bitcoin
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Millions of Old Bitcoin Wallets Have Critical Security Flaws, Experts Say
Bitcoin wallets older than 2016 could have a vulnerability that puts over $US1 billion worth of cryptocurrency at risk, according to a report in the Washington Post. According to Unciphered, a cryptocurrency recovery company, an untold number of crypto wallets were designed with baked-in flaws that leave a backdoor in the code that hackers could…
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Just a Month After Launch, Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Is Already Dying
If you’ve already had your iris scanned for Worldcoin’s crypto-based “free money” promise, your biometric investment has been cut in half since launch. Current prices for the WLD Worldcoin have dropped precipitously day after day since the coin first dropped on July 24th. As first reported by The Block, WLD’s price has dropped from just…
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‘Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde’ Plead Guilty to Billion Dollar Crypto Laundering Scheme
On Thursday, Heather Morgan, a.k.a. Razzlekhan, and her husband pleaded guilty to orchestrating a massive money laundering scheme. Morgan and Ilya Lichtenstein became known as the modern-day “Bitcoin Bonnie and Clyde” after they were linked to the 2016 theft of $US4.5 billion in crypto from the Hong Kong-based exchange Bitfinex. The FBI cornered and arrested the…
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Sega Boss Says the Company Might Be Done With that Dumb NFT Game
With crypto becoming a hell of a lot less appetizing over the last few months thanks to numerous crimes and scandals, game companies that were once so hungry for ballooning crypto profits have been creeping their chairs away from the dinner table, inch by squeaking inch.