Crypto scam launderer pleads guilty to role in $73M scheme

The federal judge overseeing Terpin v. AT&T — a legal battle pertaining to stolen crypto via SIM-swapping that has been going on for almost a year — has denied the telecom giant’s motion for dismissal.As previously reported by Cointelegraph, investor Michael Terpin had sued AT&T for $224 million. Terpin reportedly lost $24 million as a…

Up to 800,000 internet-connected databases could be vulnerable to crypto-mining malware that will use their computing capacity.

Gavin Wood introduced a major infrastructure development for Web3 citizenship, while Hashkey’s CEO forecasted a resurgence in the DeFi market driven by lower interest rates.

Crypto-users may one day be able to automatically pay their electricity and telephone bills through their self-custodial crypto wallets, according to payments giant Visa.In a Dec. 20 blog post, Visa’s crypto thought leadership team proposed a solution that would allow providers to automaticall “pull” funds from users’ Ethereum-powered crypto wallets, without requiring the user to…

Bitcoin (BTC) and select altcoins broke above their immediate resistance levels but are struggling to sustain the higher levels, indicating that bears are not ready to give up.It is speculated that the spike in Bitcoin’s price on March 22 may have been caused by reports that Terra had sent 125 million USDT to Binance on…

Etherscan has enabled users to “track most NFT activity on Ethereum” after it revealed its new non-fungible token transfer tool on June 1. 4161 Total views 2 Total shares Ethereum blockchain explorer and analytics platform Etherscan has enabled NFT tracking as part of its transaction tracking tool kit. In a Twitter post yesterday, Etherscan revealed…

More rules are coming for the cryptocurrency space, according to SEC Chairman Gary Gensler. 1208 Total views 6 Total shares The Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, may soon issue new rules for the regulation and registration of security-based swaps, including cryptocurrency.In a speech to the American Bar Association Derivative and Futures Law Committee SEC…

Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) creators Yuga Labs is set to wind down support for OpenSea following the platform’s upcoming removal of its on-chain royalty enforcement tool Operator Filter. The Operator Filter was launched in November 2022, essentially enabling creators to restrict secondary nonfungible token sales only to marketplaces that enforce creator royalties, thus filtering…