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[Link] SBF tries to revise bail conditions after judge noted suspicious VPN use
Read: 3/3/2023 arstechnica.com
A few weeks ago, disgraced FTX founder Samuel Bankman-Fried was in danger of losing his bail package and potentially being jailed until October.
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[Link] Inspiring: ‘Cryptoqueen’ Breaks Barriers, Becomes First Crypto Criminal on FBI’s Most Wanted List
Read: 4/7/2022 www.vice.com
Ignatova, who ran a pyramid-scheme scam in the form of Bulgarian cryptocurrency company OneCoin Ltd., is the first crypto criminal to land the FBI’s Most Wanted List and the eleventh woman to join the list in its 72-year history.
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[Link] The Crypto Crisis Has Been Very Bad for White Nationalists
Read: 17/5/2022 www.vice.com
But now, Bitcoin and just about every cryptocurrency are in full-on crisis mode, after the crypto market lost roughly $1 trillion in value since November. And some folks on far-right online message boards aren’t taking it particularly well.
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[Link] ‘The Guilt Is Unbearable’: UST-Luna Investors Discuss the 99.99% Crypto Crash
Read: 14/5/2022 www.vice.com
The cryptocurrency market is in the middle of a widespread crash, causing investors serious financial pain with no clear way out.
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[Link] Harassment at a Bitcoin Conference Highlights Problems of ‘Vicious’ Industry Sexism
Read: 10/5/2022 www.vice.com
At Bitcoin 2022 in Miami, an attendee broke the code of conduct that started a wave of harassment — and a renewed discussion about sexism in the crypto industry.
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[Link] Monero Owners Are Staging a Crypto Bank Run to Test Exchanges
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
Community members for privacy-focused cryptocurrency Monero are planning to simultaneously withdraw their holdings from a series of exchanges in an effort to prove that the exchanges are selling Monero that they don’t actually possess. “April 18th. We're withdrawing XMR from exchanges.
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[Link] 'We Are Fucked': Crypto Stablecoin Collapses After $182M Hack
Read: 18/4/2022 www.vice.com
On Sunday, cybersecurity firm PeckShield reported the attack on Beanstalk Farms, saying hackers stole more than $80 million for themselves, but the protocol’s losses appeared to be even higher. The company later said its initial analysis showed the losses amounted to around $182 million.
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[Link] Former Ethereum Developer Virgil Griffith Sentenced to 5+ Years in Prison for North Korea Trip
Read: 13/4/2022 www.coindesk.com
Cheyenne Ligon is a CoinDesk news reporter with a focus on crypto regulation and policy. She has no significant crypto holdings.
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[Link] Law Enforcement Seizes RaidForums, One of the Most Important Hacking Sites
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies led by the U.S. Department of Justice have seized RaidForums, a nexus for a wealth of stolen data and hacks, and arrested the site’s administrator, the DOJ announced on Tuesday.
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[Link] Starbucks CEO Announces NFTs to Workers Amid Union Drive
Read: 5/4/2022 www.vice.com
In a town hall meeting on Monday aimed at Starbucks workers amid a massive union drive, failed presidential candidate and Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz revealed a development that he hoped would excite workers: crypto.
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[Link] Bored Ape Yacht Club, Other Major NFT Project Discords Hacked by Scammers
Read: 3/4/2022 www.vice.com
Early Friday morning, the Discords of multiple major NFT projects were hacked as part of a phishing scam to trick users into handing over their digital jpegs. Bored Ape Yacht Club, Nyoki, and Shamanz confirmed Discord hacks in tweets.
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[Link] Someone Sold a $1 Million Clipart Rock NFT For Under a Penny by Mistake
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
A few days ago, according to blockchain records, an NFT collector accidentally listed their valuable Etherrock for 444 wei instead of 444 ETH (just over $1 million) and someone snapped it up immediately.
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[Link] Ukraine Canceled Crypto Airdrop Because Unethical Investors Wanted ‘Profit’
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Soon after Russia invaded Ukraine, crypto donations started to pour in from around the world as people rushed to help the country in its defense against a foreign aggressor.
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[Link] New Music Industry Takedown Service Targets NFT and ‘Metaverse’ Piracy
Read: 13/3/2022 torrentfreak.com
Italian anti-piracy group Digital Content Protection has launched a new service that helps rightsholders to police NFT platforms, Web 3.0 projects, and metaverse precursors.
