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The use of cryptocurrency in sales of human beings for prostitution and scam compounds nearly doubled in 2025, according to a conservative estimate. Many of the deals are happening in plain sight.
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Plus: AI agent OpenClaw gives cybersecurity experts the willies, China executes 11 scam compound bosses, a $40 million crypto theft has an unexpected alleged culprit, and more.
Situations that expose centralization in supposedly decentralized exchanges have become par for the course in crypto.
Bank lobbyists and crypto lobbyists are publicly fighting over new legislation. Lawmakers are noticeably absent from the debate.
In 2018, Epstein wrote that because he is "high profile" he had concerns about the "questionable ethics" of crypto pumps if he was involved.
Coinbase's CEO isn't happy. Senators pump the brakes.
“Given the industry’s history of investor-harm... this turn raises troubling questions about the SEC’s priorities and effectiveness."
There's a big pot of digital gold out there.
What happened to Trump as crypto's savior?
There are tons of raw blockchain transfers, but few could be considered "payments."
You know what's cooler than a million dollars? A .jpeg that's been cataloged on an immutable blockchain that no one wants to buy.
U.S. Senator Chris Murphy called the reported deal “mind-blowing corruption.”
Arizona, New Hampshire, and Texas have enacted laws aimed at creating their own reserves.
For the dubious tech of the last decade, one door closes and another one opens.
An AI tool that can text you and use your apps? It blew up online. What came next involved crypto scammers, IP lawyers and more.
Trump got elected promising to usher in a crypto revolution. More than a year later, bitcoin's price has come tumbling down. What happened?
Bitcoin is stuck in a rut even as other risk assets rise on Monday. The token is struggling around $70,000 after a brief rally from last week's lows.
=[ "More than half of all cryptocurrencies ever launched are now defunct," reports CoinDesk, citing a new analysis by cryptocurrency data aggregator CoinGecko. And most of those failures occurred in 2025: The study looked at token listings on GeckoTermina…
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"There were surprises in the bill," says Rebecca Rettig, who has been in the room for some of the negotiations as the Senate Banking Committee crafts the...
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong drops out of Bloomberg’s top 500 richest as BTC & COIN stock plunge, slashing his net worth by over $10 billion.
OpenClaw, the AI agent that has exploded in popularity over the past week, is raising new security concerns after researchers uncovered malware in hundreds of user-submitted "skill" add-ons on its marketplace. In a post on Monday, 1Password product VP Jason M…
She warned of "extreme price volatility in financial markets due to catastrophising or euphoria, and a collapse in confidence."
XRP’s (CRYPTO: XRP) funding rate on Binance dropped to -0.028%, a 10-month low. A funding this negative means the selling side is crowded—almost everyone is ...
Crypto custody startup BitGo Holdings priced its U.S. initial public offering above its indicated range on Wednesday, raising $212.8 million and paving the ...
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Brian Moynihan made a grim warning about stablecoins. During a Jan. 15 earnings call, the Bank of America CEO told analysts that as much as $6 trillion in...
Thanks to smart glasses, POV content has gone fully off the rails.
President Donald Trump was asked on Monday in the Oval Office to react to a recent report from the Wall Street Journal that a crypto company owned by him and...
Investing in Nvidia 10 years ago would have netted a 21,000% return. However, that also meant taking a big bet on the company back when it was a crypto stock...
Bitmine Immersion Technologies, a publicly traded digital asset treasury firm linked to investor Tom Lee, is facing more than $6 billion in unrealized losses...
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Mac users face new security threat as malware infiltrates trusted extension marketplaces, targeting cryptocurrency wallets and passwords through malicious code.
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An AI tool that can text you and use your apps blew up online. One week and two rebrands later, the question remains: Should you actually use it?
Crypto is now said to account for roughly 20% of the family’s $6.8 billion fortune.
Tough times for crypto bros whether they're the President or not.
"More accessible and appealing."
I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library
Bitcoin price did not just dip. It reacted to something way bigger.The U.S. government revised last year’s job numbers down by nearly 900,000...
“Let me be clear with you, [USDT] is used a lot for laundering money,” the suspect is quoted as saying.
