Tag Archives: Exchange News

Changpeng Zhao – the man behind famed digital currency exchange Binance – has pledged roughly $2 billion to help save the digital currency arena. Binance Is Looking to Save the Crypto Space The crypto space has been failing as of late. Bitcoin, for example, has lost more than 70 percent of its overall value since it reached its new all-time high of about $68,000 per unit in November of 2021. In general, crypto has lost more than $2.2 trillion in valuation, and many...

Matrix Port – a crypto services provider – believes it’s time for all crypto custody firms and related businesses to begin offering insurance to digital currency customers. Matrix Port Wants Crypto Insurance Offered Everywhere The belief stems from the recent fall of disgraced crypto exchange FTX, which took less than a week to crash and burn. Despite being only three years old, FTX (which began in 2019) rose through the ranks rather quickly to become one of the biggest...

Major League Baseball (MLB) has announced it’s not looking to continue the deal it struck with now fallen crypto exchange FTX. The MLB Is Stepping Away from FTX The deal was initially formed prior to 2021, though it’s taken some time for things to get off the ground. Now that the company has filed bankruptcy and lost so much money due to illicit accounting activities, the MLB has said that it’s looking to back out of the deal and part ways with the disgraced digital...

Binance, the world’s largest and most popular digital currency exchange, has announced a new program that will give all current and future crypto investors proof of its present bitcoin and Ethereum reserves. Binance Tries to Show It’s Not Like FTX The goal is to shed light on the issue of transparency and show the company is nothing like FTX, the now failed digital currency exchange that came to fruition only three years ago in 2019. Binance was initially in line to...

Bitcoin bull and crypto investor Cathie Wood thinks the FTX debacle may have done irreparable damage to the crypto space, and she says the incident will likely make many institutional investors stay away for a long time. Cathie Wood Thinks the Damage Done by FTX Is Severe The FTX fiasco will go down as one of the biggest embarrassments of the arena. Long considered one of the greatest players in crypto, the company first came to fruition in 2019. It rose through the...

FTX caused a lot of nasty spillage and other problems in late 2022. Here we are in 2023, and unfortunately, the final remnants of what will likely be labeled a huge bad actor and very poor player in the crypto economy continues to wreak havoc on the space and on customers. FTX Customers May Not Get Their Funds Back It has been suggested by many analysts and traders that the company’s users will not get their money back. That’s right… Whatever funds they lost due to the...

2022 is on the verge of disappearing forever, and Live Bitcoin News is looking back one last time on the biggest digital currency stories of the year. The Bitcoin Price The biggest story of 2022 revolved around how poorly bitcoin did. What was once one of the largest and most worthwhile assets around sank to the bottom of a deep financial pit, and the currency has refused to get up. In November of last year, for example, the world’s number one digital currency by market...

The FTX disaster was something nobody saw coming, and now one investor – a young man named Evan Luthra – has described the debacle he’s endured after losing nearly $2 million in crypto funds following the collapse of one of the biggest and most powerful crypto trading platforms in the world. Evan Luthra Has Lost a Lot of Money UBS Americas CEO Robert Wolf recently labeled FTX as a “Ponzi scheme.” Millions of investors have seen their money completely vanish after it’s...

The cryptocurrency exchange FTX has seemingly come and gone. The fall of the exchange will likely go down as one of the biggest embarrassments of the digital currency space, and as a result, many players within the industry are calling for exchanges to become less centralized. They are certain that decentralized finance (or defi as it’s called for short) is the answer to many of crypto’s problems. Every Exchange Is Being Told What to Do There is a big idea flowing...

With the fall of FTX and so many other issues plaguing the digital currency world, many are wondering what the fate of the Digital Currency Group (DCG) in Connecticut will be. The organization is arguably one of the largest in the space, and its partner – crypto lending platform Genesis – has recently been hit with rumors that bankruptcy is on the horizon after halting all activity. DCG Says It’s Doing Fine Despite this, regulators and economists in Connecticut remain...