners post your mom as OP_RETURN spam
Users are spray painting graffiti text messages onto Bitcoin’s blockchain as a way to downplay the OP_RETURN war and spam.

Zerebro founder Jeffy Yu faked his suicide — found alive in flip-flops
Zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu has been found alive after staging his suicide to promote the launch of his $LLJEFFY memecoin.

BREAKING: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky receives 12-year sentence
Mashinsky’s lawyers argued that a 15-year sentence would be “too much,” and that his deeds aren’t comparable to other scams like OneCoin.

EXCLUSIVE: Ex-SafeMoon CTO admits rug pull, details insider exemptions
According to former SafeMoon CTO Thomas “Papa” Smith, “As soon as I start asking you to trust me, you shouldn’t.”

The fine print on the crypto ‘reserves’ of New Hampshire and Arizona
Two state governors signed crypto reserve funds into law. However, the fine print is significantly different from the headlines about them.

USD1 is a top stablecoin with no attestation and no transparency
Donald Trump-endorsed USD1 stablecoin has grown to over $2 billion in market capitalization but provides no transparency.

Cobie says UpOnly will return if someone buys this $20M NFT
The NFT’s fine print doesn’t include any sponsorship rights, and Cobie warns, “We are allowed to call you idiots for buying it.”

Careful when signing messages in Ethereum Pectra
Security researchers flagged Ethereum’s Pectra update for heightened risk of theft from malicious smart contracts.

CZ called pardon reports false, now he’s applying for one
According to CZ, he only applied for a pardon two weeks ago, after Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal wrote about a potential deal.

Bitcoin nodes protesting OP_RETURN change hit all-time high
Knots, an alternative client for Bitcoin full nodes, has grown in popularity as Core developers appease corporate interests in OP_RETURN.

John Karony trial starts with a confused witness and SafeMoon merch
The trial of former SafeMoon CEO John Karony saw testimony from a victim who lost $20K and a SafeMoon die-hard in a branded hoodie.

Samson Mow claims Peter Todd was ‘paid’ for OP_RETURN PR
Samson Mow has accused someone of paying a senior Bitcoin developer to push through a controversial change to Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN.

Ripple to stop XRP reports after SEC ‘used transparency against it’
Ripple claims its reports have not had the intended effect and that they were used against the company by former SEC leadership.

CZ called a ‘liar’ over Binance insider trading accusation
Former Binance chief Changpeng Zhao has been branded “problematic” after he was accused of spreading lies about Boop Fun founder Dingaling.

Zerebro’s ‘dead’ founder Jeffy Yu is still dumping tokens
According to X user RepeatAfterVee, Jeffy Yu’s address is still “dumping $ZEREBRO, then sending USDC to the HTX exchange.”

Bitcoin devs in OP_RETURN war motivated by ‘harm reduction’
Bitcoin developers’ war over the data storage limits of OP_RETURN was about UTXO bloat and harm reduction, according to one side.

El Salvador prepares to arrest El Faro journalists, report
El Faro’s editor-in-chief and director have claimed that the Salvadoran Attorney General has prepared arrest warrants for journalists.

The corporate interests taking over Bitcoin development
Disagreement over a seemingly minor change to OP_RETURN unearthed hidden corporate interests influencing Bitcoin development.

Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base are fighting over $52 billion DeFi pie
Ethereum layer 2s are battling for dominance of a market they believe could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.

Craig Wright website still shows Satoshi notice despite court order expiring
Craig Wright seems to have forgotten to take down the Satoshi notice, which only needed to be displayed until January this year.

Cash is 0.04% of Tether’s assets
Tether’s most recent attestation claims approximately $120 billion in exposure to US Treasuries, but a paltry $64 million in cash.

Moderators censor Bitcoin devs as OP_RETURN war rages on
Bitcoin Core moderators are using GitHub repository controls to mute and ban contributors to a viral debate about OP_RETURN data storage.

Max Keiser thinks bitcoin will stop Israel displacing Palestinians
Bitcoin maximalist Max Keiser claims BTC can “orange pill” Israeli settlers and deter them from chasing Palestinians out of the West Bank.

MicroStrategy wannabes and the return of mNAV mania
Crypto traders invented the term ‘mNAV,’ a simplistic ratio to explain how much they overpay for crypto holdings. It can exceed 8X.

Circle wants its USDC payments network to be the Ripple killer
Crypto exchanges report around $55M in RLUSD volume over the last 24 hours — 99.4% less than Circle’s $9.8B for its much larger USDC.

DOGE aide in charge of layoffs could be breaking law by holding BTC, report
The DOGE aide and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official is reportedly involved in layoffs that may boost his BTC and Tesla holdings.

FixTheFilters: Bitcoin arguments go viral over relaxing Core data storage
Bitcoin developers are arguing furiously about setting standards for the use of OP_Return for non-financial data storage.

The Ethereum Foundation won’t disclose Vitalik Buterin’s voting power
Although the Ethereum Foundation emphasizes its board of directors and shared oversight, Vitalik Buterin’s voting power remains a mystery.

Ledger scammers are sending letters to steal your recovery phase
The letter claims to be from Ledger’s security team and asks users to give their recovery phrase in response to a “critical security update.”