The creator of the art used in the viral “Just a chill guy” meme threatened to take legal action against memecoins that use the image. 

On Nov. 15, a Just a chill guy (CHILLGUY) token was launched in the Solana network. The token became popular, reaching a market capitalization of $580 million at one point. The memecoin currently trades at $0.4, with a market cap of $400 million. 

Chillguy memecoin chart. Source: GeckoTerminal

However, the creator of the art used in the memecoin disagrees wit

MicroStrategy, the largest publicly traded corporate holder of Bitcoin, has seen its stock surge by a massive 94% year-to-date (YTD), driven by Bitcoin’s rally above $97,000.

With 331,200 Bitcoin (BTC) on its balance sheet, valued at around $32 billion, MicroStrategy has $15.51 billion in unrealized gains, according to Dropstab data.

According to the MSTR Tracker performance comparison chart, which compares MicroStrategy to other major tech stocks, only Nvidia outpaced MSTR with a 180% increas

Sui, a decentralized layer-1 blockchain designed for rapid smart contract deployment, experienced a significant outage on Nov. 21, halting block production for more than an hour.

The Sui blockchain went down on Nov. 21, with no blocks being produced for more than an hour, according to data from the Sui Network explorer, SuiVision.

According to the data, the last block occurred at 9:15 am UTC, with no new blocks produced since.

The last three transaction blocks on the Sui blockchain. Source: S

Bitcoin (BTC) made snap gains on Nov. 21 as a liquidity squeeze took BTC price action to near $100,000.

BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView

Bitcoin gaps higher with sellers above $100,000

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed what popular trader Skew called a “pop” into final ask liquidity before the key six-figure BTC price barrier.

Up nearly 3% on the day at the time of writing, BTC/USD was less than $3,000 from a historic achievement.

“If large sellers are to m

California-based cryptocurrency exchange BitGo has announced the launch of a subsidiary in Singapore three months after obtaining a major payment institution license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS).

Nov. 21 marked the official launch of BitGo Singapore, a locally regulated subsidiary of BitGo dedicated to providing digital asset custody, trading, settlement and token management services in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

In an announcement shared with Cointelegraph, Youngro Lee,

Stablecoin flows to cryptocurrency exchanges have reached a record monthly high, signaling increased investor interest in the crypto market. The surge could position Bitcoin to reach the $100,000 milestone before the end of November.

Stablecoin inflows to crypto exchanges hit a new monthly high of over $9.7 billion.

This could signal an uptick in crypto investor demand, according to Leon Waidmann, head of research at The Onchain Foundation, who stated in a Nov. 21 X post:

“Stablecoin inflows

South Korean authorities have confirmed that North Korean hackers were responsible for the $50 million Upbit cryptocurrency hack in November 2019.

On Nov. 21, the National Office of Investigation in South Korea reportedly confirmed that the hack, which stole 342,000 Ether (ETH), was carried out by North Korean hacker groups Lazarus and Andariel. 

Upbit, a South Korea-based cryptocurrency exchange, reported on Nov. 27, 2019, that 342,000 ETH had been stolen from its hot wallet. The ETH was wort

Opinion by Ankur Rakhi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of Airchains.

Having faced fines and lawsuits worldwide, the charges against Worldcoin (which became known as “World” in late October 2024) are all the same: a systemic failure to protect user data. Worldcoin, founded in 2019 by Sam Altman of OpenAI fame, asks users to verify their humanness through iris and face scans in exchange for a digital ID and free tokens. Multiple governments have blocked their activities for violating local privacy laws

Tron founder Justin Sun paid $6.2 million at a New York auction for an art piece consisting of a banana taped to a wall. Now, he plans to eat it. 

“I’ve bought the banana,” Sun wrote in a Nov. 21 X post. “This is not just an artwork; it represents a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community.”

“In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience,” he added.

The artwork is Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian

Crypto phishing scammers are apparently earning a five-figure weekly income by impersonating Coinbase support and have been using leaked data to target high-ranking crypto executives and software engineers.

CEO and co-founder of Bitcoin self-custody solutions provider Casa, Nick Neuman, said he was recently on a call with a Coinbase support scammer and ended up finding out more than he expected after he “decided to turn the tables on him and ask him about being a scammer.”

