An anonymous Bitcoin whale gave away $86 MILLION to charity in 2017 and disappeared
In December 2017 a user calling himself "Pine" posted on Reddit: "I have more money than I can ever spend" and pledged 5,057 BTC to charity
Over 5 months he sent $5M to GiveDirectly to fight poverty in Africa, $5M to fund MDMA-PTSD trials at MAPS, $5M to the Open Medicine Foundation, $1M to the Internet Archive, $1M to the EFF, $1M to charity water and 54 more charities on top
He never doxxed himself and never claimed a tax deduction even though it would save him millions
Those 5,057 BTC are worth $394 million

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4h ago

$HENRY just went from $3,000 MC to $4M ATH
A dormant X account called Henry Martinez posted the name "Cole Allen" on December 21, 2023 and never tweeted again
Two years later, a 31 year old man named Cole Tomas Allen was identified as the suspect in the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting at the Washington Hilton yesterday

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Buy To Earn 💰️

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6h ago

This guy made $28 MILLION on eBay without ever selling something
His name is Shawn Hogan and in 2004 he built a free widget called "Geo Visitors" that showed bloggers where their visitors were coming from
The widget had a hidden second job every time anyone landed on a page with it installed, it silently dropped an eBay tracking cookie into their browser, and if that person bought anything on eBay in the next 30 days Shawn collected the commission
By 2006 the widget had stuffed 650,000 cookies and he was pulling in 15% of eBay's entire affiliate budget, making him the #1 affiliate out of 26,00

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8h ago

An NFT project locked $34 MILLION inside its own contract and the money is still there
In April 2022, former MLB player Micah Johnson launched Akutars, a 15,000 piece NFT collection sold through a Dutch auction on Ethereum
A developer named Hasan flagged a critical bug in the contract before the auction even ended, and the team dismissed him, calling the issue a "feature"
A few hours later, an anonymous user called USER221 used that exact bug to grief the contract, hoping to force the team to admit the problem, thinking he could unlock it once they did, but he couldn't
The contract was hard co

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9h ago

Mf has either balls of steel or didn't check his wallet for 3 weeks

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23h ago

Someone just broke the same encryption Bitcoin uses on a public quantum computer in 45 minutes
Yesterday an Italian researcher named Giancarlo Lelli broke a 15 bit elliptic curve key in 45 minutes on a publicly accessible quantum computer
It's the same math that secures every Bitcoin wallet, every Ethereum address and around $2.5 TRILLION in digital assets
He used around 70 qubits on cloud hardware, no national lab, no special equipment and won 1 BTC for it
The estimate of qubits needed to break Bitcoin's full key has dropped from 13 million in 2022 to under 500,000 weeks ago, then days later

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04-25 15:58

This is the type of conviction we need in the trenches again

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04-25 12:36

Imagine you turned $6,000 into $40,000 but the coin was from one year ago and you forgot about it 💀

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04-25 12:09

Tether has frozen $3.3 billion across 7,268 wallets and they just added $344 million more
On April 23, 2026 Tether froze $344 million in USDT across two Tron wallets in coordination with the US Treasury and OFAC, tied to sanctions enforcement against Iran
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said the department "sanctioned several wallets linked to Iran" and would "trace the money Tehran desperately tries to move out of the country"
It's the biggest single freeze in stablecoin history and it happened in one transaction
Whether the target deserved it or not is not the point, the point is that one c

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04-25 11:47

Someone found a way to wipe out Polymarket market makers with 10 cents per attack
Polymarket matches trades on an off chain order book, then settles them on chain seconds later
The gap between those two systems is the exploit
A trader places a trade against a market maker bot and the API confirms the fill instantly, but before anything hits the blockchain he cancels the trade on chain
The bot already hedged a position that never existed and now the attacker takes the free money
10 cents in gas per attack, 50 seconds per cycle, one wallet pulled $16,427 in a single day
It's called Ghost Fills a

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04-25 11:15

This 18yo made $13 MILLION leading the biggest hacker group of 2022
Arion Kurtaj was a kid from Oxford who ran Lapsus$, the biggest hacker group of 2022
From his mom's house, he hacked Microsoft, Nvidia, Samsung, Uber, Okta, T-Mobile, Vodafone, Ubisoft and Revolut in 6 months, accumulating 300 Bitcoin worth $13 million at the time
His method was to call the company's IT help desk pretending to be an employee locked out of his account, or spam staff phones with login approval requests at night until someone tired clicked yes and gave him full access
After hacking Uber he posted nsfw content on

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04-25 01:14

X just paid me $4,773.78 for the past two weeks of posting

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04-24 14:31

The "GODFATHER of Spam" made $3M pumping Chinese penny stocks
Alan Ralsky was an insurance salesman who got his license revoked in 1996
So he sold his car, bought 2 computers and started emailing strangers
By 2002 he was sending hundreds of millions of spam emails per day
His scam was simple: buy tiny Chinese stocks for cents, spam millions of people hyping them up and dump his shares once they bought in
In summer 2005 alone he made $3 million doing exactly this
He even built an 8,000 square foot mansion and called it "the house that spam built"
Then he did a proud interview with the Detroit F

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04-24 13:41

This guy turned $922 into $71.7K on $FLORK
He bought 2 days before the initial pump at roughly $50,000 MC and is still holding $150,000

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04-24 11:02

This 25yo British hacker sold $2 MILLION of stolen data and got caught from a single $250 transaction
Kai West ran the dark web’s biggest stolen data marketplace for 2 years under the name IntelBroker
He hacked Apple, AMD, Cisco, Nokia, HPE, General Electric, Europol, the US Pentagon and a database exposing the personal info of every member of the US Congress
He even built a LinkedIn profile claiming he worked at the UK’s FBI equivalent, which later said they had never heard of him
He only sold in Monero, because of it‘s privacy feature
In January 2023 an FBI agent asked to buy $250 of stolen

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04-23 21:58

The biggest piracy website in the world accidentally became a Bitcoin MILLIONAIRE
The Pirate Bay has been hosting pirated movies, software, and music since 2003 and every government on Earth tried to shut it down
In 2007 they tried to buy their own country to run the site from international waters but didn't raise enough
In April 2013 they added a Bitcoin address to the footer of the site without any announcement
In the first 24 hours 73 strangers sent them 5.56 BTC, worth $700 at the time
The same 5.56 BTC today would be worth over $400,000
Over the years they received more than 135 BTC in to

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