Grifters, hacks and celebrity scams: Hayden Davis of the same Hustle, Bybit’s Lazarus Heist and Portnoy’s Rugging
Posted on February 23, 2025 at 12:00 p.m..
Welcome to the blocking – where the initiates Crypto Haseeb Qureshi, Tom Schmidt, Tarun Chitra and Robert Leshner break the biggest stories of Crypto. This week: bybit’s hacking of $ 1.5 billion, probably by the Lazarus group of North Korea, and the scandal of the balance, where Hayden Davis exhibits the samecoin game book. Meanwhile, Dave Portnoy Rugs Greed and Greed 2, the Yzye Yzye token leaks and the Cabal the vape collapsed. But the cryptographic markets remain strong, and the dry has just dropped its trial against Coinbase. Is this the end of the same era? We decompose everything.
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🔹 $ 1.5 billion hack in Bybit – the largest cryptography hacking in history, linked to the Lazare group in North Korea. CEO Ben Zhou has managed it masterfully, guaranteeing a bridge loan to cover the outings.
🔹 Hayden Davis & The Memecoin Playbook – The scandal of the Balance of Argentina exposed the trading of initiates behind pieces supported by celebrities. Hayden Davis overflows the game book on Coffeezilla.
🔹 Pump & Dump of Portnoy – Dave Portnoy de Barstool, its own subscribers with greed and greed 2, then laughs.
🔹 The memecoin bubble appears – School Shift: Retail realizes that the game is rigged. Samecoins can finally be out of steam.
🔹 Coin Yzy from Kanye? – The West team accidentally discloses a same plan. Will he even launch, or is it DOA after the scandal of the scale?
🔹 The vaping cabale collapses – once the same engine, this underground group collapses after the links with Kelier Ventures are exposed.
🔹 Change of regulatory winds – dry drops his trial against Coinbase. The application of cryptography pivots good actors to real fraud.
🔹 The crypto holds – despite chaos, the market remains resilient. Infrastructure tokens see a renewal of interests.
Hosts
⭐️Haseeb QureshiDirector partner at Dragonfly
⭐️Robert LeshnerCEO and co-founder of superstate
⭐️Tarun ChitraDirector Partner at Robot Ventures
⭐️Tom SchmidtGeneral partner at Dragonfly