The Week in Crypto – Kim Kardashian, Helix, BNB Chain and more!

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This week in crypto we’ve been spoiled for choice, with Gary Gensler riding on Kim Kardashian’s coat tails, Binance stopping a mahoosive BNB Chain hack, the Helix founder ratting out his brother over stealing hundreds of bitcoin from the police, and more. But which stories had us frothing at the mouth? Nurse – the screens!

No. 3 – SEC Stunt Sees Kim Kardashian Hand Over $1.36 Million

No one can ever accuse the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of doing things the right way. A week after it all but caved in its lawsuit against Ripple, and against a backdrop of ‘all cryptocurrencies might be securities, but we want to keep you guessing’, the SEC settled with Kim Kardashian for $1.36 million over her promotion of the EthereumMax scam in 2021.

This in itself isn’t that big a deal, except that SEC Chair Gary Gensler went onto CNBC ri