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Bitcoin User Alleges Hack Linked to Erroneous 83.65 BTC Fee Incident
27.11.2023
The crypto community was initially baffled by the massive fee of 83.65 BTC, originally attributed to a costly mistake. However, recent revelations paint a darker picture. According to a social media account on X called “@83_5BTC,” hackers stole the funds from the unnamed individual...
Bitcoin User Unwittingly Pays $3.1 Million in Single Transaction Fee
23.11.2023
Onchain data reveals a staggering incident where a bitcoin user inadvertently paid a fee of 83.65 BTC, amounting to a costly mistake of $3.1 million, in a single transaction. This blunder occurred in block 818,087, mined by Antpool, marking the highest fee ever recorded on the Bitcoin blockchain....
Sexy Anime RPG Puts Players In ‘Gem Debt’ To Pay Off Dev’s Mistake
3.11.2023
Taimanin RPG Extasy is a turn-based gacha RPG in which players unlock new warriors to fight demons and criminal syndicates in a horny sci-fi future. The game’s been live in Japan for years, but only recently came to the rest of the world, and it’s already facing its first major crisis: an outbreak...
SEC Drops Lawsuit Against Ripple Executives, All Charges Dismissed — Ripple Calls It ‘a Surrender by SEC’
20.10.2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has dropped all charges against Ripple’s executives, CEO Brad Garlinghouse and co-founder Chris Larsen. “The SEC made a serious mistake going after Brad & Chris personally — and now, they’ve capitulated, dismissing...
Vitalik Buterin: ‘I Haven’t Sold ETH for Personal Gain Since 2018’
19.10.2023
Vitalik Buterin has dismissed reports that he recently sold his crypto holdings and claimed to have not “sold ether for personal gain since 2018.” Buterin suggested to his followers that the reports often mistake his transfer of digital assets to charitable organizations as sales...
Destiny 2 Offers Players $45 Credit After Banning Them By Mistake
11.10.2023
Destiny 2 has been cracking down on cheating in recent years, and the sci-fi shooter is now riddled with players who claim they were banned by mistake. However, it seems at least some of them may have been telling the truth: Bungie recently contacted a few players to apologize for banning them...
Mistake or money laundering? User pays $1.6 million for CrypToadz NFT
10.10.2023
The purchase was funded from a digital wallet, which has been a part of the chain of transactions, anonymized by the Ethereum coin mixing service Tornado Cash
Bitcoin Miner Returns 19.8 BTC in Fees After Paxos Claims Payment Mistake
16.9.2023
According to an X post, a cryptocurrency mining pool, F2Pool, has returned the mistakenly transferred transaction fee of 19.8 BTC made by Paxos, a Financial infrastructure firm.
It started on September 10, when a transaction fee of $510,000 was paid to a miner on block 807,057 for a transaction...
JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon Warns of Recession — Says ‘Huge Mistake’ to Think US Economy Will Boom for Years
13.9.2023
Jamie Dimon, chairman and CEO of JPMorgan Chase, has warned that it is “a huge mistake” to think that the U.S. economy will boom “for years” given that there are so many risks out there. The executive stressed: “I just think people make a mistake to look at real-time...
Ripple is staring down an opportunity to fix its closed system
12.9.2023
Ripple Labs built its XRP token on a centralized system. But with legal action against Ripple coming to a close, it could move toward a more open platform
Real reason for China’s war on crypto, 3AC judge’s embarrassing mistake: Asia Express
18.8.2023
Sources reveal the real reason China is ramping up efforts to stamp out Bitcoin and crypto. And a year’s worth of 3AC court orders nixed
US Treasury Secretary Yellen: Decoupling From China Would Be ‘a Big Mistake’
15.6.2023
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned that despite some human rights concerns that need to be addressed, ceasing trade with China would be a “big mistake” for the U.S. “De-risk? Yes. Decouple? Absolutely not,” she stressed, adding that the outcome of decoupling...
Binance Lawsuit Could Be ‘Huge Mistake’ or Bring Needed Clarity to U.S. Crypto Industry
5.6.2023
The Securities and Exchanges Commission’s (SEC) suit against the biggest crypto exchange in the world, Binance, could be a huge misstep if other countries allow the crypto industry to develop and it eventually replaces the traditional banking sector, Jim Bianco, president and founder of Bianco...
Moody’s on De-Dollarization: Rating Agency Labels US Debt Default a ‘Near-Term Danger to the Dollar’s Position’
27.5.2023
As calls for the creation of a global alternative to the greenback grow, credit rating agency Moody’s said on May 25 that rival currencies such as the euro and the Chinese yuan do not yet threaten the U.S. dollar’s position as the world’s reserve currency. The agency said...
Robert Kennedy Jr Warns of Mega Economic Crisis — Says ‘It’s Not Just the Banks’
4.5.2023
U.S. Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has warned that “the banking collapse is the tip of an economic mega-crisis,” emphasizing that “It’s not just the banks.” He also slammed President Joe Biden’s crypto mining tax proposal. “It is a mistake for the U.S. government to hobble...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Says It Is a “Mistake” To Hinder Crypto
3.5.2023
Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has taken to Twitter over the past day or so to air his thoughts about cryptocurrency regulation.
Kennedy most recently criticized the Biden Administration’s renewed call to propose a 30 percent tax on crypto-mining, calling it a “bad...
‘Biggest mistake’ is not using tax loss harvesting: Koinly head of tax
18.4.2023
Failing to utilize tax loss harvesting is one of the biggest mistakes people can make on their tax returns, according to the head of tax at Koinly
Tesla selling Bitcoin last year turned out to be a $500M mistake
14.4.2023
Tesla's remaining Bitcoin stash has grown 100% from its November 2022 lows, demonstrating that hodling BTC can indeed pay off
Plagiarism, Fork, or Simple Mistake? Shiba Inu Community Debates the Origin Story of Shibarium
16.3.2023
SHIB is down 8% and millions have been unstaked over allegations that the Shibarium code was stolen
Bill Ackman warns US gov't: Fix mistake in ‘48 hours’ or face ‘destruction’
12.3.2023
Billionaire Bill Ackman said that SVB’s senior management made a “basic mistake” but should be fired