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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Bitcoin Core promotes first Trusted Keys maintainer in three years
Senior Bitcoin developers have promoted TheCharlatan, aka “sedited,” to Trusted Key holder with GitHub Commit access to Core’s master branch.
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Knots ‘warning’ escalates Bitcoin OP_RETURN war
The debate between conservatives and progressives in Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN data storage war is becoming emotional.
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Ledger faces backlash for charging fees on ‘free’ security upgrade
Ledger fine print revealed that the “free” service would cost $10 per transaction or 0.05% of the amount transferred, on top of gas...
Pump Fun co-founder Dylan Kerler linked to 2017 ICO scams, report
Dylan Kerler, the Pump Fun co-founder, has been linked to a shitcoin that rugpulled in 2017 when he was just 16-years-old.
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Ledger confirms customer data leaked in third-party Global-e breach
Global-e hasn’t said how many users have been affected but Ledger says the incident “remains separate to the operations of any Ledger device.”
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Hyperliquid unlocks 12M HYPE tokens, dilutes holders by $330M
A token unlock for Core Contributors increased the supply of Hyperliquid by 5.5% overnight, diluting all other investors.
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Europol raids $24 million ‘mafia crypto bank’
The network, which was raided in January, allegedly offered crypto services to human traffickers and the drug trade.
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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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