☠️ American musician Garrett Dutton lost 5.9 BTC worth $420 000 after he installed a fake Ledger app and manually entered his seed phrase into it.

Hackers almost immediately withdrew the coins through nine transactions to addresses linked to the KuCoin exchange.

We recently warned that scammers are increasingly selling fake hardware wallets with a pre-set seed phrase — after some time, they simply withdraw the funds.

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🖥 The head of Galaxy Research believes that Bitcoin and AI are moving in opposite directions — mining has transformed from a home hobby into an industry with ASICs and huge data centers, while AI, on the contrary, is gradually moving away from giant clusters to compact models that can be run directly on your laptop or phone.

The further we go, the more accessible local neural networks become, whereas mining — less and less accessible for ordinary people.

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🪙 The Ethereum network broke a historical record — over 3.6 million transactions passed through it in a day.

Blockchain activity has been growing for several months — in the first quarter alone, Ethereum attracted 284,000 new users, and the volume of stablecoins on the network reached a maximum.

Meanwhile, Tom Lee's BitMine bought another 71,524 ETH onto its balance — now the company holds 4.875 million ETH on its balance (over 4% of the total supply).

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✖️ Nikita Bier, Head of Product at X (Twitter), hinted that the platform might be preparing its own crypto product or an integration for crypto.

This was prompted by his statement that the crypto market had a "tough year" and X, perhaps, should "launch something to fix it".

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💸 Hyperliquid has generated over $900 million in revenue with just 11 employees, making it one of the most efficient companies in the world in terms of profit per employee.

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🪙 CEO Circle confirmed that the company plans to launch its own coin for the Arc blockchain, which is currently in the testnet phase.

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💸 The US Department of Justice has begun payments to victims of OneCoin — one of the largest crypto pyramids in history, due to which investors lost over $4 billion.

Compensation will be paid from the confiscated assets of the organizers, including the property and bank accounts of the "cryptoqueen" Ruja Ignatova.

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🪙 Tether launches crypto wallet Tether Wallet.

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🪙 Elon Musk's father stated that Elon and his brother Kimbal together own 23 400 BTC — this is about $1.7 billion and almost twice as much as Tesla holds.

According to him, cryptocurrencies are the future of finance, and the traditional banking system "has exhausted itself."

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🏬 In the App Store, a fake Ledger app was discovered, through which scammers have already stolen $9,500,000 in cryptocurrency in Bitcoin, Tron, and Solana.

Users themselves entered seed phrases into it, after which the attackers instantly gained full access to the wallets.

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💸 Coinbase has started closely collaborating with Anthropic in order to gain access to the AI model Mythos and use it to find vulnerabilities and defend against new attacks.

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🦑 Kraken has confidentially filed for an IPO.

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✖️ Twitter (X) has launched Cashtags — asset tickers that turn into clickable elements with a price chart and discussion feed right within the app, eliminating the need to navigate to third-party websites.

This is currently a pilot project (available in the US and Canada on iPhone), but they plan to add trading directly from the feed in the future.

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