‘ENS deposit whale’ has $76M worth of Ethereum waiting for them
There's $76 million worth of Ethereum waiting to be reclaimed by whoever owns darkmarket.eth and 30 other ENS domain names.
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MarsCoin moons, US indicts hackers, Motley’s Bitcoin
Musk moons MarsCoin by mistake [Protos] US indicts North Korean crypto exchange hackers [Axios] Beeple to sell NFT at Christie’s [Protos] Motley Fool does a U-turn on Bitcoin [Decrypt]
Christie’s sets $100 starting bid for historic Beeple NFT auction
Beeple is responsible for the most valuable collection of blockchain-powered NFTs ever made, which fetched $3.5 million in December.
MarsCoin: Elon Musk accidentally pumped this tiny crypto by 2,000%
With MarsCoin's market value so low, any amount of buying volume had the potential to send the tiny cryptocurrency skyrocketing.
Seized BTC from Ireland, crypto mined in cafes, ETH staked on Coinbase
Irish feds searching for victims of $2M Bitcoin fraud [Protos] Internet cafes mining crypto to balance the books [Protos] Ethereum 2.0 staking comes to Coinbase [CoinDesk] AutoNation doesn’t see taking Bitcoin for Teslas [Yahoo Finance]
US hacking victim ‘very anxious’ for Ireland to return their stolen Bitcoin
The lawyer of the four victims already identified said their client was “very, very anxious” for Ireland to return their Bitcoin.
Internet cafes mine cryptocurrency with unused gaming machines
Internet cafes mining cryptocurrency isn't totally new, but previous examples of such operations have mostly been illegal.
Mining revenues high, inflated GPU prices, Finney’s old ‘joke’
Bitcoin, Ethereum miners set revenue records [Protos] Miners blamed again for GPU price hikes [Protos] 270 addresses laundered 55% of crypto last year [ZDNet] Hal Finney ‘predicted’ NFT boom 30 years ago [Protos]
Bitcoin visionary Hal Finney ‘predicted’ booming NFT market — in 1993
Bitcoin legend Hal Finney probably wasn't expecting NFTs when he penned this throwaway CompuServe post back in 1993.
Bitcoin and Ethereum mining revenue moons with crypto prices
Bitcoin and Ethereum are firmly in uncharted territory, so miners powering those networks fetch more dollars for the rewards they generate.