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Crypto Chaos: Scams, Regulation, and Bold Market Moves Unveiled

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Crypto Talkies: Crypto’s Volatile, Very Busy Day If you felt like the market was pulling you in ten directions at once today, you weren’t imagining it. Between scary new scam stats, governments sharpening their knives, and a few very large conviction buys, crypto spent the day reminding everyone that it’s still very much a high-stakes experiment. Let’s start with the story that hits closest to home for everyday users: address poisoning scams are quietly becoming one of Ethereum’s biggest security threats. These aren’t sophisticated protocol hacks, they’re simple human-error plays. Attackers send tiny dust transactions from lookalike addresses, wait for those to appear in your transaction history, and rely on you to copy-paste the wrong one next time you send funds. That small slip is now costing users huge sums: over 60 million dollars drained so far, with attackers focusing less on spray-and-pray and more on a smaller pool of wealthier targets. The takeaway is uncomfortable ...