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Zerebro founder Jeffy Yu faked his suicide — found alive in flip-flops
Last Friday at 5:36 PM

Zerebro co-founder Jeffy Yu has been found alive after staging his suicide to promote the launch of his $LLJEFFY memecoin.


BREAKING: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky receives 12-year sentence
Last Thursday at 7:40 PM

Mashinsky’s lawyers argued that a 15-year sentence would be “too much,” and that his deeds aren’t comparable to other scams like OneCoin.


EXCLUSIVE: Ex-SafeMoon CTO admits rug pull, details insider exemptions
Last Thursday at 7:10 PM

According to former SafeMoon CTO Thomas “Papa” Smith, “As soon as I start asking you to trust me, you shouldn’t.”


The fine print on the crypto ‘reserves’ of New Hampshire and Arizona
Last Thursday at 5:42 PM

Two state governors signed crypto reserve funds into law. However, the fine print is significantly different from the headlines about them.


USD1 is a top stablecoin with no attestation and no transparency
Last Thursday at 5:40 PM

Donald Trump-endorsed USD1 stablecoin has grown to over $2 billion in market capitalization but provides no transparency.


Cobie says UpOnly will return if someone buys this $20M NFT
Last Thursday at 5:08 PM

The NFT’s fine print doesn’t include any sponsorship rights, and Cobie warns, “We are allowed to call you idiots for buying it.”


Careful when signing messages in Ethereum Pectra
Last Wednesday at 7:11 PM

Security researchers flagged Ethereum’s Pectra update for heightened risk of theft from malicious smart contracts.


CZ called pardon reports false, now he’s applying for one
Last Wednesday at 5:52 PM

According to CZ, he only applied for a pardon two weeks ago, after Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal wrote about a potential deal.


Bitcoin nodes protesting OP_RETURN change hit all-time high
Last Wednesday at 1:33 PM

Knots, an alternative client for Bitcoin full nodes, has grown in popularity as Core developers appease corporate interests in OP_RETURN.


John Karony trial starts with a confused witness and SafeMoon merch
Last Wednesday at 11:44 AM

The trial of former SafeMoon CEO John Karony saw testimony from a victim who lost $20K and a SafeMoon die-hard in a branded hoodie.


Samson Mow claims Peter Todd was ‘paid’ for OP_RETURN PR
Last Tuesday at 6:15 PM

Samson Mow has accused someone of paying a senior Bitcoin developer to push through a controversial change to Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN.


Ripple to stop XRP reports after SEC ‘used transparency against it’
Last Tuesday at 5:16 PM

Ripple claims its reports have not had the intended effect and that they were used against the company by former SEC leadership.


CZ called a ‘liar’ over Binance insider trading accusation
Last Tuesday at 2:55 PM

Former Binance chief Changpeng Zhao has been branded “problematic” after he was accused of spreading lies about Boop Fun founder Dingaling.


Zerebro’s ‘dead’ founder Jeffy Yu is still dumping tokens
Last Tuesday at 2:41 PM

According to X user RepeatAfterVee, Jeffy Yu’s address is still “dumping $ZEREBRO, then sending USDC to the HTX exchange.”


Bitcoin devs in OP_RETURN war motivated by ‘harm reduction’
Last Monday at 5:47 PM

Bitcoin developers’ war over the data storage limits of OP_RETURN was about UTXO bloat and harm reduction, according to one side.


El Salvador prepares to arrest El Faro journalists, report
Last Monday at 3:37 PM

El Faro’s editor-in-chief and director have claimed that the Salvadoran Attorney General has prepared arrest warrants for journalists.


The corporate interests taking over Bitcoin development
Last Monday at 9:48 AM

Disagreement over a seemingly minor change to OP_RETURN unearthed hidden corporate interests influencing Bitcoin development.


Arbitrum, Optimism, and Base are fighting over $52 billion DeFi pie
05/02/2025

Ethereum layer 2s are battling for dominance of a market they believe could be worth hundreds of billions of dollars.


Craig Wright website still shows Satoshi notice despite court order expiring
05/02/2025

Craig Wright seems to have forgotten to take down the Satoshi notice, which only needed to be displayed until January this year.


