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According to BeInCrypto, blockchain investigator ZachXBT has revealed that Coinbase users have lost at least $150 million to social scams in the past year, with cases he independently confirmed alone reaching that amount. In the latest case, a user was scammed out of 110 cbBTC (worth $11.50 million) on the Base network. Attackers used instant exchanges to quickly launder funds, making tracking and recovery nearly impossible through cross-platform exchanges and bridging operations. Za...
Hurun Hoogewerf, chairperson and chief research officer of the Hurun Report, said that Hurun Gazelle enterprises are very young, with an average age of only 8 years, but the average value has reached 700 million US dollars. Currently in the stage of the fourth industrial revolution, the rapid development of AI is transforming many industries. More than a quarter of Hurun Gazelle enterprises are already using AI to transform industries, with the greatest impact in the fields of fintech, blockchai...
Blockchain investigator ZachXBT says there has been an increase in messages from people claiming to be victims of cryptocurrency heists. According to GitHub, there were at least 15 offline cryptocurrency heists in different countries last year, around 17 in 2023 and 32 in 2021.
Russia has sentenced a former chief investigator, Marat Tambiyev, to 16 years in prison after he was found to have accepted 1,032 BTC bribes, now worth $65 million, from a group of hackers. Last year, Tambiyev was accused of accepting BTC bribes from people associated with the "Infraud Organization", a hacking group being investigated by Russia's Investigative Committee. As part of the agreement, Tambiyev agreed not to confiscate the group's illegally obtained bitcoins. He subsequently received ...
