Protos headlines
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9/11 victims claim bitcoins seized from Chinese-Iranian mining pool
Victims and families of victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack filed a statement of interest in BTC previously seized by the US government from the LuBian.com mining pool. The filing references another suit that claims that LuBian was operated by the Iran and China Investment Development Group.' The...
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German Ledger reseller pauses sales following $86M draining incident
Official European Ledger reseller MediaMarkt is no longer selling the wallets following reports that some of the devices may have been fitted with physical spyware, leading to an $86 million draining incident. The German company told Cointelegraph that it has “removed all of the manufacturer’s...
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XRPL branded ‘cheap’ for paying infinite XRP exploiter just $250K
Crypto sleuth ZachXBT says the XRP Ledger Foundation (XRPL) can potentially look forward to losing upwards of $100 million next time it's hacked after the company paid a whitehat hacker just $250,000 for uncovering and reporting an infinte supply XRP bug. ZachXBT claimed XRPL “cheaply” paid the...
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Ledger spyware scare spreads beyond Southeast Asia
More examples of Ledger wallets being tampered with and fitted with physical spyware have allegedly been identified across Asia, Europe, and South America. Ledger users who bought hardware wallets from Malaysia-based reseller CryptoBilis were drained of over $86 million last week. Former Mt. Gox...
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Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev sold his Class A stock to zero… again
Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev has sold every share of his Class A stock to zero — the sixth time this year. However, he doesn't receive regular awards of new Class A stock as executive compensation. How's this possible? A post from October 8, which earned over 200,000 views, framed his latest...
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US defense giant’s top holder dumped 10% of its stake
General Dynamics’ largest shareholder, a family office that first acquired shares in the massive US defense contractor in 1959 , has slashed its stake by nearly $1 billion and was responsible for 9.6% of all General Dynamics stock that traded during the month of September. Those sales have cut its...
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American Express fined $350M for decade of suspected money laundering
American Express National Bank processed approximately $13 billion in suspected trade-based money laundering (TBML) between June 2014 and May 2025, including through accounts associated with bank insiders, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) found . The OCC and American Express...
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Ledger says Southeast Asia reseller linked to $86M draining
Ledger users in Southeast Asia who purchased their wallets from a reseller named CryptoBilis have reportedly been drained for over $80 million so far in an ongoing hack. Crypto analysts Specter and Tanuki42 first noted reports of Ledger users losing funds. They traced the addresses and came up with...
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China releases three-part documentary on pig butchering
The Chinese government has released a two-hour, three-part series, designed to expose more of the public to the horrors occurring via pig butchering scams on the southern border. The scams have become a serious issue in China, with scam call centers in the country increasingly relyings on Chinese...
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Anthropic bans users from bullying Claude
AI giant Anthropic updated its usage policy on Thursday, its first revision in more than a year, instituting a new ban on cruel treatment and abuse of its AI tool Claude. The new kindness rule comes into effect on November 12. Anthropic is the same company that has been warning about AI killing...
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Juventus FC stock is down 30% since Tether invested
Tether invested in Juventus, Italy's most successful football club, in February, 2025, taking an 8.2% stake. Since then, the buying has continued, with the stablecoin giant now holding over 11% of total Juventus shares and 7% of voting rights. Since Tether’s original investment, however, Juventus’s...
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How MiniMed ended up with 99% of its float sold short
An anomaly appeared on the Nasdaq stock exchange yesterday when, per an estimate by data provider Ortex, 99% of the shares in public medical tech company MiniMed Group Inc.'s float were sold-short. In contrast to buyers, short-sellers borrow stock to sell first, hoping to repay shares at a lower...
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GTA VI leaker is back and still pumping their crypto
Pseudonymous GTA VI leaker “Cyberleek,” who used spoilers to boost their crypto token, is now posting apparent gameplay footage of GTA VI characters naked. Cyberleek returned this week after an online hiatus and today shared 25 minutes of gameplay that they claim includes more unseen open-world...
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Winners of the Justin Sun Prize named… but still no prize
Justin Sun has over the past week been announcing winners of the Justin Sun Prize , an award created a few weeks ago to be given to mathematicians who solve long-standing problems in math by utilizing AI. So far, six problems have been solved by three individuals, according to award's website site...
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Initiate ‘bunker mode’ to protect crypto from AI, says Justin Drake
Senior Ethereum Foundation researcher Justin Drake, who has spent months warning about the supposedly imminent cybersecurity threat of quantum computing, has escalated his rhetoric with a prediction that AI will “break” elliptic curve cryptography within “months.” Warning the threat could arrive...
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Webull plunged 32% on report of ‘structural’ ties to China
Webull, a Robinhood competitor and all-in one brokerage with 28 million registered users, crashed as much as 32% in pre-market trading on Wednesday after a bipartisan US Congressional committee branded it a national security risk. The company facilitates trading in traditional equities and...
