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Ubisoft stealth released an NFT game absolutely no one needs
31 Oct

Ubisoft stealth released an NFT game absolutely no one needs

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A new tactical RPG game for PCs from Ubisoft requires NFTs to play it. Per Ubisoft Quartz, the publisher’s NFT platform, has released Champions Tactics: Grimoria Chronicles without much fanfare.It’s not really billed as a Web3-based game in the trailer, probably because NFTs are as popular of an investment as Blackberry phones or fax machines. However, it still plays a major part in Champions Tactics. The game starts you with a handful of free temporary figurines to start you off but you’ll need to buy your own NFTs to compete using in-game currency or cryptocurrency that can reach into the…
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FTX advisor and Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison gets two years in prison
25 Sep

FTX advisor and Alameda CEO Caroline Ellison gets two years in prison

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A US district court judge sentenced Caroline Ellison, the former advisor and ex-girlfriend to the convicted crypto fraudster and FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, to two years in prison. reported Ellison’s sentence for her role in the $8 billion in fraud committed by the FTX crypto exchange that sent for 25 years back in March. Ellison will also have to serve three years of supervised release once she’s finished her prison sentence.Ellison pled guilty at the end of 2022 to just as Bankman-Fried was being extradited to the US from the Bahamas. US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Director of Enforcement…
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Crypto’s Shiny New Political Machine
23 Aug

Crypto’s Shiny New Political Machine

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Amongst the sea of American flags and ubiquitous blue signs at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago this week prowled Jonathan Padilla, the “crypto guy.”Wearing a baseball cap and conspicuous pineapple-print shirt, Padilla tramped the halls of the convention, talking crypto policy with anyone who would listen. In a selfie posted on Facebook, he posed with his arm around Senator Chris Coons of Delaware. “Senator Coons now knows about crypto,” reads the caption.Padilla is delighted with his new “crypto guy” moniker, assigned by fellow DNC delegates, which he sees as implicit recognition that cryptocurrency has arrived on the political agenda.…
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Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live
23 Jun

Deepfakes of Elon Musk are pushing crypto giveaway scams on YouTube Live

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A YouTube Live broadcast that ran for five hours today used a deepfake of Elon Musk to push a cryptocurrency scam, in the latest of a series of similar bogus streams. The video, which has has since been taken down, showed a clip of Musk that was meant to look like a livestream from a Tesla event, with an AI-generated version of his voice instructing viewers to visit a website and deposit their bitcoin, Ethereum or Dogecoin in order to participate in a giveaway. The message, playing on a loop, promised the system would then “automatically send back double the…
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Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions
22 Jun

Someone apparently hacked 50 Cent’s accounts to peddle a memecoin and made off with millions

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50 Cent and his millions of social media followers were reportedly the targets of a pump-and-dump crypto scam on Friday that resulted in hackers pocketing a good chunk of change before it was all shut down. The exact amount they made is unclear; the rapper initially wrote on Instagram that “whoever did this made $300,000,000 in 30 minutes” (per Cointelegraph), but the post has since been edited to say $3,000,000 as of this afternoon. I will not make a Get Rich or Die Tryin’ pun, I will not make a Get Rich or Die Tryin’ pun...The scammers used 50 Cent’s…
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