Proton Mail exposing activist's info showed the limits of encryption

cointelegraph.com An April report revealed that Proton Mail assisted Spanish police with locating one of its users, leading to questions about its guarantees of privacy.

Australian BitConnect promoter pleads guilty years after wife disappears

protos.com John Bigatton has pleaded guilty in Australia to a criminal charge of providing financial advice without the appropriate license for his role in promoting the failed Ponzi…

‘Soak my Deck’ captain Sam Trabucco sails in for Ryan Salame

protos.com No one seems to know the whereabouts of Sam Trabucco, the once-CEO of Alameda Research who purchased a multi-million dollar yacht named ‘Soak My Deck’ after Alameda…

Pink Drainer ‘steps back from the grind’ after stealing $75M from victims

protos.com Prolific wallet-draining service Pink Drainer has announced its retirement in a private Telegram chat, according to blockchain sleuth ZachXBT. The scam-as-a-service…

Pump.fun exploiter doxxed himself then took credit with bizarre tweets

protos.com Pump.fun, a Solana-based platform that promises you can ‘launch a coin that is instantly tradeable’ was exploited for approximately $2 million worth of Solana by a hacker…

How Humanity Protocol CEO drove his previous firm to insolvency

protos.com The CEO of Humanity Protocol, a reported $1 billion ‘Worldcoin rival’ that’s raised $30 million, almost bankrupted his $1.5 billion smartphone firm, burning through $170…

No, Changpeng Zhao isn’t in prison yet

protos.com Due to some formalities in the criminal justice system, a world-class team of lawyers, and Fifth Amendment protections of due process, former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao…

US indicts Ethereum validators for exploiting MEV trader

protos.com Anton Peraire-Bueno and James Peraire-Bueno, two brothers who operate Ethereum validators, have been indicted in the Southern District of New York on charges of wire fraud,…

Opinion: Roaring Kitty looks to have returned as a pump-and-dumper

protos.com There was something different about the way that Keith Gill (aka RoaringKitty on YouTube or DeepFuckingValue on Reddit) used to shill GameStop. He’d do in-depth, long, and…

At least $25M lost across three incidents in busy day for crypto hackers

protos.com Following a relatively quiet period, a trio of crypto hacks has hit the sector. Over the past 24 hours, lending platform Sonne Finance lost $20 million to a well-known…

China busts $2 billion USDT money laundering operation

protos.com Police in China have announced the dismantling of a large underground banking gang accused of facilitating illegal transactions with almost $2 billion worth of tether…

Rare sats and Runes failed to solve Bitcoin’s security budget

protos.com The Bitcoin halving was supposed to be a day of celebration and the end to Bitcoin’s woes of the prior four years. On that late Friday night (and in technical, computer geek…

UK shuts down ‘trust me bro’ crypto firm that promoted $1.7B Ponzi

protos.com A UK-based crypto advice firm that told customers their investments were “100 certy” and to “trust me bro” was shut down by the country’s High Court last month following an…

Coinbase ‘on top of it’ despite withdrawals not processing

protos.com Coinbase users claim they can’t withdraw their funds from the world’s second largest exchange despite it announcing it had ‘fully recovered’ after a system-wide outage. The…

After years of quiet, Roaring Kitty gets loud

protos.com A small-time retail trader named Keith Gill — also known online as Roaring Kitty and DeepFuckingValue — who is famous for helping GameStop become the meme stock of the…

Andrew Tate seems confused as he dumps bitcoin to buy GameStop

protos.com Andrew Tate claims he’s cashed in a portion of his bitcoin holdings and invested the funds into GameStop following a new wave of hype around the controversial stock.…

Big Brother surveillance dystopia is now reality at Binance

protos.com When Binance agreed to a $4.3 billion settlement with the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC), the Financial Crimes Enforcement…

Paolo Ardoino flexes ‘top-tier custodians’ in Tether v. Ripple stablecoin beef

protos.com Ripple chief exec Brad Garlinghouse recently expressed his view via the World Class podcast that the “US Government is going after Tether” before emphasizing how important…

Changpeng Zhao has ‘nothing else to do’ during jail time so may write a book

protos.com Jailed former Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says he may use his upcoming four months of ‘quiet time’ to write a book on his tenure as the leader of the world’s biggest crypto…

Encrypted mail service still okay with giving PII to cops

theregister.com in brief Encrypted email service Proton Mail is in hot water again, and for the same thing that earned it flack before: handing user data over to law enforcement. Proton,…

