Ukrainian law enforcement has exposed a financial pyramid originating from Russia suspected of making millions of U.S. dollars. The scam convinced victims to send fiat money and cryptocurrency by promising profitable investments in big companies around the world. Large Crypto Pyramid Scheme With Russian Roots Busted in Ukraine Officers from the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) have unraveled a fake…
The investigator claimed to be targeted as a suspect because they maintained a crypto security repo on GitHub. Source: https://cointelegraph.com/public/index.php/news/euler-team-denies-on-chain-sleuth-was-a-suspect-in-hack-case
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) has released a working paper examining “crypto carry” — the differences between Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) spot and futures prices — and its effect on crypto investment markets. The complex paper sheds light on the behavior of crypto investors, particularly smaller investors, in relation to boom and bust cycles. “Carry” describes the results…
The ChatGPT artificial intelligence tool appears to have picked a side in the long-running debate over the respective worth of gold versus Bitcoin as a sound investment. Financial commentator Peter Schiff has praised the prominent generative text engine for reportedly favoring gold. “AI is pretty intelligent after all,” he tweeted on Wednesday. “It didn’t recommend any allocation to Bitcoin.” The…
A bitter dispute between Paxful’s co-founders Artur Schaback and Mohamad (Ray) Youssef in Delaware’s courts may have been the real reason behind the Bitcoin marketplace’s sudden closure on April 4. Schaback and Youssef, who started Paxful in 2015 with a shared passion for Bitcoin (BTC), are now litigating the company’s control with several accusations against each other, according to court documents.…
The Washington State Department of Financial Institutions (DFI) has issued a consumer protection alert addressing the “alleged cryptocurrency exchange” known as Eucoinotrade. At least one person may have fallen victim to what appears to be “advanced fee fraud,” per the report. This is a confidence scheme that involves soliciting large sum payments for fees under the guise they’re needed to…
The top two decentralized derivatives platforms, dYdX and GMX, are head-to-head concerning liquidity and trading volumes. The perpetual swap daily trading volume on dYdX ranged between $340 million and $2.6 billion in March, per CoinGecko data. In comparison, GMX did less than $500 million in daily trading volumes. The open interest (OI) volume, which measures the number of contracts traders…
Layer-1 blockchain Solana has released a new solution aiming to drastically reduce the cost of on-chain storage. Called state compression, the technology promises to bring down the cost of minting 1 million nonfungible tokens (NFTs) on the network to nearly $110. “After numerous phases of development, adoption, and rollout, compressed NFTs are live on Solana’s mainnet-beta and powering the next…
Lawyer Adam Moskowitz says he feels “threatened” by influencer Ben “Bitboy” Armstrong—and he’s contacted the FBI and local police because he’s concerned for his and his family’s safety. Moskowitz told Decrypt in an interview that the threats came rolling in after his law firm filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of its clients against a number of influencers, including…
The pseudonymous Twitter user and blockchain investigator Officer’s Notes believes they may have been a suspect in the $195 million Euler Finance hack. In an April 4 Twitter thread, the security researcher stated, “Seems like I was a suspect in this case, as usual.” The Euler team has denied that Officer’s Notes was a suspect, claiming instead that the researcher…
