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WLFI Zhou Investigation, Airdrop Updates, Robinhood NFTs & Thailand Goes Tax-Free
Happy Monday everyone. Hope you're having a great summer and enjoying some of our Sunday throwbacks once in a while. Yesterday, we went back to the early days and looked at how we tried to protect the definition of a crypto airdrop when the...
Fake XRP Airdrops: Scammers Target the XRP Community Again
Airdrops are getting more traction again. The bear market might be coming to an end soon, retail is showing a slight bump in interest for crypto, and what happens then? Scammers come back. Right on cue, the XRP community is dealing with a wave of...
Coldcard Hackers Send Millions to Crypto Mixers as Losses Climb Toward $130 Million
The Coldcard hackers are cashing out. One week after the biggest hardware wallet exploit in crypto history, the stolen coins have started moving. Roughly 64 BTC, worth $4.17 million, and 200 ETH, worth around $380,000, flowed into cryptocurrency...
Coldcard Wallet Hack: $38 Million Drained Without Touching a Single Device
For years, the crypto community repeated the same advice like a mantra: get a hardware wallet, keep your keys offline, and nobody can touch your coins. This week, that advice took a serious hit. The Coldcard wallet hack drained roughly 594 BTC,...
How to Avoid Drainer Scams and Keep Your Crypto Safe
I have been in crypto since 2013. In all those years, across four bull runs, an NFT mania, countless airdrops, and more sketchy contracts than I can count, I have never once been drained. That is not luck. Honestly, it comes down to one habit I...
How a $170K AI Wallet Exploit Exposed the Dirty Secret of Crypto Agents
Someone just stole $170,000 from an AI. Not a scam. Not a rug pull. A deliberate, calculated AI wallet exploit — using nothing more than an NFT, a membership pass, and a cleverly encoded message. And the craziest part? The AI handed the money over...
The $292 Million DeFi Hack That Shook Crypto: The KelpDAO Exploit Explained
I Had Skin in This Game. So Did You (Maybe). Let me be upfront. I invested in the KelpDAO pre-sale. My tokens are still partly vested. And as of this weekend, I’m pretty confident that investment is worth close to zero now. When the attack...
Crypto News & Airdrop Updates – Tether Wallet, WLFI Drama, Trump Dinner and Security Alerts
Yesterday was one of those days. Family stuff, sick kids, some sports, and I even watched Real Madrid lose to Bayern Munich. Not ideal. All in all, a packed schedule. No time to write. I take pride in staying consistent all year. Still, once in a...
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