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[Link] We Filmed at a Bitcoin Conference in 2013. Here's What Those People Are Doing Now
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
This article is a writeup of the first episode of CRYPTOLAND, Motherboard’s documentary series about how cryptocurrency is affecting culture, politics, the environment, and our shared future. Watch it on Motherboard’s YouTube.
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[Link] Canadian accused of unleashing NetWalker ransomware extradited to US
Read: 13/3/2022 www.theregister.com
US prosecutors on Thursday said they have extradited a Canadian man to America to face charges that he conspired to distribute ransomware. Sébastien Vachon-Desjardins, 34, of Gatineau, Quebec, was detained by Canadian authorities on January 27, 2021.
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[Link] Piracy Icon LimeWire Is Coming Back, But As an NFT Marketplace
Read: 9/3/2022 www.vice.com
LimeWire as we knew it shut down in 2010, after a judge ruled that LimeWire’s creator, Mark Gorton, on charges of copyright infringement and helping others infringe artists’ copyrights. But here in 2022, LimeWire is back—as an NFT marketplace.
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[Link] Brother and sister charged with cryptocurrency fraud in New York
Read: 9/3/2022 www.theguardian.com
US authorities on Tuesday filed criminal charges against a cryptocurrency executive and civil charges against him and his sister, accusing them of defrauding retail investors out of millions of dollars with a digital token known as Ormeus Coin.
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[Link] Ethereum Companies Suddenly Ban Users In Certain Countries
Read: 3/3/2022 www.vice.com
MetaMask is the most popular crypto wallet for Ethereum users, including NFT traders. It is owned by the same parent company as Infura, which is a centralized API that feeds MetaMask data from the Ethereum blockchain.
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[Link] Woman Who Allegedly Laundered $1B in Bitcoin Was Cringe YouTube Rapper
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
On Tuesday, the U.S. government accused Ilya Lichtenstein, 34, and his wife, Heather Morgan, 31 of laundering around $1 billion in cryptocurrency stolen in the 2016 Bitfinex hack. As it turns out, Morgan did not exactly keep the low profile you would expect of an alleged criminal.
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[Link] Ted Cruz, Bitcoin Booster, Bought a Bunch of Bitcoin
Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com
Increasingly vocal Bitcoin supporter Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) bought the dip, purchasing between $15,001 and $50,000 worth of Bitcoin shortly after it hit its lowest point during a recent sell-off.
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[Link] CoinDesk CMS Vulnerability Let Hackers Trade on Nonpublic Info
Read: 5/2/2022 www.vice.com
“The issue is now fixed and added safeguards have been put in place. We regret this unintended deviation from our commitment to level playing fields in crypto markets,” Worth added.
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[Link] Racist 'Meta Slave' NFT Project Rebrands After Being Called Racist
Read: 5/2/2022 www.vice.com
Over the past year, as the NFT space has begun to explode we’ve begun to see a growing number of racist collections—most notably NFTs depicting George Floyd called “Floydies.
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[Link] Pirate IPTV Providers “Exploit PayPal, Mastercard & Visa Branding”
Read: 2/2/2022 torrentfreak.com
Pirate IPTV providers generally require payment in exchange for a subscription. In the majority of cases this involves utilizing a third-party payment processor such as PayPal, Mastercard or Visa.
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[Link] Site Sells Famous Songs as NFTs Without Permission, Sparks Global Outrage
Read: 2/2/2022 www.vice.com
Seemingly, anyone could register on HitPiece to sell a piece of music as an NFT, even on an artist’s behalf. “Each time an artist’s NFT is purchased or sold, a royalty from each transaction is accounted to the rights holders account,” HitPiece’s website stated.
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[Link] More Than 80% of NFTs Created for Free on OpenSea Are Fraud or Spam, Company Says
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
As the NFT market has exploded, so has the amount of theft and fraud associated with it. Artists are by now familiar with the experience of finding, like in a horror movie, their own art staring back at them in OpenSea's digital gallery, being hawked by an anonymous stranger.
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[Link] Crypto Co-Founder Revealed to Be Infamous Fraudster, Investors Shaken
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
Investors are shaken after the co-founder of a multi-billion dollar cryptocurrency protocol was accused of being a serial scammer with a record of conviction and deportation, and the co-founder of a fraudulent Canadian exchange that imploded.
