The Failed $82 Bitcoin Fork Already Draining Real Coins

Blake2b coin — the Bitcoin fork that true believers said would prove the market wrong — hit exchanges at $82, roughly 1/944th the price of Bitcoin, then got delisted from its only exchange the same day after the fork community antagonized the one platform willing to list it. Meanwhile, a user reported depositing real Bitcoin to buy the thing and watching it disappear into the void with 18 on-chain confirmations and nothing to show for it. In this episode: • Blake2b (BIP 110 fork) trades at $82 on NeoXa exchange before being delisted the same day; the bid-ask spread ran from $82 to $190, with sell orders as high as $389, reflecting near-zero liquidity • A user reports depositing roughly $500 in Bitcoin to NeoXa to purchase Blake2b — funds received 18 confirmations on-chain but never appeared in the exchange balance • Ocean Mining officially drops BIP 110 support and elects Bob Burnett as chairman of its board, replacing Luke Dashjr • Opt-in replay protection on the Blake2b chain explained: legacy Bitcoin transactions remain replayable on the fork chain, and no wallets support the protection natively • FBI opens investigation into IDscan.net after 153 million U.S. and Canadian driver's license scans appear for sale on the dark web; a separate breach hit roughly 5,000 Dropbox accounts via a flaw in Lenovo's email verification • U.S. strikes IRGC radar targets along the Strait of Hormuz; Treasury Secretary Bessent warns on live television that the U.S. knows exactly where Iranian regime assets are hidden globally • TD Bank's 2024 guilty plea and $3 billion settlement for anti-money laundering failures, and the Lebanese Canadian Bank's 2013 settlement over Hezbollah-linked laundering, raised in the context of an Edmonton resident allegedly tied to Iran's missile program receiving Canadian government contracts • The Lindsay Clancy trial deadlocked after five days of jury deliberation, with reports of two younger female jurors holding out; hosts discuss the cultural and legal implications Watch the video version: https://youtu.be/aWo-ijrdH4k