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A new report alleges that ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and ex-Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison were in a secret groupchat called "Wirefraud."

SBF and Caroline Ellison Allegedly Had a Secret Groupchat Called “Wirefraud”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

A lawsuit is alleging that Yuga Labs conspired to inflate the worth of Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) NFTs through undisclosed celebrity endorsements.

Huge List of Celebs Accused of Taking Secret Payments to Shill Bored Apes

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Gemini, the Winklevoss twin-founded crypto exchange, guaranteed Earn users high returns and product safety. Some ex-employees say Gemini downplayed risk.

Former Employees Say Problems Were Obvious at the Winklevoss’ Exchange Before It Paused Withdrawals

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The crypto industry hosted its inaugural award show this week. It was called The Crypties, and it sounded... super weird.

Glitzy Crypto Award Show Gets Weird When Host Keeps Roasting Guests For Dismal Failure

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is speaking out, and he's sort of, kind of, taking responsibility — but also not really?

An Interviewer Asked Sam Bankman-Fried If He’d Been Honest and His Answer Was Bizarre

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Hemgenix is the latest form of a gene therapy drug to be approved by the FDA, and it's now the most expensive drug in the world. Too expensive.

Another Crypto Exchange Is Laying Off 1,100 Employees

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In the early days of the FTX collapse, founder SBF was so stubborn about saving the exchange that people near him had to beg him to do the right thing.

Leaked Messages Show FTX Insiders Begging SBF to Step Down as Crisis Deepened

By Noor Al-Sibai

Used luxury cars are selling for way cheaper than ever as crypto continues to crashes, and some thing those two things are closely related.

Impoverished Crypto Bros Desperately Trying to Sell Luxury Cars

By Noor Al-Sibai

Mark Cuban, who's currently being sued for his role with the bankrupt crypto exchange Voyager Digital, thinks Sam Bankman-Fried should fear prison.

Mark Cuban Says SBF Should Be Afraid of Imprisonment “For a Long Time”

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Miami nightclub owners missing the business of high-rolling crypto millionaires, who sought to loudly flaunt their wealth on the city's nightlife scene.

Miami Nightclubs Horrified That Big-Spending Crypto Bros Are Broke Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The hackers that stole hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto from the FTX exchange are now laundering that money into Bitcoin.

Someone’s Converting Millions of the Stolen FTX Funds Into Bitcoin

By Noor Al-Sibai

Lawyer Explains Why He's Suing Celebs Who Shilled FTX Before Its Spectacular Meltdown

Behind the Lawsuit Against Celebs Who Shilled FTX Before Its Spectacular Meltdown

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

As crypto exchange FTX continues its demise, 3AC's Zhu Su and Kyle Davies have somewhat unexpectedly crawled out of the rubble.

Guy Linked to Huge Crypto Meltdown Says It’s Just a Coincidence That He’s Hanging Out in a Country With No Extradition to United States

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The first civil suit against the crypto exchange FTX was just filed, naming FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, and 11 of FTX's many celebrity ambassadors.

Celebrities Are Officially Being Sued by FTX Retail Investors

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

In the wake of the FTX crash, Tom Brady and others have deleted evidence of his partnership with the embattled cryptocurrency exchange.

Celebrities Frantically Deleting Tweets Shilling FTX Before Its Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

It appears that the Tumblr blog run by disgraced Alameda Research CEO and FTX collapse figure Caroline Ellison has been unearthed — and it's pretty wild.

This Strongly Appears To Be Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison’s Tumblr Account

By Noor Al-Sibai

There are few things that wealthy people can do to get in trouble in the crypto-friendly tax haven of the Bahamas. But alas, Sam Bankman-Fried has done it.

The FTX Collapse Is So Egregious That Even the Bahamas Are Investigating

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Tom Brady, Gisele Bündchen, and a number of other athletes poured a lot of money into FTX, the Sam Bankman-Fried-run exchange that just collapsed.

Tom Brady Appears to Be Totally Screwed by the FTX Collapse

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NFT marketplaces are doing away with royalties, or creator fees, and creators are predictably concerned. Now, OpenSea has caused even more chaos.

NFT Marketplaces Say Oops, Paying Royalties to Artists Is Optional Now

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

NFTs aren't totally dead just yet. And in order to keep them alive, a growing number of web3 operators are turning towards a more familiar market: housing.

The Latest Idea to Make People Actually Buy NFTs: Throw in a House

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

The Fyre Fest island has reached its only natural next form: a luxury real estate colony for the crypto elite, where homes will be bought and sold via NFTs.

Developers are Transforming the Fyre Fest Island Into an Exclusive Colony for Crypto Millionaires, Because of Course They Are

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Watch out for Slotie, a "metaverse casino" that was just issued an emergency cease-and-desist order by four different US states.

Shockingly, This NFT Metaverse Casino Is Already in Big Trouble

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

CNN was one of the earliest NFT adopters — and now, is among the many who have dropped their crypto projects as the market continues its months-long slump.

CNN In Hot Water With Investors After Canceling Its Weird NFT Project

By Noor Al-Sibai

Kim Kardashian is to pay a $1.26 million penalty to the SEC for allegedly pushing crypto token EMAX without disclosing how much she was paid to do so.

Kim Kardashian Ordered to Pay Million Dollar Penalty for Pushing Crypto on Instagram

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

When it comes to environmental harm, Bitcoin mining is worse than gold and comparable to both crude oil and cattle farming, a new study has found.

Bitcoin Mining as Bad for Planet as Oil Drilling, Scientists Say

By Noor Al-Sibai

NFT trading volumes are down a catastrophic 97 percent from the record highs seen back in January — forget crypto winter, is this a full-blown web3 ice age?

It’s Official: Pretty Much Nobody Is Buying NFTs Anymore

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

Just months after filing for bankruptcy, Alex Mashinsky, the CEO of embattled cryptocurrency "bank" Celsius, has resigned from his position.

Disgraced Crypto CEO Resigns Amid Bankruptcy Proceedings

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

According to Binance CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, the devastating crypto bear market is ultimately good — "healthy," even — for the market.

Binance Guy Says the Crypto Crash is Good, Actually

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

After its own brushes with the law, Binance is now alerting its users that the co-founder of the Terra stablecoin is currently wanted by police in Korea.

Crypto Exchange Warns Buyers That Coin Founder Is Wanted by Police

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

Have you ever wanted to rent an NFT? Neither did anyone else — and that's why an NFT rental platform has opted to shut its doors this week.

NFT Rental Platform Shuts Down Due to “Close to Zero Traction”

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

The estate of David Bowie is canceling its much-derided NFT project because of the death of another famous Brit — but there's some issues with their gambit.

David Bowie’s Estate Has a Very Believable Excuse for Nixing Its Hated NFT Project

By Noor Al-Sibai

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

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

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

The world's most popular NFT trading platform, OpenSea, has reportedly seen a 99 percent drop in trading volume since May.

World’s Top NFT Marketplace Has Allegedly Lost 99 Percent of Its Trading Volume Since May

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

An NFT collection depicted -- and monetized -- porn performers as collectible digital assets. The only problem? It never got their permission.

Sleazy Project Sold NFTs of Porn Stars, But Never Got Their Permission

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Major Luxury Brand Slinging Hideous and Unaffordable NFT Pendants

By Maggie Harrison Dupré

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

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

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

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

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