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Hackers are now distributing a Python app posing as a crypto arbitrage bot via a direct message on a public Discord server.

North Korea targets blockchain engineers with new macOS malware

The infamous North Korean hack group Lazarus Group now targets macOS blockchain engineers on Discord with a novel malware. According to cybersecurity firm Elastic Securi...

10 months ago

21 people were sentenced in a case involving converting 'dirty' USDT to RMB.

Crypto at the Center of $300M Fraud Case in China

A court in Tongliang, China – located near Chongqing – has sentenced 21 people for their role in transferring the proceeds of online fraud and illegal casinos denominated in Tether&n...

10 months ago

Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin pens an analysis of Ethereum’s layer-2 ecosystem, highlighting diverse approaches to scaling the smart contract blockchain.

Ethereum layer 2s will continue to have diverse approaches to scaling — Vitalik Buterin

The Ethereum layer-2 ecosystem is likely to continue evolving with diverse technological approaches, according to co-founder Vitalik Buterin. The co-founder of the smart contract block...

10 months ago

31-year-old Oyster Protocol founder Amir Bruno Elmaani — aka “Bruno Block” — has been sentenced to four years imprisonment for tax evasion.

Oyster Protocol founder gets 4 years jail for $5.5M tax evasion

Amir Bruno Elmaani, the 31-year-old founder of the now-defunct cryptocurrency scheme Oyster Protocol has been handed the maximum sentence of four years in prison for tax evasion. The U...

10 months ago

AI developers are taking revenue, data and users away from news publications by building competing products, the News Media Alliance claims.

AI chatbots are illegally ripping off copyrighted news, says media group

Artificial intelligence (AI) developers heavily rely on illegally scraping copyrighted material from news publications and journalists to train their models, a news industry group has claimed.

10 months ago

A court-ordered liquidation process allows FTX to sell nearly $3.4 billion worth of crypto assets in weekly batches starting from $50 million a week.

FTX and Alameda Research wallets send $13.1M in crypto to exchanges overnight

The crypto wallets linked to now-defunct crypto exchange FTX and its sister trading firm Alameda Research have sent over $13 million in different altcoins to numerous crypto exchanges early on N...

10 months ago

Bitcoin Social Volume Of Bearish Terms Has Surged Recently

Social Media Users Turn Bearish On Bitcoin, Rally Ahead?

Data shows the social media sentiment around Bitcoin has turned bearish, something that could be positive for the asset’s price. According to data from the on-chain analytics fir...

10 months ago

Following BlackRock's application, another Bitcoin Spot ETF application seems to have been added to the DTCC list.

Another Bitcoin Spot ETF Application Added to DTCC List BlackRock – What Does It Mean?

According to the latest development, after BlackRock's spot Bitcoin ETF application, another spot Bitcoin ETF application, INVESCO & Galaxy Spot BITCOIN ETF (BTCO), was also added to the...

10 months ago

South Korea’s Busan city is officially seeking operators for its forthcoming Busan Digital Asset Exchange.

Busan City Seeks Operators for the Upcoming Busan Digital Asset Exchange

According to a notice issued by Busan City and reported by MarsBit news, the selection process for operators for the Busan Digital Asset Exchange is currently underway. Busan Dig...

10 months ago

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has announced the award of $16 million to whistleblowers this year with a significant amount going to crypto-related cases.

CFTC Discloses $15 Million Payment to Crypto Whistleblowers

In an Oct 31 press release, Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero speaking on the Whistleblower policy highlighted the achievements, awards offered, and associated judgments as financial re...

10 months ago