Forbes - Fantasy land 🧚🏻‍♀️

Mask of sanity about to slip: "They are called 'dark' because of their 'evil' qualities: extreme selfishness and taking advantage of others without empathy. The dark tetrad are also often related to risk-taking behaviours," senior lecturer Di Wang, professor of marketing Brett Martin and senior lecturer in marketing Jun Yao wrote, adding, "studying cryptocurrency through the psychological lens of the dark tetrad offers insight into why people want to buy crypto. We are not suggesting that everyone interested in crypto displays dark tetrad traits."

Simply not there: The survey didn't go down well on crypto Twitter, as you may have expected. "No one is a psychopath for owning an asset class," posted Nick Maggiulli, the chief operating officer for Ritholtz Wealth Management. "This is silly. These kinds of nonsensical attacks against the crypto community need to stop. I’m all for criticism, but the animosity is unnecessary and counterproductive."

Good to know: Binance now has 118 million "KYC'd" registered users

🛬 Griffith, who previously worked for the non-profit Ethereum Foundation, last year pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the U.S. International Emergency Economic Powers Act by traveling to North Korea's capital Pyongyang to give a presentation on blockchain technology that could have been used to evade sanctions imposed on North Korea over its development of nuclear weapons.

🪆 Griffith's sentancing comes as the U.S. and Europe are ramping up economic and financial sanctions on Russia that are increasingly including cryptocurrencies.

Now read this: ‘Staggering’ crypto seizures have cops struggling to keep up

💳 MoonPay lets users buy cryptocurrencies using conventional payment methods like credit cards, bank transfers or mobile wallets, such as Apple Pay and Google Pay.

Good to know: Yandex engineers fleeing Russia are using crypto to stay afloat in Turkey and Georgia