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2022-12-14 15:50:32 Sam Bankman-Freed was arrested in the Bahamas at the request of the United States. He is likely to be extradited.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission officially charged Sam Bankman-Fried with equity investment fraud. The CFTC and the US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York also filed charges.

Binance users withdrew $1.14 billion in a day after the release of a Reuters article about a possible criminal prosecution of Changpeng Zhao.

Changpeng Zhao on the outflow of capital: business as usual and no black swans.

Tether has announced that it will reduce the secured loans in Tether reserves to zero during 2023.

Canada will ban crypto exchanges from offering leverage to margin traders.

Coinbase received 12,320 law enforcement requests from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. Open / Comment

2022-12-14 15:48:15 Elon Musk Hints Of Building Payment App To Compete With PayPal

https://bit.ly/3FTLpl3 Open / Comment

2022-12-12 19:05:59 Binance has restricted withdrawals due to anomalous price movements for certain trading pairs on Binance, including assets such as SUN, ARDR, OSMO, FUN, and GLM.

Ripple CTO David Schwartz has warned XRP holders of a new phishing attack purporting to be Binance employees.

On December 12, the mining company Argo Blockchain will file a bankruptcy petition with the American court.

FTX Japan will cease all operations until March 9, 2023. Open / Comment

2022-12-11 14:41:47 SMEM Bankman-Fried announced readiness to testify in the US Congress Congress Committee on December 13.

Sam Bankman-Frida again clashed with Chanpen Zhao on Twitter. Sam accused Cz of lies, and he reminded Sam of the consequences of his inept leadership.

axios: The Block publication for more than a year was secretly financed by Sam Bankman-Fried, who also paid for the apartments for Bagams for the general director of the media.

microsoft Security Threat Intelligence: Cryptoes are becoming more and more inventive every year. So, they use Excel files infected with harmful code. Open / Comment

2022-12-09 17:11:23 Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong expects a 50% drop in revenue to $3.3 billion in 2022.

ECB board member Fabio Panetta called cryptocurrencies the bubble of the era that is doomed to burst.

The New York Attorney's Office initiated an investigation into possible price manipulation of TerraUSD and Luna by Sam Bankman-Fried.

Shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust investment fund are trading almost 50% below the price of BTC in the spot markets. This is a record value.

DappRadar: NFT trading volume fell to its lowest level in November at $546 million.

Investor and broadcaster Kevin O'Leary revealed in an interview that FTX paid him $15 million to be an ambassador. Open / Comment

2022-12-08 11:40:36 The CEO of the operator of the New York Stock Exchange expects that most cryptocurrencies will be recognized as securities in the United States.

Telegram launched the sale of anonymous numbers on Fragment.

Ledger in collaboration with the creator of the iPod introduced a new hardware crypto wallet Ledger Stax.

In Kazakhstan, miners were obliged to purchase electricity from the general energy system only if there is a surplus and exclusively through the KOREM exchange.

Auditing company Mazars checked the reserves of Binance and reported that the exchange's obligations in BTC are backed by 101% reserves. Open / Comment

2022-12-08 11:32:36 Breaking: Kazakhstan Passes Stringent Crypto And Mining Bills

https://bit.ly/3VZwP0i Open / Comment

2022-12-06 22:51:50 Changpeng Zhao called the founder and former CEO of the bankrupt FTX exchange Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) "one of the greatest scammers in history."

Goldman Sachs enters the race. The financial giant will spend "tens of millions of dollars" buying or investing in crypto companies hit by the FTX collapse.

Tether launches a stablecoin pegged to the offshore Chinese Yuan (CNHT) on Tron.

In Nigeria, disgruntled AAX customers beat exchange employees.

Bitcoin network mining difficulty decreased by 7.32% to 34.24 T. This is the strongest reduction in difficulty since the summer of 2021.

Paraguay rejects cryptocurrency bill that limits electricity for miners.

The UK will tighten control over sales and marketing campaigns of crypto projects. Open / Comment

2022-12-05 16:03:25 Financial Times: Genesis crypto lender owes more than $900 million to Gemini crypto exchange customers.

Bybit announced a second wave of staff cuts amid a prolonged bear market.

Elon Musk: Sam Bankman-Fried donated about $1 billion to the Democratic Party.

Blockchain(.)com and Gemini are interested in buying crypto derivatives platform LedgerX, which FTX wanted to buy over the summer.

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman called the current crypto winter endless, as many cryptocurrencies have no value, just like blockchain technology. Open / Comment

2022-12-03 17:44:23 The Cayman Islands court allowed the liquidators of the bankrupt crypto fund 3AC to sell the Much Wow superyacht for $30 million.

MetaMask co-founder Dan Finlay: I'm ready to give up on the Apple ecosystem. A 30% tax is an abuse of monopoly.

Porsche will launch an NFT collection of 7500 tokens in January 2023. Open / Comment