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USDC: Was Everyone Just As Blind As Me?

March 18th, 2023

Let me TL;DR summarize the past weekend’s events:

Stacks on Stacks on Stacks

February 23rd, 2023

If your daily routine includes staring at token prices from the moment you wake up and every 5 mins until bedtime, then I assume you’re scratching your head just like I’ve been doing the last 2 weeks.

Bit-tendo: The Nintendo That Earns Bitcoins

February 17th, 2023

Chalk this one up for classic ingenuity.

Crypto Out, More Beer And Gambling In

February 10th, 2023

In the good feel news of the year so far, crypto ads are no longer welcome during the most popular sporting event in the U.S.

Bitcoin Has Images of A**holes Now

February 3rd, 2023

Yes, you read that right.

Secret (Bidding) Wars For Celsius Assets?!

January 27th, 2023

Tiffany Fong, who rose to fame after scoring some exclusive SBF post-meltdown interviews, has revealed some interesting information she’s been sitting on for quite some time.

Ice Cold Scamming: "Ice Phishing" Next Big Thing?!

December 22nd, 2022

There’s a troubling new scam-scheme (I’m trademarking this) that’s apparently only targeting Web3 users. According to blockchain security company CertiK, a new type of scam called “ice phishing”, which was first identified by Microsoft, where Web3 users are tricked into signing permissions via wallet transactions that allow the scammer to spend their tokens and other dubious activities.

Year Of The Scam?? Rug Pulls Top List

December 20th, 2022

Gather around, readers. Let me tell you a tale of rug pulls and scams for 2022. According to Solidus Labs, there was an estimated 350 scam tokens/rug pulls created on a daily basis since January 2022 to December 1st, which equates to 117,629 scams for the year so far. This is a 41% jump over 2021 where 83,400 token scams were deployed. The report also claims that BNB Chain has the greatest number of scam tokens, with 12% of all BEP-20 tokens being fraudulent. In second place is Ethereum, with 8% of all ERC-20 tokens beings scams.

Et Tu, Salame?! FTX Whistleblower Revealed

December 15th, 2022

With all the crazy stories swirling around about FTX employee extravagances and ignorances about how the empire was being run, it looks like (maybe) one employee didn’t like what he was seeing. Ex Co-CEO of FTX Digital Markets, Ryan Salame, tipped off Bahamaian regulators of potential fraud by sending customer funds to sister trading firm, Alameda Research, just two days before FTX’s inevitable demise. There were three individuals he called out specifically for having this kind of access: SBF, FTX co-founder Zixiao “Gary” Wang, and FTX engineer Nishad Singh. However, based on his last public Tweet, he looks as to be laughing off Binance’s initial declaration of wrongdoing at FTX: