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CZ Denies He Owns CommEX, Binance Russia's New Owner
28.9.2023
Binance’s CEO sought to quell rumors about the mysterious, day-old, crypto company as he seeks to quit Russia
Mark Cuban Hacked for $870K in Crypto, Economist Warns of ‘Tragic Ending’ for USD — Week in Review
24.9.2023
Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban sees his Metamask crypto wallet hacked, Peter Schiff says “day of reckoning is at hand” for dollar and U.S. economy, and the crypto community shows skepticism about rumors of Blackrock pivoting to XRP. This and more in the latest Bitcoin.com News Week...
FBI Wanted Co-Founder of Crypto Exchange Wex Sentenced in Russia
24.9.2023
Aleksey Bilyuchenko, co-founder of Wex, the successor of the infamous Russian crypto exchange BTC-e, will spend only a couple of years in prison. The Russian, who is charged in the U.S. with money laundering, has been sentenced in his homeland as the only defendant in a case over the collapse...
Mark Cuban’s Crypto Wallet Hacked, $870,000 Lost
16.9.2023
Hackers have apparently compromised a wallet belonging to billionaire investor Mark Cuban, stealing a number of cryptocurrencies. The owner of the Dallas Mavericks NBA team, who confirmed the breach, has been able to transfer the remaining digital funds to U.S. crypto exchange Coinbase. Mark...
London Fintech Owner Accused of Facilitating Massive Drug Money Laundering via Crypto
8.9.2023
A fintech owner in London is under scrutiny for allegedly assisting notorious drug traffickers in laundering hundreds of millions of euros through a crypto exchange platform.
Caio Marchesani, the 38-year-old Italian owner of Trans-Fast Remittance, a regulated payments business, is accused...
GTA owner joins Web3, Bitcoin casino, Sunflower Land review: Web3 Gamer
31.8.2023
Grand Theft Auto’s parent company launches new blockchain game. Plus: Bitcoin casino, FarmVille-like Sunflower Land game reviewed, and more
Debunked: FBI-Owned Bitcoin Wallet Erroneously Tied to Late Russian Oligarch Prigozhin in Recent Speculation
29.8.2023
Amid swirling speculations about the third biggest bitcoin wallet, chatter has now emerged linking the fifth largest BTC wallet to the late Yevgeny Prigozhin, former owner of the Wagner private military company (PMC). However, a straightforward blockchain explorer search clearly indicates...
Robinhood Identified as Third-Largest BTC Wallet Owner
28.8.2023
The previously unidentified large BTC wallet that sparked widespread conjecture and analysis recently was identified last week. According to wallet data from Arkham Intelligence, investing and trading platform Robinhood holds over $3 billion in Bitcoin in this single BTC wallet, placing it behind...
X Will ‘Never’ Launch a Crypto Token, Says Musk
5.8.2023
Tech investor Elon Musk said that his social media platform X, formerly Twitter, will never launch its own cryptocurrency token. He made the statement in response to a post by a user of the networking service warning about fake coin projects exploiting Musk’s name and that of the platform. Elon...
Facebook Owner Meta May Launch Chatbot ‘Personas’ Next Month, Report
5.8.2023
U.S. tech giant Meta is preparing to launch multiple chatbots powered by artificial intelligence (AI) as early as September. According to an article quoting knowledgeable sources, the company seeks to encourage user engagement on its social media platforms with the chatbots that could also be used...
Twitter Owner Elon Musk Is Now A Fallout: New Vegas Bad Guy
28.7.2023
Fallout: New Vegas might be a 13-year-old game, but fans of Obsidian Entertainment’s open-world RPG continue to tinker with and release mods for it to this day. Hell, just this week, New Vegas received 88 new PC mods and one of them is hilariously on point, replacing one of the game’s main...
Innovative Heating Solutions: Bitcoin Miners Turning Heat Into Satoshis
24.7.2023
In recent years, bitcoin miners have learned to reuse the heat generated by application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) mining rigs. Recently, a Twitter account named “Rev.Hodl” demonstrated how a bitcoin miner was employed to dry laundry. While the clothes dryer serves to...
Mark Cuban Criticizes SEC Approach in Ripple-XRP Case
24.7.2023
Mark Cuban, a Shark Tank star and owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, has weighed in on the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) v. Ripple case regarding XRP. “The current mission of the SEC is not to protect small investors,” the billionaire asserted. “Their goal...
Stablecoin TrueUSD Owner Techteryx to Take Full Control of Operation
14.7.2023
Techteryx assumed "full management full management of all offshore operations and services related to TUSD," on July 13
Mark Cuban Says SEC Makes Mistakes in Crypto Regulation, Calls Regulator ‘Arrogant’
5.7.2023
Mark Cuban, a Shark Tank star and owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, has slammed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for taking a wrong approach to regulating the crypto industry. “The SEC is not infallible. It makes mistakes,” the billionaire stressed, adding that if the SEC...
‘Bitcoin Ordinals Are One of Many Ways to Represent Real-World Assets’ — Wakweli Co-Founder
29.6.2023
While non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are generally believed to represent the link between an owner and an asset, without platforms acting as “digital notaries” there can be no effective way of stopping scammers from minting and selling plagiarized works, Shaban Shaame, the co-founder...
Shiba Wings customers love the food, not so much the crypto, says owner
23.6.2023
The SHIB-themed diner serves hot wings, burgers and cocktails, but despite the branding, still trades mostly in fiat
Billionaire Mark Cuban Offers Suggestions on How SEC Should Regulate Crypto
21.6.2023
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban, a Shark Tank star and owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, has provided some suggestions on how the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) should regulate the crypto industry, including how the regulator should handle multi-function crypto tokens....
Former Minnesota Vikings Co-Owner Slapped With 75 Month Jail Term for Processing $750M Worth of Crypto Transactions
7.6.2023
U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York announced on June 5 that the former co-owner of Minnesota Vikings, Reginald Fowler, has been sentenced to 75 months in prison for processing more than $700 million of unregulated transactions on behalf of crypto exchanges. Folwer...
Former Minnesota Vikings Co-Owner Convicted in $700 Million Cryptocurrency Scam
6.6.2023
The Manhattan federal court has convicted the former co-owner of the Minnesota Vikings, Reginald Fowler, for a $700 million crypto scam.
Washington Post reported that Fowler, aged 64, defrauded the Alliance of American Football (AAF), a now-shut-down professional football league, in a fraudulent...