💸 The Telegram marketplace where money laundering was just another vendor service
Xinbi Guarantee wasn't a hacker group — it was a marketplace. Since 2022, vendors sold money-laundering, turnkey scam sites, and fraud-compound recruitment through its Telegram channels. Total volume: $24 billion.
On Wednesday the DOJ seized the channels and wallets, restrained 47 more addresses — $52M+ total. Treasury designated Xinbi a transnational criminal organisation and sanctioned two tech suppliers. Clients reportedly included North Korean hackers and Prince Group affiliates.
The target wasn't individual scammers — it was the infrastructure behind them, per CoinTelegraph.
💸 2011 Bitcoin stash up 2,571,899% and counting
🚗 Feds probe Cybercab just days after Austin launch
🎮 White House made a Tetris clone, Tetris Company clapped back
🔒 Zcash breaks $1,000 after eight years in the shadows
🍎 Gurman mapped Apple's entire iPhone future through 2028
Someone in your orbit was heads-down today — this is their catch-up in 30 seconds
🍎 Gurman just dropped Apple's full iPhone roadmap through 2028
Mark Gurman at Bloomberg published the whole picture today — what's coming next week and what Apple is building all the way through 2028.
September 9th: iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max with the A20 Pro chip and mechanical aperture camera, plus a foldable iPhone Ultra at over $2,000 — roughly passport-sized when folded.
2027 brings a Pro redesign Gurman calls "the biggest overhaul since the iPhone X," curved glass on every edge. Then a second foldable. 2028 gets a third, with larger displays inside and out.
More than ten models in the pipeline, and this is just what's confirmed so far.
Zcash is crypto's flagship privacy coin: unlike Bitcoin, ZEC uses zero-knowledge cryptography to hide sender, receiver and amount. Eight years in the shadows — then this.
On Friday it broke $1,000 for the first time since its 2016 launch, touching $1,029 on Binance — up 2,300% over the past year. The move flipped Dogecoin in market cap and force-closed $34.5 million in short positions on the way through the round number.
The catalyst was Fed Governor Waller hinting at a rate pause, then Friday's jobs report (162,000 vs. a 56,000 forecast) pulled Bitcoin back below $80,000 while Zcash held. On August 25, Grayscale launched the ZCSH ETF on NYSE Arca — so the most private coin in crypto now trades on an SEC-regulated exchange.
Eight years of hiding, and all it took to get noticed was four digits.
The Trump administration launched Arcade.Gov — five browser games including a Flappy Bird clone and, the star of the show, "Build the Wall": a Tetris knockoff where players "protect the border from the coming horde."
The Tetris Company responded in two beats: warmly first — "Tetris brings people together, not divides them" — then notably cooler, adding it "takes copyright infringement very seriously." No lawsuit yet, but the lawyers are clearly awake. Sega, also featured on the site, is still quiet, per The Verge.
Forty years of Tetris, one lesson: lines are supposed to disappear. Someone in the White House skipped that level.