Venezuela-focused neobank Kontigo pays back users after $340K USDC hack
Kontigo, which allows Latin American users to dodge inflation by using “digital dollars” has been forced to reimburse over 1,000 accounts.
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Billion-dollar scammer Chen Zhi arrested in Cambodia, extradited to China
Chen Zhi is head of the Prince Group and had previously laundered around $15B in BTC, revealed to have been seized in October.
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CHART: Every crypto sponsor in this year’s Premier League
The number of Premier League football teams entering into partnerships with crypto sponsors fell this year from 14 to 13.
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Crypto influencer Scooter explores defamation claim against Burwick Law
Scooter is exploring defamation remedies after Burwick Law claimed crypto influencer Scooter threatened “livelihood-destroying campaigns.”
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Was Bob Lax’s ‘brain-frying’ microwave a secret US weapon?
X users are drawing parallels between US Homeland agents purchasing secret microwave weapons and Bob Lax’s one-star microwave review.
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DeFi lending platform Compound Finance hijacked again
The Compound incident is the latest in a string of website hijackings that have also affected Maple Finance, OpenEden and Curvance.
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Bitcoin up, Dubai real estate down since Iran war began
Amid the Iran war sell-off, influencers’ Dubai property values are crashing harder this month than BTC or most crypto portfolios.
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Strategy’s bitcoin premium vanishes as mNAV crashes to 1x
The colloquial metric of investor confidence in Strategy, its multiple-to-Net Asset Value or mNAV, has fallen to 1x its BTC holdings.
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Justin Sun nears $10M deal to settle SEC’s Tron lawsuit
Tron founder Justin Sun’s deal with the SEC would see all wash trading and price manipulation claims dropped.
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The ‘dead internet’ theory is getting a rebrand — meet Web 4.0
AI peddlers and crypto entrepreneurs want us to rejoice about Web 4.0 and the internet being consumed by botnets and AI agents.
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