THE HASH: Headlines | Top Stories of the Week 06-26-23
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🗓️ 1 July 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A roundup of the week’s most valuable crypto stories for Saturday, July 1, 2023.
Missed any episodes of “The Hash” this week? Today’s recap episode will get you caught up.
“Hash Headlines” rounds up this week’s headline stories, including:
- 2020 Twitter Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years on Crypto Theft
- Fidelity Reportedly Gears Up to Submit Spot Bitcoin ETF Filing
- Microstrategy Now Holds Over $4.6B Worth of Bitcoin
- FTX Reportedly Begins Talks to Reboot International Crypto Exchange
Links to the headlines:
2020 Twitter Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years on Crypto Theft, SIM Swapping Scheme
Bitcoin Briefly Pushes Above $31K After Fidelity Spot ETF Report
MicroStrategy's Bitcoin Purchases Tend to Be Short-Term Negative for Prices, Research Shows
Michael Saylor's MicroStrategy Now Holds Over $4.6B Worth of Bitcoin
FTX Bankruptcy Team Says the Exchange Owed Customers $8.7B
FTX Customers Have Until End-September to Submit Bankruptcy Claims
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the hash headlines on the Coin Desk podcast network. |
| 0:09.4 | Get caught up on this week's top stories from the hash crew. |
| 0:15.2 | And just a reminder, CoinDesk is a news source and does not provide investment advice. |
| 0:24.4 | Monday's top story. |
| 0:27.5 | Okay, go to Twitter land. |
| 0:29.0 | You guys cool with that? |
| 0:30.0 | We're on Twitter the rest of the day. |
| 0:31.3 | So, you know, let's talk about it now. |
| 0:32.9 | So back in 2020, there was a huge hack on Twitter, a Florida teenager, hacked Twitter, |
| 0:40.4 | hacked a bunch of big counts, including Coin Desk, former President Barack Obama, President |
| 0:45.4 | Elect Joe Biden. |
| 0:47.0 | I don't think he's President-elect at the time, but Presidential nominee Joe Biden at the time, |
| 0:51.1 | a bunch of other people. |
| 0:52.1 | And they did the classic ploy, send me one Bitcoin, |
| 0:55.2 | and I will send you to back. They hacked all these accounts, which they could have made a lot |
| 0:59.5 | of money. They ended up only making a few hundred thousand dollars. But that doesn't mean that |
| 1:03.5 | the arm of the law wasn't going to come and slam down on them. And as of this morning, we have |
| 1:08.4 | new information that a five-year sentence was passed for one of the people involved with this. |
| 1:14.1 | That being a British man named Joseph O'Connor. |
| 1:17.7 | The prior Florida teenager was also involved with this. |
| 1:20.6 | It's already been serving prison time. |
| 1:22.2 | There's at least two or three other members of this whole group that hacked Twitter by basically socially engineering Twitter |
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