The Block fires a third of staff — Larry Cermak is CEO, Wintermute’s Evgeny Gaevoy joins board
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Tag: bitfinex
Crypto collapse: FTX first-day hearing, Genesis screws DCG, Silvergate Bank
“I think we’re shortly to find that embedded leverage in the sector was far, far higher than anyone, even its most ardent critics, expected.”
El Salvador: Bukele goes full dictator, Chivo theft, Bitcoin Towers
Bitcoin is not the biggest problem in El Salvador right now — it’s Bukele using the gangs to go as full dictator as he thinks he can get away with.
News: Crypto crime statistics, Axie Infinity hack, Kevin Roose debunked, Lightning Network speed, NFT lawsuits
I shall henceforth be calling Bitcoin mining “extreme bingo.”
El Salvador Bitcoin: Tether buys itself a country; and why Chivo sucks
El Salvador adopting Bitcoin wasn’t the particular Tether scam I originally thought — but it’s turning out to be a different, and bigger, one.
Could Morgan and Lichtenstein have done the 2016 Bitfinex hack? I’m not ruling it out
The hack reeks of social engineering for insider information, not sophisticated computer science brilliance.
News: El Salvador phone tapping, Bitcoin in Tonga, Associated Press NFTs, books
President Bukele’s office denies everything, and doubtless won’t rest until they find the real hacker.
News: El Salvador volcano bonds to sell for tethers, Bitcoin didn’t cause Kazakhstan riots, lawsuits on the blockchain, MobileCoin live on Signal, Craig Wright sued again
Bitfinex Securities will not charge a fee for this. They’re just being nice, see.
News: Dead Man’s Switch broadcast, Australian regulation, NSW housing, gaming NFTs, Jean-Louis van der Velde of Tether
Bitcoin fans are gullible. Talk to them about the future of money, throw in a few buzz words and they believe any garbage.