The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a report about increasing fraud at Bitcoin ATMs. These ATMs allow people to turn their cash into crypto, but they’ve become a tool for scammers to perpetrate fraud. Since 2020, the FTC says, fraud at Bitcoin ATMs has ballooned nearly tenfold, and just in the first half of 2024, […]
Hackers steal $305M from DMM Bitcoin crypto exchange
Japanese crypto exchange DMM Bitcoin confirmed on Friday that it had been the victim of a hack resulting in the theft of 4,502.9 bitcoin, or about $ 305 million. According to crypto security firm Elliptic, this is the eighth largest crypto theft in history. DMM Bitcoin said it detected “an unauthorized leak of Bitcoin (BTC) […]
Haun Ventures is riding the bitcoin high
The firm invested $ 5M in Agora, a front-end solution for Dao governance, this week Marina Temkin 7 hours Blockchain startups were red-hot when Katie Haun left Andreessen Horowitz in 2021 to launch her own crypto-focused venture firm. But shortly after Haun announced that Haun Ventures’ two funds totalled $ 1.5 billion, cryptocurrency prices cratered, […]
Bitcoin hits new high, Solana price jumps as memecoins mania rises and Worldcoin faces heat in Spain
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Bitcoin hits highs, Binance launches a crypto perfume and Coachella partners with OpenSea
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