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A spokesperson for OpenSea did not respond to three emails from BuzzFeed News requesting comment on the accounts and Wednesday’s takedowns. Morgan and Lichtenstein did not respond to a request for comment via Twitter DM. When attempting to view NFTs minted by Morgan, a popup states: “The item you tried to visit is no longer …
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A husband and wife were arrested in Manhattan on Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5 billion in stolen cryptocurrency. In an announcement, the Department of Justice called its confiscation of 94,000 bitcoins, which amounts to $3.6 billion, the agency’s “largest financial seize ever.” The department named Ilya Lichtenstein and Heather Morgan as the individuals …
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Getty Image Recently, news broke that Cancun-loving Republican Senator Ted Cruz had gotten into crypto. But unlike other Bitcoin groupies who just want to rave about the limitless possibility of digital currency to uninterested strangers at the bar or on Twitter, Cruz suggested the new frontier of financial tech might be the thing that could …
Getty Image Ed Sheeran’s Suffolk estate is already the stuff of legends. The man behind the first song to ever garner 3 billion Spotify streams, (“Shape Of You,” duh) has an estate with over seven buildings including a pub, a gym, a nearly completed chapel, and a wildlife pond. Also a noted environmentalist, he’s even …
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Getty Image As with most dramatic pop culture moments, it all started with an Instagram story. “Are you guys into crypto????” Kim Kardashian posted to her 250 million Instagram followers last June. “This is not financial advice but sharing what my friends just told me about the Ethereum Max token! A few minutes ago Ethereum …
Getty Image Back in September, Reese Witherspoon dipped her toes into the cryptocurrency waters by purchasing her first etherium coin and letting Twitter know that she was now entering the theoretically lucrative world of non-fungible tokens, better known as NFTs. Since then, Witherspoon’s crypto-evangelicizing was contained to an occasional retweet here and there. Nothing too …
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