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YEARENDER-Cryptocurrencies at crossroads after annus horribilis
22Dec By adminNo Comments
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YEARENDER-Cryptocurrencies at crossroads after annus horribilis

[ad_1] Crashes, contagion, collapses came in such quick succession that investors were, towards the end of the year, asking serious existential questions. To borrow from Britain's Queen Elizabeth, 2022 is not a year on which the cryptocurrency world shall look back with undiluted pleasure.Crashes, contagion, collapses came in such quick succession that investors were, towards the end of the year, asking serious existential questions. After all, the largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin, has not kept its head above water for more than a week at a time, and is down about three-quarters from last November's $69,000 peak. The market value of the 22,000-odd tokens and coins is now at less than a third of the peak $3 trillion in November 2021, and many of them are comatose, if not outright dead.T...
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Tom Brady, Steph Curry to Naomi Osaka, Crypto’s ties to sports raise ethical questions
18Dec By adminNo Comments
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Tom Brady, Steph Curry to Naomi Osaka, Crypto’s ties to sports raise ethical questions

[ad_1] The bankruptcy of FTX and the arrest of its founder and former CEO are raising new questions about the role celebrity athletes such as Tom Brady, Steph Curry, Naomi Osaka. Sports fans who view their favorite players as role models might think twice before taking their financial advice, too. The bankruptcy of FTX and the arrest of its founder and former CEO are raising new questions about the role celebrity athletes such as Tom Brady, Steph Curry, Naomi Osaka and others played in lending legitimacy to the largely unregulated landscape of crypto, while also reframing the conversation about just how costly blind loyalty to favorite players or teams can be for the average fan. Cryptocurrencies are digital money that use blockchain as the database for recording transactions. It...
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Binance, Alone at the Top After FTX, Stirs ‘Too Big to Fail’ Crypto Worry
18Dec By adminNo Comments
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Binance, Alone at the Top After FTX, Stirs ‘Too Big to Fail’ Crypto Worry

[ad_1] The death spiral of Sam Bankman-Fried’s empire bolsters the dominance of Changpeng Zhao’s exchange and amps up potential dangers for the entire sector. Now that Sam Bankman-Fried's fall from grace is complete, uneasiness is growing around the dominance that his rival Changpeng Zhao's Binance holds in the cryptocurrency market. The worries surfaced again on Friday as the accounting firm Mazars Group halted work for Binance and other crypto firms on reports that are meant to demonstrate that the companies hold the necessary reserves needed to cover any potential surge of customer withdrawals. Zhao, who goes by his initials CZ, has insisted repeatedly that Binance doesn't misuse customer funds like FTX allegedly did and that his exchange can process whatever amount of withdra...
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The FTX Crypto Victim Card Can Be Hard to Play
16Dec By adminNo Comments
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The FTX Crypto Victim Card Can Be Hard to Play

[ad_1] Blaming Sam Bankman-Fried is convenient cover for some firms that should have known better. The crypto industry has suffered many booms and busts in its brief lifespan, but nothing like this. Sam Bankman-Fried, currently sitting in a Bahamian jail, has been accused by the US securities regulator of orchestrating a years-long fraud that diverted billions in customer funds from opaque and offshore exchange FTX to a now-bankrupt trading empire. The outrage among FTX's roughly 1 million creditors is understandable, as is the skittishness of investors yanking money from other crypto platforms like Binance. Bankman-Fried has tried to present himself as a naive 30-year-old who got out over his skis, but each day brings new reports of elaborate internal tools used to support the pro...
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Crypto Lender Amber Scraps Bonuses, Cuts Jobs as FTX Collapse Turmoil Continues
15Dec By adminNo Comments
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Crypto Lender Amber Scraps Bonuses, Cuts Jobs as FTX Collapse Turmoil Continues

[ad_1] Amber Group, one of Asia’s biggest trading and lending platforms for digital currencies, has canceled this year’s staff bonuses as the one-time industry darling grapples with the crypto downturn. Amber Group, one of Asia's biggest trading and lending platforms for digital currencies, has canceled this year's staff bonuses as the one-time industry darling grapples with the crypto downturn. The Singapore-based outfit told employees this week that it is scrapping performance-based bonuses for 2022 due to slower business growth and market uncertainties, in an internal memo viewed by Bloomberg News. Since June, Amber has kicked off a series of cost-cutting measures including redundancies and wage reductions. Some of its management team have voluntarily agreed to give up all or ...
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Binance, Tether to Solana, After FTX Fall, These Crypto Entities Are Grabbing the Spotlight
14Dec By adminNo Comments
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Binance, Tether to Solana, After FTX Fall, These Crypto Entities Are Grabbing the Spotlight

