Wikipedia co-founder says Bitcoin doesn’t work, BTC community snaps backBTC proponents argued to Jimmy Wales that banks may work, but they’re not available to everyone, and that storing BTC personally and storing fiat via banks are two different things.Dec 13, 2023Prashant Jha
OKX DEX suffers $2.7M exploit after proxy admin contract upgradeThe OKX DEX suffered an exploit resulting in a loss of around $2.7 million in cryptocurrencies after a proxy admin upgraded a contract that allowed a hacker to compromise the private key.Dec 13, 2023Savannah Fortis
Bitcoin ‘sodlers’ dump $4B in two days as BTC sales hit 18-month highBTC price weakness clearly makes speculators nervous as single-day selling pressure hits its highest since after the Terra collapse.Dec 13, 2023William Suberg
Dfinity founder says blockchain can bolster efforts to fight climate changeDfinity founder and chief scientist Dominic Williams told Cointelegraph that blockchain networks could support the creation of trustless infrastructure that incentivizes climate-positive action.Dec 13, 2023Ezra Reguerra
SEC wants Binance guilt admission added to own caseBinance said the SEC hasn’t demonstrated that the resolutions reached with the DOJ are pertinent to the regulator’s “faulty claims” against Binance Holdings and former CEO Changpeng Zhao.Dec 13, 2023Amaka Nwaokocha
German asset manager DWS joins Galaxy to issue euro stablecoinAllUnity, a new joint venture by DWS, Galaxy, and Flow Traders, plans to issue the euro stablecoin on all major public permissionless L1s and L2s, as well as DeFi use cases.Dec 13, 2023Helen Partz
Tesla’s humanoid robot is now 30% faster, 22 pounds lighterTesla CEO Elon Musk has revealed a new prototype of its humanoid robot, Optimus Gen 2. It can dance and do squats.Dec 13, 2023David Attlee
Line messenger’s NFT arm raises $140M for Web3 servicesLine Next will use a part of the $140 million fund to introduce new Web3-focused services, which include a social app that uses AI-generated characters and Web3 games.Dec 13, 2023Arijit Sarkar
‘I’m a big fan’: Cantor Fitzgerald CEO praises Tether and BitcoinCantor Fitzgerald has been managing Tether’s now $90 billion Treasury portfolio since late 2021.Dec 13, 2023Brayden Lindrea
El Salvador expects to sell out Bitcoin ‘Freedom Visa’ by end of yearEl Salvador’s National Bitcoin Office says it’s already received “many dozens of applications” for the country’s new Freedom Visa.Dec 13, 2023Tom Mitchelhill
SEC serves suit to evasive Richard Heart in Finland, but not in personThe suit was served via an alternate method, as process servers were unsuccessful in contacting Richard Heart in person for months.Dec 13, 2023Jesse Coghlan
BlackRock revises spot Bitcoin ETF to enable easier access for banksBlackRock said the new ETF model offers “superior resistance to market manipulation” — something the SEC has long used as a reason to reject spot Bitcoin ETFs.Dec 13, 2023Brayden Lindrea
How the crypto bull run can impact Web3 gaming beyond play-to-earnWeb3 gaming has remained unfazed by the bear season. But how does the expected bull run impact interest in blockchain-based games?Dec 13, 2023Erhan Kahraman
Bitcoin derivatives data points to traders’ $50K BTC price targetBitcoin bulls expectations of $50,000 and higher remain feasible according to BTC futures and options markets.Dec 12, 2023Marcel Pechman
ECB assesses environmental footprint of cash, sees room for improvementIn Europe, the environmental footprint of banknotes is minuscule compared to crypto’s, but crypto has its own advantages.Dec 12, 2023Derek Andersen
Avalanche (AVAX) posts triple-digit monthly gain as TVL surge points to user growthAvalanche’s market cap has grown by 340% since October, and AVAX price has followed.Dec 12, 2023Nancy Lubale
Former US President Donald Trump launches ‘MugShot’-themed NFT drop“Never surrender!” the former U.S. president wrote.Dec 12, 2023Zhiyuan Sun
IRS lists 4 crypto crimes among its top cases in 2023 The cases included investigations into the Silk Road marketplace, OneCoin, Oyster Protocol founder “Bruno Block,” and a money laundering scheme using Bitcoin kiosks.Dec 12, 2023Turner Wright
S&P Global launches stablecoin ratings, ranks GUSD, USDP, USDC highestThe producer of the S&P 500 assessed eight stablecoins. Tether received the second-lowest rating.Dec 12, 2023Derek Andersen
Two individuals indicted for $25M AI crypto trading scam: DOJDefendants David Gilbert Saffron and Vincent Anthony Mazzotta Jr. allegedly solicited users’ deposits for investment and used them for lavish personal expenditures.Dec 12, 2023Zhiyuan Sun
Terra co-founder Do Kwon will stay in Montenegro until February: ReportThe Terraform Labs co-founder had been awaiting extradition to either the U.S. or South Korea after serving a prison sentence in Montenegro for using falsified travel documents.Dec 12, 2023Turner Wright
Celestia to integrate with Polygon CDK for data availability in 2024Celestia will become an option for data availability within the Polygon CDK software.Dec 12, 2023Tom Blackstone
Democratic presidential candidate blasts Biden and Trump on crypto: ‘Not the right people to lead’Representative Dean Phillips was the sole Democratic presidential candidate to address the Crypto Presidential Forum after Republicans Vivek Ramaswamy and Asa Hutchinson.Dec 12, 2023Turner Wright
KuCoin agrees to ban New York residents and pay $22 million settlementKuCoin users from New York will lose the ability to trade within 30 days and will have their accounts closed within 120 days.Dec 12, 2023Tom Blackstone
Ethereum scaling firm =nil; Foundation introduces security-focused zkEVMA new Ethereum zero-knowledge proof compiler could address security concerns identified in different zkEVM solutions.Dec 12, 2023Gareth Jenkinson
Starknet to hand 10% of network fees to devs, with $3.5M in first distributionThe Devonomics initiative from the Starknet Foundation aims to return a portion of network fees to incentivize developers.Dec 12, 2023Martin Young
Deepfake K-Pop porn, woke Grok, ‘OpenAI has a problem,’ Fetch.AI: AI EyeChatGPT is lazy, Grok is woke, Gemini is fake and most deepfake porn is K-Pop.Dec 12, 2023Andrew Fenton
‘Take some rest and GO’ — Bitcoin price copies 2020 bull run fractalBitcoin is nowhere near done with its bull market, should a chart fractal from several years ago continue to play out.Dec 12, 2023William Suberg
Coinbase co-founder Fred Ehrsam sells $13M in COIN shares as ARK continues to divest Major Coinbase shareholders have sold over $14 million of stocks over the past 48 hours.Dec 12, 2023Gareth Jenkinson
Bitcoin’s water consumption: A new environmental threat?New studies have examined the water consumption of Bitcoin, with alarming results.Dec 12, 2023Daniel Ramirez-Escudero