Fake Ledger App For Mac Steals Millions
In mid-April 2026, a well-crafted scam launched a fake Ledger Live application that made its way onto Apple’s Mac App Store, bypassing the company’s vaunted review process and resulting in nearly $9.5 million in losses from over 50 victims. The scam targeted semi-conscious cryptocurrency users—people who specifically use self-custody wallets precisely because they don’t trust […]
What Are Zero Human Companies?
The tech industry has a predictable pattern: Every few years, a “revolutionary concept” emerges that promises to fundamentally transform how we organise human activity, eliminate inefficiency, and democratise opportunity, but it turns out to be a scheme to funnel money out of your pocket into someone else’s pocket without delivering a working product. From the […]
What Is The Snail Mail Hardware Wallet Scam?
The internet is filled with scams that arrive via email, text message, or social media, and we’ve become desensitised to them, despite monthly news stories and reports on the subject. Billions have been stolen in the Bitcoin and adjacent crypto space, and if it’s not a world-record hack, it’s brushed under the carpet by survivorship […]
The Fall of FreeBitco.in
For over twelve years, FreeBitco.in stood as one of Bitcoin’s most enduring success stories—a simple faucet site that paid out free satoshis to millions of users worldwide, becoming synonymous with accessible Bitcoin adoption. Faucets were an early feature of Bitcoin’s distribution model: sites would spin up and offer free Satoshis to attract traffic and users […]
Hackers Exploit Trezor Support & Launch Phishing Scam
In late June 2025, hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor issued an urgent security warning to its users about a phishing campaign that exploited their customer support platform. Now, Trezor, like other hardware signing device manufacturers, is no stranger to data breach attacks and phishing scams. This is not the first time Trezor has come under attack; […]
Altcoins Running On Fumes With Gas Free Transfers
Despite all the marketing and hullabaloo about technical superiority, altcoin chains’ value propositions have not translated to the eroding of Bitcoin’s dominance, and while Bitcoin continues to march on and distance itself from other blockchains and their related tokens, these so-called layer one blockchains or utility tokens are finding it hard to sucker in new […]
How FTX Repayments Will Work
The collapse of FTX in November 2022 marked one of crypto’s largest failures, leaving millions of customers wondering about their funds and a plethora of memes and face-palm moments that will last a lifetime. While SBF has graduated from the Forbes list into a jail cell like many others before him and many more after, […]
Memecoin Mania, The Jokes On You
2024 is the comeback year; stocks are surging, gold has hit all-time highs, and so has its counterpart in digital gold; Bitcoin has set new all-time highs, and we’re safely in NGU territory. Whenever Bitcoin makes new highs, it’s a newsworthy moment, and it’s time for the legacy media and social media to punt it […]
What Are Withdrawal Email Phishing Scams?
The rise of cryptocurrencies has brought about numerous investment opportunities, and capital has gradually flowed into it over the last decade, turning Bitcoin into a trillion-dollar asset class. That’s no small change in the darknet market anymore; it’s a big boy asset class with large institutional and even national investors. While Bitcoin’s growth has attracted […]
What Are Bitcoin Recovery Services Scams?
Entering the Wild West of Bitcoin, it’s almost a right of passage to have some of your funds stolen or lost, with scams being a satoshi a dozen. Very few of us fall down the rabbit hole without making mistakes, taking on some losses; some say losses, but I say costly lessons. I completely understand […]