What to do if you’re a Coldcard victim
Coldcard’s bug cost victims over $88M worth of BTC, and recovering any of it starts with law enforcement, not a DM on social media.
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Failed crypto trader has less than two days to prove he didn’t kill his mother
Trader Andre Rebelo was found guilty of murdering his mother after he took out a $1.2M life insurance policy before her death.
New Binance CEO makes CZ’s ‘non-executive’ role more blatant
Yi He, the newly appointed co-CEO of Binance, is CZ’s family office co-manager and the mother of his children.
$25 million Ethereum MEV exploit puts ‘Code Is Law’ on trial
The April 2023 exploit allowed the brothers’ validator to drain “predatory” MEV bots who attempt to profit off transactions of regular users.
Mt. Gox wallet with 80,000 BTC attacked via OP_RETURN message
BTC worth over $8B stolen in March 2011 from Mt. Gox is the target of a sophisticated phishing attack using Salomon Brothers’ brand.
Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm is running out of money for legal fees
Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm is asking for another $2M after already spending millions over the past two years.
FTX dropped lawsuit against Allan Bankman and Barbara Fried
According to the filing, the lawsuits against Allan Bankman and Barbara Fried have been dismissed without prejudice.
Nishad Singh avoids prison sentence for role in FTX
FTX’s former Director of Engineering received his criminal sentence today from Judge Lewis Kaplan in a New York courthouse.
Crypto ‘market maker’ caught wash-trading a token created by feds
At least 14 people are under civil or criminal enforcement for alleged fraud and market manipulation schemes involving 60 crypto assets.
Treasury cited only three examples of illicit Tornado Cash use, says judge
The three cited examples are even more embarrassing for another reason: A separate, pre-existing sanction might have prevented them.