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Pro Poker Cheating Scandal Takes Weird Twist After Crew Member Caught Stealing Chips
10.10.2022
As the fuss following the accusations of cheating against poker player Robbi Jade Lew somehow still rumble on, an investigation by the casino in which the game took place has revealed an employee dipping into Lew’s stack as the brouhaha went down. He took $15,000, before later being caught.Read more
'Call The Cops!' Fishing Competition Turns Into Frenzy After Cheater Caught Stuffing Fish
4.10.2022
If you thought last month’s chess grandmaster anal bead conspiracy saga was the worst thing that could happen to a competitive sporting event, I’ve got some bad news for you. The rollicking world of competitive sports fishing now has an oh-fish-ial controversy of its own after competitors at...
HBO’s The Last Of Us Trailer: 11 Things That Caught Our Eye
27.9.2022
Though it’s not expected until next year, this week we got an even closer look at the upcoming HBO TV adaptation of the PlayStation 3 megahit, The Last of Us. Previous glimpses of the show revealed some stunning parity to the source material, and the first teaser trailer shows even more synergy...
YouTuber Confesses To Secretly Being Gaming Industry Leaker After Getting Caught
20.9.2022
It turns out a Twitter account called TheRealInsider, the latest in a crop of leakers posing as gaming industry insiders, was actually run by YouTuber Dan Allen Gaming. The account had convinced many in the scene that it was the real deal after accurately teasing which new Assassin’s Creed games...
Russian Caught Mining Crypto in Covid-19 Clinic
22.8.2022
An IT specialist working for a medical institution in Russia’s Altai Republic has been detained for illegally mining cryptocurrency at the premises of a Covid-19 hospital. The man minted digital currencies using stolen electricity for almost a year before law enforcement busted his crypto...
Come Catch These Kamehame-Hands In Fortnite’s New Dragon Ball Event
18.8.2022
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NFT Platforms Should Be Caught by EU Money-Laundering Overhaul, Lawmakers Say
4.7.2022
Unhosted wallets and decentralized finance were left largely unscathed by two landmark crypto laws agreed to last week, but left-wing lawmakers may seek another go as they discuss dirty-money rules
Gaming DAO Merit Circle and YGG Caught in DAO Governance Strife
26.5.2022
Merit Circle members want to refund Yield Guild Games' investment and cancel an agreement between the two, claiming there’s not been enough value-add by the gaming guild giant
Nigerian Fintech Founder: ‘African Fintechs Have a Greater Scale Potential Than Other Tech Startups’
9.5.2022
The African fintech industry has grown rapidly over the past few years and this has caught the attention of some well-resourced venture capital (VC) firms. As one would expect, Nigerian fintech startups have dominated the continent in terms of funds raised or the number of transactions performed....
Whale Watching: A Deep Dive Into the Portfolios of the World’s Largest Ethereum Whales
28.4.2022
While there’s a number of bitcoin whales that often get caught by blockchain parsers and written about in media reports, ethereum whales get a lot less attention. According to statistics in 2022, there are a lot more ethereum whales than holders with large sums of bitcoin. In fact, while...
Seesaw Protocol’s Ecosystem Begins to Take Shape as Polygon and Cosmos Caught in Crypto Crossfire
14.4.2022
The vision of a cryptocurrency project is paramount for its success. Not only does it breed trust within the crypto community, but that trust could soon turn into financial support. The likes of Polygon (MATIC) and Cosmos (ATOM) achieved success because of their objectives regarding the increased...
Call Of Duty Cheat Caught Hacking While Trying To Show He Wasn't Hacking
31.3.2022
In a recent tournament match, a Call of Duty: Vanguard player was accused of cheating. In an attempt to clear his name, the player shared off-screen footage of his gameplay, in which you could clearly see...that he was cheating.Read more
$540 Million Worth of ‘Sleeping Bitcoins’ From 2014 Move — BTC Possibly Linked to Cryptsy Theft
30.3.2022
On March 29, blockchain parsers caught a sequence of 11 transactions totaling 11,325 bitcoin moving from unknown wallets created in 2014, to a great number of recipient addresses. Furthermore, the stash of bitcoin worth $540 million today is possibly linked to the Cryptsy theft, according...
Bitcoin Miners Catch a Second Break With Another Downward Difficulty Adjustment
18.3.2022
Five days ago, Bitcoin’s hashrate had shown improvement as it increased 15% over the course of ten days and today, the computational power remains above the 200 exahash per second (EH/s) region. Meanwhile, bitcoin miners caught another break on Thursday, as the network’s mining...
‘Ecstasy Kingpin’ From Brockton Forfeits $2.3M in Bitcoin to Massachusetts Law Enforcement
14.3.2022
A man from Brockton, Massachusetts was sentenced to eight years in prison and forced to forfeit 59 bitcoin worth $2.3 million, after he was caught selling Xanax, ecstasy, and ketamine on the deep web. Massachusetts U.S. Attorney Rachael Rollins stressed during the announcement that the government...
Bitcoin’s Hashrate Jumps 15% Higher in 10 Days, Mining Difficulty Expected to Rise
13.3.2022
After bitcoin miners caught a break ten days ago when the difficulty dropped 1.49% lower, the network’s hashrate increased more than 15% since then. Currently, the processing power has been coasting along above the 200 exahash per second (EH/s) zone but another difficulty increase...
Robert Pattison Is Still Caught Up On Tifa Vs. Aerith In Final Fantasy
28.2.2022
Robert Pattinson, sparkly telepathic vampire that he is, loves Final Fantasy VII’s Tifa. Or is it Aerith? No, no, it’s definitely Tifa. But that Aerith…Read more
LBank Exchange Will List Shibnobi (SHINJA) on January 30, 2022
27.1.2022
PRESS RELEASE. INTERNET CITY, DUBAI, Jan. 27, 2022 – LBank Exchange, a global digital asset trading platform, will list Shibnobi (SHINJA) on January 30, 2022. For all users of LBank Exchange, the SHINJA/USDT trading pair will be officially available for trading at 21:00 (UTC+8) on January...
Georgia Goes After Crypto Miners Using Subsidized Electricity in Historic Town
13.1.2022
A record high consumption of electricity blamed on illegal crypto farms in northwestern Georgia has caught the attention of authorities in the capital Tbilisi. The central government and the local utility are taking on the issue of dealing with power shortages in the mountainous region of Svaneti....
CEO of Mirror Trading International Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Arrested in Brazil
8.1.2022
Johann Steynberg, the wanted CEO of Mirror Trading International was recently arrested by Brazilian law enforcement after he was caught using a fake document. The arrest, which took place in the country’s Goiás province, was carried out by the Brazilian military police. Fake...