Cryptocurrency

North Korean Hackers Suspected in Record $6.3 Billion Binance Heist as Billions Vanish in Just 20 Minutes The largest cryptocurrency theft in history has exposed a massive security failure at the world’s biggest digital asset exchange, with blockchain investigators linking the unprecedented $6.3 billion attack to North Korea’s notorious state-sponsored hacking operation. Hackers stole approximately

Company Shares Fall More Than 5% on the News of the Fraud Two former Robinhood employees are facing federal fraud charges after prosecutors accused them of using confidential information about upcoming cryptocurrency listings to make profitable trades before the information became public. The case involves Hefu Chai, 36, and Huaisong Xiang, 30, both former engineers

22-Year-Old Bitcoin Thief Stole $245 Million From One Man, Also Blew $569,000 in a Single Night A 22-year-old former school dropout from Singapore has pleaded guilty to helping lead an international cryptocurrency crime operation that stole more than $245 million in Bitcoin from a single Washington, D.C., victim, then went on an extraordinary spending spree

Armstrong Says Bitcoin Could Reach $400,000 by 2030 Bitcoin has spent much of 2026 reminding investors of one of cryptocurrency’s oldest traditions: making enormous promises, then making everyone question their life choices when the price suddenly moves in the opposite direction. But Brian Armstrong, one of the most influential figures in the cryptocurrency industry, remains

Trump’s Crypto Empire Faces Renewed Scrutiny After John Oliver Details Billions in Family Profits and Foreign Ties WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump’s cryptocurrency empire is once again under intense scrutiny after HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver devoted an extended investigative segment to the president’s growing financial interests in digital assets, raising questions

President Trump’s Faces Fresh Scrutiny as Crypto Fortune Explodes President Donald Trump’s finances are once again dominating headlines, but this time the focus extends far beyond his traditional real estate empire. New financial disclosures, reports of massive cryptocurrency earnings, and questions surrounding stock investments have fueled one of the biggest ethics debates of his second

Sam Altman of OpenAI has Some Serious Plans for Your Future! Sam Altman is one of the most influential and polarizing figures in modern technology. A startup founder turned AI executive whose ambitions stretch far beyond chatbots. Long before becoming synonymous with artificial intelligence, Altman built his reputation in Silicon Valley through startup investing and

Eric Trump’s Bitcoin Empire Looks More Like a Billion Dollar Hype Scheme Than a Real Business The Trump family has spent years turning branding into a business model. Hotels, steaks, universities, NFTs, meme coins, media ventures, if there is a way to monetize attention, the Trump orbit usually finds it. But the latest venture tied

Trump Crypto Venture Under Fire: Inside the World Liberty Financial Feud and Why It Echoes Sam Bankman-Fried “A trap masquerading as a door.” — Justin Sun on World Liberty Financial The unraveling of World Liberty Financial (WLF) is beginning to look less like a routine crypto dispute and more like a case study in how

Former NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ Crypto Venture Collapses Hours After Launch, Raising Insider Trading Questions NEW YORK — For a brief moment Monday, Eric Adams appeared to be staging a political and financial comeback. Standing in Times Square, just weeks after leaving office, Adams announced his first initiative as a private citizen: a new cryptocurrency

Bitcoin’s Worst Month Since the 2022 Meltdown: What Drove the Crash and How Far It Can Fall “Sentiment across the board is incredibly poor. There appears to be a forced seller in the market and it is unclear how deep this goes.” — Pratik Kala, Apollo Crypto Bitcoin just suffered its most brutal month since

The U.S. Economy Is Flashing the Same Red Lights Seen Before the Great Depression Greed, Inequality, and Tariffs Are All Back But This Time, the Outcome Isn’t Written Yet America’s economy has started to look eerily familiar. Rising corporate greed, deepening inequality, and a dangerous return to protectionist tariffs are reviving the same patterns that

Brothers Accused of Stealing Millions in Crypto Two MIT educated brothers are now standing trial in Manhattan, accused of executing a lightning fast $25 million cryptocurrency heist that prosecutors say took just 12 seconds. The case against Anton Peraire Bueno, 25, and James Peraire Bueno, 29, marks one of the first major federal trials to

Trump’s AI Chip Giveaway to the UAE and the $2 Billion Crypto Kickback: Corruption Hiding in Plain Sight “If it walks like a bribe, and it talks like a bribe—why are we still pretending it’s a business deal?” A Dangerous Bargain: Chips for Coin In May 2025, Donald Trump stood in Abu Dhabi to announce

Trump Family’s $5 Billion Crypto Gamble: Windfall or Mirage? “It’s a new era for finance, and we’re leading it,” Eric Trump said earlier this week as trading opened on the Trump family’s new cryptocurrency token, WLFI, under their World Liberty Financial venture. The launch, which has generated a paper valuation of roughly $5 billion, instantly

Trump’s Crypto Dinner: The Ethical Earthquake Shaking Washington WASHINGTON, D.C. — President Donald Trump is once again at the center of a storm — this time over cryptocurrency. A lavish dinner held on May 22 for top holders of the $TRUMP memecoin is drawing accusations of influence peddling, self-enrichment, and potential constitutional violations. What was

Trump’s Crypto Empire: Bribes, Billions, and Blurred Ethical Lines The Rise of the $TRUMP Coin and Questions of Corruption in the 2024-2025 Election Cycle In a bold, high-stakes fusion of politics and cryptocurrency, former President Donald J. Trump has emerged as a central figure in a growing web of digital coin ventures that are attracting

The Fall of the Platinum Card: From Prestige to Overcrowded Chaos American Express used to market the Platinum Card as an exclusive status symbol, a card reserved for high-net-worth individuals who traveled in luxury and expected elite perks. But in recent years, Amex has drastically devalued the Platinum Card, turning it into a mass-market product

Miami Woman Steals Ex-Boyfriend’s Amex, $800K in Cryptocurrency, Now Investigated for Fraud MIAMI – A Miami woman is under investigation after allegedly stealing her ex-boyfriend’s American Express card and spending $4,200 on an Airbnb, as well as transferring hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of cryptocurrency. Maissa Jebali, 22, has been arrested and is now

FBI Raids Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan’s NYC Apartment, Seizes Devices in Connection with Election Betting Site In a surprise raid early Wednesday, FBI agents seized electronic devices belonging to Shayne Coplan, CEO of the popular prediction and betting platform Polymarket, from his New York City apartment. According to a source familiar with the situation, Coplan,