In brief The Iowa Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Bitcoin ATM operator Bitcoin Depot. The court ruled that money paid into a Bitcoin Depot ATM as part of separate scams in 2023 and […]
In brief Bitcoin ETFs saw their best day of trading since May 2 on Monday. Fidelity’s Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund and the ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF accounted for more than half of inflows into BTC […]
In brief European authorities dismantled a clandestine banking network that laundered over $23 million using cryptocurrency, arresting 17 individuals across Spain, Austria, and Belgium. The criminal operation involved parallel banking services, illegal hawala banking, and […]
Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok had a strange fixation last week—it couldn’t stop talking about “white genocide” in South Africa, no matter what users asked it about. On May 14, users started posting instances of […]
Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) skewered the Trump family’s crypto firm, World Liberty Financial, on Friday—for what he called its “seriously inadequate” response to a Senate inquiry into the company’s business practices. “This seriously inadequate response […]
In brief A federal judge denied SEC-Ripple settlement due to procedural errors in their joint filing. The proposed deal would have reduced Ripple’s fine from $125 million to $50 million, ending a 4-year legal battle. […]
In brief Telegram banned thousands of accounts linked to Haowang Guarantee on May 13, forcing the platform offline. The marketplace enabled cybercriminals to trade stolen data, fake IDs, and tools for industrial-scale online scams. Investigators […]
In brief Pedro Inzunza Noriega and his son, alleged leaders of a Sinaloa Cartel faction, were indicted in California under narco-terrorism statutes. The charges follow a record fentanyl seizure in Sinaloa, as analysts trace how […]
In brief Curve Finance’s front-end website suffered a DNS compromise where attackers redirected users to a malicious site. The attack involved manipulating DNS records to point to a fraudulent site mimicking Curve’s interface with malicious […]
In brief BitGo has become one of the first U.S. firms to receive approval under the EU’s unified crypto rules. The license enables institutional crypto custody services throughout Europe without country-specific approvals. The move comes […]
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