Brazil police, US authorities bust transnational crypto fraud ring led by ‘Bitcoin Sheikh’

Brazil’s Federal Police and the U.S. Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), along with the help of multiple other enforcement agencies have busted a global crypto fraud ring, according to a press release issued... Read more »

Crypto community says new PayPal policy would drive crypto adoption

Twitter’s crypto community has argued that PayPal’s now-canceled misinformation policy could drive more people toward crypto adoption. The policy The policy would have allowed the payments company to sanction users for misinformation... Read more »

What does The Merge mean for NFTs?

The Merge changed Ethereum’s consensus mechanism from Proof-of-Work to Proof-of-Stake. That means no more mining (computational calculations to solve an algorithm) to generate new blocks with transactions. Instead, the new blocks are... Read more »

Weekly MacroSlate: A fourth 75bps fed rate hike is now on the cards due to a strong U.S jobs report. What does this mean for Bitcoin?

Macro Overview Bank of Japan attempts to rescue the Yen On Sept. 22, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) became the first central bank to intervene with their currency to prevent a currency... Read more »

Binance looking to spend $1B on deals in 2022; 2 million BNB stolen in BSC bridge hack

The biggest news in the cryptosphere for Oct.7 includes Binance fixing the BSC bridge exploit after 2 million BNB were stolen, Bitcoin’s sinking following new U.S. payroll data, and the second group... Read more »

Has web3 failed in its vision? CoDe Tech thinks so & the solution is Core Blockchain – SlateCast #24

In the latest episode of SlateCast, Akiba spoke with the CEO of CoDe Tech about the future of blockchain technology. CoDeTech is a futuristic web3 company that doesn’t think web3 is good... Read more »

Court filing ‘doxing’ Celsius users draws questions on KYC, bankruptcy processes

On Oct. 5, disgraced CeFi lender Celsius filed Schedules of Assets and Liabilities and Statements of Financial Affairs as part of its Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. Most of the over 14,000-page document... Read more »

$500M BNB moved to Tether-blacklisted wallet amid rumors of Binance hack

Two million BNB tokens worth roughly $500 million were transferred to a newly generated wallet to an address that Tether then blacklisted. The blacklisting was highlighted by a Tether bot on Twitter,... Read more »

Ripple ‘slams’ SEC for opposing amicus briefs, XRP up 3.6%

Ripple has criticized the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its opposition to the amicus briefs filed by I-Remit and TapJets, according to an Oct. 5 tweet from defense lawyer James Filan.... Read more »

Bitcoin outperforms traditional crypto stocks in 2022 by up to 22%

Bitcoin’s price is down roughly 56% since January but crypto-related stocks such as Microstrategy, Riot Blockchain, Coinbase, and Hut8 Mining are down up to 74%. The orange line in the chart below... Read more »