Solana wallet Phantom down due to ‘major incident’
Phantom, a cryptocurrency wallet popular on Solana, is currently experiencing downtime due to a "major incident" with the backend.
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OpenAI tool used to create voice bot that can drain crypto wallets
Computer scientists used OpenAI's GPT-4o model, in tandem with a number of other freely available tools, to carry out phone-based scams.
Japanese man sentenced to 3 years after creating crypto ransomware with AI
In a reported legal first for Japan, the man was sentenced for abusing generative AI to create code for crypto ransomware.
CHART: Tether has attracted US government action 19 times
A timeline of Tether’s run-ins with US courts and law enforcement traces back over a decade, but its market cap has steadily grown.
Does a bitcoin rally to $100K repay El Salvador’s IMF loans?
Simplistic calculations of El Salvador’s bitcoin holdings assume that a rally to $100K would allow IMF loan repayment. It probably won’t.
Golden State Warriors sign crypto deal with Coinbase amid FTX lawsuit
The Golden State Warriors and its star player are being sued by investors of FTX, but that won't stop a budding Coinbase romance.
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Dutch gov’t asks public to critique crypto data bill
Citizens can share comments on a proposed bill that will require crypto exchanges to share user data to all EU (and select non-EU) states.
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CHART: It’s been 262 days since Solana’s last major outage
A look at all of Solana's reported outages since launch show that the last major issue occurred on February 6, lasting 5 hours.
Poloniex exit leaves Ethereum stUSDT nearly abandoned
Poloniex has withdrawn from Staked USDT (stUSDT) on Ethereum, vastly dropping the utilization of the protocol.
Lawsuit accuses ‘dangerous’ Character AI bot of causing teen’s death
Sewell Setzer III had reportedly spent months using Character.AI to talk to an AI chatbot, becoming obsessed and isolated before his death.