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RFK Jr. proclaims his love of Bitcoin in a talk with Cardano founder

Crypto Twitter is currently debating whether RFK Jr. suffered his own on-air ‘Biden’ moment or took a thinly-veiled shot at Cardano when he signed off his interview with Charles Hoskinson by saying “I love the Bitcoin community.” The pair met virtually last Saturday to discuss all things politics and crypto as campaigns continue to ramp up ahead of November’s presidential elections.  All was going well until RFK signed off by saying, “I love the Bitcoin community, and I’m going to light it on fire when I get in there [The Whitehouse],” before the room fell silent.  NEW: RFK Jr. ends his fireside chat with Charles Hoskinson by saying , “I love the Bitcoin community.” Who is going to tell him? pic.twitter.com/tkfIyioeEJ — Bitcoin News (@BitcoinNewsCom) August 19, 2024 Read more: Charles Hoskinson names ‘good guys’ and ‘bastards’ in Cardano fairness list Hoskinson launched Cardano in September 2017 after splitting from the Ethereum team. His plan was to create a decent...

Scoop: California law allows scammer to add six Tether execs to startup

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Thanks to strange corporate rules and regulations in California and Colorado, a Chinese pig-butchering scammer and a US-based swindler of the elderly combined forces to pretend they were working directly with Tether and its executives, corporate filings show. Convicted criminal Mohammad Alam and Chinese national Sun Yunfeng — who is currently being sued by Google — were able to get away with including the names of all Tether executives in one company and naming another company ‘USDT Bank LLC.’ Sun Yunfeng leads the charge(s) Currently facing civil RICO charges from Google, Sun Yunfeng has managed to escape being served by one of the most massive corporations on Earth by simply hiding in China . The alleged serial Scam mer, who created dozens of Google Store apps to steal money from uns US pecting US ers to fund ongoing pig-butchering Scam s in Myanmar, Cambodia, and other parts of Southeast Asia, is the chairperson for a California-based company called Cryptocurr...

Zero Transfer scammer steals $20M USDT, gets blacklisted by Tether

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Zero transfer scams are becoming prominent in the crypto ecosystem with these phishing scams having already siphoned over $40 million in 2023. A scammer using zero transfer phishing attack managed to steal $20 million worth of USDT stablecoin on Aug. 1, before getting blacklisted by the stablecoin issuer Tether. According to an update from on-chain analytic firm Peckshield, A zero transfer scammer grabbed 20 million USDT from the victim address 0x4071...9Cbc. The intended address that the victim planned to send money to was 0xa7B4BAC8f0f9692e56750aEFB5f6cB5516E90570, however, it was sent to a phishing Address: 0xa7Bf48749D2E4aA29e3209879956b9bAa9E90570. The zero transfer phishing scam. Source: Etherscan The victim's wallet address first received 10 million USD from a Binance account. The victim then sent it to another address before the scammer jumped in. The scammer then sent a fake Zero USDT token transfer out from the victim’s account to the scammer 's phishing addres...