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Coinbase Is Riddled With Insider Trading, Researchers Allege

Coinbase Is Riddled With Insider Trading, Researchers Allege

By Victor Tangermann

Though the company has yet to make a public announcement, embattled cryptocurrency exchange Crypto.com is reportedly set to make another round of layoffs.

Crypto.com Reportedly Doing More Layoffs After Promising It Wouldn’t

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mark Cuban, billionaire and Dallas Mavericks governor, is the target of a class action lawsuit aimed at himself and Stephen Ehrlich, CEO of Voyager Digital.

Mark Cuban Sued for Promoting Crypto Exchange That Exploded

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Infamous Pharma Bro Martin Shrekli supposedly sold a huge chunk of his own crypto token, Martin Shkreli Inu, and left customers with worthless currency.

Update: Martin Shkreli Says He Was Hacked, Didn’t Sell Off His New Crypto Token

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Su Zhu and Kyle Davies, the missing founders of bankrupt hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), likely have caused the domino-like crypto market crash.

Two Blockchain Sleazebags May Have Crashed the Entire Crypto Market

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A 17-year-old high school student was arressted for allegedly using Bitcoin to pay for multiple bomb threat calls made to his school.

Teen Accused of Using Bitcoin to Pay for Bomb Threat at His High School

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Vitalik Buterin, the founder of the Ethereum blockchain, keeps making fun of the Bored Ape Yacht Club — which is built on the Ethereum blockchain.

Ethereum Founder Mocks Bored Apes, Which Are Built on Ethereum

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Celsius crypto wallet bankruptcy keeps rearing its ugly head — this time, affecting the father of a "Bachelorette" contestant.

“Bachelorette” Contestant Pushes Dad to Invest in Crypto, Causing Him to Lose It All

By Noor Al-Sibai

Texas paid Riot Blockchain, a crypto mining company, millions of dollars to partially shut down during an intense heat wave.

Texas Paid Crypto Mining Company Millions to Not Mine Crypto

By Lonnie Lee Hood

An NFT collection called "CryptoDickbutts" has jumped 690 percent in value this week because, apparently, nothing matters anymore.

NSFW-Named NFTs on the Rise, Because Nothing Makes Sense Anymore

By Noor Al-Sibai

Iran has purchased $10 million worth of imported goods using cryptocurrency — a move that could evade American trade sanctions.

Iran Just Made a $10 Million Import Order Using Crypto

By Noor Al-Sibai

A consumer watchdog group has issued a stern warning to more than a dozen celebrities for promoting NFT collections without proper financial disclosures.

Celebrities Smacked Down Over Shilling NFTs Without Legal Disclosures

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto exchange Coinbase got slapped with two class-action lawsuits less than two weeks after it was reportedly under SEC investigation.

Coinbase Slapped With Two Separate Class-Action Suits

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A cryptocurrency company is offering a bounty of up to $19 million to its "white hat hacker friends" after hackers made off with hundreds of millions.

Crypto Company Offers Massive Bounty to “White Hat Hackers” After Giant Heist

By Noor Al-Sibai

Hackers were able to exploit a basic flaw in crypto bridge Nomad to rob the platform of roughly $190 million in user investments.

Hackers Loot Blockchain Bridge for Millions In “Frenzied Free For All”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Pearson education company is looking to recoup some of the money it loses when people resell its expensive books...by turning those textbooks into NFTs.

Great, They’re Turning Expensive College Textbooks into NFTs Now

By Noor Al-Sibai

Major Luxury Brand Slinging Hideous and Unaffordable NFT Pendants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A crypto enthusiast wants to dig through a landfill to recover a tossed hard drive, which he says contains roughly $180 million worth of Bitcoin.

Man Who Lost $180 Million Bitcoin Hard Drive 9 Years Ago Still Trying to Dig Through Trash

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli is under investigation by two attorneys general for his new company, Druglike, which he says isn't a pharmaceutical company.

Martin Shkreli’s Crypto Startup Under Investigation by Two Separate Attorneys General

By Lonnie Lee Hood

A firm is organizing a class-action lawsuit against Yuga Labs, accusing them of inflating the worth of digital assets BAYC NFTs and native token ApeCoin.

Bored Apes Creators Facing Class Action Lawsuit

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Mainstream cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is reportedly under investigation by the Securities and Exchanges Commission, Bloomberg reports.

Coinbase Reportedly Under Investigation by the SEC

By Victor Tangermann

On the list of terrible things to wake to wake your pregnant wife up with, the news that you've lost $100,000 in crypto is right up there.

Man Wakes Pregnant Wife to Tell Her He Lost $100,000 on Crypto

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to a new report, cryptocurrency company EminiFX collected a quarter of a billion dollars from investors before being exposed as a Ponzi scheme.