Sam Altman’s World got its eyeball count wrong by 14 million
05/01/2025

World appears to have mixed up the number of IDs issued via eyeball scanning with the number of users that are signed up to its app


Cash is 0.04% of Tether’s assets
05/01/2025

Tether’s most recent attestation claims approximately $120 billion in exposure to US Treasuries, but a paltry $64 million in cash.


Moderators censor Bitcoin devs as OP_RETURN war rages on
05/01/2025

Bitcoin Core moderators are using GitHub repository controls to mute and ban contributors to a viral debate about OP_RETURN data storage.


Max Keiser thinks bitcoin will stop Israel displacing Palestinians
05/01/2025

Bitcoin maximalist Max Keiser claims BTC can “orange pill” Israeli settlers and deter them from chasing Palestinians out of the West Bank.


MicroStrategy wannabes and the return of mNAV mania
05/01/2025

Crypto traders invented the term ‘mNAV,’ a simplistic ratio to explain how much they overpay for crypto holdings. It can exceed 8X.


Circle wants its USDC payments network to be the Ripple killer
04/30/2025

Crypto exchanges report around $55M in RLUSD volume over the last 24 hours — 99.4% less than Circle’s $9.8B for its much larger USDC.


DOGE aide in charge of layoffs could be breaking law by holding BTC, report
04/30/2025

The DOGE aide and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau official is reportedly involved in layoffs that may boost his BTC and Tesla holdings.


FixTheFilters: Bitcoin arguments go viral over relaxing Core data storage
04/30/2025

Bitcoin developers are arguing furiously about setting standards for the use of OP_Return for non-financial data storage.


The Ethereum Foundation won’t disclose Vitalik Buterin’s voting power
04/30/2025

Although the Ethereum Foundation emphasizes its board of directors and shared oversight, Vitalik Buterin’s voting power remains a mystery.


Ledger scammers are sending letters to steal your recovery phase
04/29/2025

The letter claims to be from Ledger’s security team and asks users to give their recovery phrase in response to a “critical security update.”


What has Trump done for crypto in his first 100 days?
04/29/2025

Donald Trump has embraced crypto during his first 100 days, but has that embrace benefited or hindered the industry?


Every country that has failed to make bitcoin legal tender
04/29/2025

Nation-state BTC adoption efforts have entirely failed to convince countries to adopt the world’s foremost crypto as legal tender.


Tornado Cash is safe from US sanctions, says court
04/29/2025

The Texas court rejected the Treasury’s arguments and ruled that it can longer sanction the crypto mixer accused of laundering Lazarus funds.


Trump’s personal lawyer Jim Trusty pivots to crypto lobbying
04/29/2025

Jim Trusty stopped representing Trump years ago and has now launched a consultancy firm covering crypto, prediction markets, and drones.


Bankera founders blew ICO funds on luxury real estate, report
04/29/2025

Bankera’s founders raised €100M from more than 100,000 investors during a 2017 ICO, promising to create “a bank for the blockchain era.”


Polymarket: Odds of India invading Pakistan rose to 41%
04/28/2025

The odds of India invading Pakistan hit 41% on crypto prediction market Polymarket today, as officials warned an invasion was “imminent.”


Bitcoin devs continue fight over ‘arbitrary’ data storage
04/28/2025

Non-financial data like media inscriptions continues to fill up Bitcoin’s blockchain, and the debate about how to address it continues.


Craig Wright has pivoted to farming
04/28/2025

Self-proclaimed Bitcoin inventor Craig Wright is now apparently into pumpkin farming, but has already been accused of “farming fraud.”


Dave Portnoy’s pathetic memecoin picks are down at least 97%
04/28/2025

Crypto influencer Dave Portnoy is responsible for at least five memecoins that have crashed 97% from their highs.


Jerome Powell defies Trump, keeps crypto restrictions at Fed
04/25/2025

Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell has reduced US banking restrictions on crypto activities, but critics say he hasn’t done enough.


Chairman of Swiss National Bank hasn’t budged on bitcoin
04/25/2025

Switzerland’s national bank chairman argued against the country holding BTC as part of its national reserve, resisting BTC advocates.