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$500 Million in Bitcoin Thrown Out With the Trash, Still the Strangest Crypto Tale Ever
$500 Million in Bitcoin Thrown Out With the Trash, Still the Strangest Crypto Tale Ever

12 Sep 2023, 11:49 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / James Howells accidentally threw a hard drive with 7,500 Bitcoin on it in 2013. He’s been trying to get the council to let him dig up the landfill ever since

 
Hivemapper Turns You Into a Sort of Google Maps and Pays You in Crypto To Drive Around
Hivemapper Turns You Into a Sort of Google Maps and Pays You in Crypto To Drive Around

6 Dec 2022, 15:12 UTC · By: Cristian Curmei / This mapping system based on decentralized functions pays you in Honey tokens to drive around town. Requires a specialized $550 dashcam and 20 minutes to set up

 
Justin Bieber’s Bored Ape NFT, Which He Bought for $1.3 Million, Is Now Almost Worthless
Justin Bieber’s Bored Ape NFT, Which He Bought for $1.3 Million, Is Now Almost Worthless

18 Nov 2022, 11:46 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The crash of crypto exchange giant FTX has further diminished faith in cryptocurrency, spurring panic selling of NFTs, specifically Bored Apes

 
14-Year-Old Bitcoin Millionaire Flaunts Expensive Car Collection That He Can’t Even Drive
14-Year-Old Bitcoin Millionaire Flaunts Expensive Car Collection That He Can’t Even Drive

13 Nov 2022, 03:39 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Self-titled crypto millionaire goes viral after showing off his car collection, which includes a Range Rover Autobiography and a Lamborghini Aventador

 
Porsche Warns Fans and Clients About Inauthentic NFTs Trading in Their Name
Porsche Warns Fans and Clients About Inauthentic NFTs Trading in Their Name

8 Nov 2022, 09:24 UTC · By: Humphrey Bwayo / both NFTs and Cryptocurrency use the same tech. NFTs are unique cryptographic tokens on a blockchain tied to an asset (physical or digital) such as art or music

 
Artist Damien Hirst Is Burning His Own Expensive Art Works Because of NFTs
Artist Damien Hirst Is Burning His Own Expensive Art Works Because of NFTs

12 Oct 2022, 10:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The Currency is a 2021 project by Hirst, and it entered a new phase with the burning of 1,000 dot paintings he made in 2016

 
Millionaire Burns $10 Million Frida Kahlo Artwork to Launch NFTs
Millionaire Burns $10 Million Frida Kahlo Artwork to Launch NFTs

28 Sep 2022, 09:59 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Is the NFT bubble ready to burst? Is private property yours to dispose of even in the case of an artistic monument? One entrepreneur is about to find out

 
Robot Face Backpack Is a $100K One-Off That Mishmashes Kanye West, Elon Musk and Crypto
Robot Face Backpack Is a $100K One-Off That Mishmashes Kanye West, Elon Musk and Crypto

6 Sep 2022, 10:05 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Presumably lost for 11 years, this Goyard backpack designed by and for Kanye West is now the property of anonymous collective Elon.Space

 
Robot Dogs, AI Will Help Man Who Accidentally Threw a Fortune in Bitcoin Into the Trash
Robot Dogs, AI Will Help Man Who Accidentally Threw a Fortune in Bitcoin Into the Trash

30 Jul 2022, 05:36 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / In 2013, James Howells accidentally discarded a hard drive containing 7,500 Bitcoin now worth some $180 million. He’s been trying to find it ever since

 
Elon Musk Needs to Shut Up About Dogecoin and Focus on SpaceX and Tesla
Elon Musk Needs to Shut Up About Dogecoin and Focus on SpaceX and Tesla

22 Jun 2022, 08:49 UTC · By: Benny Kirk / Don't get me wrong. It's not like Tesla and SpaceX aren't legitimate companies with a plethora of positive attributes for their respective industries

 
Jeff Koons’ Moon Phases Sculptures Sell for $2 Million Apiece, Are Headed for the Moon
Jeff Koons’ Moon Phases Sculptures Sell for $2 Million Apiece, Are Headed for the Moon

20 Jun 2022, 05:17 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / Each Moon Phases sculpture of the 125-unit collection comes with an NFT and a physical counterpart for the one that will be planted on the Moon later this year

 
Elon Musk Sued for $258 Billion, Alleged Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme to Blame
Elon Musk Sued for $258 Billion, Alleged Dogecoin Pyramid Scheme to Blame

18 Jun 2022, 05:00 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The self-titled DogeFather manipulated the crypto market to boost Doge price, then stood by as its value took a deep dive, investor claims in new lawsuit

 
Young Swedish Crypto Investor Buys Dream Bugatti Veyron With Ethereum
Young Swedish Crypto Investor Buys Dream Bugatti Veyron With Ethereum

3 Mar 2022, 11:05 UTC · By: Humphrey Bwayo / Carl Runefelt's only problem with his daily driven Bugatti Veyron is storage, turning circle and attention it brings. He's buying a Porsche Carrera GT next

 
Artist Shl0ms Blows Up Real Lamborghini Huracan, Turns Wreckage Into NFTs
Artist Shl0ms Blows Up Real Lamborghini Huracan, Turns Wreckage Into NFTs

24 Feb 2022, 08:12 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / $CAR project will auction off 888 NTFs of parts of the exploded Huracan to raise money for art charity, show that cryptocurrency can be used for good

 
World’s Largest Cut Diamond, The Enigma, Came From Space and Sold for Crypto
World’s Largest Cut Diamond, The Enigma, Came From Space and Sold for Crypto

11 Feb 2022, 09:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / It is believed the black diamond Enigma has interstellar origins and is a couple of billion years old. It is now named after a rising cryptocurrency

 
Someone Paid Over $11M in Bitcoins for Benetti's Timeless Oryx, in First-of-Its-Kind Deal
Someone Paid Over $11M in Bitcoins for Benetti's Timeless Oryx, in First-of-Its-Kind Deal

8 Feb 2022, 14:19 UTC · By: Cristina Mircea / Cryptocurrency is taking over the yacht market, with Benetti's classic Oryx yacht being purchased with Bitcoins worth over $11 million.

 
Ferrari's Planning To Double Down on Profit by Milking the Metaverse Trend
Ferrari's Planning To Double Down on Profit by Milking the Metaverse Trend

7 Feb 2022, 15:38 UTC · By: Florin Amariei / Creating a virtual world was meant to be fun, but now companies (carmakers too!) want to take advantage of it by monetizing every aspect. Here's Ferrari's idea

 
Nothing Says Digital Future Like Launching Crypto and NFTs With a $12M Gold Cube
Nothing Says Digital Future Like Launching Crypto and NFTs With a $12M Gold Cube

4 Feb 2022, 10:29 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / A spot of queen-stunting is always welcome and, it turns out, very handy when it comes to bringing attention to stuff that only exists in the digital world

 
Justin Bieber Buys, Grossly Overpays for Bored Ape NFT: $1.3 Million
Justin Bieber Buys, Grossly Overpays for Bored Ape NFT: $1.3 Million

2 Feb 2022, 07:06 UTC · By: Elena Gorgan / The pop star is the latest celebrity to join the NFT craze but his choice has watchers laughing, since he got a basic version of the Bored Ape

 
Elon Musk Would Have a Happy Meal, If He Can Pay with Dogecoin
Elon Musk Would Have a Happy Meal, If He Can Pay with Dogecoin

25 Jan 2022, 14:15 UTC · By: Monica Coman / Here’s a completely random thought that passed through Elon Musk’s head: enjoying a McDonald’s Happy Meal, if he can pay with cryptocurrency.