Informed Crypto News

Justin Sun-owned HTX was added as a merchant to Sun-affiliated Wrapped Bitcoin, but it’s not clear that the WBTC DAO was part of the choice.

Arkham Exchange’s daily trading volume struggles to top $22M while rival firms like Binance and Coinbase pull in billions each day.

Ten Ten claims that her X account was taken down after a large number of people reported that it wasn’t being run by “a real person.”

Beaverd appears unbothered by the exposé of their on-chain escapades, suggesting Bubblemaps failed to find their “top five greatest hits.”

The Supreme Court of Cyprus said the pair can’t stop police from opening their safe deposit boxes as part of a €700M crypto laundering probe.

Polymarket shared footage of Logan Paul appearing to place a $1M bet during the Super Bowl with an account holding insufficient cash.

Strategy has been running X ads, trying to sell preferred shares of STRC. The campaign doesn’t seem to be doing much.

The latest Super Bowl ad from Coinbase was called a “textbook example of scaring the hoes” after its low-effort karaoke segment was jeered.

Nancy Guthrie, the mother of Today host Savannah Guthrie, was kidnapped on February 1 and her family now face paying a $6M BTC ransom.

Critics of Binance and its founder CZ wanted to blame someone for unusual, whipsawing trading action over the weekend.

Justin Sun’s apparent ex-girlfriend claims the Tron founder sent her a message asking her to delete various articles.

Strategy’s corporate debt recently hit a bearish milestone after MSTR dipped below the final, lowest convertibility price of $149.77.

Bithumb apologised for sending up to 2,000 BTC to users which led to a 10% crash on the South Korean exchange.

In 2000, Strategy co-founder Michael Saylor lost $6B in one day. He lost even more yesterday, for shareholders of that same company.

BitMine’s ETH holdings surpassed an unrealized loss of over $8B today despite spending $16B on the cryptocurrency.

One year ago, David Sacks, along with Republican congressmen, said that a market structure bill would pass in 100 days; it has yet to pass.

In the midst of the latest crypto crash, Binance is denying rumors that it’s sending legal letters to silence critics.

Despite Donald Trump’s embrace of BTC and cryptocurrency, it’s given up all of its gains since his election.

Michael Saylor’s Strategy had a golden opportunity to profit $33B just four months ago. Instead, it’s lost billions.

Binance continues to suffer scrutiny and a deteriorating social media profile after a massive crypto liquidation on October 10.

After last week’s news that leftover funds from The DAO would go to Ethereum security, a further 50 ETH has been rescued.

The DAO vs Labs brand ownership debate is still to be settled. Meanwhile, founder Stani Kulechov spent $30M on a new London mansion.

The CEO of Aster, a project promoted by Binance founder CZ, “apologized” for underperformance but didn’t end his team’s insider selling.

Zeng Ying launched a flurry of allegations against Tron founder Justin Sun this weekend after he allegedly reneged on a promise to marry her.

It’s impossible for Brock Pierce to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein. The pair’s legacies will be tied together forever.

The price of BTC fell below $74,600 last night which was less than Strategy’s average buy price of $76,052.

China executed four members of the Bai crime family which operated a Myanmar scam compound enterprise that made over $4B.

Two days before Gavin Andresen’s controversial decision to discuss Bitcoin at the CIA, Jeffrey Epstein spoke with him on the phone.

Skepticism about Binance and CZ continues to fester since October 10, and the company’s $1B BTC buy isn’t helping.

The $ChiefPussy memecoin promoted by MtGox’s Mark Karpelès is themed around his cat Tibane and has already plummeted in value.

Similar to how BTC traders once paid a premium for GBTC, Chinese traders are paying 60% above silver holdings for a Shenzen fund.

Reports claim to show the arrest of “Boss Xi” in Cambodia yesterday, with rumors of his release later circulating on Telegram and X.

China has executed 11 members of the Ming mafia family which oversaw the Crouching Tiger Villa scam compound in Myanmar.

A 72-hour rally in gold this week added twice as much value to the precious metal than the entire market capitalization of BTC.

The world’s largest crypto exchanges waited until gold had already rallied 70-80% to open up traditional products for retail trading.

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has called a flurry of online criticism aimed at himself and the exchange a “coordinated attack.”

For a few hours on Monday, liquid.network displayed less than 3,463 BTC backing 4,199 LBTC in circulation.

Crypto hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have leaked 10M records from various dating apps owned by Tinder’s parent company, Match Group.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov and X owner Elon Musk used a recent WhatsApp lawsuit as an opportunity to advertise their own messengers.

Coinbase Head of Protocol Jesse Pollak claimed Base will never “support the chart behind the scenes” in response to calls for more support.

Crypto sleuth Eyeonchains claims to have identified the “real actor” behind Trove Markets as the Shanghai-based Jin Qing Qing.

Clawdbot, now Moltbot, has taken off amongst the crypto crowd. But Peter Steinberger is already sick of crypto folks “harrassing” him.

Michael Saylor has said that the greatest risk to Bitcoin is ambitious opportunists advocating protocol changes.

Russia designated the Ukraine-based crypto exchange WhiteBIT as “undesirable” and accused it of illegally financing Ukraine’s military.

Of a total of $17 million stolen from victim addresses, $3 million in USDC is yet to be frozen by issuer Circle.

The most popular node software on the Bitcoin Lightning network has finally been patched nearly 10 years since a developer discovered it.

René Pickhardt has published new research into why most of the two-party Bitcoin Lightning payment channels fail to sustain liquidity.

French crypto tax firm Waltio is being extorted by hacking group ShinyHunters, which is threatening to leak the data of almost 50K users.

Farcaster founder Dan Romero said the firm “isn’t shutting down” and that Merkle Manufactory will return $180M to investors.

BTC has lagged far behind gold over the past year. By one calculation, BTC is 68% lower than it should be.