UK woman tossed ex-boyfriend's £569 million bitcoin hard drive
A UK woman has revealed she accidentally disposed of a hard drive containing her ex-boyfriend James Howells' Bitcoin fortune, now valued at a staggering £569 million ($711 million).
Halfina Eddy-Evans, who shares two teenage sons with Howells, told the Daily Mail that nearly a decade ago, she discarded the hard drive during a cleanup at his request. “Yes, I threw away his rubbish. He asked me to,” she explained. “I had no idea what was inside. Losing it wasn’t my fault.”
Howells, an IT worker from Newport, Wales, mined 8,000 Bitcoins in 2009 when the cryptocurrency was worth next to nothing. Years later, he realized the hard drive, containing the private key needed to access his Bitcoins, had been lost. It now lies buried beneath an estimated 100,000 tonnes of waste in a Newport landfill.
Frustrated by repeated refusals to excavate the landfill, Howells has filed a £495 million ($619 million) lawsuit against Newport City Council. He accuses the council of blocking access to the site, which he believes holds his life-changing fortune.
However, the council has refused to grant excavation permits, citing significant environmental risks and logistical challenges. A spokesperson for the council stated, “Excavation is not possible under our environmental permit, and such work would have a huge negative impact on the area.”
Eddy-Evans, meanwhile, says she has no interest in the fortune even if it is recovered.
Despite the legal and environmental hurdles, Howells remains determined to retrieve the hard drive. He has promised to donate 10% of the recovered fortune to transform Newport into “the Dubai or Las Vegas of the UK.”
Breaking: Bitcoin Miner MARA Buys Another 5771 BTC As Price Nears $100k
Bitcoin miner MARA Holdings has expanded its cryptocurrency portfolio by purchasing an additional 5,771 BTC for $572 million. The acquisition was completed at an average price of $95,554 per Bitcoin, according to the company.
With its 0% convertible note offering, the company has achieved a 35% BTC yield per share and now owns a total of approximately 33,875 BTC, currently valued at $3.4 billion based on Bitcoin’s spot price of $99,000. This move follows Bitcoin’s ongoing rally, with the cryptocurrency nearing the $100,000 milestone amid increasing institutional demand and limited supply.
MARA Holdings has leveraged its 0% convertible senior note offering to fund its Bitcoin acquisitions and other corporate activities. The company raised $1 billion from its latest offering, generating $980 million in net proceeds after fees and discounts. MARA revealed that a portion of these proceeds has been used to purchase 5,771 BTC at an average price of $95,554 per Bitcoin.
This recent acquisition reinforces MARA’s strategy to accumulate Bitcoin as a corporate asset. The company now holds approximately 33,875 BTC, solidifying its position as one of the largest Bitcoin-holding miners globally. In a statement, the company reported a 35% BTC yield per share, underscoring the financial benefits of its aggressive Bitcoin accumulation strategy.
By issuing zero-coupon convertible notes, MARA has been able to access funds without the immediate burden of interest payments, allowing the company to focus on expanding its Bitcoin reserves and scaling its mining operations.
XRP Price Surge to $2 As Paul Atkins Leads to Replace US SEC Chair Gary Gensler?
As soon as the news of SEC Chair Gary Gensler’s resignation broke out, the XRP price shot up by 26% hours later surging past the $1.40 level. As a result, the XRP price is now at a three-year high with crypto market analysts eyeing $2 targets very soon amid today’s bullish breakout.
Following the resignation announcement by SEC Chair Gary Gensler, the XRP bulls have charged in leading to another 26% price rally. Gensler’s last day at the office will be January 20, 2025, the same day when President-elect Donald Trump takes charge at the White House. It is clear that the XRP community sees Gensler’s resignation as positive, following the tough four-year legal battle in the Ripple lawsuit.
As Gary Gensler puts his resignation, the biggest question in everyone’s mind is whom will Donald Trump appoint as the next SEC Chair? Fox Business reported that former SEC Commissioner Paul Atkins is the front-runner to succeed Gary Gensler.
Paul Atkins is popular for his free-market regulatory approach and pro-crypto stance. He has also garnered strong support from the business community and the digital asset industry. His appointment could also open the gates for the spot XRP ETF by 2025.
