Bitcoin podcaster secretly records Coinbase scammer’s confession
The young scammer detailed how he uses Google Forums, dark net leads, and the Minecraft username 'Coinbase' to target victims.
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— Legal, ProtonMail
ProtonMail hands info to government but says it’s not Google
ProtonMail handed user information to Spanish authorities, leading privacy advocates to claim it violated its promise to protect user data.
First bitcoin mining pool adds Stratum V2 feature to circumvent Bitmain
A bitcoin mining pool has added support for Stratum V2 custom templates, allowing individual miners to cooperatively compete against Bitmain.
Crypto lobbyists are busy preparing for the 2024 election
Although crypto is not a main topic of the 2024 US presidential election, the industry is 10X richer than it was last election.
— Runes
First and largest Bitcoin Rune is down 85% in a month
The first Rune to launch on Bitcoin, nicknamed Fehu, has lost 85% of its value since it launched on April 20, 2024.
Cartier jewelry heir arrested for laundering drug money with USDT
Police in Miami arrested Maximilien de Hoop Cartier, heir to the Cartier jewelry fortune, for allegedly working with a Colombian drug cartel.
ZeroHedge will host a weird gold v. bitcoin debate today
ZeroHedge will host a spirited debate tonight that will see two gold bugs who have predicted $0 BTC facing off against two crypto bulls.
New research suggests Bitcoin mining centralized around Bitmain
Antpool by Bitmain claims to generate just one-quarter of Bitcoin’s hash rate but researchers think it might secretly control a majority.
Roger Ver arrested for tax fraud while promoting Bitcoin book
Within four weeks of publishing his first full-length book on Bitcoin’s history, Spanish authorities arrested Roger Ver for tax fraud.
CZ to be sentenced in the US today — what to expect
Estimates for the prison sentence that Binance founder Changpeng Zhao will receive today range from no time at all to 36 months behind bars.