What to do if you’re a Coldcard victim
Coldcard’s bug cost victims over $88M worth of BTC, and recovering any of it starts with law enforcement, not a DM on social media.
Protos•Aaron Wise3 AugProtos — page 8
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Former FBI agent indicted for stealing crypto from FBI
Patrick Steven Yaroch, a former FBI agent, has been indicted for stealing crypto from the FBI and sending the funds to Suilend and Kraken.
Protos•Bennett Tomlin3 Aug
100,000 UK police officers caught in hacker group’s ransomware debut
UK Police have confirmed that the fresh-faced ransomware group ExfilSquad has stolen its data, making its previously doubted threats real.
Protos•Jacob Lyon3 Aug
A timeline of Coldcard’s $85M bitcoin theft
Coldcard firmware didn't properly utilize true random number generators, letting attackers sweep over 1,359 BTC last week.
Protos•Aaron Wise3 Aug
Pump Fun is firing staff and its company filings are overdue, report
Memecoin platform Pump Fun reportedly left one employee cut off from a potential seven-figure payout after they were fired in April.
Protos•Jacob Lyon31 Jul
Coldcard attack: 25 minutes, 500 wallets, $38M in BTC gone
Coldcard's makers say despite using "the best available AI models," it couldn't detect the bug that caused the theft of $38M worth of BTC.
Protos•Jacob Lyon31 Jul
Crypto keeps losing to Ken Griffin’s Citadel
Ken Griffin’s Citadel keeps winning from crypto losses, including cheap AI stocks, Sotheby’s art, payment for order flow, and XRP equity.
Protos•Aaron Wise31 Jul
Where are the Ethereum founders 11 years after the genesis block?
It's been 11 years since the Ethereum Genesis Block and many of its founders have largely moved on from cryptocurrency.
Protos•Bennett Tomlin30 Jul
Former FTX member Leopold Aschenbrenner’s $20B AI fund blows up
The AI hedge fund of ex-FTX Future Fund worker Leopold Aschenbrenner is asking investors for more capital to meet margin calls.
Protos•Aaron Wise30 Jul
US sanctions firms behind Iran’s Strait of Hormuz BTC insurance scheme
The US Treasury sanctioned two Iranian maritime firms as it tries to curb Iran's Strait of Hormuz BTC insurance scheme.
Protos•Jacob Lyon30 Jul
Strategy has lost two-thirds of its mNAV in two years
Strategy’s basic mNAV stood at 2.04x two years ago. On Wednesday it read 0.68x, a decline of exactly two-thirds.
Protos•Aaron Wise30 Jul
Credit default swaps forecast AI bankruptcies
CDS spreads are deteriorating across mega-cap AI stocks including Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and SpaceX, which all hit record spreads this week.
Protos•Aaron Wise29 Jul
Iranian hackers suspected of attacking 30 Minnesota water companies
The CyberAv3ngers hacker collective is the main suspect in a series of attacks that hit 30 water companies across Minnesota this week.
Protos•Jacob Lyon29 Jul
Russia says Ukraine is using Telegram dating bot for terrorism
Russia issued an international arrest warrant for Telegram founder Pavel Durov, charging him with allowing terrorist activities on the app.
Protos•Jacob Lyon29 Jul
South Korea’s KOSPI has erased more than Bitcoin’s market cap in 29 days
The KOSPI has erased about $1.6T of market value since June 19, more than all the BTC in the world is worth.
Protos•Aaron Wise29 Jul
Escaping Jack Dorsey’s BTC miners cost $41.9 million
Core Scientific gave Jack Dorsey’s Block $67.9M for BTC mining chips. It then booked a $41.9M loss for the right to stop buying them.
Protos•Aaron Wise28 Jul
Crypto rugger Bastille doxxed, accused of abuse by former partner
Anonymous X user “Slippage” shared details of Bastille's abuse and claimed that his real name is William Edmund Bateman.
Protos•Jacob Lyon28 Jul
Zcash 10X’d in a year but DCG’s Zcash miner kept losing money
Barry Silbert’s Zcash miner Fortitude Mining has published financials that paint a very different picture to its June pitch deck.
Protos•Aaron Wise28 Jul
Gate.io denies withholding evidence in $1.7M theft case
Gate was accused of withholding evidence from police during an investigation into the theft of $1.7M from one of its user's accounts.
Protos•Jacob Lyon27 Jul
Search engines fix Claude leak but Perplexity users’ files still online
Perplexity Computer outputs from unwitting customers were accessible by querying Google, Bing, and DuckDuckGo search engines this morning.
Protos•Aaron Wise27 Jul