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The Poly Network Hack and the Largest DeFi Exploit Recovery
The 2021 Poly Network hack saw over 600 million dollars stolen across multiple blockchains, at the time the…
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The 2021 NFT Boom: How Digital Collectibles Went Mainstream
NFTs exploded into mainstream awareness in 2021, with total trading volume growing into billions of dollars and individual…
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The Rise of DeFi Summer 2020: What Changed in Crypto
In the summer of 2020, decentralized finance exploded from a niche corner of Ethereum into a multi-billion dollar…
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The 2019 Crypto Recovery: Bitcoin’s Rebound After the Bear Market
After the brutal 2018 bear market, Bitcoin staged a meaningful recovery in 2019, climbing back above 13,000 dollars…
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The Bitfinex Hack of 2016: What Happened to the Stolen Bitcoin
The 2016 Bitfinex hack saw roughly 120,000 bitcoin stolen and losses socialized across all customer accounts. This lesson…
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The Mt. Gox Bitcoin Distribution: A Long-Awaited Resolution
Nearly a decade after Mt. Gox's collapse, creditors finally began receiving distributions of recovered bitcoin starting in 2024.…
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The Rise of Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs) in 2017
ICOs became crypto's dominant fundraising mechanism in 2017, raising billions of dollars for projects that often existed as…
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Bitcoin’s Block Size Wars: The Road to SegWit (2015-2017)
For nearly three years, Bitcoin's community fought over how to scale the network, a conflict that culminated in…
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The DAO Hack and Ethereum’s Contentious Hard Fork (2016)
A 2016 smart contract exploit drained roughly 60 million dollars from Ethereum's DAO project, forcing a community vote…
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The Silk Road Shutdown and Its Impact on Bitcoin’s Reputation
The 2013 FBI shutdown of Silk Road, an illicit marketplace that used Bitcoin as payment, shaped public perception…