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Hunter Biden’s ‘Laptop’ Crypto Coin Plummets Upon Launching

The president’s son portrayed his memecoin as a symbol of redemption. Critics denounced it as hypocrisy.

© Haiyun Jiang for The New York Times

In a social media post Tuesday night on X, Mr. Biden presented his new coin partly as a mechanism to make charitable donations.
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‘Ferris Bueller Gone Bad’: 22-Year-Old Pleads Guilty in Giant Bitcoin Heist

Malone Lam, a Singaporean citizen, admitted to stealing cryptocurrency valued at more than $245 million in one of the largest such heists in U.S. history.

© Jon Elswick/Associated Press

The Justice Department’s court filing in the case includes a photograph of Malone Lam holding what appears to be stacks of cash.
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