Storia crypto
BitConnect: promised returns and the supposed trading bot
The lending promise, the alleged source of payouts and the separate court records for founder Satish Kumbhani and promoter Glenn Arcaro.
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BitMEX Bank Secrecy Act case
BitMEX was fined $100 million in January 2025 after pleading guilty to violating the US Bank Secrecy Act.
Tipi di truffa
Blind-signature phishing
A wallet displays opaque bytes and asks the user to trust the connected page.
Fondamenti delle blockchain
Blob data for rollups
EIP-4844 blobs provide temporary data space priced apart from execution gas.
Storia crypto
BlockFi interest accounts
BlockFi's 2022 SEC settlement concerned interest accounts and disclosure around lending activity.
Ricerca MASTR
BlockLayerPod and BeaconLayerPod: the interview invitation
MASTR's archived research follows the social-engineering stage before a wallet loss.
Fondamenti delle blockchain
Blocks: ordered transactions and a commitment to state
A block links execution history to the chain's verification rules.
Reti e blockchain
BNB Chain and Binance are different subjects
Separate the exchange's legal record from BSC's validator and application risks.
Bitcoin: recupero e Lightning
BOLT 11 invoices: what a Lightning payment request actually says
A signed invoice carries payment conditions; it is neither a reusable bank account nor proof of delivery.
Ricerca MASTR
BONK DAO: the governance question in MASTR's July essay
Public voting records can be transparent while voting power remains concentrated.
DeFi e governance
Bridge trust models
Bridges lock, burn, mint or release assets from cross-system messages.
DeFi e governance
Bridged assets: the same symbol does not mean the same claim
Follow the minting and redemption path across both networks.
DeFi e governance
Bridges and wrapped assets
Moving value between chains adds a verification and custody relationship.
Infrastruttura e proprietà · Cross-chain systems
Bridges: a message, a verifier and a claim on another chain
Moving an asset across chains usually creates dependencies between two state machines. Follow the verifier and the redemption route.
Struttura del mercato
Bundled launch wallets
One economic position is split across many addresses to imitate distribution.
Storia crypto
Bybit February 2025 theft
The FBI attributed the theft from Bybit to North Korean TraderTraitor actors.
Reti e blockchain
Cardano: extended UTXO and application risk
Transaction structure helps explain execution, but cannot validate a project's promises.
Storia crypto
Celsius CEL market support
US prosecutors described Celsius purchases of CEL and misleading representations around the token and company health.
Binance, CZ e Trump
Centralisation: who controls which decision?
Validators, administrators, custodians and public accounts exercise different forms of power.
Fondamenti delle blockchain
Chain reorganisations: why recent inclusion can change
A node can replace its recent chain view when a different valid branch becomes canonical under the consensus rules.
Metodi di ricerca
Checking a crypto-provider authorisation
Match the legal entity, domain and service to the relevant register.
KOL e promozione
Cherry-picked leaderboards
Rankings select profitable periods, survivors or favourable return definitions.
Struttura del mercato
Circulating-supply manipulation
Controlled or transferable tokens are excluded from advertised circulation.
Wallet e sicurezza
Closing a Solana token account: check where its SOL goes
A cleanup transaction can recover account funding, but its destination is still part of the signed request.
Tipi di truffa
Cloud-backup seed exposure
Recovery material is copied into photos, notes, email or synchronised storage.
Tipi di truffa
Cloud-mining fraud
A seller offers remote hash power with fixed or implausibly stable returns.
Storia crypto
Coincheck NEM theft
Coincheck reported a major theft of NEM held by the exchange in January 2018.