Palestinian jihadists received USDT via Binance, says Israel
ChainArgos says that allegedly-terrorist-linked Tron wallets received 93.7M USDT, most of which came from crypto scam Audax Trading.
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— Binance
Binance customers have traded against themselves with real money for six years
Binance customers trade against themselves with such regularity that the exchange is launching a new feature to prevent it.
Turing-complete smart contracts arrive on Bitcoin
Turing-complete smart contracts finally arrive on Bitcoin. Already, complex BitVMs like poker games are preventing off-chain fraud.
The red flags of Axos, which banked CZ, Scott Purcell, and Alex Jones
Despite a dubious client list, Axos hasn't considered its exposure to the crypto as a relevant “risk factor” in its SEC filings.
Ordinals won’t be solving Bitcoin’s security budget anytime soon
Despite a quick start in May 2023, ordinals don't seem to have raised the average level of Bitcoin’s security budget.
Former nChain CEO claims Craig Wright is lying about Satoshi
Ex-nChain Group CEO Christen Ager-Hanssen says that Ayre had an agreement to earn up to 50% of Satoshi Nakamoto’s bitcoin.
— Crypto, Justin Sun
ChainArgos: Justin Sun’s JustLend doesn’t send ‘stables’ where advertised
USDT that customers once held on Huobi is now daisy-chained into JustLend, a 'decentralized' lending protocol dominated by Sun.
— Bitcoin, Marathon Digital Holdings
Marathon Digital accidentally releases block with extra bitcoin
Publicly traded Marathon Digital activated experimental software and accidentally mined an invalid block, costing it over $150,000.
— Ethereum
Ethereum centralization is becoming a serious problem
Ethereum centralization continues since the Merge to proof-of-stake consensus. Liquid staking and layer 2s are just two of those drivers.
Here’s why the US gov’t always shutters prediction markets
PredictIt versus the CFTC is just another example in a long history of government shutdowns of prediction markets.