Month: May 2025

OKX to restart DEX with anti-abuse upgrades after Lazarus ‘misuse’

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Crypto exchange OKX has brought its decentralized exchange (DEX) aggregator back online with new security upgrades after it was paused in March to prevent further misuse by the North Korean hacking crew, the Lazarus Group. OKX founder and CEO Star Xu said in a May 4 statement to X that the DEX aggregator, OKX Web3, will resume with several new features, including a “real-time abuse detecting and blocking system.” A DEX aggregator is a service that pulls data from multiple decentralized exchanges and market makers and then presents it to…

Bitcoin pioneer and felon says he’s ‘vibe coding’ to restart the BTC faucet

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Early Bitcoin entrepreneur Charlie Shrem says he’s working on bringing back the Bitcoin faucet — a website that hands out Bitcoin to whoever solves CAPTCHA tasks, normally used to distinguish humans from machines. Shrem shared his new Bitcoin (BTC) faucet website — 21million.com — in a May 4 X post, which mimics the first-ever Bitcoin CAPTCHA page created by early Bitcoin innovator Gavin Andresen back in 2010. The 21million.com website currently displays a screenshot of a CAPTCHA task and a box to enter a receiving Bitcoin address, which was not…

Industry calls for urgent crypto law reforms after Australian election

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The Australian crypto industry has called on the newly reelected Labor government to urgently make digital asset legislation a top priority to ensure Australia doesn’t fall further behind global markets. The incumbent Australian Labor Party was returned in a landslide on May 3, picking up 54.9% of the two-party-preferred vote, against the Liberal and National Parties on 45.1%. Both parties went to the election promising crypto law reform, but only the opposition pledged to deliver draft legislation within 100 days. Joy Lam, Binance’s head of global regulatory and APAC legal,…

US Bitcoin ETFs bought 6x more than BTC miners produced last week

Spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs) in the United States bought up nearly six times as many Bitcoin as were produced by miners over the last week. The US-based Bitcoin (BTC) funds bought a whopping 18,644 Bitcoin over the past week when only 3,150 BTC were mined for the period, reported asset allocator HODL15Capital on May 4. This accumulation by institutions and ETF issuers represents almost six times the amount of the asset being produced since miners only generate 450 coins per day.   The total inflow for the past five trading…

Dogecoin (DOGE) Turns Red—But Is It a Dip Worth Buying?

Dogecoin started a fresh decline from the $0.1850 zone against the US Dollar. DOGE is now correcting losses and might find face hurdles near $0.1740. DOGE price failed to clear $0.1880 and corrected gains. The price is trading below the $0.1750 level and the 100-hourly simple moving average. There is a key bearish trend line forming with resistance at $0.1725 on the hourly chart of the DOGE/USD pair (data source from Kraken). The price could start a fresh increase if it clears the $0.1780 resistance zone. Dogecoin Price Dips Again…

XRP Price Momentum Stalls — Bulls on Pause or Done for Now?

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OpenAI ignored experts when it released overly agreeable ChatGPT

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OpenAI says it ignored the concerns of its expert testers when it rolled out an update to its flagship ChatGPT artificial intelligence model that made it excessively agreeable. The company released an update to its GPT‑4o model on April 25 that made it “noticeably more sycophantic,” which it then rolled back three days later due to safety concerns, OpenAI said in a May 2 postmortem blog post. The ChatGPT maker said its new models undergo safety and behavior checks, and its “internal experts spend significant time interacting with each new…

Ethereum Price Sees Healthy Pullback — Uptrend Still Safe

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Crypto Scams Soar in Nebraska as Romance Ruses Drain Savings

Crypto romance scams are surging in Nebraska, wiping out life savings through fake investments, phony documents, and manipulative online relationships. Nebraska Issues Crypto Scam Alert After Victims Lose Savings in Romance Investment Hoax Nebraska Attorney General Mike Hilgers issued a consumer warning last week following an alarming rise in cryptocurrency scams across the state, many […] Source CryptoX Portal