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Kanye West Reps “Satoshi Nakamoto” Hat After JP Morgan Cutoff

After getting the axe from America’s largest bank, the infamous rapper Kanye West may be gravitating towards Bitcoin.  The rapper has been spotted in multiple recent photos sporting a hat labeled “Satoshi Nakamoto” – the name of Bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator. Is Kanye a Bitcoiner? One of the photos was shared over social media on Sunday by Twitter user Quinten Francois. It shows West wearing a green jacket, rain boots, and the Satoshi hat, with a phone held to his face. Ye...

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Bitcoin Wins the Guinness World Record for First Decentralized Cryptocurrency

Bitcoin has made its first appearance in the Guinness World Records, now officially honored as the “first decentralized cryptocurrency.” Its inclusion was part of a larger category labeled “cryptomania”, under which many other blockchain-related phenomena were mentioned.  Famous Crypto Records According to the latest edition of the reference book, Bitcoin is the “oldest,” “most valuable,” and “first-decentralized” cryptocurrency.  Since its first-of-a-kind creation in 2009,...

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Hacker Drains $1M From BitKeep Wallet in Swap Feature Exploit 

Crypto wallet provider BitKeep Wallet has become the latest victim of an endless wave of DeFi hacks this month. Blockchain security firm PeckShield first raised the alarm on Twitter late Monday, and BitKeep published an update on the incident in the early hours of Tuesday.  After alerting the public, the security firm asked users to follow some steps to ensure the safety of their funds. The steps included connecting their wallet to a revoke.cash site and revoking their...

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People Buy the Wrong APT Token Before Aptos Listing, Apricot Finance Soars 70%

Aptos, the so-called “Solana Killer,” has been the most heavily discussed topic in the past couple of days. The protocol had previously vouched for being able to handle up to 160,000 transactions per second (TPS), and its native cryptocurrency, APT, is about to hit major exchanges in hours. Now, traders are flocking to the market, but it’s the wrong one. The price of the native cryptocurrency of Apricot Finance (APT) has soared by a whopping 70% today in an otherwise...

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‘Solana Killer’ Aptos Hits Mainnet But Fails to Charm Community

Four years of development later, the Aptos network finally hit the mainnet on October 17th, but the reception so far has been stale. Some users pointed out that Aptos had a lower transaction per sec (TPS) than Bitcoin and speculated that a “majority of tokens are either staked or ready to be dumped on retail investors.” Attracting VCs Even before the mainnet launch, Aptos had managed to attract VCs in the Web3 circles. The layer-1 blockchain was launched by former employees...

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