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The crypto community is looking for someone to blame for Ethereum’s recent underperformance, and they appear to have found their scapegoat. On August 1, someone posted a photo of Vitalik Buterin and an attractive woman wearing matching plush hats, naming her his ‘girlfriend.’ She would, the poster claimed, allow the brilliant co-founder to focus on Ethereum development and spark a rally to $10,000 per coin. Unfortunately, this hasn’t turned out to be the case. Indeed, over the past week, Solana has outperformed ether by 9% , and over the past year, ether is up just 29% compared to Solana’s 400%. Ether is even underperforming Tron and meme coins like Pepe over the last 12 months. It wasn’t the first time the Ethereum community has tried to ‘ship‘ Vitalik with female influencers or selfie-posing fans. Other ‘girlfriends’ seen with Vitalik derive from a restaurant photo, conference selfie, and phallic memes. This morning, the same ...

A Georgia doctor pleaded guilty on Tuesday to a bungled murder plot that saw him give a dark web hitman $19,200 in bitcoin to kill his girlfriend — but not before he sent $8,000 in crypto to the wrong wallet address.     On April 18, 2022, 54-year-old internal medicine specialist James Wan used the dark web to order a hitman. As published by the US Attorney’s Office, Wan’s request said the hitman “Can take wallet phone and car. Shoot and go. Or take car.” It also provided the victim’s name, address, socials, and details of her car.  All he had to do was send a 50% downpayment of $8,000 in bitcoin to an escrow account shared with the hitman. However, Wan entered the wrong address and lost the money.  “ Damn. I guess I lost $8k. I’m sending $8k to escrow now ,” Wan said when he was informed of his error. He sent another $8,000 sum before his order was approved. Four suspects face death penalty in South Korea cry...