Informed Crypto News

It’s impossible for Brock Pierce to distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein. The pair’s legacies will be tied together forever.

The price of BTC fell below $74,600 last night which was less than Strategy’s average buy price of $76,052.

China executed four members of the Bai crime family which operated a Myanmar scam compound enterprise that made over $4B.

Two days before Gavin Andresen’s controversial decision to discuss Bitcoin at the CIA, Jeffrey Epstein spoke with him on the phone.

Skepticism about Binance and CZ continues to fester since October 10, and the company’s $1B BTC buy isn’t helping.

The $ChiefPussy memecoin promoted by MtGox’s Mark Karpelès is themed around his cat Tibane and has already plummeted in value.

Similar to how BTC traders once paid a premium for GBTC, Chinese traders are paying 60% above silver holdings for a Shenzen fund.

Reports claim to show the arrest of “Boss Xi” in Cambodia yesterday, with rumors of his release later circulating on Telegram and X.

China has executed 11 members of the Ming mafia family which oversaw the Crouching Tiger Villa scam compound in Myanmar.

A 72-hour rally in gold this week added twice as much value to the precious metal than the entire market capitalization of BTC.

The world’s largest crypto exchanges waited until gold had already rallied 70-80% to open up traditional products for retail trading.

Former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao has called a flurry of online criticism aimed at himself and the exchange a “coordinated attack.”

For a few hours on Monday, liquid.network displayed less than 3,463 BTC backing 4,199 LBTC in circulation.

Crypto hacking group ShinyHunters claims to have leaked 10M records from various dating apps owned by Tinder’s parent company, Match Group.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov and X owner Elon Musk used a recent WhatsApp lawsuit as an opportunity to advertise their own messengers.

Coinbase Head of Protocol Jesse Pollak claimed Base will never “support the chart behind the scenes” in response to calls for more support.

Crypto sleuth Eyeonchains claims to have identified the “real actor” behind Trove Markets as the Shanghai-based Jin Qing Qing.

Clawdbot, now Moltbot, has taken off amongst the crypto crowd. But Peter Steinberger is already sick of crypto folks “harrassing” him.

Michael Saylor has said that the greatest risk to Bitcoin is ambitious opportunists advocating protocol changes.

Russia designated the Ukraine-based crypto exchange WhiteBIT as “undesirable” and accused it of illegally financing Ukraine’s military.

Of a total of $17 million stolen from victim addresses, $3 million in USDC is yet to be frozen by issuer Circle.

The most popular node software on the Bitcoin Lightning network has finally been patched nearly 10 years since a developer discovered it.

René Pickhardt has published new research into why most of the two-party Bitcoin Lightning payment channels fail to sustain liquidity.

French crypto tax firm Waltio is being extorted by hacking group ShinyHunters, which is threatening to leak the data of almost 50K users.

Farcaster founder Dan Romero said the firm “isn’t shutting down” and that Merkle Manufactory will return $180M to investors.