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[Link] This NFT on OpenSea Will Steal Your IP Address
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
NFTs are usually passive affairs. A consumer buys the token, and then sells or stores the NFT. The NFT doesn’t really do anything.
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[Link] Crypto Protocol Publicly Announces Flaw, Users Relentlessly Owned by Hackers
Read: 20/1/2022 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, a platform that allows users to swap tokens between blockchains publicly announced that there was a flaw that made accounts vulnerable to hackers. The announcement, predictably, prompted several hackers to rush and try to exploit the vulnerability. One of them stole more than $1.
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[Link] This Guy is Living Your Wildest NFT Dreams, Making $1 Million in Selfie Sales
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Almost every day for the past five years, Ghozali took pictures of himself sitting in front of his computer and looking stoic.
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[Link] A Hacker Is Negotiating With Victims on the Blockchain After $1.4M Heist
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
Hackers took advantage of a vulnerability in a blockchain service to steal around $1.4 million from users earlier this week.
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[Link] A Poop Emoji NFT Shows That ‘Web3’ Is Actually Pretty Centralized
Read: 11/1/2022 www.vice.com
Last Friday, he published a blog post that went viral in which he explained some of web3’s early failing points—most notably the fact that some important aspects of this decentralized internet aren't really decentralized at all.
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[Link] RBA governor Philip Lowe signals central bank is open to retail digital currencies
Read: 9/12/2021 www.theguardian.com
Australia’s Reserve Bank has flagged support for a retail form of digital currency, with governor Philip Lowe outlining ways that tokens, rather than regular dollars, might circulate more freely in the economy.
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[Link] 'I talk to 20 Australians a day': Meet Frank, his job is to scam you
Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
If you answer your phone and Frank* is on the other end of the line, he'll keep you talking for as long as he can. And Frank has already done his homework before calling you in Australia.
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[Link] AOC Says She Doesn't Own Bitcoin to Do Her Job 'Ethically'
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
On Monday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez clarified on Instagram that she does not hold any digital assets or tokens, including Bitcoin, and said she doesn’t believe policymakers should be able to hold financial products like stocks.
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[Link] Hacked Cryptocurrency Platform Begs Hacker to Please Return $119 Million
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
The hack on BadgerDAO took advantage of an old-school web-based attack: the hacker was able to steal an API key that gave them control of BadgerDAO’s account on Cloudflare, the project’s content delivery network for its site.
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[Link] I Lost $400,000, Almost Everything I Had, on a Single Robinhood Bet
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
I was 26 and stupid. I had arrived in the U.S. when I was 18. I didn't have money and worked shitty jobs to get through college. I didn't go to a nice school, and I've worked in sales ever since I graduated. My first job paid me $40,000. Next one $50,000.
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[Link] Hackers Steal $119M From ‘Web3’ Crypto Project With Old School Attack
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Notably, the hack did not involve complicated smart contract exploits. Instead, it was a front-end attack targeting BadgerDAO's web infrastructure, in particular its Cloudflare account, BadgerDAO’s content delivery network.
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[Link] The Head of Facebook's Failed Cryptocurrency Is Leaving the Company
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
David Marcus, the head of Facebook's cryptocurrency projects, announced on Twitter Tuesday he was leaving by the end of the year.
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[Link] JPMorgan CEO Joked About Outlasting China’s Communist Party. The Fun Didn’t Last Long.
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
America’s most powerful banker has had his fair share of controversial opinions, but rarely has he walked back something as quickly as he did after he joked about the world’s second-most powerful country.
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[Link] Tolkien estate vanquishes Lord of the Rings themed cryptocurrency
Read: 25/11/2021 arstechnica.com
The estate of JRR Tolkien, the author of the Lord of the Rings, has successfully vanquished a cryptocurrency that styled itself as “The One Token That Rules Them All.
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[Link] India Has Millions of Crypto Investors. A Proposed Ban Has Them Petrified.
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
In a move that has led to panic selling among local crypto investors, the Indian parliament announced on Nov. 23 that it is deliberating a bill that seeks to “prohibit all private cryptocurrencies in India” to pave the way for a single official digital currency to be issued by the government.
