Consensus threw party at club where Zach Witkoff was arrested
The Consensus conference hosted a party at E11even, the same club where World Liberty founder Zach Witkoff was arrested.
May 11, 2026•3 min
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Somebody is flooding Bitcoin’s network with new IP addresses
Bitcoin developer flags a sudden 4x spike in new node IP addresses in ADDR messages, raising possible sybil or eclipse attack concerns.
May 11, 2026•6 min
Crypto traders paid 8,700% annualized fees to bet on Anthropic
To bet on the upside valuation of AI giant Anthropic over the weekend, Hyperliquid crypto traders paid up to 8,700% annualized fees.
May 11, 2026•7 min
SBF has joined Pam Bondi on team ‘Dow 50K’
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried has adopted Pam Bondi’s stock index-praising tactic to glaze Donald Trump on social media.
May 11, 2026•4 min
Brian Armstrong sold more stock in 12 months than Coinbase’s Q1 loss
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong sold $541M in COIN by the first week of January. Then his company proceeded to lose $394M within three months.
May 11, 2026•4 min
Bitcoin dropped to $0.019 on Revolut today
Online banking platform Revolut blamed issues with a “third-party provider” as it showed a drop in BTC’s price from $79K to just $0.019 today.
May 11, 2026•4 min
The only rally during Bitcoin 2026 was Ethereum NFTs
Ethereum NFTs were one of the only things in crypto rallying during the Bitcoin 2026 conference in Las Vegas. BTC dropped 4%.
May 07, 2026•4 min
Crypto hackers snatch over $1B in 68 incidents this year
The ongoing crypto hack epidemic has seen 30 hacks so far in April, with 12 in the last week alone totaling $11M in losses.
May 07, 2026•5 min
Did ‘insider’ secretly short Robinhood on Hyperliquid?
Critics allege that a collection of pseudonymous wallets committed insider-like trading of Robinhood stock derivatives via Hyperliquid.
May 07, 2026•5 min
Binance face ID locked out ALS patient for 5 months
Binance’s facial identification system left an ALS patient locked out of his crypto funds for five months.
Apr 29, 2026•3 min
World Network’s WLD down 98% amid Altman–Musk legal battle
Musk claims that Sam Altman reneged on his promises to turn OpenAI into a “non-profit” and cashed in with Microsoft and Amazon deals.
Apr 29, 2026•6 min
Bitcoin 2026 opens to empty seats, protests, awkward moments
Bitcoin 2026 opened with a virtually empty main stage, speakers dialling it in, security blunders, and a decimated NAKA stock price.
Apr 29, 2026•6 min
Read this before you click on any Robinhood email
Hackers abused a Robinhood notification system and Gmail’s dot trick to send real-looking phishing emails from “ noreply@robinhood.com .”
Apr 29, 2026•6 min
Project Eleven paid a quantum prize for a random number generator
Bitcoin security researchers have fact-checked Project Eleven’s quantum computing breakthrough and 1 BTC prize.
Apr 29, 2026•6 min
Litecoin had to eat its own insults about Solana’s downtime
Litecoin mocked Solana’s outages for years, then suffered its own chain reorg via a delayed privacy upgrade exploit.
Apr 27, 2026•6 min
Crypto exchanges too slow to react to RAVE collapse, ZachXBT
Crypto exchanges Binance, Bitget, and Gate all claimed that they are investigating the RAVE token as it began its -97% downward spiral.
Apr 22, 2026•6 min
DeFi sector in $14B meltdown as $290M rsETH hack fallout burns Aave
DeFi is in crisis mode with multiple lending markets at full utilization after $290M of Kelp DAO’s rsETH was hacked from Layer Zero.
Apr 21, 2026•8 min
Vercel breach leaves DeFi frontends dangling on a $2M ransom
Vercel says attackers accessed its internal systems, sparking fears poisoned Next.js code could be used to drain funds from DeFi apps.
Apr 20, 2026•4 min
Strategy’s bitcoin bet back in profit after $11B drawdown
It took years of leverage and over $11B in unrealized losses for Michael Saylor’s Strategy to flip green on its BTC bet today.
Apr 20, 2026•5 min
Rumble begins merging with Northern Data
Tether-related companies Northern Data and Rumble are set to begin their merger, with Rumble offering equity for shares of Northern Data.
Apr 20, 2026•3 min
Crypto hack goes political as Grinex blames ‘Western special services’
Kyrgyzstan-registered crypto exchange Grinex has suspended operations. It had previously been linked to sanctions evasion of up to $6B.
Apr 20, 2026•3 min
Solana validator logs 32 delinquencies, foundation still claims ‘100% uptime’
Solana’s “100% uptime” claim is true at the cluster level, but anyone in the Harmonic Major validator went delinquent 32 times in 30 days.
Apr 20, 2026•5 min
Tether challenges USDC Solana hegemony with $127.5M Drift bailout
Tether has pledged up to $127.5M to help Drift “support user recovery and relaunch the Drift platform” after a $285M hack.
Apr 20, 2026•5 min
Web3 collapse accelerates as eight games fail this year
Eight web3 games have either shuttered, paused operations, or pivoted back to web2 this year as major funding dries up.
Apr 17, 2026•5 min
STRC controversy goes mainstream
Strategy’s high-yield dividend stock STRC funds record BTC purchases, sparking major social media controversy and scrutiny from Coffezilla.
Apr 17, 2026•7 min
France crypto conference doubles security as wrench attacks rise
France has reportedly seen one violent crypto-related robbery attempt every five days on average this year.
Apr 17, 2026•5 min
Justin Sun goes to war with World Liberty Financial
Justin Sun blasted Trump-linked World Liberty Financial’s token plan after investing $75M, calling its new governance proposal “tyrannical.”
Apr 17, 2026•4 min
Crypto trader shorted the top, still lost 3,963%
Extreme negative funding rates turned the winning short-sale of a crypto meme into a huge loss, despite a correct bet on its decline.
Apr 17, 2026•5 min
Who is Kevin Warsh, Trump’s Federal Reserve nominee?
Kevin Warsh, Trump’s nominee to be chair of the Federal Reserve, has extensive financial ties to the cryptocurrency ecosystem.
Apr 17, 2026•5 min
Bitcoin 2026 speaker list packed with altcoin promoters
This year’s largest “bitcoin only” conference is stacked with speakers who previously promoted altcoins that later crashed.
Apr 15, 2026•7 min
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