{"id":656983,"date":"2026-09-13T18:18:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=846876"},"modified":"2026-09-13T18:18:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T18:18:46","slug":"laptop-enters-memecoin-frenzy-245-million-crypto-heist-sees-guilty-pleas-and-more-weekly-recap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/09\/13\/laptop-enters-memecoin-frenzy-245-million-crypto-heist-sees-guilty-pleas-and-more-weekly-recap\/","title":{"rendered":"LAPTOP Enters Memecoin Frenzy, $245 Million Crypto Heist Sees Guilty Pleas, And More \u2013 Weekly Recap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/laptop-enters-memecoin-frenzy-245-million-crypto-heist-sees-guilty-pleas-and-more--weekly-recap-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>This week\u2019s stories highlighted crypto\u2019s widening reach \u2014 and its risks. Pump.fun paired memecoins with tokenized stocks, while Hunter Biden\u2019s LAPTOP token collapsed 98% after launch. Liquid began recovering from a 4,000 BTC exploit, a cybercrime network admitted stealing more than $245 million in crypto, and reports said Iran is increasingly using bitcoin and USDT [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s stories highlighted crypto\u2019s widening reach \u2014 and its risks. Pump.fun paired memecoins with tokenized stocks, while Hunter Biden\u2019s LAPTOP token collapsed 98% after launch. Liquid began recovering from a 4,000 BTC exploit, a cybercrime network admitted stealing more than $245 million in crypto, and reports said Iran is increasingly using bitcoin and USDT [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":656984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-656983","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}