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Following Sam Bankman-Frieds’ speedy exit, authorities in the Bahamas began investigating the collapse of the collapsed crypto exchange. One measure taken was to freeze the assets of FTX Digital Markets – the Bahamian subsidiary of the company. Speculation Not Welcome In an address to the nation conducted via Facebook Live, Bahamas Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Ryan Pinder praised the swift actions taken by the local regulators. He also cautioned would-be...

Leading American cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has on-boarded new executives to lead its expansion plans in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) despite the intense bear market pushing several crypto entities into bankruptcy.   According to the exchange, the appointments are part of its ”Go Broad and Go Deep strategy’ for global expansion, which the company announced in Q3. CryptoPotato reported in July that Coinbase sought regulatory approval from several European...

The decentralized lending protocol AAVE has temporarily disabled its lending markets for multiple Ethereum-based tokens facing excess volatility and low liquidity. The 17 frozen assets include various defi tokens that are competitors to AAVE, such as Compound (COMP) and Curve Finance (CRV). On Sunday, Aave passed a near-unanimous governance vote to disable the markets, with only two votes against, and over 500,000 in favor.  In total, Aave’s frozen market list included the...

Private Twitter data pertaining to 5 million users was reshared in a hacker forum last Thursday after first being leaked in July.  Whereas July’s leak came with a price tag of $30,000, Thursday’s dump was provided for free.  User Private Info Revealed Pompompurin, the owner of the hacking forum HackerOne, confirmed to BleepingComputer over the weekend that his site was responsible for the initial data dump. Back in December, a Twitter API bug was discovered as part of the...

Andre Cronje – the so-called “Vice President of Memes” for the Fantom Foundation – provided an insider’s view into how the company has remained cash-flow positive across the past 4 years.  The developer noted that the foundation would “likely not be operational today” without decentralized finance (DeFi), and suspects the same is true for other firms.  Scaling Over One Cycle As explained in a blog post from Cronje on Sunday, Fantom ended 2018 with a fairly unprofitable ETH...

Elon Musk has not always been the kindest person to bitcoin. He has made unfair judgements about it in the past, and when it comes down to it, it seems he’s a much bigger fan of some of its altcoin cousins, i.e., Dogecoin, than he is of the currency that started it all, and yet despite all this, there still seems to be some love in the mix. Elon Musk Hasn’t Gotten Rid of All His BTC It has come out that Tesla – the electric vehicle company owned and run by Musk – is...

Bitfront – a cryptocurrency platform operated by internet company LINE Corporation – announced it will cease its services as of March 31, 2023. The entity asserted that its decision is not related to the recent collapse of FTX. The US-based exchange Bitfront informed its customers they should withdraw their assets by the end of March 2023 as it will halt all services and delete their information after that date.  It has already suspended new registrations and credit card...

Another former cryptocurrency giant has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States. Thus, BlockFi has followed the example of companies like Celsius and Three Arrows Capital. The cryptocurrency lender’s troubles began as the bear market intensified earlier this year, especially after the Terra collapse. There seemed to be a lifeboat thrown by FTX a few months down the road as the exchange provided a $400 million loan to BlockFi and had the option to...

According to a new survey, many residents of El Salvador consider the bitcoin experiment implemented by their country’s leaders a failure. El Salvador and Bitcoin… Will They Break Up? The poll was conducted by the University of Central America. Roughly 75 percent of the survey participants said they have not used any cryptocurrency throughout 2022. A total of 77 percent of the participants flat out said that they don’t feel implementing bitcoin as legal tender was a...

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