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China hypes its CBDC as tariff war threatens yuan

As a way to project confidence into FX markets amid trade wars, China defended its yuan with claims that its CBDC is booming.

Apr 11, 20253 min

Traders 73% less confident of Canada getting pro-Bitcoin PM

In early January, the next prime minister of Canada looked certain to be a pro-Bitcoin candidate. Now, his odds have traded down 73%.

Apr 10, 20252 min

Zero Hedge invited to White House press pool despite lies about Fort Knox gold

In 2022, US officials accused Zero Hedge of spreading Russian propaganda, unaware that Russia would invade Ukraine days later.

Apr 10, 20252 min

Donald Trump’s tariff chaos leads to corruption accusations

Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on tariffs threw the markets into chaos and has led to accusations of corruption.

Apr 10, 20253 min

Trump’s Strategic Bitcoin Reserve audit is now five days overdue

According to an executive order signed by Donald Trump, the US government should have audited all of its federal crypto holdings by now.

Apr 10, 20252 min

CZ fans lose $15,000 after he ghosts them on ‘pay-to-reach’ platform

Users have spent $81,000 to send messages to Changpeng Zhao on the “pay-to-reach” site Reach Me, but he’s ignored 37% of them.

Apr 10, 20252 min

PancakeSwap wars: half of CAKE voting power snapped up before new proposal

A proposal to fundamentally alter PancakeSwap’s governance has resulted in a race to snatch up token supply and lock it before voting.

Apr 9, 20253 min

MicroStrategy admits it might need to sell bitcoin by 2026

If its finances get much worse or BTC keeps sliding, MicroStrategy could be looking at possibly selling some of its coins by next year.

Apr 9, 20254 min

Trump promised bitcoin ‘made in America’ then ruined it with tariffs

Despite Donald Trump’s promise to bring all BTC mining to the US, his new tariffs will likely hurt the industry.

Apr 9, 20252 min

Champions League quarter-finalists all have crypto deals

Arsenal, Aston Villa, PSG, and Inter have inked deals with Socios, while Coinbase and Bitpanda sponsor Dortmund and Bayern Munich.

Apr 9, 20251 min

Justin Sun’s marketing push can’t revive his Sun Pump memecoin launcher

Justin Sun’s Sun Pump opened to thousands of token launches in April 2024, but this number fell over the next six months to barely 10 per day.

Apr 9, 20252 min

Elon Musk asked to ‘jerk off’ the president during disastrous livestream

Musk had planned to stream himself playing Path of Exile 2 onboard his private jet to prove the effectiveness of Starlink’s WiFi capabilities.

Apr 9, 20252 min

Ripple dumps XRP to pump RLUSD — still 0.2% the size of USDT

Ripple is selling over a billion dollars worth of cash, equity, and XRP tokens to fund an acquisition that it hopes will boost RLUSD volumes.

Apr 8, 20252 min

Crypto ETFs ‘worst’ in 2025 for UK investors says Morningstar

Financial analyst Morningstar found that four of the worst-performing ETFs open to UK investors were crypto-focused.

Apr 8, 20251 min

Pro-bitcoin politician blames bizarre ‘SOS’ tweets on ‘heavy medication’

Maya Parbhoe has blamed her bizarre posts on the effects of medication given to her while recovering from giving birth in hospital.

Apr 8, 20253 min

DoJ scraps crypto unit, tells staff to ignore crypto exchanges and mixers

Joe Biden’s “reckless” regulation by prosecution was called out as the Trump-led Justice Department scrapped the crypto police unit.

Apr 8, 20252 min

Bitcoin crashed below Michael Saylor’s ‘sell your kidney’ price

As BTC crashed below the price at which Michael Saylor suggested selling a kidney, he reminded us that its price never declines in BTC terms.

Apr 8, 20252 min

Fake tariff headlines temporarily rally market, then crash continues

Fake headlines that claimed Donald Trump was considering delaying tariffs temporarily boosted the market — before the truth came out.

Apr 7, 20252 min

MicroStrategy pauses buys, says MSTR shareholders don’t own its bitcoin

MicroStrategy didn’t buy any BTC last week. Not only that, MSTR shareholders don’t even own the company’s BTC.

Apr 7, 20252 min

ZKasino exploiter saw $27M liquidated on Hyperliquid trade

According to X users, the wallet placed a 20x leverage trade on the price of ETH that would liquidate if it fell to $1,745. On Sunday, it did.

Apr 7, 20252 min

Your BTC can be swiped by spoofers without them even contacting you

By targeting laborers who dollar cost average into BTC with regular purchases, a new attack steals coins without contacting the victim.

Apr 7, 20254 min

Hayden Davis still making millions from LIBRA, MELANIA memecoins

On April 4, crypto analyst Dethective caught Davis cashing out $1 million in profits from the launch of the MELANIA memecoin.

Apr 7, 20253 min

CHART: Wasn’t Trump supposed to be good for crypto?

Since the Trump inauguration, crypto assets have shed a combined $800B from their market cap while BTC has lost nearly one-third of its value.

Apr 7, 20251 min

BIP proposes destroying bitcoins to save the ecosystem from quantum attack

Bitcoin developers have introduced a new BIP that would force owners of quantum-vulnerable BTC to move their coins to new wallets.

Apr 7, 20252 min

Justin Sun fights a lot of lawsuits on behalf of companies he doesn’t own

Justin Sun is involved in several lawsuits, often involving firms in which he’s deeply involved but denies ownership of.

