Crypto Prosecutor Thwarted in Bid to Leave Post – and Join an Exchange
A high-flying South Korean prosecutor from the Ministry of Justice has been left out of work after controversy arose over his attempted move to take on a post as a…
Police: Suicide Linked to USD 180,000 Crypto Losses
Source: iStock/D-Keine A South Korean man aged in his twenties has committed suicide – and police claim that a crypto investment gone wrong likely drove him to take his own…
Ripple Listing Talks, Coinbase & PayPal, Tether’s Assets & Liabilities + More News
Get your daily, bite-sized digest of cryptoasset and blockchain-related news – investigating the stories flying under the radar of today’s crypto news. Investments news The Japanese financial giant and long-time…
Crypto Ecosystem Matures, But There Are Fewer New Entrants
The growth of business models outside crypto exchanges demonstrates the maturation of the crypto market’s infrastructure, while a noticeable decline in pre-seed deals shows a lack of new entrepreneurial entrants…
DOJ Ransomware Panel to Propose ‘Aggressive’ Bitcoin Regulations: Report
A panel of experts established by the US Department of Justice last week to combat ransomware is expected to recommend “aggressive tracking of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies,” according to a…
DeFi, NFT Booms Send MetaMask Past 5 Million Active Users
MetaMask, an Ethereum-based cryptocurrency wallet, has registered five million active users, according to its creator, blockchain software firm ConsenSys (which also funds an editorially independent Decrypt.) MetaMask is a browser…
Jean-Michel Basquiat Estate Squashes Fake NFT Auction
The estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat has squashed the sale of an NFT tied to “Free Comb with Pagoda,” a mixed-media work from 1986. The seller was a mysterious group Daystrom,…