21Shares, Canary Capital, and Bitwise have already filed with the US SEC for the XRP ETF in the last two months. The arrival of this investment product
XRP price is trading 26% up at $1.44 with a market cap of $80 billion. As per the Coinglass data, the open interest in XRP has shot up 35% to $2.47 billion. In the last 24 hours, $25.64 million worth of XRP positions were liquidated with $14 million in short liquidations and $11.62 million in long liquidations.
DOGE Price To Hit $2.4 As Elon Musk Shares New Update On D.O.G.E
DOGE price continued its run towards the north on Friday, further highlighting the growing confidence of the investors towards the top meme coins. Amid this, Real Vision founder Raoul Pal, a prominent figure in the crypto world, predicts a potential rally for Dogecoin ahead, saying that it is in the “Great Banana Rotation” along with SUI.
Meanwhile, Pal previously explained the Banana Zone, emphasizing the importance of core allocations in top-tier assets like BTC, ETH, and SOL. He advises investors to keep 90% of their portfolio in solid assets like BTC and top altcoins while allowing 10% for riskier plays like meme coins.
However, Pal warns against overtrading and leverage, stressing the need to protect investments. With Pal’s prediction, DOGE holders are optimistic about the meme coin’s future performance.
Besides, recent on-chain metrics and other market trends also indicate that Dogecoin is poised to continue its parabolic run ahead alongside SHIB and other meme coins. Amid this, a popular crypto market analyst, Ali Martinez has shared a bullish forecast for DOGE price.
Meanwhile, Martinez has recently highlighted the growing Dogecoin whale activity, which indicates that the crypto is poised to rally ahead. His X post showed that whales have bagged more than 550 million DOGE over the last week, valued at around $214.5 million.
In addition, the analyst has shared a DOGE price chart, which showed that the crypto is likely to hit $2.40 in the coming days. Besides, he also predicted that once the meme coin hits the $2.40 target, the next target for the crypto will be $18, sparking market optimism.
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Non-doms: South Africa’s richest woman is fighting to stay in the UK
South Africa’s richest woman, Magda Wierzycka, is reconsidering her UK residency after the government’s recent Budget reforms scrapped the long-standing non-dom tax regime. The billionaire entrepreneur, who fled South Africa for safety and established a London-based venture capital firm, warns the changes could trigger an exodus of wealth and investment from the UK.
The reforms tighten inheritance tax rules on foreign-held assets and reduce tax benefits for non-doms, applying full UK taxation to foreign income after just four years. Wierzycka, whose South African assets are already taxed heavily, says the changes make it financially untenable to stay, jeopardizing her investments, staff, and millions of pounds in potential UK ventures.
While reluctant to leave, Wierzycka is pausing new UK investments and exploring relocation options to tax-friendly nations like Switzerland and Greece. "The UK risks losing billions in investment from people like me," she says, as more non-doms choose to move their wealth elsewhere.
Billion-dollar money laundering case: 15 of 17 foreigners who fled Singapore agree to surrender S$1.85b of assets
Fifteen of the 17 foreigners who fled Singapore amid the probe in the S$3 billion money laundering case have agreed to surrender about S$1.85 billion (US$1.37 billion) worth of assets to the state, said the Singapore Police Force (SPF) on Monday (Nov 18).
Court orders have been made for the surrender of those assets, which forms 98.6 per cent of the total assets seized from them.
The police added the 15 foreigners have been barred from returning to Singapore and their cases had been "dealt with".
The cases involving the 17 foreigners fall under one of Singapore’s largest money laundering probes. Investigations began in 2021 with tip-offs on a group of foreigners using forged documents to launder money in the country.
This led to the simultaneous arrests of nine men and one woman - with origins in China - in moneyed estates around the country in August 2023.
In the months following the arrests, billions of dollars worth of assets linked to the offenders and other suspects on the run were seized - including hard cash, luxury properties, branded goods, cryptocurrency and alcohol.
Of the total assets seized from the 10 offenders or otherwise linked to them, about S$944 million worth of assets, or 92.1 per cent, were surrendered to the state, the police said on Monday.
