A newly published working paper on Bitcoin mining has worked to counter claims from anti-crypto politicians that Bitcoin is melting the planet.
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Asked to get a banana, a BAYC owner narrowly avoids a fake Forbes scam Scammers posing as Forbes journalists have been targeting BAYC holders to set up interviews and distract them while they attempt to steal their apes.
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Wallet of Satoshi vanishes from Apple and Google’s US app stores Apple is facing the wrath of crypto users yet again as a popular Bitcoin Lightning wallet disappeared from its U.S.-facing App Store.
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CZ an ‘unacceptable risk of flight,’ should stay in US: DOJ U.S. prosecutors are pushing for CZ to stay in the country, saying they “would not be able to secure his return” if he’s allowed back to Dubai.
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KyberSwap DEX exploited for $46 million, TVL tanks 68% The DEX aggregator has been exploited across multiple blockchains, with millions in Wrapped Ether and other assets stolen.
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Grayscale met with SEC to discuss spot Bitcoin ETF details Grayscale executives and lawyers met with the SEC to discuss a rule change to list the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust.
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Apple sued for blocking crypto tech for P2P payments Apple faces a class-action lawsuit over alleged anti-competitive conduct in the iOS peer-to-peer payments market.
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Sam Altman’s OpenAI ouster sees rollercoaster Worldcoin price Sam Altman’s eye-scanning world ID project saw its token price go on a wild ride over the weekend after he was fired by OpenAI.
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EtherHiding: Why hackers may prefer Binance’s BNB Smart Chain According to cybersecurity analysts at 0xScope and CertiK, threat actors may prefer using BNB Smart Chain contracts because it’s cheaper and seen as having lower security than Ethereum.
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Crypto exchange Binance restores euro services after finding new fiat partners Euro payments, deposits and withdrawals are back on for European Binance users one month after the termination of services by PaySafe.
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Aptos resumes operations after 5-hour outage that ‘impacted’ transactions Aptos suffered a five-hour outage, coincidentally in the same week the network launched in 2022.
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Ethereum LSDFi sector grew nearly 60x since January in post-Shapella surge: CoinGecko The LSDFi sector’s total value locked has grown 5,870% since January as ETH holders seek better yields.
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Dev platform Stack Overflow axes 28% of staff as AI competition grows The technology Q&A forum has seen declines in web traffic since the launch of ChatGPT in 2022.
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EtherHiding: Hackers create novel way to hide malicious code in blockchains Threat actors have worked out a way to hide malicious payloads in Binance smart contracts to lure victims into updating their browsers from fake prompts, according to cybersecurity researchers.
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Terraform Labs contends Citadel Securities had a hand in its stablecoin collapse Terraform Labs has urged the judge to grant its motion to compel trading data from Citadel Securities, which it says had a hand in the collapse of USTC in May 2022.
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BlackRock seeks court crackdown on 44 copycat sites, some crypto adjacent The world’s largest asset manager wants to take control of a raft of domain names that have been registered to imitate it.
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Decentralized finance yet to pose ‘meaningful risk’ to stability — EU regulator The European Securities and Markets Authority argued that DeFi was still too small to pose any sizeable risks to overall financial stability, but should be monitored.
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Immutable links with AWS in latest Web3 gaming push The blockchain gaming firm said it will gain access to a vast pipeline of game studio leads and support for successful deal closures.
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Bitcoin analysts look to November as price action looks to mirror past cycles Bitcoin’s months of sideways action have been uncannily similar to the previous two BTC market cycles, which saw a pivot in November leading up to a halving event.
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Gitcoin screws up transfer, sends $460K to unrecoverable address Gitcoin’s project lead said the snafu has resulted in nearly half a million dollars of funds being locked in a one-way contract address.
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Canadian regulatory body clarifies stablecoin rules for exchanges and issuers The umbrella organization for Canada’s securities regulators has set conditions for trading and issuing stablecoins.
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EMAX investors given third and final chance at celeb promo suit The judge presiding over a class suit by EMAX token investors gave them a final chance to file their claims against celebrities who allegedly promoted it.
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Friend.tech SIM-swap scourge continues as scammer nets $385K in Ether Leaked mobile phone numbers have given scammers an easy way to drain Friend.tech user accounts.
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5 highlights of Sam Bankman-Fried’s first day of trial Potential jurors shared their mostly negative interactions with crypto investing, while a slim-figured former FTX CEO sat flanked by attorneys, noticeably void of his signature curly locks.
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Celsius seeks court approval to start repaying customers by year-end The embattled crypto lender is seeking final court approval for a restructuring plan that will start repaying creditors before the end of 2023.
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Chainalysis axes another 15% of staff, citing difficult market conditions The Chainalysis workforce will be reduced by around 150 as the bear market bites deeper.
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September becomes the biggest month for crypto exploits in 2023: CertiK The Mixin Network cross-chain protocol accounted for almost two-thirds of the crypto exploit losses in September.
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FTX founder mulled giving Trump $5B not to run for president, says author “That only shocks you if you don’t know Sam,” says author Michael Lewis regarding the revelation in his new book about Sam Bankman-Fried.
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SBF trial dates revealed: FTX founder to stand trial over 6 weeks In a hearing, Assistant U.S. Attorney Danielle Kudla said the Department of Justice estimated the case could last four to five weeks.
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Binance urges users to convert euros to USDT after Paysafe debank Binance’s European debanking woes continue as it urges Paysafe users to convert their euros to digital dollars.