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[Link] Mr. Goxx, the Crypto-Trading Hamster, Is Dead
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
Mr. Goxx did his last full shift of trading on Twitch four days ago. The stream went live during the next two days, but Mr. Goxx didn’t show. Fans speculated if he was sick. Today, we know the sad truth. Mr. Goxx’s human business partner announced the news on Twitch, Twitter, and Reddit.
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[Link] Australian cryptocurrency investors can’t be trusted to keep transaction records themselves, the ATO says
Read: 24/11/2021 www.businessinsider.com.au
As first-time investors continue their rush on cryptocurrencies, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) says it can no longer rely on taxpayers to navigate the complex world of income tax, capital gains, and blockchain record keeping on their own.
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[Link] ConstitutionDAO Is Shutting Down After Unrelenting Chaos
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
ConstitutionDAO, the failed attempt to buy a copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction after raising more than $40 million in crypto from thousands of strangers, is shutting down after more than a week of protracted catastrophe.
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[Link] Canadian teen nabbed in $36.5M crypto heist – possibly the biggest haul yet by a single individual
Read: 22/11/2021 www.theregister.com
A Canadian teenager has been arrested for allegedly stealing $37 million worth of cryptocurrency ($46M Canadian) via a SIM swap scam, making it the largest virtual cash heist affecting a single person yet, according to police.
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[Link] Research Center: Limiting Anonymity Helps to Expose Terrorists (and Pirates)
Read: 22/11/2021 torrentfreak.com
The International Center for Law and Economics believes that cloud hosting providers and related services should do more to deter illegal activity. Responding to an inquiry from the U.S.
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[Link] Chaos Reigns as ConstitutionDAO Fails to Buy the Constitution
Read: 19/11/2021 www.vice.com
On Thursday night, an ad-hoc mob of crypto investors tried and failed to purchase a copy of the U.S. Constitution at auction at Sotheby's, according to a post in Discord by Julian Weisser, a core member of ConstitutionDAO and one of the controllers of the wallet containing the auction funds.
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[Link] Someone Made a Pirate Bay for NFTs
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
It’s the duty of those with right-clicker mentality to save every NFT they see. But right-click saving the thousands of JPEGs of Bored Apes and Lazy Lions out there tiring work.
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[Link] Miramax Is Suing Quentin Tarantino Over 'Pulp Fiction' NFTs
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Quentin Tarantino’s plans to sell a collection of Pulp Fiction NFTs may be thwarted by a lawsuit from the film’s studio Miramax.
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[Link] ‘Domino effect’ warning as $200 billion wiped off cryptocurrency market
Read: 16/11/2021 www.news.com.au
Hundreds of billions of dollars have been wiped off cryptocurrencies in a market-wide crash that has brought the price of bitcoin down below $60,000.
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[Link] Swedish Officials Call For EU-Wide Ban On ‘Proof of Work’ Crypto Mining
Read: 16/11/2021 www.vice.com
The call came in a letter published last week signed by the directors of Sweden’s Financial Supervisory Authority and Environmental Protection Agency, which promotes “stability and efficiency” in the country’s financial system.
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[Link] Discord Backs Off of Crypto After Entire Internet Yells at CEO
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Earlier this week, Discord CEO Jason Citron posted a tweet teasing integration between the gaming-focused chat platform and Ethereum, setting off a total shitstorm.
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[Link] The US Government Made It Illegal to Buy These NFTs
Read: 10/11/2021 www.vice.com
The U.S. government put 57 cryptocurrency addresses and one exchange on the OFAC sanctions list on Monday for facilitating ransomware and money laundering.
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[Link] Hostage-Style Bitcoin Scam Videos Are Spreading Across Instagram
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Hackers are forcing Instagram users to film hostage-style videos instructing their followers to participate in fraudulent get-rich-quick Bitcoin schemes as part of a new kind of scam that is spreading across the Facebook-owned app.
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[Link] Discord Teases Getting Into Crypto and NFTs, People Big Mad
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Internet users, generally speaking, tend to dislike design changes.
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[Link] Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos Have Completely Lost It on Twitter
Read: 8/11/2021 www.vice.com
Bezos, the Amazon founder whose net worth is around $200 billion, implied that he would personally throw actor Leonardo DiCaprio off a cliff in a tweet.
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[Link] 'Crypto Investing Club' Leader Spent Investors' Money on Jewellery, Real Estate
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Michael Ackerman pleaded guilty to wire fraud, and also spent ill-gotten funds on private security guards. Hacking. Disinformation. Surveillance. CYBER is Motherboard's podcast and reporting on the dark underbelly of the internet.