“We make a minimum o

Blockchain gaming, along with decentralized finance, will likely benefit most from Trump’s presidency, says Jeffrey Zirlin, the co-founder of crypto gaming platform Sky Mavis. 

Speaking to Cointelegraph at the YGG Play Summit in the Philippines on Nov. 21, Zirlin said the “token design” space would be set to yield the most benefit from the new crypto-friendly administration in the United States. 

“You want to experiment with all these ways of adding utility to tokens so that you can distribute

United States prosecutors have charged five people accused of being part of a group that allegedly hacked dozens of businesses and individuals to steal $11 million in crypto and sensitive information.

The California US Attorney’s Office said on Nov. 20 that the defendants sent SMS phishing links or SIM-swapped individuals and employees of certain companies to steal their login credentials to their work or crypto exchange accounts.

Court documents seen by Cointelegraph detailed at least 29 alle

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says his firm will be focused on being at the forefront of agentic (autonomous) artificial intelligence, as it delivered record revenue in the third quarter. 

“The age of AI is in full steam, propelling a global shift to Nvidia computing,” said Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang on Nov. 20 as the firm announced that its quarterly revenue was up 17% from the second quarter and up 94% from a year ago.

The lion’s share of that revenue, $30.8 billion up 112% year-over-year

Tech giant Apple has released a patch for two zero-day vulnerabilities that hackers have used to exploit Intel-based Mac computers.

According to the Nov. 19 advisory from Apple, both vulnerabilities have been “actively exploited” and involve “processing maliciously crafted web content.” 

The vulnerabilities even caught the attention of the co-founder and former CEO of Binance, Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, who chimed in, warning users to update their tech immediately to avoid falling prey to the exploi

Digital asset management firm Bitwise has registered a statutory trust for a proposed spot Solana exchange-traded fund (ETF) in Delaware — indicating that it may soon file for an S-1 registration statement with the United States securities regulator.

The Bitwise Solana (SOL) ETF was incorporated on Nov. 20, according to the State of Delaware’s Division of Corporations website. The registered agent was listed as CSC Delaware Trust Company, which is headquartered in Wilmington, Delaware.

Bitwise

United States Senator Cynthia Lummis’ plan to set up a strategic Bitcoin reserve won’t be enough to solve the country’s debt crisis, which has now swelled to $35 trillion, the president of the nonprofit think tank says.

“When Senator Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming talks about how a Bitcoin reserve could help us eliminate the federal debt, that’s an overselling of what Bitcoin could do,” Avik Roy, president of the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity said on stage at the North American Blockc

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has delayed a decision to approve the Franklin Templeton Crypto Index ETF until early 2025.

In a Nov. 20 letter, the regulatory agency explained that it received no comments after publishing the proposed rule change to list the crypto index ETF on the Federal Register on Oct. 8, 2024. SEC officials wrote:

"The Commission finds it appropriate to designate a longer period within which to take action on the proposed rule change so that it

Kain Warwick, the Australian behind decentralized perps protocol Synthetix and now UX layer Infinex, says the clock is now ticking for crypto to grow fast enough to reach the point where no one could ever try to shut it down again.

Speaking to Magazine at Nears Redacted conference in Bangkok, Warwick says the crypto industry specifically his latest venture, Infinex has four years to break into the mainstream.

If we can get mass adoption in the next four years, which I think is achievable, and

A judge in the People’s Court of Songjiang District in Shanghai, China, has released an article on the court’s WeChat account about the legality of issuing virtual currency in China. She was commenting on a business dispute dating to 2017, but her opinion sheds light on cryptocurrency’s murky legal status in China.

A virtual commodity with property attributes

An agricultural development company signed a “Blockchain Incubation Agreement” with an investment management company to produce a white

The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has sent $4.6 million in reparations to investors in Ethereum-based search engine BitClave’s initial coin offering (ICO), the agency said on Nov. 20.

The payment is part of a settlement BitClave agreed to pay in 2020 after the SEC charged the search engine for failing to register its 2017 ICO as a securities offering.

“The checks are in the mail. We are sending out more than $4.6M to investors harmed by BitClave, PTE Ltd.’s unregistere