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Donald Trump Holds Over $2.8 Million of NFTs, Domini ($DOMI) Set to Become Secure Investment
In a rather unexpected twist, former U.S. President Donald Trump has recently made waves in the cryptocurrency world. He has emerged as a significant Ethereum holder with potential earnings exceeding a staggering $2.8 million from his ETH holdings. This revelation stems from the officially certified financial disclosures for the year 2023, made public by the…
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$700K in crypto and NFTs lost in phishing attack through Vitalik Buterin’s hacked X account
According to ZachXBT, Vitalik Buterin is a “big enough target” that an X employee could have been paid off to perpetrate the hack. Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin’s account on X (formerly Twitter) was compromised late at night on Sept. 9. Dmitriy Buterin, father of Vitalik, confirmed the hack through his X account. Vitalik’s hacked account was used to promote…
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11,196 Years Jail Sentence for Faruk Özer, CEO of Collapsed Turkish Crypto Exchange Thodex
Thodex was one of Turkey’s largest crypto exchanges before it suddenly went offline in April 2021 and Özer went missing. Faruk Fatih Özer, the founder of the collapsed Turkish crypto exchange Thodex, his sister Serap Özer and his brother Güven Özer have been sentenced to 11,196 years, 10 months and 15 days in prison, according to local…
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Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down during heat wave in August
KEY POINTS During the crypto boom of 2021, Riot Platforms was raking in cash from bitcoin mining. Now the company is losing so much money that it’s counting on energy credits from selling power back to the Texas grid to keep its costs under control. Riot said on Wednesday that it earned $31.7 million in energy credits last month…
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There are just six bitcoin billionaires in the world, new crypto super-rich report says
Hundreds of millions of people have crypto investments. A new report shows how many crypto millionaires and billionaires exist. Hundreds of millions of people around the world have some form of crypto holdings, whether that is in bitcoin or one of the many other digital currencies. To be exact, 425 million people use crypto, according to Henley…