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Former BitMEX CEO Arthur Hayes believes FTX is ultimately headed for bankruptcy now that Binance has refused to rescue the company.  The exchange co-founder offered his analysis of what the future holds for FTX on Thursday and offered some predictions for how its crisis will impact the market.  FTX Will Go Bankrupt In a Twitter thread on Wednesday, Hayes asserted that there is no player large enough to buy out FTX, if Binance’s CEO – the richest man in crypto – was unwilling...

The past few days were unnerving as the crypto industry watched the fall of FTX, one of the world’s largest crypto exchanges. With FTX now insolvent, some of the biggest and oldest players in the space have started expressing disappointment at the company’s CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), popularly known as crypto’s white knight. Jesse Powell Blasts SBF One such person is Jesse Powell, co-founder and former CEO of crypto exchange Kraken, who has taken to Twitter to blast SBF,...

Struggling crypto exchange FTX appears to be processing withdrawals again, according to publicly available blockchain data.  Data from Etherscan – an explorer for analyzing transactions on the Ethereum blockchain – shows that FTX’s public wallet began executing a swath of outbound transactions beginning at 03:39:11 PM UTC on Thursday.  This follows an over 48-hour period during which FTX was only taking in deposits. FTX initially admitted to its liquidity troubles shortly...

FTX had reportedly reached out to several other large exchanges, including Coinbase and OKX, but was turned down. Its finances were one of the factors after the reviewal of which, Binance backed out of a planned takeover. While Binance may have averted more scrutiny from regulators in Europe and the United States but the botched deal further aggravated the meltdown in the prices of cryptocurrencies. The Billionairs’ Feud Binance and FTX have been at loggerheads long before...

Tether has become the latest industry company to get involved with the ongoing saga revolving around FTX by freezing over 46 million USDT. The company said it had to comply with law enforcement agencies. All eyes in the crypto industry have been set on FTX for the past several days, ever since Binance decided to sell its entire FTT stash following some discrepancies with Alameda Research’s balance sheet. The turbulence in the following days included Binance agreeing to...

Sam Bankman-Fried issued an official apology following the collapse of his cryptocurrency exchange. He talked about making customers whole and finding a solution that would be best for all parties involved. FTX’s CEO took it to Twitter earlier on November 10 to shine some light on the current situation with his distressed crypto exchange. At first, he apologized for the entire fiasco, and said he should have done better as he had made at least two big mistakes, including...

While the cryptocurrency industry is caught in what seems to be one of the largest debacles of the year, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics just published the numbers for the Consumer Price Index. The reality beat expectations, resulting in a massive spike in Bitcoin’s price, which reached $17,800 on Binance. The US Bureau of Labor Statistics just published the CPI for October, clocking in at 7.7%, increasing 0.4%, seasonally adjusted. The expectations were mostly for the...

In its recently released third-quarter earnings report, crypto financial services firm Galaxy Digital revealed that it holds over $76 million worth of exposure to FTX, the mainstream crypto exchange that is now experiencing a liquidity crisis.  Per the report, the $76.8 million of exposure is comprised of both cash and digital assets. Within that, $47.5 million is still in the withdrawal process. FTX appears to have stopped processing withdrawals on Tuesday after the company...

One of the leading crypto miners – Marathon Digital Holdings – recorded a net loss of $75.4 million, or $0.65 per share, during the third quarter of the year due to decreased production and the declining price of bitcoin. Still, the company rounded up its total stash to 11,285 BTC. Data shows that only the Michael Saylor-founded organization MicroStrategy has more bitcoin possessions. Q3 Was a Transition Period Fred Thiel – Marathon’s Chairman and CEO – said 2022’s Q2 was a...

As a ‘last resort’ option, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that his company will be slashing 11,000 employees from its workforce. That’s 13% of the company. In a blog post shared with employees on Wednesday, Zuckerberg said Meta was taking steps to become “leaner” and more efficient, but regrets that he now must lay off employees.  Zuckerberg explained that the company had been shifting resources into “high priority growth areas,” including the metaverse, while cutting...