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North Korea Says It Didn’t Steal $577 Million in Crypto — the Blockchain Disagrees
Pyongyang has a response to the mounting evidence that state-affiliated hackers have extracted hundreds of millions of dollars from the altcoin ecosystem since the start of 2026. That response is, in its entirety: no we didn’t, and the people saying we did are politically motivated liars. The specific language North Korean officials deployed — “absurd…
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Tether Just Turned Its Wallet Into a Bitcoin On-Ramp — and the Faucet Is the Most Interesting Part
The Bitcoin faucet is one of the oldest concepts in the altcoin ecosystem’s history. The first one appeared in 2010, built by Gavin Andresen, who gave away 5 BTC per visitor — worth fractions of a cent at the time — specifically to get Bitcoin into as many hands as possible and accelerate the kind…
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The RWA Market Just Grew 420% in Months — and It’s Only Getting Started
Numbers like 420% growth in a single year tend to get dismissed as altcoin hype — the kind of figure that shows up in bull market marketing decks and disappears when the cycle turns. The tokenized real-world asset market’s surge past $30 billion deserves a different reading. Because unlike most altcoin growth narratives, this one…
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Latin America Isn’t Buying Bitcoin Anymore — It’s Buying Dollar Stability
The narrative around Latin American altcoin adoption has always carried a Bitcoin-centric framing. The region discovers crypto, the region buys Bitcoin, Bitcoin protects savings from inflation. It was a clean story, and for a period it was largely accurate. In 2025, the data has moved decisively past it. Stablecoins now account for 40% of all…
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Hollywood Has a Take on Bitcoin — and Jeffrey Epstein Is Somehow Involved
Ben McKenzie wants you to believe that the altcoin industry is a pyramid scheme, that crypto exchanges are unregulated casinos, and that somewhere in the founding mythology of Bitcoin there’s a thread that connects back to Jeffrey Epstein. The actor best known for playing a cop on The O.C. and Gotham has spent the last…