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[Link] Australia's largest bank is getting into cryptocurrency. Here's why its competitors aren't
Read: 4/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
After one major Australian bank this week announced it'll give customers the option of trading crypto currencies, such as Bitcoin, on its existing banking app, you might have expected others to follow. However, they have told the ABC they will not at this stage.
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[Link] Nvidia RTX 30-Series Graphics Cards Stolen in Truck Heist
Read: 4/11/2021 www.vice.com
Someone has stolen a shipment of GeForce RTX 30-series graphics cards from a truck in Southern California. According to a post on the EVGA forums, someone lifted the graphics cards on October 29 as they were en-route to a distribution center.
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[Link] ‘Squid Game’ Memecoin Soared to Record $2,800. Then It Fell to Zero.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The SQUID token peaked at a price of $2,861 on Monday, more than 300 times what it was worth when it began trading just a week ago, according to data from CoinMarketCap.
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[Link] Elon Musk Tweets an Ancient Chinese Poem. Here’s What It Means.
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The world’s richest man, with $335 billion in wealth and caught up in Twitter spats, now wants some peace, at least according to an 1,800-year-old Chinese poem he just shared.
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[Link] Unbelievable: 'Monkey Jizz' Cryptocurrency Turns Out to Be a Scam
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investors in a cryptocurrency called Monkey Jizz are posting on social media that they’ve been scammed by the project’s developer after a token sale.
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[Link] Federal police confiscate largest ever haul of ill-gotten cryptocurrency
Read: 31/10/2021 www.smh.com.au
The federal government has netted its largest ever haul of ill-gotten cryptocurrency and will redistribute the $1.2 million to law enforcement and community safety programs.
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[Link] An $8K Shiba Inu Investment Turned Into $5.7 Billion. But Can They Cash Out?
Read: 29/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the fast-moving world of cryptocurrencies, kingdoms can rise and crumble in the space of months or days. It’s in that spirit that Shiba Inu (SHIB), a Dogecoin-inspired token, surged past its original inspiration by market cap this week, which is the total value of all tokens in circulation.
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[Link] Man Shot Dead In Hail of Gunfire Over Crypto Mining Rigs, Police Say
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On October 20, a man opened fire on people attempting to steal his cryptocurrency mining equipment in the Abkhazia region bordering Russia. According to police, the man killed one of his own friends while fending off the attackers and is now in custody.
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[Link] Cryptocurrency Loan Platform Implodes In $130 Million Hack
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On Wednesday, crypto lending service C.R.E.A.M. Finance was the target of a hack that stole over $130 million. It’s not only one of the largest heists ever targeting a so-called “decentralized finance” (DeFi) platform, but also the third such hack targeting C.R.E.A.M.
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[Link] Crypto Investors Are Bidding to Touch a 1,784-Pound Tungsten Cube Once a Year
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the latest phase of the quest to turn everything into an NFT, crypto traders are now bidding to digitally own a 1,784 lb cube of tungsten in Willowbrook, Illinois.
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[Link] More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned for free cryptocurrency
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
More than 100,000 people have had their eyes scanned in return for a cryptocurrency called Worldcoin, as a project to distribute digital money more widely around the world accelerates.
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[Link] How hackers hijacked thousands of high-profile YouTube accounts
Read: 25/10/2021 arstechnica.com
Since at least 2019, hackers have been hijacking high-profile YouTube channels. Sometimes they broadcast cryptocurrency scams, sometimes they simply auction off access to the account.
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[Link] People Have Spent More than $1 Million on NFT 'Girlfriends'
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Good news: you can now buy a girlfriend on the blockchain. Bull Market Girlfriends, a recently-launched NFT collection, come in a wide variety of genres—you can buy a Beauty Queen Girlfriend, a Devilish Girlfriend, a Good Girl Girlfriend or even an Alien Girlfriend.
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[Link] The World's First Ransomware Came on a Floppy Disk in 1989
Read: 23/10/2021 www.vice.com
In December 1989, Willems worked at a Belgian insurance firm, and put the disk into a work computer. Bizarrely, it presented a questionnaire, the answers of which told the user whether or not they were in danger of contracting HIV/AIDS. Willems completed the quiz, and didn't think much more of it.
