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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.

May 16, 20253 min

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.

May 16, 20252 min

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.

May 15, 20253 min

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?

May 15, 20253 min

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.

May 15, 20254 min

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.

May 15, 20253 min

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.”

May 15, 20252 min

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.

May 14, 20252 min

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.

May 14, 20252 min

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.

May 14, 20252 min

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.

May 14, 20254 min

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.

May 14, 20255 min

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.

May 13, 20254 min

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.

May 13, 20253 min

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.

May 13, 20252 min

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.

May 13, 20253 min

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.

May 13, 20252 min

Lido oracle key compromise — was $23B really at risk?

While some commentators called the compromised oracle key “alarming,” others stressed that fears were overblown.

May 12, 20253 min

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.

May 12, 20252 min

Knots ‘warning’ escalates Bitcoin OP_RETURN war

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

May 12, 20253 min

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.”

May 12, 20252 min

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.

May 12, 20253 min

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.

May 9, 20252 min

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.

May 8, 20253 min

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.”

May 8, 20253 min

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.

May 8, 20253 min

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.

May 8, 20252 min

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.”

May 8, 20252 min

Careful when signing messages in Ethereum Pectra

Security researchers flagged Ethereum’s Pectra update for heightened risk of theft from malicious smart contracts.

May 7, 20253 min

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.

May 7, 20252 min

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.

May 7, 20254 min

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.

May 7, 202512 min

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.

May 6, 20255 min

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.

May 6, 20252 min

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.

May 6, 20252 min

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.”

May 6, 20252 min

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.

May 5, 20256 min

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.

May 5, 20252 min

The corporate interests taking over Bitcoin development

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

May 5, 20258 min

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.

May 2, 20254 min

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.

May 2, 20251 min

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.

May 1, 20254 min

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.

May 1, 20252 min

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.

May 1, 20252 min

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.

May 1, 20254 min

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.

Apr 30, 20253 min

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.

Apr 30, 20252 min

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.

Apr 30, 20255 min

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.

Apr 30, 20253 min

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.”

Apr 29, 20252 min