Shockingly, Crypto Project That Promised 5% Returns Per Week Turned Out to Be a Ponzi Scheme

By Victor Tangermann

A Coinbase manager, who has since been let go from the cryptocurrency exchange for insider trading, has been arrested after attempting to flee the country.

Coinbase Manager Arrested as He Tries to Flee the Country

By Victor Tangermann

In a puzzling attempt to parody the practice of purchasing expensive ENS names, an NFT collector had a "joke" title flipped back to him — for over $150k.

NFT Guy Accidentally Spends $150K on Stupid Joke He Tried to Make

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Now, Tesla has reportedly offloaded 75 percent of its Bitcoin holdings, another sign that major players are starting to grow wary of a "crypto winter."

Tesla Sells Off Most of Its Bitcoin, at a Huge Loss

By Victor Tangermann

Coinbase secretly announced it is "temporarily shutting down" a US-based affiliate program, according to Insider, scaring investors.

Coinbase Leak Scares Crypto Investors

By Victor Tangermann

Even if the crypto market isn't exactly growing in terms of profit, the enthusiasts who mine it are certainly increasing their energy consumption.

United States Crypto Miners Are Now Using as Much Power as Houston

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Linkin Park Singer Creates Technology to Turn You Into a Human NFT in Online Meetings

By Lonnie Lee Hood

MetaMask co-founders Aaron Davis and Dan Finlay are well aware that they played a big part in allowing Ponzi schemes to flourish.

Crypto Founders Say It’s Not Their Fault They’re Enabling Ponzi Schemes

By Victor Tangermann

Crypto winter has apparently reached the high seas. OpenSea, the world's most popular NFT marketplace, has announced widespread layoffs, joining several other industry leaders who have had to make major workforce cuts amid the cryptosphere's catastrophic slump.

Top NFT Marketplace OpenSea Fires 20 Percent of Its Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Embattled crypto lender Celsius finally filed for bankruptcy yesterday, and there's still no telling when, or if, customers will ever get their money back.

Crypto Lender That Kept Bragging About How Great It Was Files for Bankruptcy

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Crypto miners finally made at least one eco-conscious decision this week when they shut down temporarily to avoid overloading Texas' electric grid.

Texas Gets So Hot That Crypto Miners Call It Quits

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bitcoin bros are so not OK that some of them have begun believing that the cryptocurrency was sent down by the Christian God himself.

Religious Zealots Think Bitcoin Was Created by God

By Noor Al-Sibai

A children's videos distributor is releasing a collection of NFTs based on Blippi, an IP created by a YouTuber who once defecated on his friend.

YouTuber Who Blasted Friend With Explosive Diarrhea Selling NFTs to Children Now

By Victor Tangermann

Once known for a place to share music for free, LimeWire has been turned into an NFT marketplace. And people aren't exactly surprised.

LimeWire, Once a Renowned Source of Porn and Malware, Now an NFT Marketplace

By Victor Tangermann

Introducing: The "Bear Market Screaming Therapy Group," a Telegram group where downtrodden everyday crypto investors go to scream crypto winter woes away.

Crypto Investors Are Creating Voice Chats Where They Just Scream and Sob

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Zhu Su and Kyle Davies, founders of bankrupt crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC), are literally missing — and they might be on the lam.

Crypto Hedge Fund Founders Abandon HQ and Disappear After Implosion

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Binance crypto exchange could be in trouble with the American government over allegedly serving Iranians in spite of terrorism sanctions on the country.

Crypto Exchange That Invested in Forbes Accused of Violating Terrorism Sanctions

By Noor Al-Sibai

A developer used his speech at a gaming conference to trash talk NFTs, and was met with a huge round of applause from the audience.

Speaker at Crypto-Funded Convention Trashes NFTs, Gets Loud Applause

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin's horrible year is about to get a lot worse, with the value of the cryptocurrency expected to plunge to $10,000, as predicted by some investors.

Most Investors Think Bitcoin’s Value Will Get Chopped in Half Again

By Victor Tangermann

One cryptocurrency company is literally applying the logic of layaway to non-fungible tokens now, because apparently, the crypto community can sink lower.

Horrifying Loan Scheme Allows People to Buy NFTs in Installments

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto exchange Voyager Digital has filed for bankruptcy, and according to the paperwork, most customers likely won't be getting their money back.

Man Loses Down Payment for House When Crypto Exchange Goes Bankrupt

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Endless Snoop Dogg promo has not been enough to save the NFT market, it seems. As predicted, June shaped up to be a pretty horrific month for the industry.

Abysmal New Numbers Show the NFT Market Is in Deep Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The FBI added Ruja Ignatova's name to its ten most-wanted list on Thursday because the Cryptoqueen scammed investors for $4 billion in a pyramid scheme.