A whistleblower trapped inside a “pig butchering” scam compound gave WIRED a vast trove of its internal materials—including 4,200 pages of messages that lay out its operations in unprecedented detail.
There are lots of revelations about Epstein's relationship with the crypto world in the files. That's not one of them.
A new worrying amalgamation of crypto scams and vibe coding emerges from the bowels of the internet in 2026
“We see few bullish indicators that suggest we may be approaching the bottom,” Jefferies analyst Andrew Moss says.
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is pushing OpenAI for assurances it won't seek a government bailout if it doesn't turn a profit. In a letter to CEO Sam Altman, Warren says she is concerned that the company is preparing to fall back "on the classic strategy of…
An open-source AI agent that "actually does things" is taking off, with people across the web sharing how they're using the agent to do a whole bunch of things, like manage reminders, log health and fitness data, and even communicate with clients. The tool, c…
The wrench attacks will continue until moral improves.
In 2023, most of the family’s wealth, about 79% of it, was tied to real estate. These days, a growing portion belongs to cryptocurrency endeavors. For Bloomberg, Annie Massa and Tom Maloney r…
Two crypto thieves decided to settle an argument over who was wealthier by screensharing as they transferred crypto between wallets to prove ownership. In doing so, one of them — known online as "Lick" — revealed a wallet address that crypto sleuth zachxbt qu…
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Commentary: The public deserves more than one-sided marketing that masks the real risks and concerns of AI.
Warsh's hawkish stance on Fed policy may have disappointed the crypto world, but he said Bitcoin was effectively gold for anyone under the age of 40.
FIPS images alone won’t ensure compliance. Learn how prebuilt native deps can bypass your crypto boundary—and how to build, test, and ship FIPS-compatible apps.
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SBF swears he was Republican-curious long before things went awry.
President Donald Trump's administration is under growing pressure from congressional Democrats related to conflict of interest concerns over the Trump family's business.
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Ripple wins Electronic Money Institution license, enabling passporting across Europe and boosting XRP price and RLUSD adoption.
Given that Bitcoin was created to circumvent traditional finance, what are we even doing here?
Someone who calls herself "Coral Hart" is telling the world all her tricks.
Authorities believe the would-be alleged thieves were being extorted by mysterious figures named “Red” and “8” who communicated with them over signal.
Binance founder Changpeng Zhao said he expects Bitcoin BTC $89 460 24h volatility: 0.2% Market cap: $1.79 T Vol. 24h: $42.75 B to enter a “super-cycle” in...
An anonymous reader shared this article from the blog Linuxiac In a blog post, Alan Pope, a longtime Ubuntu community figure and former Canonical employee who remains an active Snap publisher... [warns of] a persistent campaign of malicious snaps impersonatin…
Lawmakers are propping up the sanction-avoidance industry in the name of the almighty dollar.
A new continuation vehicle raised $280 million, from Point72 and Goldman Sachs, among others, to buy the stakes.
Digital currency still shows vulnerability to the whims of the world.
The colossal winter storm that swept across 34 states left hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. Bitterly cold temperatures lingering after Winter Storm Fern are still testing power grids, already under stress from a rush of new AI data centers…
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Apple CEO Tim Cook, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, and Kim Kardashian were some of the big names present at the Sunday game.
Turns out people might like to circumvent centralized financial infrastructure in times of political upheaval.
Fears of quantum computing breaking the back of blockchains are getting more realistic.
Welcome to the future, where you can do TaskRabbit for robots.
Gold added more than two entire Bitcoin market caps in 72 Hours.
"Our sympathies to those who fell victim to these scams," the USA House wrote in a warning notice to Davos attendees posted on its website.
Clawdbot creator Peter Steinberger said someone at Anthropic sent an internal email about the name, but they didn't send lawyers after him.
Peter Brandt warns Bitcoin may fall over 30% based on technical patterns while dormant whales move millions after years of inactivity.
Cathie Wood’s ARK predicts $800,000 Bitcoin by 2030 while warning Nvidia faces rising AI competition and slower growth ahead.