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Samuel Bankman-Fried took Do Kwon’s spot by becoming the most talked-about and arguably hated person in the cryptocurrency industry in November when his empire collapsed, and the community found out about his dirty laundry. The latest to join the bashing fest is Coinbase’s CEO – Brian Armstrong – who had some strong words to say about people believing SBF’s most recent story. Don’t Believe SBF After a few weeks of staying quiet in the dark, Bankman-Fried finally broke his...

Elon Musk has alleged that the former CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has donated over a billion dollars to the Democratic party to support them in the elections. In a recent discussion on Twitter, Will Manidis, the Chief Executive Office of healthcare AI platform Science, called SBF’s donations to politicians “one of the highest ROI trades of all time” because it allowed him to not go to Jail for stealing over $10 billion. Taking part in the...

Scams have been rampant this year despite the market slowdown. A new type of sneaky crypto scam with front-running scam bots on YouTube has shot up six-fold in 2022. These types of frauds attract users by posting advertisements on social media claiming to teach you how to make thousands of dollars of money in a day using a front-running bot. When clicked, these ads link users to a YouTube video showing how to create and deploy a front-running script to generate “profits.”...

The American authorities ordered Jeremy Spence (a.k.a. “Coin Signals”) to pay over $2.8 million in restitution to victims of his cryptocurrency fraud.  The US Department of Justice (DOJ) sentenced the criminal to 42 months in prison in May for running a scheme that defrauded investors with more than $5 million. ‘An Illustration of the CFTC’s Best Efforts’ The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) announced that the US District Court for the Southern District of New York...

Numerous Palestinians in the blockaded enclave of Gaza have lost their lives due to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, while others are on the edge of survival. The total destruction of the area has also negatively affected the local financial network. Trying to preserve their wealth and monetary independence from Israel, an increasing number of Gazans have turned to bitcoin and other digital currencies. The Israeli-Palestinian War The clash between the two nations, which...

The initial excitement among Indian bankers over the launch of a central bank-sponsored digital rupee seems to be fizzling out. They find it adding to their paper and accounting work without bringing any significant benefits over the existing procedures. Bankers point out that the real benefit of e-rupee may be in the retail and consumer sectors. Bankers Not Enthused It has been one month since the launch of the e-rupee for the wholesale segment, but bankers don’t seem to be...

Tiantian Kullander – Co-Founder of the crypto firm Amber Group – unexpectedly passed away in his sleep at the age of 30. The bear market negatively affected his firm, which had to dismiss around 10% of its staff earlier this year. In addition, Amber Group recently revealed it had been an “active trading participant” on the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. It remains unknown whether his death has some connection to the aforementioned events.H However, he’s not the only one with...

A new report by Kommersant revealed that sales of Bitcoin mining machines in the country surged rapidly in the fourth quarter, a trend backed by a resurgence of demand, despite the chaotic price action of the crypto-asset. The substantial increase was also spurred by cheap equipment and electricity prices. Chilkoot, which happens to be one of the official distributors of crypto mining rigs in Russia, witnessed more sales during the first two months of Q4 compared to the...

FTX’s sister trading desk, Alameda Research, bailed out the exchange before it suffered a possible $1 billion trade loss in early 2021.  This news comes amid claims from former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried that FTX and Alameda were independently operated firms.  As reported by the Financial Times on Friday, people familiar with the matter said FTX suffered massive losses after a client’s leveraged trade on an obscure crypto token went south. Meanwhile, the “buffers” designed to...

Toto Wolff – an Austrian billionaire and CEO of the Mercedes-AMG Petronas F1 Team – thinks the collapse of crypto exchange FTX could harm every Formula 1 organization. The trading venue served as one of Mercedes’ sponsors while its logo was visible on the cars driven by Lewis Hamilton and George Russel. However, the squad suspended the agreement after FTX’s severe issues came to light in the middle of November. ‘A Huge Damper for the Entire Industry’ FTX’s immense decay that...