Satoshi, $100,000 Bitcoin, and burning eyeballs: Our favourite stories of 2024

It was a large twelvemonth for DL News — our llamas were connected a tear, breaking quality and digging heavy into 1 of the hottest sectors connected the planet.

It was pugnacious to constrictive it down, but we managed to prime immoderate of our favourite stories of 2024.

Read on, chap llamas!

Binance’s Nigerian ordeal

Nigeria detains US and British Binance unit arsenic authorities probe marketplace manipulation

Osato Avan-Nomayo broke the quality that Binance executives were detained successful Nigeria implicit the company’s spat with officials successful the African nation. Osato was connected the crushed successful Lagos updating readers connected the stroke by stroke implicit the 8 period ordeal.

Who is Satoshi?

Was Len Sassaman the existent Satoshi? We asked his widow astir caller HBO exposé

Ekin Genç's scoop galvanised crypto involvement successful HBO’s large Satoshi Nakamoto “reveal.” Before the documentary aired, online bettors favoured the precocious Len Sassaman arsenic the existent Satoshi. (The HBO documentary yet picked Peter Todd arsenic its existent Satoshi. Todd scoffed astatine the idea.)

Satoshi filmmaker stands by assertion that Peter Todd created Bitcoin: ‘There’s acold much evidence’

Pedro Solimano spoke with Peter Todd and a filmmaker who claims that Todd is the existent Satoshi. It’s an amusing backmost and distant implicit the arguable documentary.

Polymarket rises

He’s up $700,000 and a atrocious Trump stake looms — confessions of a Polymarket addict

Liam Kelly was aboriginal successful reporting the increasing power of prediction betting tract Polymarket connected elections. DL News revealed an important caller dynamic arsenic mundane punters sought to gamify each facet of the satellite astir them. His portion detailing 1 bettor’s $700,000 haul connected the tract is besides rather funny.

Bitcoin’s large vulnerability

Quantum computers seen 5 years distant from breaking Bitcoin: ‘The menace is real’

Tim Craig spoke to experts who are raising alarm bells astir quantum computing. At involvement is not lone the billions and billions of Bitcoin sitting successful wallets that whitethorn soon beryllium casual to crack, but the precise ethos underpinning the crypto market.

Trump’s Wall Street ally

Who is Howard Lutnick? The Tether-backing Trump state fewer successful crypto person ever heard of

Liam Kelly’s communicative was precise aboriginal successful highlighting Lutnick’s relation arsenic an influential caller subordinate for crypto successful Trump’s circle, and DC writ large. Lutnick was a large sanction successful concern circles, now, he’s an adjacent bigger subordinate connected the planetary stage.

Ecstatic crypto bros

Donald Trump’s triumph augurs large changes for crypto — and the bros couldn’t beryllium happier

It’s hard to overstate the interaction of Trump’s triumph connected the crypto sphere. This communicative conscionable astir does it.

Pump.fun’s shocking streamers

A daze termination connected Pump.fun prompted outrage and a shutdown. It was each fake

Ben Weiss pulled backmost the curtain connected a shocking trend.

Bitcoin mining noise

Angry Texans combat Bitcoin mine’s 80,000 noisy machines successful trial for industry

A tiny Texas municipality has go a battleground. Angry residents kick the sound is causing headaches Bitcoin miners

Debunking debanking

Crypto ‘debanking’ is simply a raging contented successful Washington — is the signifier real?

VC elephantine Marc Andreessen kicked disconnected an online statement astir whether crypto firms were victims of “debanking,” oregon regular hazard management. Aleks Gilbert dissected the controversy.

ApeFest oculus pain

Yuga Labs says ultraviolet lights ‘likely’ origin of oculus symptom astatine ApeFest Hong Kong

Ultraviolet lights seemingly caused oculus symptom successful dozens of attendees astatine a Hong Kong NFT fest.

Callan Quinn went to ApeFest successful Hong Kong, the lawsuit wherever attendees aboriginal complained of oculus pain. It turned retired the lawsuit utilized UV-A lights, which are typically utilized successful suntanning salons. Callan took photos, and they’re wild.

Crypto4Winners

This crypto money says it tripled investors’ money. The catch? It’s owned by a convicted fraudster

Tim Craig dug into this money that didn’t disclose its backers. One of the radical down the task has a chequered past with the law.

Worldcoin scammers

Worldcoin’s eyeball-scanning stations were gamed by hustlers who exploited the homeless

Liam Kelly recovered a radical successful Berlin that enlists stateless radical to scan their eyeballs successful instrumentality for crypto. The recruits raked successful astir $700,000 worthy of tokens.

Trista Kelley is DL News’ editor-in-chief.