'Crypto Robin Hood' faked prison for clout, rugged memecoins for Palestine William Banks' curious story began in 2023, when the "comedian" from Brooklyn was charged for stealing yard signs in Westport, Connecticut.

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NFT game studio boss says not paying staff 'works for company cash flow' Gunzilla Games, developer of NFT battle royale game Off The Grid, has reportedly failed to pay employees for months of work.

NFT game studio boss says not paying staff ‘works for company cash flow’ protos.com/nft-game-stu...

Bitcoin Depot didn’t spot 50 BTC hack for three days, report An SEC filing states that Bitcoin Depot was hacked for 50.9 BTC on March 23 but onchain sleuth ZachXBT says it took place three days earlier.

Bitcoin Depot didn’t spot 50 BTC hack for three days, report protos.com/bitcoin-depo...

Iran wants tolls paid in bitcoin for Strait of Hormuz passage A spokesperson for an Iranian regime union dubiously claims that Strait of Hormuz passage will charge BTC tolls on oil tankers.

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CZ called 'habitual liar' over Huobi founder claims in new book Changpeng Zhao's new book brought up old grudges and allegations that rubbed the OKX CEO, Xu Mingxing, the wrong way.

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Secret Claude model 'better than all but the most skilled humans' at hacking According to Anthropic, owner of AI tool Claude, its new Mythos model is hacking code better than most of today’s software developers.

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Solana DEX Stabble urges liquidity exit after alleged DPRK mole revealed Stabble urged its users to withdraw all liquidity after a former employee was outed as a North Korean operative.

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Nate Silver says X is rigged — Musk cries 'bulls***' Statistician Nate Silver claimed that the X algo has a political bias, enraging owner Elon Musk and Head of Product Nikita Bier.

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Savannah Guthrie returns to TODAY, mother’s kidnapping remains unsolved NBC TV host Savannah Guthrie has returned to the TODAY Show amid ongoing concerns for her mother abducted by a bitcoin ransom criminal.

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US Senator asks if Binance lied to Congress about Iran A US senator is not happy with Binance figures about its Iran-linked activities and is demanding a new set of answers by April 14.

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The revolving door for lawyers between Kalshi and DOJ Kalshi’s former lawyer now helps the US Department of Justice in lawsuits that cushion Kalshi from criminal lawsuits by state regulators.

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The slow-motion 'bank run' in private credit Crypto has exacerbated the problems of private credit, extending leverage and rehypothecation risk across increasingly risky loan books.

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Inside the $280M Drift hack: weeks of setup, minutes to drain Drift Protocol was hacked for roughly $280M yesterday after a likely social engineering scheme breached its multisig approvals.

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Traders panicked during Trump’s Iran war speech Trump’s speech extended his Iran war timeline by three weeks, spooking oil markets with falling stocks and lower bitcoin prices.

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Bitcoin’s best month since September was a 1.8% gain BTC closed March at $68,221, snapping a five-month losing streak by the slimmest of margins. It opened the month at $67,000.

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Gemini’s 10-K reveals loan loop between exchange and founders Gemini’s 10-K, filed yesterday, laid out the exchange's entire structure. Social media users called it a circular scheme.

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Bitcoin’s quantum deadline just moved up Requirements for a quantum bitcoin attack dropped from millions to sub-10,000 qubits, cutting estimates by two orders of magnitude.

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Memescope traders have been left with a case of Monday blues The Memescope Monday get-together left traders with heavy losses and very little wins, and has been described as "mass extraction event."

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The great AmEx partnership with XRP that wasn’t Repeated claims by XRP influencers about a major American Express (AmEx) partnership using the XRP Ledger never materialized.

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Archblock files for bankruptcy, blames fraud and Justin Sun-linked deal Archblock, TrustToken, and TrueCoin, firms originally behind TrueUSD, declared bankruptcy after being defrauded by a "criminal enterprise."

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Steakhouse Financial front-end breach exposes users to phishing scam The attackers have taken Steakhouse Financial's domain and turned its website and app into a wallet-draining phishing scam.

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Kash Patel 'spiderkash' leak triggers dozens of Solana memecoin scams Hackers leaked FBI Director Kash Patel’s email, leading to unverified links to a porn account and a frenzy of Patel-themed memecoins.

Kash Patel ‘spiderkash’ leak triggers dozens of Solana memecoin scams protos.com/kash-patel-s...

Saylor continues to liken STRC to a money market as risks mount Michael Saylor was happy to quote a CNBC TV news anchor who likened Strategy’s STRC to a money market fund.

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Trump crypto czar David Sacks exits role after 130 days David Sacks' time as US crypto czar was dogged by conflicts of interest, broken promises, and gross enrichment of the Trump family.

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Bitcoin mortgages debut with 60% haircut and no margin calls Five years after Michael Saylor said people could mortgage houses to buy bitcoin, Fannie Mae has dubiously launched a BTC-backed mortgage.

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Flare’s billion-dollar XRP DeFi dream has just 80 new users a day Flare’s FXRP DeFi ecosystem, pitched as a billion‑dollar XRP breakthrough, has seen slow adoption and largely flat user growth.

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CHART: Which US president was best for bitcoin? President Donald Trump has embraced BTC, but did the asset actually perform better under Trump, Biden, or Obama?

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Strategy slashes STRK offering after falling $25B short of share target Strategy slashed its $20.33B STRK at-the-market offering on March 22 after selling just 5% of its 269.8M share goal.

Strategy slashes STRK offering after falling $25B short of share target protos.com/strategy-sla...

MrBeast faces Senate scrutiny over teen crypto app acquisition MrBeast bought an app that published a word-for-word script for teens to persuade their guardians to invest in crypto.

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US says Chinese firms using crypto to sell fentanyl chemicals to cartels The US indicted two China-based pharmaceutical firms for allegedly selling fentanyl precursor chemicals to Mexican cartels for crypto.

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