SEC Approves Bitcoin ETFs (For Real, This Time)
After a hilarious fake out yesterday, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) *officially* approved 11 Bitcoin ETFs, giving the crypto world a bit win to start the new year.…
Bitcoin Price Plummets Due to Hacked SEC Tweet
SEC Chairman Gary GenslerPhoto: Nathan Howard/Bloomberg (Getty Images) The Security and Exchange Commission’s X account was hacked on Tuesday afternoon, sending an untrue tweet that the Bitcoin ETF was approved.…
Sam Altman’s Weird Eyeball Scanning Crypto Tech Comes to Minecraft
Worldcoin, Sam Altman’s cryptocurrency venture, is now integrating its verification services into popular apps such as Reddit, Discord, Shopify, Mercado Libre, Telegram, and Minecraft. The move is part of Altman’s…
SBF Is Headed to Prison But FTX Will Haunt the Crypto Community For Years
Sam Bankman-Fried may be headed to prison but the story of FTX is far from over. Indeed, like an evil spirit, the exchange seems destined to haunt the crypto community…
Sam Bankman-Fried guilty on 7 counts of fraud and conspiracy
Cointelegraph/Wikimedia Commons Disgraced cryptocurrency mogul Sam Bankman-Fried has been found guilty on all seven charges of fraud and money laundering by a New York City jury. Bankman-Fried ran one of…
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…
New York AG Sues Winklevoss Owned Gemini in $1 Billion Cryptocurrency Fraud
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit Thursday morning against cryptocurrency companies Gemini Trust, Genesis Global Capital, and Digital Currency Group (DCG) for defrauding over 230,000 investors of…
SEC Hunts Fines Austin Mahone and Soulja Boy Over Crypto Promotion
L to R: Soula Boy in the music video for “Crank That (Soulja Boy)“ in 2007 and Austin Mahone in the music video for “Mmm Yeah” in 2014.Screenshot: Gizmodo Soulja…
Ethereum Founder Vitalik Buterin Says a SIM Swap Was Behind His Twitter Hack
Image: John Phillips (Getty Images) Vitalik Buterin, a computer programmer who co-founded the popular cryptocurrency Ethereum, is clearing the air after his account on Twitter (now known as X) was…
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…