FBI Offers Huge Reward for “Cryptoqueen” Accused of Stealing $4 Billion

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Blockchain woes persist. Bitcoin lost 38 percent of its value in June alone, making this past month the worst in crypto's 12 year history, CNBC reports.

Bitcoin Just Had Its Worst Month in Crypto’s Entire History

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Web3 assets continue their impressively catastrophic nosedive today, as NFTs — even celeb-favored BAYC — reach remarkably new lows in value.

Even Bored Ape NFT Prices Are Plummeting Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

RadioShack — the once-bankrupt strip mall electronics stable which from death returneth to unlikely crypto trader — has chosen chaos.

RadioShack Is Tweeting About Drugs and Unusual Sexual Acts, for Some Reason

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Crypto billionaire and founder of exchange FTX Sam Bankman-Fried says many cryptocurrency exchanges "are already secretly insolvent."

Crypto CEO Warns That Exchanges Are “Secretly Already Insolvent”

By Victor Tangermann

Alex Mashinsky, CEO of anguished crypto lending firm Celsius, did NOT attempt to flee the US amid the bitcoin crash, a Celsius spokesperson clarified.

Crypto Startup in Crisis Insists That Its CEO Isn’t Trying to Flee the Country

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Yuga Labs, the company behind Bored Ape Yacht Club, is suing Ryder Ripps, an outspoken NFT critic who minted his own collection of Bored Ape clones.

Yuga Labs Files Furious Lawsuit Against Guy Minting Copies of Bored Apes

By Victor Tangermann

Snoop Dogg and Eminem released a new music video for "D 2 the LBC" featured the rappers as Bored Ape Yacht Club apes based on NFTs they own.

Eminem and Snoop Dogg Make Music Video Where They Appear as Their Bored Apes

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Bored Ape's Bored and Hungry restaurant in Los Angeles has gone back to accepting good old fashioned US dollars as its sole currency for ape-themed food.

Bored Ape Restaurant No Longer Taking Crypto, Just US Dollars, After Crash

By Lonnie Lee Hood

18-year-old Ricky da Luz, for instance, figured out people go absolutely hog wild over physical representations of their Bored Ape NFTs.

Teen Makes $700,000 Selling Action Figures of Bored Apes to Adult Children

By Victor Tangermann

Reporter Kevin Collier had a bizarre encounter at this year's NFT NYC conference — not with rapper Calvin "Snoop Dogg" Broadus Jr, he says, but a lookalike.

NFT Conference Allegedly Hires Snoop Dogg Impersonator to “Drum Up Excitement”

By Victor Tangermann

A bill that would ban all crypto mining that uses fossil fuels is languishing on the desk of New York's governor, which begs the question — what now?

New York State May Ban Any Crypto Mining Powered by Fossil Fuels

By Noor Al-Sibai

Blockchain Guy Struggles to Explain a Single Practical Use for Web3

Blockchain Guy Struggles to Explain a Single Practical Use for Web3

By Victor Tangermann

Bill Gates really, really hates cryptocurrency, saying on Tuesday that virtual coins and their NFTs are "100 percent based on the Greater Fool Theory."

Bill Gates Ruthlessly Mocks NFTs as Crypto Market Collapses

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Amid an industry collapse and a class-action investor defrauding lawsuit, the Binance crypto exchange is looking for 2,000 new employees.

Many Crypto Startups Are Firing People Right Now, But This One Is Hiring 2,000 New Employees

By Noor Al-Sibai

Bitcoin bros are really, really not OK, as evidenced by the latest sad cope from a financial planner who likely just lost his clients a ton of money.

Financial Planner Desperately Explains to Clients Why the Bitcoin Crash Is Good, Actually

By Noor Al-Sibai

Just a few months after spending who knows how much on Super Bowl ads, leading cryptocurrency exchanges are now laying off thousands of employees.

Crypto Exchanges Lay Off Thousands, Months After Uber-Expensive Super Bowl Ads

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Winklevoss twins, Cameron and Tyler, are indeed in a band, as footage of the twins un-ironically covering "Don't Stop Believin'" has confirmed.

Horrible Footage Emerges of Winklevoss Twins Singing “Don’t Stop Believin'”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Binance is bracing itself for a class-action lawsuit filed against it in a California court about misleading investors over a "stable" stablecoin.

Class-Action Lawsuit Alleges Binance Misled Investors Over “Stablecoin”

By Victor Tangermann

Binance, the world's largest crypto exchange, has had to pause Bitcoin withdrawals as the currency drops precipitously for the second time in 2022.

As Bitcoin Crashes, Binance Halts Withdrawals

By Noor Al-Sibai