Craig Wright Found in Contempt of Court Over Bitcoin Creation Claims
Craig Wright, the computer scientist ruled to have lied “extensively and repeatedly” about being the inventor of Bitcoin, has been given a one-year prison sentence by...
The Edgelord AI That Turned a Shock Meme Into Millions in Crypto
Truth Terminal “has birthed an entire sector that’s red-hot: the AI agent–memecoin sector,” says Travis Kling, founder of Ikigai Asset Management, a crypto wealth management firm,...
The Crypto Industry Is Helping Donald Trump Pick SEC Chair
In July, at a bitcoin conference in Nashville, Tennessee, Trump pledged to fire Gensler if reelected, drawing perhaps the most raucous applause of the night. “I...
Meet ZachXBT, the Masked Vigilante Tracking Down Billions in Crypto Scams and Thefts
Since ZachXBT began pursuing his career as a crypto vigilante, he has also kept his mask firmly in place. Online, he appears only as his avatar,...
Nigeria Drops Charges Against Tigran Gambaryan, Jailed Binance Exec and Former IRS Agent
For eight months, the criminal investigator who pioneered cryptocurrency tracing as a law enforcement technique has, in a bizarre twist of fate, been jailed in Nigeria...
‘Should Art Be Regulated by the SEC?’: NFT Artists’ New Lawsuit Seeks Answers
The essence of the case, Frye adds, is about NFT art writ large and “using NFTs the way most people are—to sell them.” The point is...
People Are Using Memecoins to Bet on the US Election
On July 13, as word spread that a would-be assassin had narrowly missed killing Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a trading frenzy began....
Inside a Violent Gang’s Ruthless Crypto-Stealing Home Invasion Spree
She refused to give up her password, and was, according to the prosecutors’ description, so demoralized by the earlier hacking theft of the majority of her...
How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet
“We ultimately got lucky that our parameters and time range was right. If either of those were wrong, we would have … continued to take guesses/shots...
A Vast New Data Set Could Supercharge the AI Hunt for Crypto Money Laundering
As a test of their resulting AI tool, the researchers checked its outputs with one cryptocurrency exchange—which the paper doesn’t name—identifying 52 suspicious chains of transactions...