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One month ago, ZachXBT said something that got him buried in backlash: that hardware wallets, the devices the entire crypto industry tells people to trust with their life savings, were "complete garbage." He wasn't vague about it either, singling out Ledger by name. The community pushed back hard. Then, in the span of a few weeks, two of the industry's most…
Ask most people when Bitcoin was "cheap" and they'll point to some vague memory of buying it for pizza money.I went back and pulled the actual yearly low for Bitcoin, year by year, since 2012, and honestly, the pattern surprised me more than I expected. It's not a straight climb. It's not even a clean staircase. It's a currency that spent 2015 falling below…
Six weeks. That's how long it took a retail brokerage app to overtake every established Ethereum Layer 2 in the one metric that actually measures economic weight: fees paid back to Ethereum itself. Base, Optimism, Arbitrum's own ecosystem chains, all of them now sit behind a network that didn't even exist before July. I've watched a lot of L2 launches come a…
When I saw this thread circulating during NFT season, my first reaction wasn't shock, it was déjà vu. It comes back, and somehow so does every familiar name from the last cycle, the good, the bad, and apparently the previously investigated.This time it's Cole Villemain, better known online as ColeThereum, a Pudgy Penguins co-founder who was pushed out of his…
I've spent the last few years telling friends and family the same thing: switch to passkeys, they can't be phished. That advice wasn't wrong exactly, but reading through this new research left me a little humbled. Three separate teams just showed that you don't need to break FIDO2's cryptography to beat it. You just need to find the messy human infrastructur…
Tiffany Milanovich apparently never got the memo on an old rule in crime: the moment you start showing off, you start leaving evidence. While allegedly draining victims of millions in crypto, she wasn't hiding in the shadows, she was posting the receipts herself, recording her own taunts, and flexing stolen funds like trophies. Now, on-chain investigator Zac…
Every crypto cycle produces a new asset class nobody quite has the tools to measure properly, and Cookie.fun has built its entire business around quantifying the latest one: attention itself.The platform doesn't trade tokens, doesn't run a marketplace, and doesn't do anything you'd typically associate with a crypto platform's front page. What it does is trac…
Most executives, including Michael Saylor, typically credit spreadsheets, bankers, or a lucky market window when raising billions, except this time, Saylor is crediting a chatbot.In a conversation that's since rippled across finance and crypto circles alike, the Strategy founder claimed he used artificial intelligence to design a financing structure that, ac…
Every browser you've ever used, until Cloudflare's latest release, was designed around a fundamental assumption: a human is going to look at it. Tabs, themes, smooth scrolling, pixel-perfect rendering, all of it exists because eyes and hands are on the other end. Cloudflare just threw that entire assumption out the window.The company spent twelve weeks build…
For years, privacy in crypto has meant choosing a niche coin, but Unstoppable Wallet is setting out to change that. While Monero, Zcash, and Zano all promise real anonymity, none of them show up in a coffee shop's payment terminal or a freelancer's invoice. Stablecoins do. Unstoppable Wallet is bridging that gap with a new feature that lets users send USDT a…
There's a reason nearly every major crypto hack ends the same way: stolen funds bouncing across a handful of chains before disappearing into a pool of anonymized ETH.This week gave us a fresh, real-time example of exactly how that playbook works, as the address tied to the Triple-A exploiter moved millions straight into the crypto industry's most notorious l…
As markets in Asia soared while Wall Street's AI trade took a steep plunge, two of the world's biggest markets moved in almost opposite directions today and if you only looked at one of them, you'd walk away with completely the wrong read on how investors are actually feeling right now. On one side of the Pacific, more than half a trillion dollars just poure…
