The Blockstream CEO told BTC Prague that Bitcoin markets still repeat centuries-old fraud patterns, and that separating custody from exchange solvency is the lesson the industry keeps dodging.
The disclosure gap is the real story: a UK political figure accepting unreported hospitality from someone tied to a convicted fraud strand that runs through a crypto casino.
A public prediction-market wallet lost 11 of 15 World Cup positions, posting a 26.7% win rate and a single ticket down nearly $5M, the kind of retail drawdown prediction markets rarely surface so…
The error was small (a 3-2 scoreline for a game that hadn't been played), but it lands on a company whose prediction-markets brand is built on 'truth-seeking'.
The bulk of the damage landed on the smallest wallets: retail buyers who chased the political-meme launch now hold tokens worth a fraction of what they paid.
Fat-finger or low-liquidity trap, the trade wiped out the position in a single fill on a low-liquidity LIT pool.
The 357x bag came from a wallet that lost money on the other 258 tokens it touched, a reminder that retail memecoin trading is a negative-sum game even when one trade prints.
Nansen data shows roughly two-thirds of $TRUMP buyers are sitting on losses, while fewer than 500,000 early wallets captured a combined $4.04B in gains.
Two out of every three TRUMP buyers are underwater, with the token down 97% from its $75 peak. Meanwhile, Trump's disclosure shows $636M from his own crypto bets.
Eight million tokens offloaded at a $26M market cap later grew past $260M, turning a quarter-million-dollar flip into a $2.38M 'what if' for one early recipient.
The sanctioned ruble stablecoin says data providers undercount its DeFi activity, while TRM Labs and Elliptic peg real volume closer to $75M and report volumes down 90%+ since January.
An Irish drug dealer's 2011 stash has now sent 1,500 BTC to exchanges in three months, with 4,500 BTC still sitting in cold storage.
A paste of the wrong string into the send field turned 1.34M tokens into a permanently locked contract-address donation.
The Criminal Assets Bureau has now pulled 1,500 BTC from the case, but Arkham-tracked wallets still hold roughly 4,500 BTC, worth more than $275 million at current prices.
French Interior Minister Nuñez reported a sharp year-on-year jump from 45 cases in 2025, with around 200 arrests so far as emergency security measures for crypto figures begin to bite.
The surviving token sits at a $320K market cap, but the wallet concentration reads as the real story: one address plus 20 fresh wallets hold enough supply to dictate any move in either direction.
A new state law shifts the burden of proof onto operators, turning every fraud complaint into a chargeback risk and accelerating the long, slow squeeze on the Bitcoin ATM industry.
Christopher Delgado admitted to wire fraud and money laundering after prosecutors say his firm ran a classic three-year payout scheme that burned at least $250M of investor money.
A suspect accumulated nearly half a token's circulating supply before dumping on a domestic exchange, in one of two manipulation cases the FSC escalated this week.
The losses are small relative to a major-cap move, but the pattern, a streamer distancing himself from a token seconds after a top buyer steps in, is the recurring failure mode of celebrity coin…
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