Informed Crypto News

Tether has increasingly had to find political allies to continue growing and Howard Lutnick of Cantor Fitzgerald has been happy to oblige.

While some would like to see Lazarus Group’s ill-gotten gains go down the drain, others see the activity on HyperLiquid as a worrying sign.

Haliey Welch posted for the first time since the HAWK token crashed this month and spawned a lawsuit from disgruntled investors.

Aptos founder Mo Shaikh is tired of leading the languishing crypto project and is taking his newly-vested compensation into the sunset.

The Brooklyn Virtual Currency Unit used seized emails to warn potential victims of the scam targeting the borough’s Russian community.

Authorities in El Salvador have agreed to end the use of bitcoin for tax payments by February 2025 in order to secure an IMF loan extension.

The lawsuit alleges Welch’s HAWK memecoin team enticed crypto first-timers to the project, leading to significant losses when it crashed.

Craig Wright was found guilty of criminal contempt of court and will also have to pay £144,000 in legal costs as part of his punishment.

BiT Global’s motion for a temporary restraining order against Coinbase to relist WBTC was rejected by the judge.

CoinDesk reportedly took down an article on Justin Sun’s banana stunt after the controversial crypto figure complained about its tone.

Most Bitcoiners are absolutely confident that its supply will never exceed 21 million. Blackrock added a tiny disclaimer just in case.

Coinbase’s response pointed out that the decision to delist WBTC was centered around the belief that Sun represented an “unacceptable risk.”

Craig Wright claimed he couldn’t attend today’s court hearing due to “a lack of means for travel” despite COPA offering to cover his costs.

In November 2022, MicroStrategy had liquidation prices on its bitcoin that the crash almost triggered. Nowadays, its debts are different.

Any blackout could devastate MicroStrategy investors who have come to expect weekly BTC buys from Executive Chairman Michael Saylor.

PENGU’s launch was beset with problems as crypto wallets flagged its website as ‘dangerous’ and claimants complained of missing tokens.

Among the 792 arrested for the crypto scams were Chinese and Filipino nationals, who are said to have targeted North Americans and Europeans.

The team behind the launch of HAWK says its role was ‘unofficial’ and ‘uncontracted’ and it received no fees or profit from the launch.

For years, Michael Saylor has promised a ‘very expensive’ party to celebrate BTC hitting $100K. He will host it on New Year’s Eve.

MicroStrategy failed to outperform BTC this weekend as its share price and NAV premium came nowhere close to all-time highs.

The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority has issued a warning that Retardio “is not authorised” by the regulator.

It’s been claimed that bulk-buying $20,000 of Pudgy merch could net a $50,000 profit for anybody willing to put in a bit of extra leg work.

Aave is the largest protocol on Polygon, accounting for over a third of the chain’s total value locked (TVL) at $467 million.

Catly founder Kevin Yeung previously planned to launch two blockchain games and sunk $2.5M into a cat-themed project called Alien Meow.

Justin Sun-affiliated BiT Global sued Coinbase over its decision to delist WBTC and favor its own competitor, cbBTC.

On January 1 next year, the FASB will change an accounting rule regarding the treatment of bitcoin that will benefit MicroStrategy.

Tether-linked Cantor Fitzgerald was charged with misleading investors of two SPACs in the run-up to $750 million initial public offerings.

News that the Gate.io crypto exchange was hacked spread online this morning after a source that did “zero checking” shared the news.

According to the DoJ, Frank Richard Ahlgren III “falsely underreported capital gains” earned from BTC worth $3.7M between 2017 and 2019.

The Bank of England’s regulatory arm requests the crypto info from UK firms in order to assess stability and set policy.

Bearish onlookers are increasingly skeptical that MicroStrategy’s flywheel of bitcoin accretion per diluted share can continue much longer.

World Liberty Financial has been diversifying the assets in its multisignature wallet, apparently exchanging USDC for ether, LINK, and AAVE.

Ukraine is expected to legalize crypto in 2025 and will likely follow the securities model of taxing profits when assets are converted.

A Bitcoin maxi based in El Salvador says he crashed most of the Dogecoin ($DOGE) network using an old Thinkpad and a known exploit.

A developer of Lightning and Core software for Bitcoin node operators is sounding an alarm about six and seven-figure sums being at risk.

Telegram game Hamster Kombat has lost 277 million players since July and has failed to release Season 2 in line with its roadmap.

The X account of the crypto podcast UpOnly was hacked yesterday before posting a fraudulent token using its brand name.

Tucker Carlson platformed Roger Ver on camera for an unchecked half hour broadcast that left audiences confused about his crypto promotions.

Another quantum computing news announcement from Google and its Willow chip division spooked the Bitcoin community yesterday.

Haliey Welch’s $HAWK has been dogged by claims that it’s a scam, but neither she nor her management overHere are answering questions.

Zengo discovered that WhatsApp’s View Once feature could be “trivially bypassed” when using the platform’s web app.

TikToker Bogdan Peșchir is accused of financing Romania’s presidential front-runner Călin Georgescu with illegal funds.

Ripple has learned that being politically active is a savvy technique for long-term success in crypto. Token holders have reaped the rewards.

MicroStrategy’s premium to its bitcoin holdings, sometimes called its NAV premium, has dropped one-third from its November all-time high.

Wrapped Bitcoin has removed WBTC on Tron from its dashboard where it provides proof-of-reserves for the various forms of the token.

Members of the Taliban have been “making good money” trading memecoins, specifically Shib and Dogecoin, according to a new documentary.

The MicroStrategy chief advised the US government to purposefully dump its gold reserves solely to acquire over one-fifth of bitcoin’s supply.

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority told UK users to avoid Pump Fun after warning it is not an authorized crypto firm.

X user 0xRacist fooled thousands and earned massive engagement by posting a false allegation that Gainzy shot the UnitedHealthcare CEO.

Norway’s largest crypto players were revealed to have tens of millions of dollars worth of assets despite declaring notably smaller incomes.