Europol bounty for Russian crypto ransomware gang wasn’t real
News of the fictitious bounty fooled news outlets into reporting that $50K would be paid for information on two Qilin administrators.
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Europol raids $24 million ‘mafia crypto bank’
The network, which was raided in January, allegedly offered crypto services to human traffickers and the drug trade.
Europol raids money mules who laundered $10M for crypto scammers
Authorities say the crypto scammers tied to the money mule recruiting networks ‘lacked the technical expertise’ to launder their €10M profits.
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Dathon Ohm: the dev who wants to fork Bitcoin—by Protos Staff
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How Jim Chanos outplayed Michael Saylor: short MSTR, long BTC—by Protos Staff
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Strategy’s preferred shares spell out an unfortunate acronym: FCKD—by Protos Staff
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Justin Sun’s Poloniex and HTX withdraw huge amounts from AAVE—by Protos Staff
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Stream Finance meltdown: winners and losers in DeFi ‘risk curator’ reckoning—by Protos Staff
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Strategy needs to pay $689M a year to not sell bitcoin—by Protos Staff
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China is sentencing pig butchering scammers to death—by Protos Staff
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Stream Finance halts withdrawals after $93M loss, xUSD depegs 75%—by Protos Staff
