The U.K. government received over 50,000 responses to its consultation paper on the formation of a digital pound.
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Valentine's nightmare? Romance scams remain a $1B honeypot for criminals
Those in search of love online are increasingly falling prey to romance scams, with $1.3 billion stolen in 2022 alone.
AI Cupid: ChatGPT offers relationship advice for Valentine’s Day
As the day of love is upon us, we asked OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini AI models to step into the role of digital cupid for relationship advice just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Uniswap founder warns community about ENS wallet impersonation scam
ENS founder and lead developer Nick Johnson commented on the scam, saying that interfaces should not autocomplete names.
BlackRock’s Bitcoin ETF passes 100K BTC under management
Investors keep accumulating spot Bitcoin ETF shares as combined daily inflows broke another record at $631.3 million.
Digitex Futures Exchange CEO indicted for violating Bank Secrecy Act
The Digitex Futures Exchange CEO was previously ordered to pay $16 million in penalties for failing to register with the CFTC and manipulating the price of its native token.
South Korean crypto exchanges reported 50% more suspicious transactions in 2023
The FIU has been actively encouraging crypto exchanges to report any transactions that raise suspicions of money laundering and illegal “foreign exchange outflow.”
Bitcoin bulls flirt with $69K BTC price target as crypto market nears $2T
BTC’s price seems unstoppable even pre-Wall Street as the highest levels since late 2021 greet Bitcoin bears.
EU committee greenlights world’s first AI legislation
The endorsement follows European Union member states voting to approve the final text of the EU’s AI Act.
Bitcoin breaches $1 trillion market cap
The total market value of Bitcoin’s circulating supply crossed $1 trillion after BTC’s price surged above $51,000.
Japan’s regulator suggests ‘stopping’ P2P transfers from fiat to crypto
The Financial Services Agency and the National Police Agency encourage banks to “further strengthen their user’s protection.”
Bitcoin faces $52K ‘brick wall’ at Bitfinex as BTC price erases 4% dip
Bitcoin could see trouble cracking through newly-laid ask liquidity above $50,000, the latest analysis concludes.
What are Bitcoin escrow services, and how do they work?
Bitcoin escrow services act as third-party intermediaries, holding Bitcoin in a secure account until predefined conditions are met.
US Treasury official urges Congress for more power against crypto crime
Brian Nelson tells House lawmakers that despite the agency’s authority to hold firms such as Binance accountable, more powers are needed.
Ethereum stakers among recipients as Starknet readies ecosystem token distribution
Ethereum layer-2 scaling protocol Starknet will begin distributing its native network token on Feb. 20, with 700 million STRK tokens allocated across nine recipient categories.
Bitcoin ETFs haven’t cannibalized spot Bitcoin trading — Robinhood CFO
Direct Bitcoin trading is still more popular than ETFs for Robinhood users, says its chief financial officer Jason Warnick amid better-than-expected Q4 2023 results.
OpenAI gives ChatGPT a memory: No more goldfish brain?
ChatGPT will be given the capacity to remember conversations so that users don’t have to repeatedly enter the same information.
Angel Drainer targets users with malicious Safe contract: $403K stolen
The notorious phishing group deployed a nefarious Safe vault contract that used Etherscan to provide victims with a “false sense of security.”
Bull run back? User spends $113K in gas to snipe token only to be ‘rugged’
A crypto user spent $113,000 in gas in an apparent attempt to snipe the launch of a new ERC-404 token, which pumped and dumped to zero just 35 minutes later.
Printing money for fools is a ‘great business to be in’ — NZ central bank head
Reserve Bank of New Zealand Governor Adrian Orr jested during a parliamentary committee meeting on Monday, but Bitcoiners argue there’s truth to his joke.