John Dalli, former Maltese finance minister and former EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, has deep ties to a suspected Ponzi scheme that involves a crypto operation known as QuickX.

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Hackers from North Korea using “unfamiliar tools” have attempted to steal money from an Israeli crypto firm, presumably to fund the country’s secretive nuclear program, according to reports in Israel.

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On Monday, crypto firm LBRY Inc. lost its case against the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). LBRY was initially charged by the SEC in March 2021 for selling securities and failing to register with the commission.

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In an unprecedented move, the Department of Justice (DoJ) has announced that it has arrested a “James Zhong” and seized over 50,000 bitcoins. The coins in question were originally stolen from the dark web marketplace the Silk Road back in 2012 — a full decade ago.

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While it would be unfair to say that every corporate stadium naming rights partnership precedes an unfortunate event — after all, there are more than 75 professional league stadiums in America — a mythology has been established around such deals and the hubris it takes to see them through.

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UK Parliament has asked the public to weigh in on non-fungible token (NFT) regulation amid tanking sales and depreciating value.

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The rivalry between CZ and SBF is, at its heart, the story of a bromance gone sour. The two and their respective companies are natural competitors that had until now been brought together in a strategic partnership. Let’s take a look at some of the key ups and downs in one of crypto’s most high-profile relationships.

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Polygon, an Ethereum scaling platform that claims to be decentralized, is landing partnerships with major names. Already a partner with Coinbase NFTs, it just became the primary provider of Instagram’s upcoming NFT marketplace.

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Synonym CEO John Carvalho has accused a number of Bitcoin Core developers of attempting to force Bitcoin to accept replace-by-fee (RBF) transactions by default. Their proposal would change Bitcoin’s core protocols rather than let users decide whether to use RBF transactions or zero-confirmation (0conf) at the surface level.

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A website claims to have worked out how much Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy would have made if the company had invested in Ethereum instead of bitcoin – and the yacht-loving bitcoin evangelist had probably better look away now.

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