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Digital Currency Group (DCG) CEO Barry Silbert recently shared a letter with investors illuminating the cryptocurrency conglomerate’s web of external and intercompany loans.  Among them is a newly disclosed liability of $575 million to its lending subsidiary Genesis, due by May of 2023.  What’s Going On With DCG? As reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Silbert’s letter sought to assure investors that the company was still secure amid the chaotic crypto bear market...

Alexey Pertsev – developer of the cryptocurrency mixer Tornado Cash – will reportedly remain in jail until late February 2023. The Dutch Crime Agency (FIOD) arrested the man in August this year after the US Treasury Department previously sanctioned Tornado Cash for enabling money-laundering procedures. According to a recent CoinDesk coverage, Pertsev will stay in prison until at least February 20, 2023. The Dutch authorities were supposed to release the Russian software...

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong quelled concerns about the state of his company’s Bitcoin holdings on Tuesday, following doubtful suggestions from rival exchange owner Changpeng Zhao (CZ).  Binance’s CEO has since deleted his tweet, promising to “work together to improve transparency in the industry.” What Did CZ Say? CZ’s now-removed post called attention to two separate claims about the exact number of Bitcoin held by Coinbase.  The first was a statement from Coinbase Custody...

FTX, its former chief Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents, as well as senior executives of the fallen crypto exchange, purchased at least 19 properties worth almost $121 million in the Bahamas, according to new reports. Official property records verified by Reuters reveal that FTX bought luxury beachfront homes, including seven condominiums in a penthouse in a luxury resort called Albany, over the past two years. The total cost was almost $72 million. The properties’ deeds show that...

The American senators – Elizabeth Warren, Tina Smith, and Richard Durbin – advised Fidelity Investments to reconsider its decision to allow investors to add bitcoin to their retirement 401(k) plans. One of the largest mutual fund companies in the US has heavily engaged in the crypto sector in the past few years. It recently considered providing bitcoin trading services to individual investors on its brokerage platform. A Renewed Warning After FTX’s Fiasco Fidelity Investments...

The first twelve days of November were perhaps the darkest for 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), as he not only lost his crypto empire but went from being a Bitcoin billionaire and crypto’s white knight to filing for bankruptcy and owing customers at least $3 billion. The next eight days revealed that SBF’s once-powerful crypto exchange FTX was not what everyone believed it to be. Here’s the timeline of the events that led to the fall of FTX in the last 20 days. The...

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur and billionaire Justin Sun is reportedly evaluating FTX’s assets for potential purchase. As reported by the Wall Street Journal, Sun said on Tuesday that he is open to “any kind of deal,” with the exchange, and that “all options” are on the table. “Right now we are evaluating assets one by one, but as far as I understand the process is going to be long since they are already in this kind of bankruptcy procedure,” he added.  FTX closed its first...

Iris Energy – an Australian crypto mining company whose main purview is the operation of BTC mining sites in Canada running on renewable energy exclusively – has recently ceased mining in two subsidiaries. Nevertheless, the firm still maintains that its business continues to be profitable. Immediate Repayment of Loan Demanded The subsidiaries operating as Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs) used Bitmain mining rigs financed by a $107.8 million loan from the New York Digital...

With the recent collapse of the British pound following the exit of the country’s latest prime minister, it appears bitcoin is once again taking on “safe haven” status. Bitcoin Is a “Safe Haven” Following the Fall of the Pound This is a narrative that was greatly pushed during the early days of the coronavirus. In that time, fiat currencies were crashing and burning, and inflation was starting to become a huge problem. While it was nowhere near where it is today, the...

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