The last of the 10 offenders was sentenced in June. All of them have been deported following their jail terms and are barred from re-entering Singapore
SPF added that it was advised by AGC that extraditing the 17 foreigners to Singapore would be difficult as their whereabouts are unknown, and that the available evidence may be insufficient for extradition.
AAVE/USDT Technical Analysis: Potential for Breakout or Reversal?
1D: - The price is trading at $170.63, showing a 3.13% increase in the last 24 hours. - The RSI (6) is around 52, signaling a neutral zone with no overbought or oversold conditions. - MACD indicates a slight bearish momentum but with potential to reverse, as the signal and MACD lines are close to convergence. - Volume remains moderate, showing steady participation.
3D: - AAVE has experienced a strong upward trend from its lows near $47.30 in early 2023 to highs of $199.49 recently. - The RSI at 56.19 suggests mild bullishness, but the price is slightly pulling back from its local highs. - The MACD on this timeframe shows a positive outlook, with continued upward momentum likely as long as the price sustains above key moving averages (MA7 and MA25).
1W: - AAVE has shown a parabolic rise from historical lows of $25.93 in 2020 to an all-time high near $668.00 before stabilizing. - The current trend indicates a long consolidation phase, with the potential for a breakout above $199.49. - RSI at 59.23 reflects growing bullish momentum on the higher timeframe. - Volume patterns suggest accumulation, which may support future upward moves.
Support: - $159.44: This level aligns with recent price lows and serves as the first line of defense. - $145.00: A strong historical support zone.
Resistance: - $199.49: The recent swing high is a key resistance level to watch. - $220.00: Psychological resistance and a prior key level.
Bullish Scenario: - If AAVE breaks and closes above $199.49 with volume confirmation, the next targets are: - $220.00(short-term). - $250.00 - $275.00(medium-term).
Bearish Scenario: - If AAVE loses the $159.44 support level, it could drop to: - $145.00 (first support). - $120.00 (major downside target).
Woman left with ¥28,000 dinner bill after blind date flees
A blind date in China has sparked heated online debate after a woman claimed her date abandoned her with a hefty restaurant bill of 28,000 yuan (approximately $4,000) at an upscale restaurant. The incident, which went viral on Chinese social media, has ignited discussions about dating etiquette and expectations.
According to the woman's social media post, the pair had agreed that her date would treat her to dinner. Taking this as an invitation, she proceeded to order several expensive delicacies, including king crab, black tiger prawns, and premium sea cucumber. She also ordered multiple portions of bird's nest soup, a Chinese delicacy known for its high price tag.
The situation took an unexpected turn when her date excused himself to make a phone call halfway through the meal. After waiting for two hours with no return and multiple unanswered calls, the woman was forced to pay the substantial bill with her credit card.
The incident has divided public opinion on Chinese social media platforms. While some sympathize with the woman's predicament, many critics argue that her behavior was inappropriate and excessive for a first date.
Local police have confirmed they received a complaint about the incident, but as the matter is considered a civil dispute, they have advised the woman to seek legal consultation if she wishes to pursue compensation.
The man's identity remains unknown, and he has not publicly responded to the allegations.
I lost over $38-billion in cash and 35% of Amazon to my ex-wîfe, MacKenzie. I was worth about $76-billion by then." Jeff Bezos
"I can nēver make the mîstake of getting married again. I was married to my ex-wîfe Mackenzie for over 25-years but she just woke up one day and told me that she was already tired of our borîng marriage and she wanted a dîvorce.
When I asked her if there was anything I could do to change her mind, she told me that if I could give her half of my $76-billion fortune and 50% of the shares in my company, Amazon, she'd consider staying.
I begged her not to file for a dîvorce but she still went ahead to file for the dîvorce. Then I realized that if I gave her the half of my wealth she requested for, she'll still file a dîvorce afterwards and take half of what I'll be left with.
When we got to coûrt, my attõrney was able to give her just half of my cash and 35% of Amazon. If she could do this to me after 25 years of marrîage, it only means marriage isn't mēant for men. I'll never get married again because I'm not a women's empowerment agency.
Jeff Bezos dîvorce with his ex-wîfe, MacKenzie has been ranked the second most expensive dîvorce of all time as the multi-biollionaire paid his wife over $38-billion in cash and gave her 35% of his company Amazon.
