The fatal stabbing of Bob Lee, the founder of Cash App and cryptocurrency project MobileCoin, was deliberate, according to prosecutors.

A suspect is accused of stabbing Lee three times with a kitchen knife in early April over an argument about his sister.

Find out who is the alleged murderer and their connection to Bob Lee by listening to the article above.

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A Vietnamese man charged with washing up to $3 billion in bitcoin and crypto through money-laundering service ChipMixer, is still on the run and remains on the FBI’s most wanted list.

Listen to the article above to discover allegations that involve helping the Russian military, state-sponsored North Korean hackers, and a recently-collapsed exchange to bypass know-your-customer and anti-money-laundering measures.

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WorldCoin is a cryptocurrency created by Sam Altman, the same entrepreneur and venture capitalist that brought the world OpenAI and ChatGPT. The protocol relies on Orbs — melon-sized silver balls that scan people’s retinas to acquire their biometric data.

The sales pitch goes something like this: If you scan your irises, you’ll get WorldCoin (cryptocurrency), which isn’t currently traded on any open marketplace. You’ll get to be involved with the WorldCoin Network, which will (supposedly and eventually) be a marketplace where people can trade real-world goods and services for WorldCoin.

But in the US, where WorldCoin would probably be considered a security by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the trade-off for your biometric data is even more bleak: you get nothing, you lose, good day.

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Well-known NFT personality @FranklinIsBored was forced to sell several Bored Apes after supposedly losing 2,000 ETH (almost $4 million) in a Ponzi scheme.

According to a tweet thread, this is the third time that FranklinIsBored (actually an aerospace engineer named Frank Caldwell II) has lost significant sums of crypto since early 2022.

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Nicholas Gregory, Ray Youssef, and Antoine Riard have proposed a new “peer-to-peer electronic market system” on Nostr, the Bitcoin-friendly social networking protocol. Their introductory whitepaper describes a censorship-resistant system that uses Nostr for its order book and the Bitcoin blockchain for contracts and record-keeping.

The whitepaper’s notable authors call their new market proposal Civ Kit. They describe the new market as an enabler for global trade of goods, services, and foreign currency exchange. Specifically, they propose a way to sell any good or service through the following method.

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Cryptocurrency Twitter prematurely rejoiced at the possibility that the statements of an FTX lawyer at its bankruptcy hearing meant that the company had recovered nearly all of its funds and was close to restarting. Neither is true.

Listen to the article to learn how the funds FTX claims to have recovered may be more than difficult to liquidate.

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A major Salvadoran news outlet that has previously published negative stories about the country’s pro-Bitcoin president Nayib Bukele says it’s shifted much of its operation to Costa Rica following a government-led campaign of harassment, surveillance, and defamation.

Listen to the article to find out why El Faro says, “Under the government of Nayib Bukele, campaigns originating in Casa Presidencial have sought to defame and discredit El Faro and its employees."

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South Korean prosecutors have confirmed that Do Kwon, chief of Terraform Labs, sent a large sum of money to a top law firm in the country just before the collapse of the firm’s stablecoin terra and cryptocurrency luna a year ago, which created a domino effect in the industry.

Find out more about the millions Kwon sent to a law firm representing some of the most scandalous cases around by listening to this article.

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BitMEX co-founder Arthur Hayes noticed negative perp funding on several well-known exchanges such as Gate, Binance, and his own BitMEX. He attributed the negative funding rate to a wealthy 'cohort' who have been selling heavily into digital asset markets.

Perp is shorthand for 'perpetually rolling swap contract,' a popular crypto derivative. As opposed to a real swap, perps have no expiration and use a funding mechanism to anchor contracts to underlying spot prices.

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About a month ago Balaji Srinivasan, former CTO of Coinbase and general partner at VC firm Andreesen Horowitz (a16z), decided to make an incredible bet with people on Twitter: Bitcoin would crack a million dollars within 90 days.

Well, we’re checking in and, unfortunately for Srinivasan, it appears as though the bet isn’t going to go his way.

Listen to the article to find out the details behind this outlandish bet.

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