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[Link] Bitcoin Just Hit an All Time High Price: $67,000
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The price of Bitcoin hit an all time high on Wednesday, one day after the first Bitcoin futures exchange-traded fund (ETF) launched. At its height, the cryptocurrency was trading for $67,016.50, several thousand more than its $64,895.22 high in April.
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[Link] Sim Swapper Doxes and SWATs His Accomplice
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
The SIM swapper, 20-year-old Kyell Bryan ended up doxing and swatting his former partner, according to the hacker’s guilty plea.
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[Link] The Chip Shortage Is So Bad Even the Raspberry Pi Is More Expensive Now
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
This chip shortage crisis has spilled over to other industries and products, including auto manufacturers, who have had to let their factories sit idle in some cases while they wait for the precious transistors they need to come through.
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[Link] Elaborate ‘CryptoEats’ Food Delivery Scam Steals $500,000 in Minutes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
For the last week, a handful of UK-based celebrities have been talking about a new startup, called “CryptoEats,” that would compete against UberEats by allowing customers to pay for food delivery in cryptocurrency.
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[Link] How quirky, 'bogan' NFT art is helping rebuild koala numbers
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Rhys Dale has been fascinated by the sporadic peaks and troughs in the value of cryptocurrency since he started investing in 2017.
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[Link] Bitcoin Miner Facing $5.6M Fine for Starting Rogue Power Plant
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
It started with a mysterious humming noise that sounded like a wave “but 100 times more annoying,” according to local reports.
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[Link] People Are Taking Out Loans Against Their NFTs—And Defaulting
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
In the ongoing speedrun to turn everything into a non-fungible token, savvy traders and entrepreneurs have recently taken a few steps to squeeze more investment opportunities out of their JPEGs. Case in point: it’s now a thing to take out a loan and offer up an NFT as collateral.
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[Link] Ted Cruz Says Bitcoin Mining Can Fix Texas' Crumbling Electric Grid
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Texas’ energy grid has problems. Those issues were laid bare this past winter when a storm put the state in a deep freeze, causing blackouts for millions and killing hundreds of people.
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[Link] Hackers drain cryptocurrency accounts of thousands of Coinbase users
Read: 10/10/2021 www.pcgamer.com
Between March and May of 2021, hackers managed to get into the accounts and move funds off the platform, draining some accounts dry. Thousands of customers had already begun to complain to Coinbase that funds had vanished from their accounts.
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[Link] Investors Spent Millions on 'Evolved Apes' NFTs. Then They Got Scammed
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Cryptocurrencies are riddled with a dazzling array of scams. Rug pulls, a term for when developers take the money and run, are common. And NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, aren’t immune to that old trick, as thousands of investors of a project called Evolved Apes found out on Friday.
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[Link] Lindsay Lohan Has a Fursona NFT
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lindsay Lohan has stepped into the NFT game, in case you're in the market of buying her fursona.
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[Link] He escaped the Dark Web’s biggest bust. Now he’s back
Read: 29/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Just over four years ago, the US Department of Justice announced the takedown of AlphaBay, the biggest dark web market bust in history.
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[Link] Police Announce Huge Bust of Mafia’s Cyber Crime Operations
Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com
Police in Europe arrested 106 people accused of working for several Italian Mafia groups and laundering more than 10 million euros they made through various cybercrimes.
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[Link] The disastrous voyage of Satoshi, the world’s first cryptocurrency cruise ship
Read: 9/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
On the evening of 7 December 2010, in a hushed San Francisco auditorium, former Google engineer Patri Friedman sketched out the future of humanity.
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[Link] Coinbase Goes Nuclear After SEC Threatens to Sue Over Crypto Loans
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Notably, the fine print states that Coinbase is not a bank and funds lent through the service would not be protected by FIDC or SIPC insurance, which insure funds held in US savings accounts and financial instruments like stocks, respectively.
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[Link] Someone Bought a 'Banksy' NFT for $340K, But It's Fake
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
The market for online status surrounding non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, is expanding at dizzying speeds, and absolutely nothing is normal.
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[Link] How a now-defunct site on the dark web led police to the biggest cryptocurrency seizure in Australia
Read: 24/8/2021 www.theage.com.au
They were “quite unremarkable in every way”, police said, living normal lives in the community having never before come to the attention of authorities.