According to Forbes, MacKenzie Scott's present net worth is estimated to be around $43.6 billion, making her one of the richest women in the world. After the divorce in 2019, she received approximately 4% of Amazon's outstanding shares, which translated to around 35% of Bezos' Amazon stake at the time. This, combined with the $38 billion cash settlement, has contributed to her substantial net worth.
MacKenzie has since become a prominent philanthropist, donating billions to various charitable causes and organizations, including educational institutions.
Hacker sentenced over bitcoin theft worth billions
A hacker who helped launder the proceeds of a bitcoin theft from a cryptocurrency exchange was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in the conspiracy.
The Justice Department (DOJ) said in a release that Ilya Lichtenstein, 35, hacked into the network of crypto exchange Bitfinex in 2016 using sophisticated hacking tools to fraudulently authorize over 2,000 transactions that transferred 119,754 bitcoin from the exchange to a crypto wallet he controlled. He then deleted files from the exchange's access logs that could've revealed his actions to law enforcement.
Lichtenstein's scheme to launder the ill-gotten gains was aided by his wife Heather Morgan, a rapper who goes by the stage name "Razzlekhan" and went viral on social media platforms after the case was revealed.
The pair deployed what the DOJ called "numerous sophisticated laundering techniques" to launder the bitcoin; using fictitious identities to set up online accounts; automated transactions; and depositing stolen funds into darknets and crypto exchanges, then withdrawing the funds.
They converted bitcoin to other cryptocurrencies – a practice known as "chain hopping" – and deposited the criminal proceeds into crypto mixing services. The duo also utilized U.S.-based accounts to legitimize banking activity and swapped some of the stolen funds for gold coins.
Prosecutors wrote in a filing that Lichtenstein told Morgan about the hack three years later, though he previously obtained her assistance in the scheme "without explaining exactly what he was doing."
The stolen bitcoin was worth roughly $70 million at the time it was stolen, though that rose to over $4.5 billion at the time of their arrest and is worth more than twice that amount at current prices.
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Scam: Woman Charged 60,000 yuan Per Night On a Budget Hotel Room
A woman has reported that she booked a hotel room in Korea using Airbnb and ended up being charged 60,000 yuan per night. Although the amount was written as 51,933 yuan per night on the platform, she said she had thought it was Korean Won 51,933 which would be reasonable.
The woman, from Wuxi in eastern China's Jiangsu Province, said on November 13 that she had traveled to Jeju Island, South Korea, and booked a budget hotel room. Since the hotel is in Korea, she thought the price mentioned on the platform was Korean Won.The price was reasonable for her as 60,000 won is about 300 yuan, which is the same as budget hotels in China.
However, she said when she returned to China, she found that 60,000 yuan had been deducted from her account.When she contacted customer service, she was told that the hotel room was 60,000 yuan a night and not 60,000 won per night. The customer service staff also told her that the price was marked clearly with a yuan symbol, thus it was her own mistake to book it.
The Airbnb customer service staff contacted her after the story went viral and offered to refund her 44,014.43 yuan, but she declined. The customer service then added another 6,736.73 yuan to the initial refund, the woman said on a video post online.However, she said she would continue pressuring and exposing them until they refund her all the money.In the end, the platform gave her a full refund
When the platform refunded her the additional 6,736.73 yuan and she kept complaining, many said she was now unreasonable, as she was the one who made the mistake.However, when the company refunded her the remaining 10,094.39 yuan, many ate their words and started supporting her, saying she is very brave and resilient.
BONK Current and Future Price Analysis and Prediction
The 7-day and 25-day moving averages show short-term and medium-term trends. Currently, the 7-day MA is trending above the 25-day MA, indicating bullish momentum.
A recent crossover of the MACD line above the signal line suggests a bullish momentum shift.
The RSI is near the 70 level, indicating overbought conditions. This level may attract profit-taking, leading to pullbacks.
Recent volume spikes indicate strong buying interest, which supports the current uptrend. High volume at resistance levels could confirm or reject these as future support or resistance.
Support: $0.00000334 - This level has acted as a recent low, where buyers stepped in to prevent further decline.
$0.00000215 - A historical support level, marking a strong floor from previous consolidations and bounces.