Apr 4, 20255 min

Elizabeth Warren wants Trump and SEC probed over crypto ties

Elizabeth Warren wants to know if the Trump administration profited from dropping cases against the likes of Justin Sun and Binance.

Apr 4, 20252 min

Pro-bitcoin politician Maya Parbhoe vanishes from X after ‘SOS’ posts

On Thursday, Parbhoe tweeted, “Help” and later initiated a livestream titled “Life and family under threat. SOS.” She hasn’t tweeted since.

Apr 4, 20253 min

Crypto wallet maker Trezor says it’s already adapting to Trump tariffs

The Czech-based crypto wallet firm said the future “remains uncertain” after Donald Trump announced sweeping and hard-hitting tariffs.

Apr 3, 20252 min

First Digital defends FDUSD from Justin Sun’s attacks

First Digital Trust has defended its firm after Justin Sun claimed it had misappropriated the vast majority of TrueUSD reserves.

Apr 3, 20253 min

ETH down 39% since Eric Trump tweet

Back in February, Eric Trump tweeted, “great time to add $ETH. You can thank me later.” Its price has since declined 39%.

Apr 3, 20252 min

OFAC sanctions USDT-on-Tron wallets used by Houthis

OFAC at the US Treasury has added eight crypto wallets controlled by Houthi workers in Yemen to its sanctions list.

Apr 3, 20251 min

Deel allegedly paid €5,000 in crypto to spy on competitor

An Irish man has admitted that he was paid in crypto to spy on workforce management firm Rippling on behalf of its main rival, Deel.

Apr 3, 20252 min

Why is Tether 213% bigger than Circle but 8,000% more profitable?

Circle has filed to go public and admits that it is 98% less profitable than Tether despite sharing a similar business model.

Apr 2, 20254 min

Justin Sun bailed out $500M stablecoin TUSD, report

Filings reveal that Techteryx, the firm behind TrueUSD, required a loan from Justin Sun after its reserves got stuck in First Digital Trust.

Apr 2, 20255 min

Binance token listing no longer a ‘bullish’ event, research

According to new research, the 27 tokens listed by crypto exchange Binance this year have seen an average loss of 44%.

Apr 2, 20252 min

$38 trillion in US brokerages still restricted from bitcoin, report

Of the $68T worth of assets in 10 major US brokerages, a majority might still be restricted from investing in BTC products.

Apr 2, 20253 min

Tether, MicroStrategy bought billions, yet bitcoin keeps falling

Tether has been minting USDT and buying bitcoin. MicroStrategy, Trump and others have bought more but why does the price keep crashing?

Apr 1, 20254 min

Coinbase employee may have accessed user data for phishing

A screenshot of Coinbase’s email to The Block co-founder reveals an employee may have broken company policy by accessing his account data.

Apr 1, 20251 min

WIF fundraiser says Vegas Sphere refunds will start on April Fools

A WIF Las Vegas Sphere fundraiser claims a $700,000 refund will begin today for its investors, but is it just an elaborate April Fools joke?

Apr 1, 20252 min

Someone stole the stolen money from ZKLend

A hacker hacked the hacker of DeFi project ZKLend in a multi-million dollar scam that followed the shape of an ouroboros.

Apr 1, 20253 min

ICERAID, a “crypto fascist” site, pays snitches

ICERAID is being compared to fascist states after users learned it was offering crypto incentives to snitch on undocumented immigrants.

Mar 31, 20253 min

MicroStrategy bought 2.6% of circulating bitcoin at $67,458 apiece

MicroStrategy and its founder have amassed over 2.7% of all circulating bitcoin. They are up billions on the trade so far.

Mar 31, 20253 min

Ether whale narrowly avoids liquidation of $117M position

Ether holders watched Maker with fear this weekend, worrying about large liquidations, but minutes before disaster, liquidation was avoided.

Mar 31, 20252 min

Bitcoin miner Chun Wang to become SpaceX astronaut today

Early Bitcoin investor and entrepreneur Chun Wang has paid tens of millions preparing for the first human crew to orbit the Earth’s poles.

Mar 31, 20253 min

ETH crashes to four-year low against BTC

It costs 70% less BTC to buy ETH today than it did two and a half years ago when Ethereum abandoned proof-of-work.

Mar 28, 20253 min

Avi Eisenberg seeks leniency in child porn and crypto sentencing

Avraham “Avi” Eisenberg seeks leniency in a recently filed sentencing memorandum related to his market manipulation and child porn charges.

Mar 28, 20252 min

Justin Sun’s Forbes article prompts geography lesson from Liberland

Liberland, the micronation that elected Justin Sun as prime minister, was upset over Forbes claiming it’s in Croatia.

Mar 28, 20252 min

CHART: Solana metrics nosedive since Trump Inauguration Day

Despite Donald Trump anointing Solana with his own memecoin, the blockchain has fallen out of favor over the past couple of months.

Mar 28, 20252 min

Hyperliquid has some growing to do before it can take on Binance

Marketers broadcasting metrics about Hyperliquid have used clever ways to manipulate the figures to make it seem like a Binance competitor.

Mar 28, 20254 min

Pay-to-reach startup crippled by self-doubt after CZ snub

Despite Xnect working with the BNB Chain team on a launch plan, Changpeng Zhao announced that he would partner with rival firm Reachme.io.

Mar 27, 20252 min