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A ransomware attack on Swedish IT provider Miljödata has led to a ransom demand of just 1.5 BTC in exchange for not leaking sensitive info.

Tether will terminate redemptions and freeze most USDT tokens using the Bitcoin ledger on September 1 as it terminates Omni support.

ZachXBT says he’s disinclined to help out scammed XRP holders who he believes “provide nothing of value to the industry.”

Somebody claiming to be former Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes is tweeting, replying, and occasionally trolling on X.

Alphabet’s Google Cloud team is launching a layer 1 blockchain, GCUL, that could compete with the XRP Ledger across many features.

An apparent bug rendered the term “microwave” unsearchable on X as the crypto community turned Bob Lax and his microwave review into a meme.

US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick says the Department of Commerce is to start issuing its statistics on the blockchain. But why?

Jim Chanos’ hedged MSTR short-sale is probably up 15-35% depending on the assumptions you make about his cost basis and fees.

BitMEX Research has invented a new method for storing spam data in Bitcoin transactions wholly outside of the popular OP_RETURN tool.

Gemini’s new XRP Mastercard offers no new features, except “an innovative design for the XRP Army to show their allegiance.”

Zora is “hiding” sketchy coins under new rules after it’s team was ridiculed for promoting a fake Tyson Fury account tied to a known scammer.

Tyler Winklevoss wanted to boast about Gemini outranking Coinbase in the Apple App Store, but he proved something else entirely.

Qubic, the Monero mining pool which previously falsely claimed to 51% attack Monero, has recently pulled off multiple 9-block reorgs.

Michael Saylor is taking advantage of revised corporate guidance that would have limited MSTR dilution between 1x and 2.5x mNAV.

Ravid Yosef, a fugitive who once helped lead Crypto Capital Corp, still has her application available despite the charges against her.

Crypto industry leaders think their new Solana treasury stock will somehow perform well despite consistent losses across the leaderboard.

Prominent Bitcoin Core developers and influencers were laughing while describing a denial of service (DoS) attack against Knots nodes.

Bitcoin investors broadcasted horror onto social media and demanded someone go to jail for a supposed flash crash yesterday.

Omar Rossi has worked for a variety of interesting financial firms in Switzerland and the Bahamas and now seems to be involved with Tether.

Crypto Capital Corp’s Ravid Yosef made her way to Israel where she very publicly launched new businesses despite being under indictment.

Public treasury companies have raised about $10 billion this year to buy BTC, yet the spot price keeps falling.

The UK sanctioned several Russian and Kyrgyz crypto entities that are being used to dodge Western sanctions during Russia’s war on Ukraine.

North Korean hacker group Lazarus Group is up over $40M on the proceeds from last year’s Radiant Capital hack, and is trading ETH like a pro.

The US court order freezing Hayden Davis’s crypto assets was dropped meaning he’s free to move $58M worth of USDC and millions of LIBRA.

Despite no token announcement or address, Kanye West following the YZY MONEY account caused a frenzy among hopeful traders.

According to a few Strategy loyalists, Michael Saylor’s revision of his MSTR dilution promise below 2.5x mNAV means that he lied.

In just over 18 months, North Korean hackers like Lazarus have used the same “hijacked multisig” technique to steal over $1.75B in crypto.

Security firm Safety fueled speculation that the US could be targeting Russian Solana devs to disrupt Kremlin-linked ransomware gangs.

Anti-dilution guidance from MicroStrategy only lasted two weeks. In its place is revised, vague language about ‘advantageous’ conditions.

Tensions are escalating in a spirited debate between MicroStrategy (MSTR) investors and skeptics about whether the stock is a Ponzi scheme.

The Joker themed “HAHA” memecoin shilled by Peter Todd initially rug pulled before buyers sent it rocketing over 4,500% 24 hours later.

On Sunday, Ethereum users were unstaking $4 billion worth of ETH from the network due to two impactful headlines from finance.

Ripple trumpeted “years of building and testing” to launch the XRPL EVM mainnet, which would usher in “a new era of cross-chain DeFi.”

The latest cringe-inducing crypto story involves “investors” throwing green dildos onto WNBA courts to try to meme their way to relevance.

Gamestop’s Ryan Cohen could have bought over $1.4B worth of BTC. He hasn’t, and he just unfollowed all BTC accounts on X.

DeFi advocates are concerned that the Roman Storm verdict could set a precedent for developers of other protocols.

Solana Labs and Jito Labs have been served a Pump Fun lawsuit that accuses them of aiding the memecoin platform’s illegal casino enterprise.

UK BSV holders are continuing to fight for $11.9 billion in damages from Binance and Kraken by requesting to appeal to the UK Supreme Court.

Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm won’t be going to prison just yet as the judge overseeing his case rejects the idea that he is a flight risk.

Bitcoin mining pool operators achieved a dramatic reduction in minimum fees yet inadvertently shot themselves in the foot.

Reports claim that China wants to issue a yuan stablecoin, but it is not clear how that is compatible with its goals.

Someone minted Bored Apes and waited four years to sell. The NFT portfolio, once worth $4.3 million, has declined to a few hundred thousand.

Stablecoins have seen their market cap increase from $251B to approximately $268B since Donald Trump signed the GENIUS Act into law.

Justin Sun’s Liberland wants to pay a market maker $4,000 a month to provide liquidity for its Liberland Merit token.

The percent of BTC miner revenue from fees has hit its lowest rate since 2022 and is suffering from a 90% reduction in fee minimums.

“Unsafe head delay” has been blamed for the Coinbase Base downtime, according to its status page. Four components had a major outage today.

Bitcoin treasury company executives rejoiced when Donald Trump became President, and they want to win again in the 2026 mid-term elections.

Whether boosting “social engineering” scams, or writing crypto-stealing code, AI is helping scammers to relieve users of their tokens.

Justin Sun has taken his long-awaited trip to space, four years after he bid millions for a seat on Blue Origin’s first manned mission.

Wild rumors of a crypto ban in China started on Telegram and reached millions via Elon Musk’s X account. Thing is, it was fake news.