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College alum surprised that his ayahuasca-inspired speech praising bitcoin got groans and boos

Pan said on LinkedIn he'd gotten "some help from AI (Ayahuasca Intelligence)" to write the speech, which featured meditation and singing.

A Hong Kong-based crypto exchange used deepfakes of Elon Musk to claim the billionaire was its lead developer

Authorities in Hong Kong put out a warning that a group claiming Elon Musk developed its crypto-trading software is likely using deepfakes.

To make sure grandmas like his don't get conned, he scams the scammers

Livestreamers who bait scammers find creative ways to waste their time. This makes for entertaining viewing. But as scams spike, one streamer, Kitboga, wants to protect as many victims as possible.

FTX says it will return money to most of its customers

FTX says that nearly all of its customers will receive the money back that they are owed, two years after the cryptocurrency exchange imploded, and some will get more than that.

Billions of public Discord messages may be sold through a scraping service

Cross-server tracking suggests a new understanding of "public" chat servers.

SEC crypto crackdown continues with Robinhood as lawsuit looms

Robinhood accused SEC of creating a "world of confusion around crypto."

Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets

Fraudster charged with crypto market manipulation defended Mango Markets scheme.

FTX Customers Will Get Back All the Money They Lost in the Collapse

Nearly all of FTX’s former customers will get back almost 100% of the money they lost at the time of the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse — if not more.Read more...

Binance founder’s sentencing hearing

Changpeng Zhao pleaded guilty to money laundering charges. Prosecutors have requested three years of prison time.

Change Healthcare Finally Admits It Paid Ransomware Hackers—and Still Faces a Patient Data Leak

The company belatedly conceded both that it had paid the cybercriminals extorting it and that patient data nonetheless ended up on the dark web.