The Notorious BIG Honored With NFT Since His Murder In 1997
Fans of late rap icon The Notorious BIG can look forward to another opportunity to acquire a collectible tied to his legacy. On the 25th anniversary of Christopher Wallace’s death in Brooklyn, New York, his estate has revealed an exclusive collaboration with the Quincy Jones-backed NFT platform OneOf to release the first-ever official The Notorious […]
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Bitcoin is now being used by bad people to satisfy their hate. The U.S. Department of Justice announced Tuesday that a Mississippi woman was sentenced to spend a maximum of 10 years behind bars for her role in an unsuccessful murder-for-hire plot. Forty-year old Jessica Leeann Sledge pled guilty in February to hiring a purported assassin on the […]
The website DNAinfo ran a story on January 13 about a murder in NYC with the headline “Bitcoin Trader Accused of Murder.” The headline made it sound as if Bitcoin was somehow connected to the act. The facts of the case are different. The only apparent link to Bitcoin is that the accused, Quentin Capobianco, an 18-year-old “teen” investor, had traded Bitcoin at some point. Capobianco is accused of bludgeoning his roommate, a 29-year-old attorney named Jesse Smith, with a hammer. CoinTelegraph contacted the Queens County District Attorney’s office this morning for comments. The source at the....
The infamous Joseph Maldonado, aka “Joe Exotic,” from the docuseries “Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness,” has launched his own Ethereum-based token. According to the website tiger-king.org, the project will also feature non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and the proceeds from NFT sales will go toward helping Joe Exotic’s legal defense team and tiger rescue funding. ‘Tiger King’ Joe Exotic Launches an ERC20 Token The costar of the docuseries “Tiger King” has announced the launch of a new crypto asset called “TKING,” according to....
Long before the existence of virtual currencies backed by the complexity of cryptography, there were a multitude of virtual currencies, most of which backed by the value of gold bullion. Before Bitcoin appeared on the scene, the industry was plagued by all manner of drama, from murder to cases of widespread use of funds for terrorism, child pornography, and other forms of criminality. Murder of e-Bullion co-founder. e-Bullion was an Internet-based digital gold currency founded by payza inc of Moorpark, California, as part of their Goldfinger Coin & Bullion group of companies. The....