Self-organized teams that support crypto scams on Discord or Telegram are not illegal in the crypto market except in regulated exchanges. Pump-and-dump operations, which fraudulently manipulate prices by disseminating false information, have existed in economic contexts since at least the 1700s. For instance, con artists with shares in the South Sea Company started making false...Continue Reading

Author and psychologist Jordan Peterson said that hyperinflation hurts those who are the pillars of society. The ability to save up is an essential tool for self-regulation and planning for the future, but when inflation becomes uncontrollable, those who put in their efforts to delay gratification get punished for their choice. On the other hand,...Continue Reading

Parallel to the ongoing investigations of the Solana fiasco, CZ warned investors of “an active security incident on Solana” that drained funds in SOL and USDC off over 7000 wallets. With Solana hitting the headlines for succumbing to a hack on Wednesday, prominent crypto CEOs — including Binance’s Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, KuCoin’s Johnny Lyu and OKX’s...Continue Reading

In a first for the sixth-tier English football league, the club will wear the BTC logo on their shirts, and fans will be able to buy tickets with Bitcoin over the Lightning Network. United Kingdom Bitcoin (BTC) payments adoption just recruited a new player. Oxford City Football Club looks to become the first National League...Continue Reading

The Ethereum network continues to see the largest number of monthly-active contributors at around 2,000 as of July. Despite crypto market turbulence, active contributors across Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Solana’s top projects have increased by an average of 71.6% per year since January 2018, according to a new report. The findings come from an August 2 report...Continue Reading

A shortage of mental health services in the future could be solved with a Web3-powered mental health support network, suggests academics. Decentralized mental health services could be the answer to the looming shortage of mental health professionals, according to professors from John Hopkins University based in Baltimore. Speaking to Cointelegraph, Dr. Johannes Thrul from the...Continue Reading

The crypto contagion only hurt entities that poorly managed their treasuries, but didn’t affect the underlying blockchain technology, he said. The crypto contagion sparked by Terra’s infamous implosion this year only spread to companies and protocols with “poor balance sheet management” and not the underlying blockchain technology, says Kraken Australia’s managing director Jonathon Miller. Speaking...Continue Reading

NFT marketplace Magic Eden noted that it “seems to be a widespread SOL exploit at play” and called on users to revoke permissions for any suspicious links in their Phantom wallets. A security vulnerability impacting the Solana ecosystem has reportedly seen millions in funds drained across a number of Solana-based wallets. At the time of...Continue Reading

The academic textbook publisher hopes to capture a portion of secondary market sales on digital textbook sales by assigning an NFT to each title. Textbook publisher Pearson has revealed its plans to use non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to keep track of digital textbook sales and effectively “diminish the secondary market” for its digital textbooks.  According to...Continue Reading

The online retail broker blamed the economy for a decline in user numbers and net revenue that fell 44% year-on-year, although revenue from crypto rose moderately this quarter. Online brokerage firm Robinhood will lay off nearly a quarter of its employees, citing a continued deterioration of the macro environment and a broad crypto market crash. ...Continue Reading