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Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky’s Arrest Won’t Fix Crypto | WIRED
However, the collapse of the Terra Luna stablecoin in May 2022 blew a billion-dollar hole in the Celsius balance sheet…
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Armed Guards and Shootings Plague Airbnb’s Party Ban
The music was blaring, the bar was overflowing, and the air was thick with weed smoke. Armed security holding long…
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Gig Workers Are Being Stabbed, Stoned, and Abused in India
“After Covid, [cab-hailing platforms] don’t have any management. They have fired many employees. There aren’t many staffers to help out…
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North Korea Is Now Mining Crypto to Launder Its Stolen Loot
In the cryptocurrency ecosystem, coins have a story, tracked in the unchangeable blockchains underpinning their economy. The only exception, in…
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Scams Are Ruining Pakistan’s Digital Economy
The last time Zippy posted to Instagram was in April 2022—a four-paragraph-long apology note saying he was sorry for not…
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Face Recognition Software Led to His Arrest. It Was Dead Wrong
Maryland is a unique place to debate face recognition regulation, says Andrew Northrup, an attorney in the forensics division of…
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Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam
Over just a little more than a decade, the crypto world has exploded from a single currency to millions of…
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Most Criminal Cryptocurrency Funnels Through Just 5 Exchanges
For years, the cryptocurrency economy has been rife with black market sales, theft, ransomware, and money laundering—despite the strange fact…
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Arrested
Photo: Craig Barritt (Getty Images) Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been arrested…
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