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SecondFi offers $8 for every unrecoverable NFT lost in $21M hack
Cardano wallet firm SecondFi finally launched a recovery portal for victims of the neo-finance platform’s $21 million hack , but will only pay roughly $8 for every unrecoverable NFT taken. SecondFi says victims looking to recover their assets will be assessed with an “incident snapshot” based on...
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Black Thursday revisited: MakerDAO keeper exploited for $500K
A legacy MakerDAO auction-keeper contract has been exploited for over $500,000, with the exploit reaching back to Black Thursday in 2020. Specifically, a CertiK analysis details how an attacker was able to remove 200 ETH from a contract described as a “legacy auction-keeper.” This auction-keeper...
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Inside EQIBank’s $84M seizure
EQIBank, used by Tether, had 80% of its assets frozen as part of a seizure targeting Capstone Limited, according to reporting from the Financial Times . According to the reporting, the relationship between Tether and EQIBank was related to Marlin Capital Partners. This reporting further claims that...
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Pudgy Penguins’ parent firm shuts down its own blockchain
Pudgy Penguins' parent company, Igloo Inc, announced the shutdown of Abstract Chain after “losing tens of millions of dollars over two years” trying to keep it afloat. Users have until December 15 to move funds off the Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain before they become inaccessible. The wind-down...
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Marcus Lemonis stocks are having a horrible year
Stocks tied to The Profit and The Fixer TV host Marcus Lemonis, including Camping World, Overstock, buybuy BABY, Container Store, and Bed Bath & Beyond, are having one of their worst years on record. Shares of Camping World, the RV dealer and outdoor equipment store he ran until the end of 2025,...
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Did Justin Sun just admit to wash trading?
Justin Sun, the creator of TRON and crypto billionaire suing the Trump family, posted a bizarre admission on X yesterday when he stated that his exchange Poloniex is now “the world’s only exchange used solely by the boss himself.” In essence, Sun, while perhaps being tongue-in-cheek, seemed to...
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Conduit sues Tether over $2.8M USDT freeze
A lawsuit filed by crypto payments firm Conduit has accused Tether of unlawfully freezing $2.76 million worth of its USDT and refusing to give it back for over a year. Conduit filed the lawsuit in New York yesterday. It claims that Tether froze the funds in September 2025 and repeatedly referred...
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Nike overpaid $7.9 billion buying back its own stock
Sportswear company Nike spent roughly $12.1 billion on buybacks for stock that would now be worth about $4.2 billion. The company paid an average $97.57 apiece for 124.4 million of its own shares since June 2022, and its stock opened for trading today at $33.70, leaving Nike’s purchases with a $7.9...
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Circle’s new USDC ambassador? DJ Khaled
Circle, the issuer of $74 billion stablecoin USDC, has shared a promotional photo of music producer DJ Khaled sporting the new USDC-sponsored Chelsea FC shirt, with CEO Jeremy Allaire posting “welcome to team USDC.” This is despite Khaled’s history of undisclosed shilling of crypto projects, which...
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Trump Mobile leaks data of Donald Trump staffers
Members of Donald Trump’s close staff are among 3,615 Trump Mobile customers whose data was leaked last week by ransomware group BYOD. Straight Arrow News ( SAN ) reported yesterday that the data, listed on BYOD’s leak site last week, included names, email addresses, telephone numbers, home...
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Donald Trump bought PTC before $22.6B buyout
Schneider Electric agreed on Monday to acquire publicly-traded software company PTC in which Donald Trump’s investment portfolio bought $500,000 worth of stock 77 days prior. Offering $22.6 billion all-cash at $205 per share, a 42% premium to Friday’s close, the buyout offer is 64% higher than the...
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Stablecoin Development Corp price pumps for no reason
Stablecoin Development Corp, which has been trading around a minimal $50 million marketcap for months, has suddenly seen its price jump tenfold in a matter of two weeks for absolutely no reason whatsoever. Tether is a major investor in the company, whose primary business appears to be earning...
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Trump administration is dumping money into cratering nuclear stocks
The stock prices of most publicly-traded nuclear companies that have received a loan, contract, or financial incentive from Donald Trump’s administration have declined since receiving that favor. Trump’s administration has handed the nuclear industry tens of billions of dollars of incentives in the...
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ZachXBT poses as money launderer to infiltrate Lazarus network
Crypto sleuth ZachXBT claims he was able to infiltrate a Chinese organized crime syndicate that's laundered over $1 billion in crypto for North Korean hacker collective Lazarus Group. Last week, Zach uncovered multiple Chinese Telegram and Discord accounts looking for help with laundering funds...