Escaping Jack Dorsey’s BTC miners cost $41.9 million
Core Scientific gave Jack Dorsey’s Block $67.9M for BTC mining chips. It then booked a $41.9M loss for the right to stop buying them.
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Crypto rugger Bastille doxxed, accused of abuse by former partner
Anonymous X user “Slippage” shared details of Bastille's abuse and claimed that his real name is William Edmund Bateman.
— Barry Silbert, Crypto mining
Zcash 10X’d in a year but DCG’s Zcash miner kept losing money
Barry Silbert’s Zcash miner Fortitude Mining has published financials that paint a very different picture to its June pitch deck.
Gate.io denies withholding evidence in $1.7M theft case
Gate was accused of withholding evidence from police during an investigation into the theft of $1.7M from one of its user's accounts.
Search engines fix Claude leak but Perplexity users’ files still online
Perplexity Computer outputs from unwitting customers were accessible by querying Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo search engines this morning.
— Blockchain, Brazil
Rancher puts cows on the blockchain for clout
This weekend’s viral blockchain story about tokenizing cows to collateralize loans for farmers in Brazil fails to hold up to scrutiny.
— BitMart
BitMart processed just 63 withdrawals after closure announcement
BitMart withdrawals are moving slowly with analysts claiming only 63 were processed in the 24 hours following it's closure announcement.
Inside the mystery of BitMEX’s insurance fund
The BitMEX insurance fund was marketed as protection but a new lawsuit alleges it grew on collateral stripped from customers.
— HTX, Justin Sun
European Union sanctions Justin Sun’s HTX
The EU has added Huobi Global S.A. and HTX to its list of sanctions related to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Ansem banned by Uber, blames being late and ‘loud as f**k’
Crypto influencer Ansem claimed he struggled to salvage his 4.2 Uber rating due to "an accumulation of just bad habits."