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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] '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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] ‘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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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] 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.