Binance VIP trader profited by dumping play-to-earn token

protos.com A new investigation has revealed that Binance allegedly helped a secretive whale trader siphon money from the play-to-earn crypto industry. One of these so-called VIPs was…

Refund of $70M ‘address poisoning’ scam ongoing, over 50% returned

protos.com The victim of a $70 million ‘address poisoning’ scam is in the process of being refunded, following on-chain negotiations with the perpetrator. At the time of writing, over…

Binance banned Tron Foundation for market manipulation, report

protos.com A report from the Wall Street Journal has alleged that on multiple occasions, Binance ignored its own internal investigations about market manipulation in favor of…

DoJ claims Tornado Cash indictment is not about ‘free speech’

protos.com The US Department of Justice (DoJ) has explained why Tornado Cash founder Roman Storm’s motion to dismiss his criminal lawsuit has been inefffective. The DoJ reiterated that…

Pair linked to crypto investor kidnapping hand themselves in

protos.com A father-son duo handed themselves over to Hong Kong police on Wednesday after their family car was linked to the kidnapping of a crypto investor. According to the South…

The rise and fall of LocalMonero

protos.com The co-founder of LocalMonero, Alex Daneo, announced on Reddit that he will be ceasing operations after almost 7 years. Like the also-defunct LocalBitcoins service for…

Banksy owner jailed for $7.1 million crypto scam

protos.com Two UK men who owned Banksy artwork were jailed on Friday for stealing £5.7 million ($7.1 million) in crypto by using a fake crypto exchange mimicking Blockchain.com.…

Encrypted services Apple, Proton and Wire helped Spanish police identify activist

techcrunch.com As part of an investigation into people involved in the pro-independence movement in Catalonia, the Spanish police obtained information from the encrypted services Wire and…

Bitcoin podcaster secretly records Coinbase scammer’s confession

protos.com A cohort of lawless US-based youngsters are making millions of dollars by stealing crypto assets over the phone. In a revealing undercover recording, a telemarketing scammer…

When is full recovery not a full recovery? FTX

protos.com The FTX debtors in possession have announced a new reorganization plan that would result in nearly every single creditor getting recovery of their full claim amount plus…

Scoop: Justin Sun shot down BitTorrent moderation despite porn concerns

protos.com Justin Sun, whose Rainberry LLC acquired BitTorrent in 2018, pushed a no-moderation policy at the file-sharing giant, as stated in documents received by Protos. According to…

Expert in losing money Su Zhu says you can afford to lose $10k

protos.com Three Arrows Capital (3AC) co-founder Su Zhu has claimed that “$10,000 is an amount you can definitely afford to lose if you’re in the Western world because you’ll earn that…

ProtonMail hands info to government but says it’s not Google

protos.com ProtonMail, a managed email service popular with the crypto community, surrendered a user’s information to Spanish authorities, leading privacy rights advocates to claim it…

US sanctions Russian ransomware leader, offers $10M reward

protos.com The United States has revealed the supposed leader of crypto-ransomware group LockBit and is offering a $10 million bounty to anyone who can out key leaders from the hacking…

X has been a crypto scam-filled failure for Elon Musk

protos.com When Elon Musk was forced to purchase Twitter in 2022 for $44 billion, he claimed that there were a couple of specific reasons for the move: First, he would destroy the…

University speaker booed for shilling bitcoin in ayahuasca-fuelled speech

protos.com A speaker at Ohio State University was booed by thousands of students this weekend as he delivered a bizarre bitcoin-shilling commencement speech that he claims to have…

First bitcoin mining pool adds Stratum V2 feature to circumvent Bitmain

protos.com In response to recent news of Bitmain secretly vying for a majority of Bitcoin’s hash power, a publicly accessible bitcoin mining pool is offering an alternative for miners…

‘Genius’ AI-crypto project LPs lose $1.3M to ‘fake token’ hack, rug pull suspected

protos.com A fake version of AI-crypto project Genius’ token, GNUS, was used to drain Uniswap liquidity providers of $1.3M on Sunday. The attack involved creating an identical token on…

First and largest Bitcoin Rune is down 85% in a month

protos.com Bitcoin was supposed to gain a new suite of features after its 4/20 Halving date thanks to Casey Rodarmor’s Runes, his new fungible token protocol. User numbers and prices…