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After entertaining the possibility of restarting FTX following the bankruptcy process for a long time, lawyers for the defunct exchange have announced that that plan is now scrapped, and the company will simply dissolve once all debts are paid off. Andrew Dietrich, one of the lawyers representing FTX in the court case, stated that although repayment of creditors in full is not yet guaranteed, it is an objective that is definitely attainable. Creditors would only be receiving...

Celsius, the platform whose bankruptcy plan was finally approved late last year, has recently lashed out at former clients who cashed out before the company had the opportunity to freeze their funds. Bold Propositions The former crypto staking, lending, and exchange platform that has since shifted its focus to Bitcoin mining following the approval of the judge in its bankruptcy case was the first major player in crypto to bring up the “unsecured creditors” argument in court...

Bitcoin mining firm Core Scientific filed a disclosure statement for its third-amended bankruptcy recovery plan on Monday, which incorporates key terms from its Restructuring Term Sheet filed in late October. The new filing features a concrete timeline for how the firm will gain support for the plan from key stakeholders and emerge from bankruptcy before January 15. Final Stages of Bankruptcy Per the Monday filing, the debtors plan to “move forward expeditiously” with...

Alexander Mashinsky – the founder of bankrupt crypto lending platform Celsius – has been arrested and indicted on federal charges. Former Celsius Head Taken into Custody Celsius was founded in 2018. Things fell apart for the company last year during the height of the crypto winter. Users of the platform were shocked one day last summer to see that all withdrawals had been halted, and thus they couldn’t access their hard-earned money. Things, however, didn’t quite...

Prime Trust and most of its associates have come under undue problems. Prime Trust subsidiary Banq has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the United States District Court of Nevada. As reported by The Block, the decision to file comes only five days after the parent company reached an acquisition deal with BitGo due to its problems with embattled cryptocurrency exchange Celsius Network. Based on the filing, Banq currently has about $17.72 million in assets and a total liability...

Not long ago, Live Bitcoin News reported that Genesis Global Capital – the lending division of the Digital Currency Group (DCG) – was preparing for bankruptcy. While it looked like the situation was inevitable, it was believed that there was potentially a small chance that the company was going to be able to survive its present ordeal. Sadly, it doesn’t look like that’s going to happen now as the firm has proceeded with its bankruptcy filing. Genesis Files Bankruptcy The...

It’s happened again, folks. Another bankruptcy is in the crypto books. This time, the company that’s falling victim to alleged bankruptcy proceedings is Genesis, the crypto lending unit of the Digital Currency Group that has worked heavily with Gemini, a crypto exchange in New York run by the Winklevoss Twins. It Looks Like Genesis Will File for Bankruptcy The company is complaining of a “liquidity crunch” in recent posts. Does that sound familiar? If not, it should....

We are beginning to sound like a broken record at this stage, but it’s worth mentioning again that 2022 was arguably the worst year for the crypto space. Bitcoin, for example, lost more than 70 percent of its value. The world’s number one digital currency by market cap fell from an all-time high of about $68,000 per unit in November of 2021 to about $16,000 just 12 months later. Bitcoin Has Remained Upright It was a sad and ugly sight to see, and the crypto space lost...

2022 was a year wrought with bankruptcy and the exiting of several crypto companies, but many analysts do not feel this was necessarily a bad thing. Bankruptcy was Big in 2022, but Things Might’ve Been Better Than We Thought On the surface, one could argue that 2022 was the worst year for crypto since 2018. The price of bitcoin, for example, fell by more than 70 percent after the world’s number one digital currency by market cap hit a new all-time high in the final...

Another crypto mining firm is in trouble. This time, the alleged victim is Greenidge Generation (GREE), which has hinted that it could file bankruptcy in the coming weeks if its present deal with NYDIG doesn’t work out. Greenidge Generation Could Be the Next to Go The company is struggling to restructure its nearly $75 million debt. By doing this, the company could avoid a long bankruptcy line that initially began last summer with firms like Celsius, though Greenidge is...