Owning a Bored Ape Yacht Club NFT puts a target on your back for scammers and hackers, especially if you’re high profile. Steven Galanis, the co-founder and CEO of the Cameo app, was victim to a crypto hack on Saturday, according to Gelanis, resulti…
“It took me about a year, with Sandy Hook, to come to the grips that the whole thing was fake.” That’s what radio host and accused conspiracy-theory peddler Alex Jones said on his InfoWars show in 2014. Now, eight years later, Jones is standing tria…
Bad code has resulted in $190 million being drained from Nomad’s bridge, a cryptocurrency protocol that allows people to move crypto coins between different blockchains. In what’s being called a “decentralized robbery” a flaw in Nomad’s coding allow…
Tiffany & Co. is jumping into the NFT space with the launch of its own collection, called NFTiff. As should be no surprise for a luxury brand, these NFTs won’t be cheap. There will be only 250 NFTiffs, and they’ll each sell for $50,000 (30 ether…
Other than volatility, crypto has over the past decade perhaps been best known for lawlessness. Mysterious cryptocurrency founders have vanished after pocketing millions from initial coin offerings, while hackers and scammers have taken refuge in a …
The Ethereum Merge is significant, and not just for people who own crypto. In the works in one form or another since 2014, the long-delayed Merge will see the second biggest blockchain reduce its carbon emissions by an enormous amount. If the Merge …
Square Enix is a big believer in “Web 3 gaming”, the integration of cryptocurrencies and NFTs into video games. On Wednesday it was announced that the company’s crown jewel, Final Fantasy 7, will get its own NFTs next year. Kind of. The nonfung…
Elon Musk is something of an icon within crypto. That’s due in large part to his association with the dogecoin meme, but it’s also because Tesla is one of the most prominent institutional investors in bitcoin. Or at least, it was.In Tesla’s latest e…
Climate change is making extreme weather events more commonplace, people’s daily lives may change in unexpected ways. Prime example: Parts of the US and UK are currently experiencing merciless heat waves, with highs in London exceeding 100 degrees F…
It’s a way off the $4,800 all-time-high, but the ether cryptocurrency is showing signs of life after a long downward spiral that began in April. Following news that the long-awaited Ethereum Merge could happen in September, ether passed $1,400 on Su…
Hell in a Cell 2022 will be remembered for one thing and one thing only: Cody Rhodes torn pec. Going into the show, WWE had revealed that Rhodes tore his pec in the days leading up to the show. That put the main event in question. Not only was Rhode…
There’s no denying it: WWE is in a holding pattern until Money in the Bank next month. Roman Reigns unified the WWE and Universal Championship titles at WrestleMania, but Hell in a Cell marks the second pay-per-view in a row where he hasn’t defended…
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