The Weekly Whatever: Crapto crash souvenir edition
Crapto
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TerraUSD “stable” coin, supposedly backed by Bitcoin, crashes from $1 to $0.20; related Luna cryptocurrency crashes from $85 to $0.04.
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Juno cryptocurrency developers send $36m to the wrong address, permanently losing it.
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CEO of Mining Capital Coin cryptocurrency “investment” platform indicted in $62m cryptocurrency fraud scheme.
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Coinbase warns that if it goes bankrupt, all its customers’ funds might be taken by creditors.
Oops!
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Essay on plagiarism retracted after it turns out to contain plagiarized content.
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Man murders woman, then dies of a heart attack while digging a hole to bury her remains in.
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Photos of Imelda Marcos’s son paying her a visit reveal a lost Picasso hanging on her wall.
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Catholic school accidentally sold red thongs for kids to gift their mothers on Mother’s Day.
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Canadian MP apologizes for attending Parliament online while on the toilet.
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Canadian QAnon influencer who claims she’s the real Queen of Canada tells followers they don’t need to pay electricity or water bills any more. The electricity and water companies beg to differ.
Actual important news
- Sudden infant death syndrome probably isn’t caused by bedding, babies sleeping on their stomachs, toys, or bad parenting — it’s likely caused by a genetic defect in the child’s brain.