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Australian Consumer Watchdog Sues Meta Over Crypto Scam Ads
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has announced it will be suing Meta over the company’s failure to block crypto s...
Scam Alert: Beware of Telegram Bots Stealing Your Crypto with One-Time Passwords
Hackers are using Telegram bots to trick users into handing them access to their cryptocurrency accounts. One US citizen lost US$106,000 aft...
Twitter Adds Feature Enabling Ethereum Tipping
Social media giant Twitter officially enabled Ethereum tipping this week, extending payment options for its “virtual tip jar” fe...
YouTube Confirms Move into Web3, Says It Has ‘Incredible Potential’
YouTube has confirmed it’s stepping into Web3, flagging its “incredible potential” for content creators through the use of...
‘OnlyFans’ Set to Adopt ETH-Based NFT Profile Pics
Following the lead of Twitter, Reddit and YouTube, racy online subscription service OnlyFans has announced that its users can now use verifi...
Aave Devs Launches ‘Lens Protocol’ to Power Decentralised Social Media Platform Â
Aave, one of the top decentralised finance (DeFi) platforms, has officially launched its new decentralised social network built on the eco-f...
The Story of a Wannabe Rapper and How US Officials Seized $3.6 Billion in BTC
The US Justice Department has impounded US$3.6 billion in bitcoin and arrested a would-be rapper and her husband for conspiring to launder s...
Australian Billionaire Launches Criminal Case Against Meta for Fake Crypto Ads
Australian mining magnate Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest has launched criminal proceedings against Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta conglom...
Reddit Allows Users to Change Profile Pic to an NFT
Following Twitter’s lead earlier this month, Reddit is testing a new feature that would allow its 450 million users to set any NFT the...
Ethereum Users Can Now Chat with Each Other by Connecting Their Wallets
Blockscan, the team behind the Etherscan blockchain explorer, has released Blockscan Chat in beta, an Ethereum-based wallet-to-wallet instan...
Leading Crypto YouTube Channels Hacked with ‘One World Cryptocurrency’ Message
A coordinated attack has allowed hackers access to multiple YouTube accounts of more than 30 popular cryptocurrency influencer channels. At ...
NFT Hater Builds Plug-in to Auto-Block NFT People on Twitter
Mcclure, a developer, GitHub contributor and obvious hater of NFTs, has built a plug-in that allows the auto-blocking of NFT proponents on T...