U.S. prosecutors have asked a court to sentence Greg Dwyer, Bitmex’s former head of business development, to 12 months of probation for violating the U.S. Bank Secrecy Act. In addition, p...
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Crypto firms rush to allay Genesis contagion fears as stocks crater
Crypto-related stocks plunged as Genesis became the latest victim of the FTX fallout. Bitcoin was trading at $16,593, up 0.7% from $16,479 earlier in the day. Ether gained a modest 0.5% to trad...
Binance role in FTX collapse under congressional scrutiny
Binance’s role in the sudden collapse of FTX, an event that sent reverberations around crypto markets, has come under congressional scrutiny, a senior House Republican confirmed to The Block. “T...
Elon Musk will find someone else to run Twitter: WSJ
Billionaire Elon Musk said he will likely find a different executive to run the social media platform he’s owned less than month, according to The Wall Street Journal. “I expect to reduce my ti...
3AC hunted by FTX, Alameda, founder claims. Sam Bankman-Fried disagrees.
Three Arrows Capital co-founder Kyle Davies said that “FTX, Alameda colluded to trade against clients” and “hunted” his company. “As their biggest client, we, 3AC, were hunted ...
Bitcoin, ether decline, stocks sink and Ark is warm on GBTC
Crypto markets slid on Wednesday as altcoins surrendered gains made at the top of the week. Bitcoin was down 2.6% at $16,479 over the past day, while ether lost 4.5% to trade at $1,207, accordi...
Former Comptroller Otting joins Blockchain.com board
Blockchain.com is adding a banking expert to its board of directors, Joseph Otting, the former U.S. Comptroller of the Currency, the company said in a blog post. “I’m honored to join the board o...
Kevin O’Leary would back Sam Bankman-Fried again if he had a new venture
Shark Tank’s Kevin O’Leary said he would back former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried again if he had a new venture. This comes despite FTX’s collapse that left potentially more than a million creditors in t...
The head of the world’s largest crypto exchange says that most people shouldn’t invest right now
Even the crypto industry’s leaders are cautioning investors against buying the dip. With cryptocurrency prices so low, it might seem like a good time for first-time buyers to invest, after industry fi...
SBF says he wants to ‘raise liquidity’ as puzzling tweets continue
Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of beleaguered crypto exchange FTX, is still tweeting. In the latest installments of a puzzling series of posts on Twitter, Bankman-Fried said that “too much levera...
Kraken’s Ogilvie says staking adoption set to skyrocket
Prior to the fall of FTX, Ethereum’s shift to proof-of-stake was all the rage in crypto circles. Two months removed from The Merge, Ethereum is still playing catch-up with more mature staking networks...
Silvergate stock sinks 12% on FTX links
Crypto bank Silvergate shares tanked 12% as the ripple effects of FTX’s collapse continue. Last week, the La Jolla-based crypto bank said its exposure to FTX was limited to deposits, but ...
Sam Bankman-Fried continues bizarre Twitter rambling, says FTX US had cash needed to repay clients
If former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried had designs on repairing his reputation as a responsible steward of a once multi-billionaire-dollar crypto empire, he’s certainly complicating matters. Bankma...
FTX US had enough to repay all customers, Bankman-Fried tweets
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankank-Fried returned to his ongoing, mysterious Twitter thread with the following: a) Alameda had more assets than liabilities M2M (but not liquid!) b) Alameda had margin pos...
Valkyrie Shrinks Staff to 16 People After Latest Cuts
Valkyrie Investments has laid off 30% of its staff in recent months and has closed a fund as the crypto ETF issuer tries to stay agile amid tough market conditions. The cuts amount to six people in t...
Stablecoins are … stable again
The stablecoin market has stabilized since the collapse of TerraUSD as confidence is returning to larger coins, Fitch Ratings said. Tether and Circle, the issuers of USDT and USDC stablecoins, ...
Sam Bankman-Fried tried to raise fresh cash over the weekend: WSJ
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried thinks that he can raise enough cash to make users whole and spent the past weekend with a few remaining employees seeking commitments from investors, the Wall Street ...
Uniswap token gains as trading volumes jump; bitcoin, ether slip
Mainstream cryptocurrencies traded marginally lower on Tuesday morning on the U.S. East Coast, while some altcoins bucked the trend. Bitcoin was down 1.7% at $16,883 over the past day, while et...
Ark Invest picks up $2.8 million worth of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares
Cathie Wood’s Ark Invest bought shares in Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) on Monday, days after the trust’s discount reached a new low. Ark purchased 315,259 shares of GBTC o...
SBF tells New York Times that he ‘could be worse’
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried told the New York Times that he had numerous regrets over the collapse of the company in a wide-ranging interview on Sunday in which the paper described him as “...
The Block: Bitcoin mining stock report: Monday, November 14
Bitcoin stocks broadly traded down on Monday, Nov. 14. Bit Digital clocked the biggest gains on Monday, adding 3.64%. Elsewhere, TerraWulf and Mawson Infrastructure Group also added modest gain...
Amazon set to lay off 10,000 employees as reductions mount: NYT
Amazon is on the verge of cutting 10,000 positions in what would be the company’s largest mass-firing, representing around 3% of corporate and 1% of global employees, The New York Times reported, citi...
Ikigai’s Travis Kling says hedge had ‘large majority’ of assets on FTX
Ikigai Asset Management, a Puerto Rico-based crypto asset management startup, held a “large majority” of its assets on FTX and was not able to withdraw much of those assets after the excha...
People Keep Moving Their Crypto Out of Exchanges
Per data from Crypto Quant, people continue to take their bitcoin and digital currency funds out of exchanges. In October alone, more than $750 million in BTC was moved out of digital currency trading...
Buterin may have sold nearly $4 million in ether after FTX bankruptcy filing
A wallet known to be associated with Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin sold 3,000 ether early Saturday, less than 24 hours after crypto exchange FTX filed for bankruptcy protection, according to Ethers...
FTX collapse to trigger structural change in crypto markets, away from centralization
The collapse of FTX last week will trigger significant market structure changes, namely moving away from a model of all-in-one platform centralization, crypto trading firm Cumberland said. The v...
Bitcoin, ether move higher as Goldman Sachs see negative outlook for Coinbase
Crypto prices increased even as Wall Street banks predicted more gloom for the industry amid the FTX debacle. Bitcoin was trading at $17,060, up 3% over the past day, while ether added 4% to tr...
ConstitutionDao 2.0 will Restart, Auctioning Copies of the U.S. Constitution will Raise Money through PEOPLE
Place/Date: – November 11th, 2022 at 6:24 pm UTC · 2 min read Source: ConstitutionDAO The decentralized organization ConstitutionDao launched a campaign to bid for a copy of the U.S. Constitutio...
Why do people invest in crypto? ‘It’s partly fraud and partly delusion’: Charlie Munger
““The country did not need a currency that’s good for kidnappers.”” — Charlie Munger Charlie Munger, vice chairman of Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A, +0.35%, is not a big fan of crypto, and he shared some f...