A dramatic case of cryptocurrency theft case in Vietnam has come to an end as 16 defendants are sentenced over a plot involving the heist of VNĐ37 billion (approximately $1.5 million) worth of crypto. The ordeal involved kidnapping and threatening the victim's family with HIV-laden needles. Listen to the article to discover what started the crypto heist. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

A crypto scammer has stolen more than $15 million in bitcoin, ether, tether, and SHIB by cloning the user interface of popular Hong Kong-based crypto exchange HitBTC. Listen to the article to find out how the scam, already running for nearly a year, drained user wallets of their crypto. For more informed news, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Google News or visit our website at Protos.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

In the past, Ethereum wasn't a security. This period of classification caused confusion and, eventually, a great deal of controversy, as the former Securities and Exchange Commission director was found to have a financial conflict of interest from a pro-Ethereum entity at the time. Listen to this article to find out why the SEC never classified ether as a security. For more informed news, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Google News or visit our website at Protos.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Investors in Pepecoin (PEPE), the meme cryptocurrency du jour, have started a Twitter war against crypto exchange Coinbase after its newsletter warned of its volatility and associations with the alt-right. Listen to this article to discover what ignited the Pepe community, the chequered history behind the meme, and the drive towards a sudden meme coin surge. For more informed news, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Google News or visit our website at Protos.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Luke Dashjr, one of Bitcoin Core’s developers, has proposed to ban bitcoin NFTs and the BRC-20 by extending spam filtration to Bitcoin’s recently introduced Taproot transactions. Listen to this article to find out what he had to say about one of the most significant upgrades in the Bitcoin network. For more informed news, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Google News or visit our website at Protos.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Ordinals, the latest incarnation of NFTs on Bitcoin since Counterparty’s Rare Pepes and operation code easter eggs, have catapulted into the industry. Although Ethereum still outranks all other blockchains in NFT transaction volume, Bitcoin has suddenly become the world’s second most popular blockchain for NFTs. Listen to this article to discover why bitcoin-oriented NFTs have become so popular and to learn the history behind them. https://protos.com/bitcoin-suddenly-becomes-second-biggest-nft-blockchain/ For more informed news, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Google News or visit ..read more

Cointelegraph owner Gregory Fishman claims that Maps and Oxygen CEO Alex Grebnev stole funds and ideas relating to the two projects. Listen to this article to find out more. https://protos.com/cointelegraph-owner-sues-founder-of-sam-coins-maps-and-oxygen/ For more informed news, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Google News or visit our website at Protos.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more

Coinbase has decided to further dig in its heels against regulatory pressure from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with CEO Brian Armstrong calling out the commission’s chair Gary Gensler, and the crypto exchange’s legal chief hitting back at an SEC proposal that would amend custody rules for registered investment advisors. Listen to this article to find out what a letter, written up by Coinbase’s legal head Paul Grewal addressed to the SEC, says about Coinbase's disagreement with the major revisions proposed to the investment adviser custody rule and how the SEC is seemingly mak ..read more

During a glitch-plagued Twitter Space yesterday evening, US presidential candidate and Bitcoin fan Ron De Santis came out against central bank digital currencies, calling their introduction “a massive transfer of power from individual consumers to a central authority.” De Santis used the Space, hosted by Elon Musk and David Sacks, to announce his presidential nomination for the Republican Party. De Santis will now battle former president Donald Trump for the Republican nomination. Listen to the article to discover how, the far-from-perfect Twitter space, went down. https://pr ..read more

Terraform Labs co-founder Do Kwon has had his request for bail revoked despite paying a bail sum of €400,000 euros ($429,000) last week. Instead, Do Kwon will remain in custody as he faces charges of fabricating official documents in Montenegro. Listen to this article to discover why Do Kwon has been kept in detention. https://protos.com/do-kwon-jail-stay-extended-despite-already-posting-huge-bail/ For more informed news, follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Google News or visit our website at Protos.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information ..read more