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[Link] The Pirate Bay Earned Millions in Bitcoin Donations (If it HODLed)
Read: 23/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
The Pirate Bay continues to receive a steady stream of Bitcoin donations. Over the past year, these added up to roughly $10 per day, which isn't a life-changing amount.
[Link] Bitcoin In For Bumpy Ride As China Crackdown Shakes Things Up
Read: 22/8/2021 hackaday.com
Bitcoin. The magical internet money is often derided as “worthless” and “made up” by those who forget that all currencies only have value because we believe in them.
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[Link] Pepe the Frog’s Creator Nuked a $4 Million NFT Collection Over Copyright
Read: 21/8/2021 www.vice.com
Artist Matt Furie, the creator of Pepe the Frog who previously used copyright to fight off neo-Nazis who turned the character into a mascot, has found himself in yet another weird spat.
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[Link] Free Clipart of a Cartoon Rock Is Selling for $300,000 as NFTs
Read: 18/8/2021 www.vice.com
People like to think of NFTs as a recent phenomenon, but many of today’s priciest crypto collectibles date back at least a few years.
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[Link] Antivaxers Think Their ‘Pure’ Semen Will Skyrocket in Value
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Many men assign a massive amount of importance to their own semen. That's not news to anyone: Throughout history, people have believed all kinds of mystical things about cum and its supposed magical powers of longevity, energy, and machismo.
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[Link] Real Polygon Keeps Getting Spammed By Shady Polygon
Read: 9/8/2021 kotaku.com
Polygon is an American video game website that publishes blogs, news, reviews, and such. Polygon, according to its website, is “a protocol and a framework for building and connecting Ethereum-compatible blockchain networks.
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[Link] Sci-Hub Pledges Open Source & AI Alongside Crypto Donation Drive
Read: 9/8/2021 torrentfreak.com
Sci-Hub founder Alexandra Elbakyan has launched a donation drive to ensure the operations and development of the popular academic research platform.
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[Link] The Future of Cryptocurrency Is Being Decided in Biden's Infrastructure Bill
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Two competing amendments to the Senate’s infrastructure bill may shape the future of cryptocurrency in the United States as senators fight over who must be subject to new tax reporting requirements.
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[Link] Town Puts 90-Day Ban on New Bitcoin Mines Because They're 'Unsightly'
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
The Massena town board on Wednesday approved the moratorium, as drafted on July 23, to bar new Bitcoin miners from receiving site plan approval. But the miners already established in Massena can continue to operate there.
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[Link] Miami Launches 'MiamiCoin' to Make Millions and Fund the Police
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thousands of Bitcoiners in June descended on Miami for Bitcoin 2021, a semi-religious event that celebrated all things related to the world’s biggest cryptocurrency.
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[Link] Cybercriminals work together to drive greater profits
Read: 1/8/2021 betanews.com
Cybercrime is getting more organized than ever, as threat actors increase collaboration and adapt methods to drive greater monetization, selling access to breached systems to organized criminal groups and ransomware gangs.
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[Link] Billionaire Investor Says Bitcoin Is Headed For $0, Which Is Very Far From The Moon
Read: 28/7/2021 www.gizmodo.com.au
Magellan co-founder and veteran investor Hamish Douglass has issued a stark warning that popular cryptocurrency Bitcoin could be heading to zero dollars. Douglass’ warning coincides with his annual letter to Magellan investors.
[Link] Goldman Sachs executive quits after making millions from Dogecoin
Read: 12/5/2021 www.theguardian.com
A senior manager at Goldman Sachs in London has quit the US investment bank after making millions from investing in Dogecoin, the joke crypto asset which has risen by more than 1,000% in value this year.
[Link] Cryptomania Hits Home in Turkey With Losses, Arrests and Manhunt
Read: 27/4/2021 www.bloomberg.com
Cryptocurrency mania is getting a wake-up call in Turkey after two local exchanges crumbled in the space of a few days. The collapse of Thodex and Vebitcoin has triggered a manhunt for one of the exchange founders, led to dozens of arrests and inflicted untold losses on ordinary Turks.
[Link] Atari’s corporate zombie raises $110,000 overnight from Centipede NFTs
Read: 7/4/2021 arstechnica.com
The corporate entity managing the Atari brand name (which has only the slightest connection to the original company known as Atari at this point) is the latest company to get in on the speculative mania surrounding non-fungible tokens (NFTs).