Resistance: $0.00000480 - A critical level from previous highs, where BONK faced rejection before. This level could act as a major resistance in the current trend.
$0.00000380 - The current price hovers near this level. If BONK fails to break above and close at this level on a high time frame (such as the 1-day or 1-week chart), it may act as short-term resistance.
Price Prediction Short-term: The RSI is approaching overbought territory, which may result in a minor correction. If BONK fails to break and close above $0.00000380, expect a potential pullback towards the $0.00000334 support level.
Mid-term: If BONK can sustain above $0.00000380 with solid buying volume, the next target would likely be $0.00000480. However, a rejection at $0.00000480 could lead to a sideways consolidation between $0.00000334 and $0.00000480.
Long-term: A successful breakout above $0.00000480 with sustained volume could open the path for BONK to establish a new bullish trend. Failing this breakout, BONK may continue to trade within the $0.00000215 to $0.00000480 range.
Man with cancer hides wealth, uses $97K in donations to buy flat
A 29-year-old cancer patient in China who sought to raise 900,000 yuan (US$125,000) online for medical treatment has sparked suspicions of embezzlement after he posted photos of a new flat. The post came shortly after he had raised more than 700,000 yuan (US$97,000) in just a few days.
The man, surnamed Lan, from Yichang in Hubei province, central China, was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a rare cancer, and began his fundraising campaign on a popular crowdfunding platform on October 14.
Doubts surfaced among donors regarding Lan’s financial transparency when, on November 6, he shared images of a newly bought flat in a group chat, claiming that the crowdfunding effort brought in more than 700,000 yuan in just a few days.
The group message also shows Lan claiming: “This is my new home, total price 738,000 yuan,” raising suspicions of fund embezzlement. Compounding the concerns, a previous marriage advertisement posted by Lan disclosed that his family owned multiple properties, including two residential flats valued up to one million yuan (US$140,000).
The family also owned commercial property worth more than 3.8 million yuan generating 145,000 yuan in annual rental income. However, his profile on the crowdfunding platform listed only a single property valued between 300,000 and 500,000 yuan (US$40,000 and US$70,000) and a car he claimed was “up for sale”. As a result the crowdfunding platform terminated Lan’s channel on November 7, by which time he had received more than 270,000 yuan from 4,536 contributors. Lan later claimed that he deposited 200,000 yuan from the donations into a fixed-term savings account.
In accordance with platform rules, all funds raised by Lan, totalling 278,204 yuan, have been fully recovered and will be refunded to the donors.
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DOGE dynamic duo Elon Musk, Vivek Ramaswamy could slash government jobs with private sector methods
In a move to tame the leviathan known as the vast federal workforce, President-elect Donald Trump created a new “Department of Government Efficiency,” headed by Tesla chief Elon Musk and biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy.
The dynamic duo – tasked with hacking $2 trillion in costs of waste and abuse – have their eyes set on eliminating swaths of government jobs that have been considered untouchable because of civil service rules, people close to the matter said.
They’re looking at ways around those rules. During Trump I, The Donald signed an executive order designed to grant the White House power to fire civil servants if it does so en masse; you need to whack whole departments rather than individual jobs to get around civil service rules.
They’re also weighing private-sector methods that include doling out severance packages. Businesses do this all the time of course; for some short-term pain in terms of upfront costs you gain greater savings in the future.
But it’s unusual for the public, and the cuts are sure to face resistance; that’s why Trump advisers are weighing severance agreements — paying salaries and benefits for a couple of years — to entice people to leave before their jobs are eliminated, people close to Trump tell On The Money.
Musk and Ramaswamy were key economic advisers to Trump during the campaign and both believe the federal government is more wasteful than any business they have ever seen. Elon is particularly adept at cutting inefficient jobs; recall after buying Twitter and renaming it X he eliminated upwards of 80% of the social media platform’s workforce without much of a hitch.
ORDI/USDT Gearing Up for a Potential Breakout: Key Levels and Future Price Action
Daily Chart - Current price: $43.01, with a daily gain of 12.09%. - Trend: The price is climbing above the 7-day and 25-day moving averages (MA), suggesting a possible trend reversal. - RSI: The RSI is currently at 67.19, approaching overbought levels but still has room to advance, indicating strong buying pressure. - MACD: Positive MACD value and a bullish crossover signal a continuation of upward momentum. - Support: Key support level lies around $20.72, a previous significant low. - Resistance: Resistance is at $44.88. Breaking this level may pave the way for further gains, potentially targeting the previous high at $97.00.
