IRS confiscated $3.5B crypto last fiscal year, 93% of all seizures
The IRS seized more than $1 billion worth of crypto from 'Individual X' in November, a hacker who raided Silk Road's Bitcoin in 2012.
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The Weekend Shift: Long-Dead Artists, Snakes, Train Journeys
The most interesting reads, podcasts, charts, and opinions from the internet this weekend -- curated for you by the Protos newsroom.
Why Satoshi Nakamoto’s gigantic Bitcoin stash is probably lost forever
If Craig Wright can’t move Nakamoto's Bitcoin, it may be dormant forever — unless Nakamoto returns to set the record straight for good.
Hard-partying crypto heavyweight Moshe Hogeg arrested for fraud, sex offenses
Hogeg faces accusations of misappropriating hundreds of millions of dollars of investor funds through several failed crypto start-ups.
This Australian artist ‘right-clicked’ a billion dollars worth of NFTs so you don’t have to
Geoffrey Huntley's homage to The Pirate Bay features just one download link but it gives NFT fans access to nearly 20 terabytes of heisted digital artwork.
PODCAST: Bannon busted, crypto’s Senator, Wright threatens
Listen to the most important stories in Bitcoin and crypto covered by our newsroom in the past week.
Craig Wright used Slack app to threaten expert witness as they testified
The expert in question was giving his opinion on whether around 40 documents submitted by Wright had been forged. His conclusion? They were.
Bitcoin billionaires, a16z threw cash at US Senator before crypto tax vote
Andreessen Horowitz execs gave $25,000 to a US Senator just before she voted on crypto tax rules in the Senate's Infrastructure Bill.
WoW gold farmer Steve Bannon shilled dumb Chinese crypto before arrest
Right up until Bannon’s arrest, he was actively promoting a painfully shady cryptocurrency pitched as an alternative to the Chinese yuan.
Binance insiders reckon it’s worth $300B — on par with Netflix and Disney
If Binance is worth $300 billion (and its stock was publicly-traded), the exchange would be the 25th largest public company in the world.