⚠️BREAKING: John Lick has been arrested, the FBI has confirmed.
Authorities state he was arrested yesterday on the island of Saint Martin by French authorities.
During the arrest, The FBI seized three Trezor devices along with multiple cryptocurrency-related hard drives.
Where I have been.
For staters there is absolutely NO crypto news besides crypto is going down to the earths core. Other than that just a few stolen assets over the past couple of weeks totaling $200M. I’ll try and post more if you like me that much.
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🚨 JUST IN: Zcash co-founder was confirmed to have met with Jeffrey Epstein
Newly leaked Epstein files indicate that Zcash co-founder met with Jeffrey Epstein, with the Zcash team having stepped down weeks before the documents became public, a timing the public have noted weird.
⚠️JUST IN: A victim lost 4,556 ETH (~$12.4M) after copy-pasting a lookalike wallet address.
The attacker mimicked the victim’s OTC deposit address for months and sent a small transaction ~32 hours before the victim mistakenly transferred the funds to the attacker.
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⚠ JUST IN: The U.S. government have sezied over $400M in crypto assets tied to darknet mixer Helix.
Helix processed illicit transactions between 2014 and 2017, laundering at least 354k BTC, worth roughly $300M at the time.
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⚠️JUST IN: Co-founder of Ethereum, Vitalik Buterin, has donated 16,384 ETH (~$44M) to support privacy and security projects.
He has previously funded privacy-focused tools such as Signal, with this latest donation, valued at ~$45M, aimed at strengthening user privacy.
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⚠️JUST IN: Netflix is set to release a documentary on threat actor Malone Lam
ZachXBT was invited to take part but declined, stating that the project is glamorizing threat actors and portraying them as “cool.”
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🚨 JUST IN: Tether has launched USAT, a federally regulated dollar backed stablecoin.
USAT is a dollar-backed stablecoin regulated in the U.S. and issued by Tether. Despite this, it remains centralized, with the company freezing over $3.3B in user funds since 2023.
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⚠️ JUST IN: Notorious fraudster John @Lick has spent over $1.3M on Telegram NFTs and usernames (@skid), while giving away $500K+.
Despite being under investigation by the FBI and ZachXBT, John has continued purchasing some of Telegram’s most expensive usernames.
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