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Blockchain sleuth ZachXBT says Slope Wallet founder Leal Cheung created a new project immediately after the hack. Victims of Slope Wallet hack, which suffered a $4 million loss in August 2022, are “unlikely” to see anything returned given that the team behind the project took no responsibility. A well-known blockchain investigator ZachXBT
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Kim Nam-kuk, a member of South Korea’s National Assembly, reportedly liquidated more than $4 million worth of crypto prior to lawmakers in the country enforcing the Financial Action Task Force’s “Travel Rule”.According to a May 8 report from The Korea Times, authorities with the Korea Financial Intelligence Unit are investigating
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A VC fund co-founded by Peter Thiel closed almost all of its 8-year-long bet on Bitcoin last year. The winding down of the crypto investments came right before 2022’s crypto crash in May. Shortly after selling the crypto holdings, Thiel suggested that Bitcoin’s price may rise 100-fold.The fund currently manages more than
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Over a dozen other executives, including the company’s Chief Compliance Officer, Oren Blonstein, Chief Risk Officer Rodney Sunada-Wong and new CEO Chris Ferraro did not make any significant withdrawals during that time period, according to the document, one of several filed to the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of
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Ex-CEO Alex Mashinsky, ex-CSO Daniel Leon and CTO Nuke Goldstein pulled bitcoin, ether, USDC and CEL holdings from their custody accounts in May, before the company suspended all customer withdrawals. Original Source
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The address attributed to the Celsius founder by Nansen and Arkham sold CEL tokens for the first time since Celsius froze withdrawals. Source
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The fund manager in charge of receiving the SHIB donations from Vitalik Buterin for COVID-19 relief in India has revealed bottlenecks to the process.Although Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin donated $1 billion in SHIB tokens to a COVID-19 relief fund in India, recipients and distributors have received only about $20
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Researchers reportedly traced bitcoin sent as payments to Ryuk ransomware controllers and found a good portion passed through Binance. Source
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Jeff Bezos now has a Hollywood residence in the prime 90210 zip code. Founders of two prominent Hollywood studios previously owned the property at different times. The net worth of the Amazon boss is up $17 billion this year. In one fell swoop, Jeff Bezos has signaled with an expensive purchase that his
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