Trump family crypto venture World Liberty Financial Inc. is facing an investor revolt led by billionaire Tron founder Justin Sun, one of the project’s earliest and largest backers. The controversy arose after WLFI took out a $75 million loan backed by three billion of its own WLFI governance tokens, shortly before a large block of tokens is due to be unlocked for sale on the open market — something that usually drives a token’s price down as holders are finally allowed to sell. WLFI issues the USD1 stablecoin, which has a market cap of just over $4 billion. The problem with the loan, critics say, is that it could let…
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A girl is someone: Arya Stark actress Maisie Williams got a lot of attention when asking Twitter about Bitcoin (Photo: Wikipedia)‘Should I long Bitcoin? ‘Game of Thrones’ Arya Stark asks, Elon Musk answers
The actress that played the face-changing assassin asked Twitter for advice, major personalities from the tech and crypto space weighed in
Williams asked in a Nov. 16 tweet whether she should “go long on Bitcoin” and received answers from major cryptocurrency personalities and even tech tycoon Elon Musk himself. So did Grayscale Investments’ Barry Silbert, founder of crypto bank Galaxy Digital Mike Novogratz, and Tron’s Justin Sun who reacted quite enthusiastically...
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CRYPTO MUST-READS FOR JUNE 19, 2020
These Are The Crypto Stories You Should Be Following Today: Crypto can help free the Black community from the power of the dollar; researchers discover Tron may not be a scam; Mike Novogratz just might suck; blockchain can strip bias from AI
On a Juneteenth when the national dialog is dominated by #BlackLivesMatter, take a look at how “Bitcoin & Black America” author Isaiah Jackson thinks crypto can change his community. In the “keep an open mind” vein, researchers surprised themselves by finding Justin Sun’s Tron isn’t just legit, its ahead of 90% of the projects out there. Switching to keep an open jaw mode, after more than $350 million in losses over two years, Mike Novogratz says Galaxy Digital might “suck”—while sticking to his pro-Bitcoin guns. And if HAL had blockchain he might have opened the pod bay door on his own.
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A careless hacker lost $27,000 worth of stolen ETH. Of course, there's the remaining $67,973,000 to provide comfort.Upbit exchange hacker relieved of ill-gotten gains
After Whale Alert tweeted a warning that $27,000 in ether stolen from Korean exchange Upbit last year had been sent to his exchange, Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao acted quickly
At 12:06 p.m. on May 13, @whale_alert tweeted out a warning that 137 ETH stolen from the South Korean Upbit exchange last November had been transferred to a wallet address on Binance. Of course, there's another 341,863 ether still missing.
