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NFTs are ‘totally worthless’ says mainstream media, community responds

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A community member highlighted the drastic shift in mainstream media narrative, sharing a previous article promoting the BAYC NFT collection. Mainstream media outlet Rolling Stone has declared that nonfungible tokens (NFTs) are “finally totally worth less,” citing the results of a DappGambl study on the “evolving landscape” of NFTs. The study found that as many as 95% of NFTs (owned by more than 23 million investors) have no value at all. The response from the community has been varied, with some agreeing with the report and others linking previous reports from the outlet that supported the same NFTs they’ve now called out. In a Reddit thread, most of the comments agreed with the report. Some called NFTs the “worst things to emerge from crypto,” and others claimed that they were “ worth less ages ago.” Despite this, a community member believes that, while they may be worth less now, this may change in the future. “Some will make a comeback. Some will go up 1000% because bull. Peop...

CoinEx exchange suspected of being hacked as $27M worth of crypto moved

A CoinEx hot wallet transferred $27.8 million of various tokens to a wallet with no previous history, leading experts to suspect a cyberattack. On Sept. 12, crypto exchange CoinEx experienced abnormally large outflows to an address with no prior history, leading security experts to suspect the exchange was hacked . Blockchain security platform Cyvers Alerts has estimated the losses to be approximately $27 million. Red CodeOur AI-powered model detected suspicious transactions related to @coinexcom 2 hours ago The potentially stolen funds amount to $18.12M #Eth $8.5M #Tron and $291K in #Polygon Possible causes: access control violations, private key leakage, rug pulling, insider job https://t.co/Wzw84azM9M pic.twitter.com/2bqHmE18Sr — Cyvers Alerts (@CyversAlerts) September 12, 2023 At approximately 1:21 p.m. UTC on Sept. 12, a known CoinEx hot wallet transferred around 4,947 Ether (ETH), worth $7.9 million at the time, to Ethereum account 0x8bf8cd7F001D0584F98F53a3d82eD0...