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Do Kwon, creator of the infamous, crypto-crashing Terra-Luna "stablecoins," is still missing. Well, not missing — according to him, that is.

Guy Blamed for Crypto Crash Says He Isn’t Fleeing Arrest Warrant, But Isn’t Turning Himself In to Cops Either

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Neal Stephenson, the science fiction icon who first coined and popularized the term "metaverse," is pausing his literary career to build his own.

Guy Who Invented the Word “Metaverse” Building His Own Metaverse

By Noor Al-Sibai

The Ethereum merge has regulators pondering whether they should treat ether as a security, which could signal a big turning point.

Oops! Ethereum’s Merge May Cause Huge Problems With the SEC

By Victor Tangermann

The Australian programmer who claims to be the creator of Bitcoin has a super believable excuse for why he can't prove it.

Guy Claims He Invented Bitcoin But Then “Stomped on the Hard Drive” Containing Proof

By Noor Al-Sibai

A group of cryptocurrency miners — many of whom stand to lose their main stream of income due to the Ethereum Merge, have made their own Ethereum token.

Furious Crypto Miners Making Their Own Ethereum Where They Can Still Destroy the Environment After the Merge

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to economist John Hawkins, El Salvador's grand crypto experiment, led by Crypto Commander in Chief President Nayib Bukele, has been a disaster.

Economist: El Salvador’s Year With Bitcoin Currency Has Been “Spectacular Failure”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A decades-old law was used to sentence an OTC Bitcoin trader to prison. Rizzn says more clarity around Bitcoin and blockchain law is needed.

Guy Sentenced to Prison for Changing People’s Cash Into Bitcoin

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Ethereum is about to implement a huge change dubbed "The Merge" to its platform — a change that has crypto miners shaking in their boots.

Crypto Miners Terrified by Ethereum’s Imminent Move to Proof of Stake

By Victor Tangermann

In a scathing new interview, early Coinbase investor Liron Shapira took a swipe at the cryptocurrency space, calling it "essentially worthless."

One of Coinbase’s First Investors Says Crypto Is Worthless and Should Be Shut Down

By Victor Tangermann

This crypto advocate has an idea: fill future games with poor people playing human-controlled non-playable characters (NPCs).

Crypto Guy: Desperately Poor People Could Be NPCs in Video Games

By Victor Tangermann

Bitcoin bros have long been defined by their near-delusional belief that the currency will always bounce back — but what happens when they lose it?

Analysts Warn of “Massive Capitulation” in Which Crypto Investors Just Give Up

By Noor Al-Sibai

Kanye West's famous, 1-of-1 "Robot Face" backpack was just purchased for 50 ETH — roughly $100,000 — by an NFT collective called Elon.Space.

Crypto Project Named After Elon Musk, But Not Associated With Him, Buys Kanye West’s Backpack

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After being on the run for over a year, Thedoex crypto exchange CEO Faith Ozur has finally been arrested and is facing some serious charges.

Missing Crypto CEO Who Stole User Funds Arrested, Facing 40,000 Years in Prison

By Frank Landymore

After sending a Melbourne woman roughly over $7 million USD by mistake, cringe crypto exchange Crypto.com has won a lawsuit against the user.

Crypto.com Accidentally Sends Woman $7 Million, Sues Her to Get It Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A programming error accidentally — and permanently — shut down the entire Solana blockchain-based platform OptiFi, wiping out $661,000 worth of USDC.

Crypto Dev Enters Wrong Command, Destroys Entire Company

By Victor Tangermann

WeWork cofounder Adam Neumann is back, with a property management crypto startup. The confusing part? Its crypto can't pay rent.

WeWork Guy’s Apartment Rental Company Plans to Launch Crypto That Can’t Be Used to Pay Rent

By Noor Al-Sibai

Binance CCO Patrick Hillman claims cybercriminals have been using a deepfake to take meetings with — and money from — a number of eager crypto projects.

Scammers Deepfake Crypto Exec to Steal Money From People

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It's been a banner month for billionaire crypto whisperer Sam Bankman-Fried — and now, he's showing his hand and hinting at his next moves.

Millennial Says He’s Spending $1 Billion to Bail Out the Crypto Industry

By Noor Al-Sibai

US-based Bitcoin mining company Stronghold Digital Mining is facing an uncertain future following the devastating cryptocurrency crash that rocked the industry this year.

Bitcoin Miners Forced to Sell Mining Rigs to Pay Debts

By Victor Tangermann

One specific group of jilted Celsius investors may have found a loophole that, by some miracle, might actually help them get their money back.

People Who Lost Crypto in the Celsius Collapse Desperately Trying to Get It Back

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, 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

Congress maay actually regulate crypto after the market's latest crash that wiped out $40 billion in crypto assets. It may regulate stablecoins completely.

Congress Moves to Regulate Crypto After Meltdown Wipes Out Investments

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Web3 sure is going great — just ask Molly White, the researcher whose crypto scam-busting skills have felled con artists left and right.

Awesome Woman Destroys “Predatory” Crypto Scams by Shaming Them to Death

By Noor Al-Sibai

Crypto scammers made a deepfake video of Elon Musk claiming he started the fake trading platform BitVex. Musk said the creepy video isn't him.

Elon Musk Alarmed by Deepfake of Him Endorsing Crypto Scam

By Lonnie Lee Hood

Don't go to a stablecoin founder's house to try to talk to them if you're ever in South Korea.

Bankrupt Investor Arrested for Showing Up at Crypto Founder’s House

By Noor Al-Sibai