Bitcoinโs next move has traditionally been discovered first on major exchanges like Binance.
But new research from Synth claims Kalshi prediction-market traders are increasingly moving before Bitcoin does on Binance - and that relationship has become materially stronger throughout 2026.
Kalshi may now be showing where Bitcoin is going before the spot market reacts.
For traders, information is everything.
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The FBI and other law-enforcement agencies reportedly believe they have identified the threat actors responsible for stealing 1,400 BTC โ around $97.1M โ from Coldcard users.
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Zimbardi, 59, from Georgia, ran "The Crypto Program" - invest in advertising packages, get a guaranteed 25% every month. Over 6,000 people sent crypto straight into wallets he secretly controlled ๐
Prosecutors say he gambled $34M on forex and lost, paid old investors with new investors' money, and spent $10M+ on a house for his son, luxury cars and alimony to his ex-wife.
When it collapsed and the FBI closed in, he fled to Fiji, 7,300 miles away. He even skipped his own son's wedding, figuring agents would be waiting. He guessed right
Fijian authorities deported him. He landed in LA in handcuffs - 12 counts of wire fraud, 12 of money laundering ๐ซ
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A user clicked an old saved link to tornado.cash - the same domain theyโd used safely for years. Within 12 hours, 1,010 ETH was gone.
What happened: after OFAC sanctions hit in 2022, the Tornado Cash team stopped renewing the domain. It expired. Someone else registered it and put up a perfect copy of the original interface
The trick is nasty. Your deposit goes into the real smart contract, everything looks normal. But the fake frontend quietly captures your deposit note, the secret string that lets you withdraw later. Whoever holds the note owns the money. The attacker just cashed out first
On-chain records show 810 ETH landing in one attacker address in nine transfers. The community claims this crew has pulled nearly 4,000 ETH the same way over the past year - that part isnโt independently verified yet.
Source:
https://etherscan.io/address/0xd8B356356d7B143D7ece9F5876FE4b954E93b745
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Phia, the AI shopping app co-founded by Phoebe Gates, 23, had a browser extension that quietly dropped affiliate cookies on purchases users made on their own. No click, no referral- the commission just got paid to the wrong people ๐
By June it accounted for 51% of everything Phia claimed credit for. Switch it off and daily revenue fell from ~$80k to $10โ28k
In July the company said it learned of the problem โwithin the last 24 hours.โ Then Bloomberg pulled the internal Slacks - the founders had been discussing it since December.
Lawyers say cookie stuffing is usually charged as federal wire fraud, up to 20 years. Nobodyโs been charged yet - but โwe just heard about it yesterdayโ didnโt survive the Slack export.
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After leaked GTA 6 gameplay was shared online through CyberLeek, Take-Two has gone to federal court in New York to try to identify the person behind it.
โข IP addresses
โข Emails and phone numbers
โข Linked Xbox/Google accounts
โข Device identifiers
โข OneDrive data
โข Discord accounts and servers
โข Records connected to GTA, Rockstar and CyberLeek
Microsoft and Discord have until September 4 to respond.
And now the real witch hunt begins.
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Court documents say some of the Bugattis and Aston Martins featured in Tristan Tateโs videos were rented.
โSo he was faking everything.โ
But kiddos are missing an important point.
For wealthy people, it can make much more sense for expensive assets โ cars, houses, watches, yachts โ to be owned through companies or other legal structures rather than personally.
A company can own the asset while the individual uses or rents it for marketing, business or promotional purposes.
So seeing the word โrentedโ in a court document does not automatically tell you who ultimately controls the company that owns the asset.
The legal owner and the person economically benefiting from an asset are not always the same thing.
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At CoinFest, a user says he handed his unlocked phone to someone who couldnโt scan a QR code and wanted to search for himself on Telegram.
Instead, the person allegedly messaged another contact with spam/profanity, blocked them, archived the chat, then tried messaging himself.
Moments later, the Telegram account was permanently banned.
The stranger handed the phone back pretending nothing had worked.
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CyberLeek has reportedly burned nearly $1.5M worth of dev tokens to prove theyโre not scamming.
But they still hold the creator tokens, currently worth more than $500K.
At the same time, theyโre reportedly collecting around $40Kโ$70K+ in transaction fees.
And they're charging $165k just for a reply.
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Scripts to Track Users Silently
A developer noticed his headphones wouldnโt switch from PC to phone with an AliExpress tab open.
He dug in and found two hidden scripts playing a silent tone at zero volume
Every computer processes sound a bit differently depending on its hardware. Those differences are a fingerprint - and unlike a cookie, you canโt delete it
The scripts also grab screen size, RAM, mouse behavior and WebRTC data. Muting the tab does nothing. No prompt, no consent..
Firefox and Brave block it. Chrome doesnโt.
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A newly created Robinhood wallet has reportedly received 290 ETH and is suspected of testing a token allegedly designed for the Trump family.
The ticker appearing in the tests is $WWW.
For now, the token appears to be experimental only, with no trading liquidity available.
Something may be cooking behind the scenes ๐
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The channel, which appeared out of nowhere, says Daniel Xan (formerly @devil) has been throwing parties with known rappers to launder stolen crypto ๐
It claims a $4.5M theft is what paid for the $1M @devil username, and says more evidence is on the way.
Nothing has been proven. No on-chain evidence has been published, and Xan hasnโt responded..
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The money went from Bitcoin to Ethereum through Chainflip, then through KuCoin, some of it into Monero - and @ZachXBT followed it all the way to a single wallet.
M1llionz / RichMilly666 runs a Telegram channel selling bank fraud services, face always hidden. But he posted screenshots of his own wallets - which later received ~$84k straight from the robberies ๐
Tether froze $93,507 USDT. No arrest yet.
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Jed York, 46, owner of the San Francisco 49ers, answered an ad on a prostitution website and arranged to meet a woman for $140 ๐
The ad was fake. It was posted by the Mahoning Valley Human Trafficking Task Force.
York showed up at a trailer park in East Palestine, Ohio at 9:35 in the morning and got arrested on the spot - still holding the phone he used to set it up. In court, that phone counts as a โcriminal toolโ
The whole thing was over in a day: he pleaded no contest, paid $1,150 in fines and walked.
Then he asked the court to seal the records so nobody would see them. The judge said no.
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Brent Kovar told investors his Las Vegas company Profit Connect ran AI software on a supercomputer that mined crypto for them.
15-30% guaranteed every year, plus a 100% money-back guarantee ๐
There was no supercomputer, no reserves, no profits. Just $24M from 400+ investors going into his own house, gifts for employees, and paying older investors to keep the story alive..
A jury convicted him on 15 counts. Max sentence: 280 years.
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They don't say how the material got out.
There has been no intrusion confirmed and no investigation mentioned. No word on CyberLeek, who is running a working build Rockstar still can't trace.
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Two years to the day since French police detained him, Durov says officials in several countries have quietly asked Telegram for political favors - censorship and surveillance he considers illegal ๐
His claim that every time Telegram refuses - a campaign follows. Local media and advocacy groups suddenly start calling the app a cesspool of crime.
He says Telegramโs moderation is no worse than any other big platform, and that the French case against him โfits the pattern we see elsewhereโ.
Worth remembering how that case works- he was held for three days and accused over things users did, not him. France finally lifted his travel restrictions in November 2025..
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