3-Day Chart - Trend: The price stabilizing and attempting an uptrend after a prolonged downtrend. - RSI: 73.98, nearing overbought territory, but still indicates positive momentum. - MACD: MACD is turning positive, suggesting a medium-term upward trend. - Support: Strong support at $20.72, with further backing at $16.90 if a pullback occurs. - Resistance: Resistance remains at $44.88, with a breakout opening the possibility for a run towards $68.15.
Weekly Chart - RSI: 65.43, showing balanced momentum with further upside potential. - MACD: The MACD is in the early stages of a bullish crossover, suggesting a long-term upward trend could be forming. - Support: $5.90 is the long-term support level, although $20.72 offers intermediate support. - Resistance: The key resistance to watch is $44.88, followed by a target at $68.15, and eventually $97.00 if momentum sustains.
ORDI/USDT appears set for a potential breakout if it can surpass the $44.88 resistance level, which could lead to an upward move towards $68.15 and possibly $97.00. However, if it fails to hold above the current level, it may retest support around $20.72.
Polymarket ‘whale’ raked in $85M on Trump win — millions more than previously reported
The French “whale” who bet millions on a Trump win raked in about $85 million in profits – more than $50 million more than previously reported, according to a report.
The anonymous bettor, who goes by Théo, was previously believed to operate four separate accounts on Polymarket, the online betting platform that sold Donald Trump and Kamala Harris contracts ahead of the presidential election. Americans are not permitted to trade on Polymarket, though the platform is planning to return to the US.
But the trader created an additional seven accounts in October after news outlets started to pick up his outsize bets, according to Chainalysis research reported by The Wall Street Journal.
Théo placed more than $70 million on bets that Trump would win the Electoral College and the popular vote across his 11 accounts, all of which had unassuming names like PrincessCaro, Jenzigo and RepTrump, according to the Journal.
The mysterious French trader told the Journal he downplayed the size of his bets “for reasons of personal safety and to limit the disruption in my personal life, should my identity be disclosed some day.”
He said he was the only individual acting on the accounts and had funded the bets on his own.
Meanwhile, Polymarket’s website on the morning before Election Day said Trump had a 58.6% chance of winning the presidency while Harris’ odds stood at 41.4%. The site’s bets were a more accurate prediction than the most recent polls.
New gambling markets are required to receive advanced approval from the regulator.
‘Deadbeat’ hedge fund boss Jason Ader, who’s being sued by his own mom, has been living it up in Miami — while clients demand cash back
Jason Ader — CEO of Spring Owl Asset Management, an activist fund that in past years helped topple CEOs including Yahoo’s Marissa Mayer — admitted in a letter to investors that the firm’s main fund was facing “a challenging period” as it proceeds with “the liquidation of the fund’s assets.”
Ader singled out the firm’s “primary investments” in 26 Capital Acquisition Corp., a vehicle that tried and failed to buy the biggest casino in the Philippines for $2.6 billion; and GameCo, a firm denied a casino license by Nevada regulators.
That’s after the 56-year-old money man — who in the past had also been an occasional guest on CNBC — was sued in August by his 81-year-old mom after he defaulted on a $13 million mortgage he took out in 2016 against his late father’s townhouse on New York’s Upper East Side, state court filings show.
Despite the turmoil, the Spring Owl CEO has been seen over the past month partying at the swanky Faena Hotel on Miami Beach, according to two sources briefed on the situation.
A week later, the pair were shacked up at the Rosewood Baha Mar hotel in Nassau, Bahamas, social media posts show. Other trips taken over the past two years include breaks in Japan, Germany, the Hamptons and a ski vacation in Colorado.
In its last available public report from September 2021, the company claimed to manage some $80 million in assets and boasted only last year that it has raised more than $1 billion in capital since its founding in 2013.
That document was co-signed by Ader’s business partner Barry Konig, whose name does not appear on the latest missive. Konig declined to say whether he had left the company when contacted by The Post.