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North Korea denies the Binance hack. On Tuesday, Kim Yo Jong, the sister of Kim Jong Un, called the FBI’s attribution “a trite provocation” through state news agency KCNA. The FBI disagrees. It formally named North Korea’s TraderTraitor unit on October 31, and the US Secret Service confirmed it has been tracing and freezing the stolen funds since the first minutes of the attack. This post covers what each side said, why the evidence points one way, and the one viral claim about North Korea’s GDP that doesn’t survive a fact check.What North Korea SaidThe statement came from the top.…
Brazil’s largest crypto exchange went dark on deposits and withdrawals this morning. Mercado Bitcoin says it found and contained a security incident in one of its systems overnight. The exchange insists customers lost nothing and no data leaked. Meanwhile, blockchain trackers are watching tens of millions of dollars move out of its wallets.So here is what we know, what we don’t, and what to do if you keep funds there.What happened at Mercado BitcoinThe first official statement landed on X on November 2, translated from Portuguese. Mercado Bitcoin identified a security incident early in the morning and says it was…
Midterms and Bitcoin have a clear historical pattern. Bitcoin tends to chop or dip into the election, then rallies in the twelve months after it. The vote is tomorrow, November 3. Bitcoin sits near $77,800 after a tech-led sell-off last week. Polymarket prices Democrats at 88% to take the House. In this post I cover what history says, why tech stocks matter, and how I am positioned for the days after the midterms.What history says about midterms and BitcoinBitcoin has lived through three midterms with real liquidity: 2014, 2018 and 2022. After each one, BTC closed the following twelve months…
Ethereum trades around $2,300 on Monday, November 2. It is coming off a 13% red October and the largest hack in crypto history. I entered an ETH long at $2,284 this morning, with my stop at $2,230. This post covers the macro week ahead, the price action behind the dip and the chart levels I am watching for the bounce.Where ETH Stands Right NowETH printed a low near $2,170 on Friday, right as the Binance news hit the market. Since then it has clawed back to the $2,280 to $2,310 range. Sunday closed green and Monday opened green. That is…
To buy PENGU, create an account on a crypto exchange, complete verification, deposit money, and buy on the PENGU/USDT spot market. PENGU is the official coin of Pudgy Penguins, one of the best-known NFT brands in crypto. Since all the big exchanges list it, buying takes minutes. A trading app or a Solana wallet works too. No shill here. I am simply showing how to buy PENGU, along with a few memories from the NFT days.Pudgy Penguins and PENGU in ShortPudgy Penguins began in 2021 as a collection of 8,888 penguin NFTs on Ethereum. A year later, Luca Netz bought…
Robinhood vs Coinbase comes down to one question. Do you want a broker that added crypto, or a crypto exchange that added stocks? Robinhood is cheaper for simple buys and keeps stocks and coins in one app. Coinbase, however, lists far more coins and has the stronger pro trading tier. Both are public US companies, so neither is a reckless pick. Below, we compare fees, coins, staking, safety and each company’s own blockchain.Quick verdict: Pick Robinhood for cheap, simple buys of major coins next to your stocks. Choose Coinbase for altcoin range, USDC rewards and Advanced Trade.Robinhood vs Coinbase at…
A Solana airdrop checker scans a Solana wallet address and lists the airdrops it qualified for. It shows what you can still claim, what you already claimed and what you missed. Solana addresses work differently from Ethereum ones, so the checker has to support Solana. Our airdrop eligibility checker scans Solana addresses alongside Ethereum and other networks.Why bother? Solana has handed out some of the biggest retroactive airdrops in crypto. Many people who qualified never noticed. Others noticed too late, after the claim window had closed.This guide shows you how to check a Solana wallet and why so many people…
In 2015, five poker players and one developer tried to build a winning poker bot. We had solver source code, ten servers, and more than a year of work. The bot never got past break even on the $1 games.This is the story of my most fun failed project.Costa Rica and the year of the solverIn 2015 I lived in Costa Rica with three poker friends. Poker was my whole focus. My game was improving, and I was moving up in stakes.That year, poker solvers came on the scene. A solver is software that calculates the mathematically best play for…
A crypto pump and dump is a scheme where a group buys a token cheaply, inflates the price with coordinated hype, and then sells to the buyers they attracted. Once the organizers exit, the price collapses. Late buyers absorb the losses.The trick is far older than crypto. Stock promoters ran it a century ago. However, thin liquidity and anonymous wallets make meme coins the perfect playground. You can find the short definition in our meme coin glossary, and the full picture below.How a Pump and Dump WorksEvery scheme moves through three phases.Accumulation. The organizers buy quietly while the price is…
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are the founders of the Gemini exchange, the first Bitcoin billionaires, and the twins who sued Mark Zuckerberg over Facebook. They put their $65 million settlement into Bitcoin in 2013, filed the first Bitcoin ETF the same year, built the most regulated exchange in the US, bought the NFT platform Nifty Gateway, and took Gemini public in September 2025. A year later the stock is down more than 80% and they have put $100 million of their own Bitcoin back in to keep the plan alive.This profile covers the whole arc, from Harvard rowing to Nasdaq…
