Rumor vs record: 7 viral claims about bitcoin's fall below $70,000, checked
Posts about Friday's crypto drop spread fast: a first since August, a 45% fall from the record, $1.2 billion liquidated, Nvidia to blame. We checked seven claims against price data and official records.
Rumor vs record: Nvidia says Huang resigned but gives no reason. Was he ousted?
Nvidia announced its CEO's resignation on November 12, 2026, and crypto feeds filled with claims about why and what it did to prices. We checked six of them against Nvidia's own filing.
Rumor vs record: MSCI's cut makes funds sell Strategy shares, not Strategy's bitcoin
After MSCI dropped Strategy from its USA index, posts warned of $2.8 billion to $8.8 billion in "forced selling" and asked what it means for bitcoin. We checked four claims against MSCI's own documents and Strategy's latest SEC filing.
Rumor vs record: will an "ANT" Anthropic stock token go live on Solana on IPO day?
A viral post says a tokenized Anthropic share called ANT will launch on Solana the day Anthropic starts trading in public. CoinGecko does list an Anthropic xStock with a Solana address, but under a different ticker, with zero supply and no price. We found no Anthropic or issuer statement that sets a date.
Rumor vs record: is a hacker really selling 335.9 million Binance user records?
A "pay or leak" ad offering 335.9 million Binance records, private keys included, has been reshared online. We checked each claim against Binance's own pages and a threat intelligence firm's review. Nothing confirms it, and its headline number is close to a counter anyone can read on Binance's homepage.
Rumor vs record: a viral post credited to Musk said Binance holds 80% of crypto. It does not
A viral post credited to Elon Musk said Binance holds about 80% of the crypto market and urged users to leave. We checked each line against CoinGecko's exchange data and DeepSea's wallet tracker. The 80% figure does not hold up.
Rumor vs record: Strategy's bitcoin is underwater, but no filing shows it must sell
Bitcoin slipped below Strategy's average purchase price overnight, and posts about a $54 billion bet gone bad spread fast. We checked each line against the company's own SEC filing and CoinGecko prices.
Rumor vs record: did whales really load up on XRP as it slid to $1.10?
XRP fell 5.4% in a day and hit its lowest price since August. Posts say whales are buying the dip. We checked six viral claims. The price claims mostly hold up; the whale claims cannot be confirmed yet.
Rumor vs record: 128 Japanese banks went dark on November 6. Notices blame broken equipment
A viral reel says 128 banks in Japan were taken down all at once. The outage was real. The official notices we could read point to a failed piece of communications equipment, and none of them mention an attack.
Rumor vs record: did hackers pay $15 to drain $2.5 billion from Binance in 20 minutes?
Headlines about the Binance hack keep spreading. We checked the most shared claims against Binance's own report, DeepSea's hack tracker and CoinGecko prices. The single-transaction part holds up. The "$15" and "20 minutes" framing misses the story.
Rumor vs record: was Chainalysis hit by AI, and did attackers see case files?
Claims about the Chainalysis breach kept spreading as the company posted its November 6 update. We checked eight of them against Chainalysis's own incident page: two are wrong or out of date, and two have no evidence behind them yet.
Rumor vs record: what viral posts got right and wrong about the U.S. move against MEXC
Posts about FinCEN's MEXC order spread fast on November 6 and 7, 2026. We checked each claim against FinCEN's own order. Most numbers hold up; two points do not.