Liam Ghershony – a 25-year-old former crypto enthusiast – has completed a 125-day jail sentence after drugging his father so he could convert more than $400,000 worth of his BTC into Ethereum. What Li...
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Meet the Man Behind Associated Press’ Crypto Strategy
After we did that election experiment, a lot of colleagues – totally organically – who shared an interest in crypto got involved. It’s an ad hoc band of folks that wanted to understand what this was a...
Russian second-richest man says private cryptocurrencies are “unreliable products”
Vladimir Potanin, the second-richest person in Russia, has advocated for a central bank digital currency (CBDC), saying that it can boost technological innovation. Potanin has also stated that a digit...
Russia’s Second-Richest Man Has Sights Set on Digital Ruble, Not Bitcoin
Russia’s second-richest man believes digital tokens and a central bank digital currency would help the country move forward—and make the current debate in the country regarding cryptocurrency re...
CBDC Can Replace Bitcoin, Claims Russia’s Second-Richest Man
Vladimir Potanin – a business oligarch and the second wealthiest man in Russia – claimed that a digital ruble might displace private cryptocurrencies. It could promote new technologies, while bitcoin ...
Mexico’s Third Wealthiest Man Says Bitcoin Is A Better Alternative To Fiat Money – Here’s Why
These past years presented numerous transformations in the finance industry. And with the rise of bitcoin, more powerful financial technologies – including the influential figures behind them – are ch...
Maryland Man Drugs Father to Access His $400,000 in Bitcoin
A Maryland resident spiked his father’s tea with drugs in order to access his cryptocurrency account, which held $400,000 worth of Bitcoin. Per The Washington Post, Liam Ghershony of Bethesda, Maryla...
Tezos scores $27M deal with Man United, Baby Doge backs Hoffenheim
Manchester United, one of the world’s most popular soccer (or football) teams is reportedly set to announce a multi-year training kit sponsorship by Proof-of-Stake blockchain platform, Tezos. First re...
Mainstream crypto scaremongering – Man loses $57,000 on crypto investments – financial expert says invest in a savings account
The UK Daily Mail published a story today telling of a wife’s fury on finding that her husband had ‘lost’ $57,000 to crypto investments. The wife asked a financial expert for advice, who recommended t...
CFTC Charges Florida Man with Defrauding Investors Out of $9.8M
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has charged a Florida resident and his investment firm with fraud for allegedly defrauding investors in their commodity pool out of $9.8 million. The re...
British Man Loses $200K in a Bitcoin Romance Scam (Report)
An anonymous UK resident reportedly parted with nearly $200,000 of his savings after a woman he messaged in a dating app conned him. The man admitted he felt so desperate after the scam that he consid...
Philippines’ Richest Man Manuel Villar Takes Over ABS-CBN’s TV Channel Frequencies
Manny Villar delivers a speech in Manila’s north harbor. ROMEO GACAD/AFP via Getty Images Advanced Media Broadcasting Systems—controlled by billionaire Manuel Villar—is taking over the televisio...
Meet The Man Behind The Best Whisky Hotel In All Of Scotch Country
Piers Adam, proprietor of the Craigellachie Hotel in the Speyside of Scotland Daniel Lindegren If you’re a fan of fine scotch you ought to know Piers Adam. Although an Englishman by birth, his heart a...
NFT and DeFi make a man millionaire in 2 years
NFT has helped Brenda Gentry overcome the curse of poverty after a decade-long job as a banker She learnt about DeFi and the various tools to invest in altcoins in different platforms DeFi platforms...
Nike executive Larry Miller thankful family of man he killed forgives him
Nike executive Larry Miller, who kept his past secret for more than 50 years, told CNBC that he’s thankful the family of a man he killed in 1965 when he was a teenager forgives him. Miller, form...
A Man Named Steven Has Lost Everything to Crypto
Steven is a man who was raised on the Shetland archipelago. At the age of 13, he left school and made his way into construction, where he earned a whopping salary of more than 85,000 pounds per year. ...
FBI Names Malik Faisal Akram As Man Killed After Taking Hostages At Texas Synagogue
Topline The armed man who took four people hostage, including a rabbi, for nearly 12 hours at a Texas synagogue has been identified as 44-year-old British national Malik Faisal Akram, the FBI Dallas F...
Trump Loses ‘Tariff Man’ Crown To Biden, 2021 Data Shows
President Trump raised tariffs, largely on China, while he was in office and President Biden has … [+] largely kept them in place. AFP via Getty Images The United States collected more in tariff...
Indian Probe Agency Attaches Assets Of Kerala Man
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are based on Blockchain technology and Decentralized Finance and are touted to be almost unhackable. However, dubious players find ingenious methods to dupe the naïv...
Man sells 933 selfies as NFTs for $3 each — and the collection’s now worth millions
advertisement Ghozali Ghozalu, 22, from Indonesia, has become an overnight celebrity in the non-fungible token (NFT) space after selling pictures of himself on OpenSea. The collection, dubbed “Ghozali...
Is Binance CEO the world’s richest man alive?
As per a latest report published by bloomberg, Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao’s net worth is $96 Billion excluding his personal and Binance’s crypto holding. Even without considering his crypto holding hi...
Man Gets New Heart From Genetically Modified Pig—A First For Medicine
Topline A 57-year-old Maryland man has become the first person to receive a heart that was grown in a genetically altered pig, according to the University of Maryland School of Medicine (UMSOM), marki...
Man Behind 29000 Bitcoin Ponzi Scam is Arrested in Brazil
Johann Steynberg, a South African known for running the multi-million dollar Ponzi scam Mirror Trading International (MTI), was recently arrested in Brazil. This would be yet another large-scale arres...
Man Claims to Have Profitably Mined Crypto with Tesla Car, but There’s a Catch
Alex Dovbnya A man has managed to turn his Tesla Model 3 car into a moneymaker by mining cryptocurrencies While cryptocurrency mining is typically associated with noisy and bulky mining rigs, a man fr...
Australian “Man Behind The Machine” Alleged By SEC In $41M Crypto Fraud
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or SEC, has alleged an Australian man who goes by the name “Man behind the Machine” in his social media, of participating in a fraudulent crypto scam that r...
SEC Charges Australian ‘Man Behind the Machine’ in $41M Crypto Fraud Scheme – Regulation Bitcoin News
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged an Australian citizen who called himself the “Man behind the Machine” in a fraudulent crypto scheme that raised almost $41 million. He and...
SEC Charges Man Behind $40.7 Million ICO, Here’s Why
The crypto world may have move past the ICO wave of 2017 but Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) has not and SEC has charged issuers of a $40.7 Million ICO from 2018. As per a report published ...
Sidney Poitier, First Black Man To Win An Oscar For Best Actor, Dies At 94
Topline Legendary Hollywood actor Sidney Poitier, who was the first Black man to win an Oscar for Best Actor in 1964 for his role in Lilies of the Field, died Thursday evening at age 94, the Bahamas g...
US SEC Charges Australian Man for $41M ICO Fraud
The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is one of the most widely known independent authorities in the ...
Man Swiped Unpublished Novels In Online Scam, FBI Alleges
Topline Filippo Bernardini, 29, of London, was arrested at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport Wednesday, accused of having impersonated hundreds of agents, editors and other publishing p...
Malaysian Police Arrest Man for Bitcoin Mining Using Stolen Electricity
While mining activity has increased in Malaysia, the amount of stolen electricity used is growing in alarming proportion, compelling authorities to take action. Malaysian authorities arrested a 28-yea...