Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Doesn’t Want Americans to Read This Blog Post
Where do we start with Sam Altman’s Worldcoin? The OpenAI CEO’s startup is building a new cryptocurrency. Worldcoin is also part of Altman’s disquieting plan to capture all of the…
Texas Energy Grid Paid Bitcoin Miner $31.7 Million to Stop Working Amid Heatwave
The Lone Star State apparently loves cryptocurrency so much that it’s willing to pay mining firms to not do their jobs. One of those mining operations, called Riot Platforms, claims…
Just a Month After Launch, Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Is Already Dying
If you’ve already had your iris scanned for Worldcoin’s crypto-based “free money” promise, your biometric investment has been cut in half since launch. I Gave Sam Altman a Copy of…
Whoops: DEA Falls for Crypto Scam, Hands Fraudster $55,000 in Stolen Funds
The same federal agency that once helped bring down the biggest crypto-based dark web drug marketplace Silk Road got swindled by one of the oldest tricks in the crypto scammer…
Bitcoin Freefalls to Two-Month Low After SpaceX Write-Down
Image: tungtaechit (Shutterstock) If the spectacular failure of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange wasn’t evidence enough, the crypto bubble has officially popped. Now, Bitcoin, one of the most widely used cryptocurrencies,…
‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’ Plead Guilty to Billion Dollar Crypto Laundering Scheme
On Thursday, Heather Morgan, a.k.a. Razzlekhan, and her husband pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive money laundering scheme. Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein became known as the modern-day “Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde”…
Sega Boss Says the Company Might Be Done With that Dumb NFT Game
With crypto becoming a hell of a lot less appetizing over the last few months thanks to numerous crimes and scandals, game companies that were once so hungry for ballooning…
Miami’s Bitcoin Mayor Wants to Be America’s Bitcoin President
What about crypto? One area notably absent from Suarez’s announcement video, however, was his embrace of cryptocurrency. Suarez was among the most vocal US politicians in 2021 singing crypto’s praises,…
Binance Halts Trading of American Dollars on Its U.S. Exchange
Advertisement Advertisement On Monday, Binance was hit with a lawsuit from the SEC, that included 13 charges against the exchange and CEO Zhao. The lawsuit alleges that Zhao and Binance…
Biden Wants to Hit Power-Hungry Crypto Miners With a Big Tax Bill
The Biden Administration is proposing a bill to hold cryptocurrency mining companies accountable for the amount of energy costs they expel with a new 30% tax on their electricity costs.…