With the move online during the 4th industrial revolution a whole host of ‘internet’ jobs were created that the previous generations of workers could only have dreamed of. …

In a recent Blockworks newsletter, Byron Gilliam, raised a really important discussion point around the narrative for all the DeFi hacks we’ve been seeing and it resonated with me because I often struggle to decide whether something really is a malicious ‘hack’ where we should demonise the perpetrator, or if…

If you haven’t had a chance to read my previous post on the case study of a typical instagram crypto scammer then I’d recommend taking a read first: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/case-study-typical-instagram-crypto-scammer-tara-annison/ In this I detailed how I had come across a finflunecer (financial influencer) called sharon__mentorship who was trying to swindle people…

From block 15,537,393 on September 15th 2022 (when the Total Terminal Difficulty was hit) all Ethereum blocks have been created by validators staking their ether as opposed to miners in a hashrate competition to solve a cryptographic puzzle 🐼🚀. It was reported that this would reduce Ethereum’s environmental impact by…

It started with a surprise add to a Telegram group called NevoFinance. This was full of happy investors posting their about their successful withdrawals and how much money they’d made already using the platform. I’m added to random telegram groups on a daily basis (it’s why I have so much…

“The Proteus effect describes a phenomenon in which the behaviour of an individual, within virtual worlds, is changed by the characteristics of their avatar.” It was first explored by Jeremy Bailenson and Nick Yee, two Stanford researchers, back in 2007 but mirrors real world experience where various physical characteristics, like…

Whilst on instagram, catching up on some Love Island gossip, I stumbled across a number of comments with “testimonials” about how much money people had made from crypto investing and all tagging the same lady, sharon_mentorship. I took a look at her profile and saw that she’s got an impressive…

When Bitcoin was created by the mysterious Satoshi Nakamoto back in 2008 they decided to put a hard cap on the number of bitcoin which would enter existence. This value was 21 million and comes about by the fact that there is a new block on the Bitcoin blockchain every…

With $1.5billion of illicit crypto laundered through Tornado Cash, and $462.3m of that being linked to sanctioned individuals, it’s no wonder that regulators view mixers as a hotspot of criminal activity. …