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Why crypto should have listened to Dilbert protos.com/why-crypto-s...
Why crypto should have listened to Dilbert
The author of the Dilbert comics had wise lessons for the crypto industry as early as 2013, if anyone would have listened.
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January 14, 2026 at 12:36 PM
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Eric Adams was accused of bribery, now he’s rug-pulled NYC Token protos.com/eric-adams-w...
Eric Adams was accused of bribery, now he's rug-pulled NYC Token
Eric Adams, the former mayor of New York City, announced his support for NYC Token, and minutes later the token was rug-pulled.
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January 13, 2026 at 5:36 PM
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Crypto Twitter says Nikita Bier killed X — and ‘gm’ protos.com/crypto-twitt...
Crypto Twitter says Nikita Bier killed X — and 'gm'
Nikita Bier, Elon Musk’s head of product at X, is taking heat for changing the recommendation algorithm of Crypto Twitter.
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January 13, 2026 at 12:01 PM
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Michael Saylor is running out of ways to boost Strategy’s BTC per share protos.com/michael-sayl...
Michael Saylor is running out of ways to boost Strategy's BTC per share
Strategy bought a lot of BTC last week, but shareholders still have less per share now than a couple of months ago.
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January 12, 2026 at 7:54 PM
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Legacy DeFi platforms lose $27M as hacking spree continues into 2026 protos.com/legacy-defi-...
Legacy DeFi platforms lose $27M as hacking spree continues into 2026
An ongoing hacking spree targeting legacy DeFi projects has claimed a further $27M, with Truebit and Futureswap the latest victims.
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January 12, 2026 at 6:47 PM
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Trump’s ‘unprecedented’ assault on the Federal Reserve protos.com/trumps-unpre...
Trump's 'unprecedented' assault on the Federal Reserve
The Donald Trump administration has escalated its assault on the Federal Reserve to an "unprecedented" level, sending grand jury subpoenas.
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January 12, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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Crypto Twitter melts down after algorithm change triggers X bot flood protos.com/crypto-twitt...
Crypto Twitter melts down after algorithm change triggers X bot flood
Following an apparent bot takeover, influencers dived into a thread with X Head of Product Nikita Bier to complain about the torrent of spam.
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January 12, 2026 at 2:18 PM
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Bitcoin Core promotes first Trusted Keys maintainer in three years protos.com/bitcoin-core...
Bitcoin Core promotes first Trusted Keys maintainer in three years
Senior Bitcoin developers have promoted TheCharlatan, aka "sedited," to Trusted Key holder with GitHub Commit access to Core’s master branch.
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January 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
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Does Cuba have any state bitcoin that the US could seize? protos.com/does-cuba-ha...
Does Cuba have any state bitcoin that the US could seize?
With the US seizure of Venezuelan oil and possible BTC holdings, speculation about an overthrow of Cuba is next.
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January 9, 2026 at 7:31 PM
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Trump claims Sam Bankman-Fried is not getting a pardon protos.com/trump-claims...
Trump claims Sam Bankman-Fried is not getting a pardon
Donald Trump has claimed in an interview that he has no intention of pardoning convicted cryptocurrency fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried.
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January 9, 2026 at 5:37 PM
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Crypto scammer linked to world’s largest seizure of weight loss drugs protos.com/crypto-scamm...
Crypto scammer linked to world's largest seizure of weight loss drugs
Fasial Tariq ran the "scam" Paradox crypto game and has since been linked to a unit housing $335,000 worth of illegal weight loss drugs.
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January 9, 2026 at 12:25 PM
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Crypto influencer Scooter explores defamation claim against Burwick Law protos.com/crypto-influ...
Crypto influencer Scooter explores defamation claim against Burwick Law
Scooter is exploring defamation remedies after Burwick Law claimed crypto influencer Scooter threatened "livelihood-destroying campaigns."
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January 8, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Zcash core team quits over restructuring conflict, ZEC down 20% protos.com/zcash-core-t...
