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…
Want to See How Bad Twitter’s Bot Problem Is? Ask for Crypto Help.
Twitter, the platform formally known as X, has a bot problem. If you want to see just how bad it is, I’ll teach you the magic words that summon the…
Dropbox Is Dropping Unlimited Storage, Blames Crypto Miners
Dropbox is no longer offering new customers unlimited cloud storage. The company says crypto miners and other dastardly individuals pooled or resold storage space. Now, none of us can have…
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,…
Should’ve Said No: Taylor Swift Reportedly Did Sign a Deal With FTX
Image: John Medina (Getty Images) While news of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange’s crumbling castle has come and gone, there is a new wrinkle in the tale involving one of the…
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.…
FTX’s Cybersecurity Was Hilariously Bad
Photo: Joe Raedle (Getty Images) Pentagon Employees Too Horny to Follow Rules Off English FTX, the once beloved crypto exchange that went down in a ball of financially flames last…
Here Are the Top Internet Scams According to the FBI
Image: NICOLAS ASFOURI (Getty Images) There were nearly 22,000 BEC complaints reported last year and the report revealed it accounted for a financial loss of more than $2.7 billion. You…