Zcash core team quits over restructuring conflict, ZEC down 20%
A group of major Zcash developers has resigned over a restructuring dispute that sought to attract external investment for the Zashi wallet.
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January 8, 2026 at 1:42 PM
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Crypto gold promoters claim 80% APR amid speculative mania protos.com/crypto-gold-...
Crypto gold promoters claim 80% APR amid speculative mania
Crypto promoters are trying to lure precious metal speculators with dubious claims of ultra-high yield farms in tokenized gold.
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January 8, 2026 at 12:08 PM
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Strategy’s bitcoin premium vanishes as mNAV crashes to 1x protos.com/strategys-bi...
Strategy’s bitcoin premium vanishes as mNAV crashes to 1x
The colloquial metric of investor confidence in Strategy, its multiple-to-Net Asset Value or mNAV, has fallen to 1x its BTC holdings.
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January 7, 2026 at 7:37 PM
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⚽️ CHART: Every crypto sponsor in this year’s Premier League protos.com/chart-every-...
CHART: Every crypto sponsor in this year's Premier League
The number of Premier League football teams entering into partnerships with crypto sponsors fell this year from 14 to 13.
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January 7, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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Venezuela-focused neobank Kontigo pays back users after $340K USDC hack protos.com/venezuela-fo...
Venezuela-focused neobank Kontigo pays back users after $340K USDC hack
Kontigo, which allows Latin American users to dodge inflation by using "digital dollars" has been forced to reimburse over 1,000 accounts.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:21 PM
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Uganda threatens to block Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat ahead of elections protos.com/uganda-threa...
Uganda threatens to block Jack Dorsey’s Bitchat ahead of elections
Uganda’s director of government communications threatened to block messaging service Bitchat ahead of next week's elections.
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January 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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Bitcoin Core pulls v30 downloads over bug that can scrub Satoshi-era wallets protos.com/bitcoin-core...
Bitcoin Core pulls v30 downloads over bug that can scrub Satoshi-era wallets
Bitcoin developers overlooked a major bug in Core v30 that could have led to catastrophic loss of BTC for full node wallet users.
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January 6, 2026 at 11:20 AM
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Kraken customer data allegedly for sale on dark web protos.com/kraken-custo...
Kraken customer data allegedly for sale on dark web
A dark web monitoring service has flagged a disturbing listing by someone who claims to be able to access Kraken customer details.
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January 5, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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Maduro Polymarket bet raises insider trading concerns protos.com/maduro-polym...
Maduro Polymarket bet raises insider trading concerns
A Polymarket trader made $437K betting on the exit of Venezuela’s president Nicolás Maduro in the hours leading up to his capture.
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January 5, 2026 at 3:54 PM
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Ledger confirms customer data leaked in third-party Global-e breach protos.com/ledger-confi...
Ledger confirms customer data leaked in third-party Global-e breach
Global-e hasn't said how many users have been affected but Ledger says the incident "remains separate to the operations of any Ledger device."
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January 5, 2026 at 1:17 PM
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2025’s biggest crypto hacks: From exchange breaches to DeFi exploits protos.com/2025s-bigges...
2025's biggest crypto hacks: From exchange breaches to DeFi exploits
Protos takes a look back at 2025's biggest, strangest, and most significant crypto hacks. Have we learned anything?
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December 31, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Even Ethereum treasury companies are selling ETH to pay off debt protos.com/even-ethereu...
Even Ethereum treasury companies are selling ETH to pay off debt
This month, Peter Thiel-backed treasury ETHZilla sold $74.5M of its ETH holdings to retire some of its bonds.
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December 23, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Javier Milei hired Hayden Davis with secret contract, report protos.com/javier-milei...
Javier Milei hired Hayden Davis with secret contract, report
The contract, which was signed on January 30, stipulated that Hayden Davis would give unpaid blockchain advice “ad honorem.”
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December 23, 2025 at 3:32 PM