[ad_1] Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest in the Bahamas pending a possible extradition to the US opens a fresh chapter in efforts to untangle whether his crypto empire was built using fraudulent methods. Sam Bankman-Fried's arrest in the Bahamas pending a possible extradition to the US opens a fresh chapter in efforts to untangle whether his crypto empire was built using fraudulent methods.Regardless of the outcome, the demise of his digital-asset exchange FTX continues to shake the wider crypto market's foundations. Skittish investors are pulling money out of rival exchanges, fearful of having their assets stuck should any of those venues collapse. At least one major crypto firm has filed for bankruptcy in the wake of FTX's unraveling, while two others were forced to suspend some withdrawal...
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Bitcoin Price Lingers Near $17,000; Coinbase, Miners Lead Declines
10Dec By adminNo Comments
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Bitcoin Price Lingers Near $17,000; Coinbase, Miners Lead Declines

[ad_1] Bitcoin is finishing the week mired in the narrow range that has existed since the collapse of the FTX exchange. Bitcoin is finishing the week mired in the narrow range that has existed since the collapse of the FTX exchange, while Coinbase Global Inc. and miners continued their declines toward record lows as the crypto winer grows colder. The largest cryptocurrency by market value was little changed at about $17,113 as of 5 p.m. in New York, just off the two-year low reached on Nov. 21. FTX sought bankruptcy protection on Nov. 11. Bitcoin is down more than 60% this year. The Bloomberg Galaxy Crypto Index dropped less than 2% this week, and is down 67% in 2022. Coinbase Chief Executive Officer Brian Armstrong said earlier this week that the cryptocurrency exchange's revenu...
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A Hedge Fund Hit by FTX Collapse Defaults on $36 Million of Debt
6Dec By adminNo Comments
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A Hedge Fund Hit by FTX Collapse Defaults on $36 Million of Debt

[ad_1] Contagion from the collapse of crypto exchange FTX is spreading into the world of decentralized finance. Contagion from the collapse of crypto exchange FTX is spreading into the world of decentralized finance, as lending protocol Maple Finance severed ties with a hedge fund that defaulted on almost $36 million worth of crypto loans on its platform.Sydney-based Orthogonal Trading said in a tweet on Tuesday that it defaulted on a $10 million loan after being “severely impacted by the collapse of FTX and associated trading activities,” without giving further details. M11 Credit, which runs a lending pool on Maple, on Monday said Orthogonal Trading had informed it on Dec. 3 about its inability to repay. Orthogonal Trading had taken out $31 million of loans in the USDC stablecoin an...
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SPACs and Crypto’s Loveless Marriage was Doomed
6Dec By adminNo Comments
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SPACs and Crypto’s Loveless Marriage was Doomed

[ad_1] Crypto companies seeking the public markets’ stamp of approval face a rightly skeptical SEC. Banker Bob Diamond was forced to pull the ripcord this week on his attempt to take stablecoin issuer Circle Internet Financial public via a special purpose acquisition company. The ex-Barclays Plc boss's dealmaking ability probably wasn't the issue. Nor was the target's financial performance: Circle earns interest income on the reserves that backstop its stablecoin USDC, and rising interest rates have thus benefited its bottom line. Instead, the party pooper was almost certainly the Securities and Exchange Commission. Following the collapse of crypto exchange FTX in November, the regulator's already elevated wariness of crypto is now at DEFCON 1. Trying to match a crypto company wi...
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Bitcoin Sinks Further 70% in Standard Chartered List of Possible 2023 Upsets
5Dec By adminNo Comments
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Bitcoin Sinks Further 70% in Standard Chartered List of Possible 2023 Upsets

[ad_1] Speculators cleaving to the view that the crypto rout is mostly over are at risk of a rude awakening in 2023, according to Standard Chartered. Speculators cleaving to the view that the crypto rout is mostly over are at risk of a rude awakening in 2023, according to Standard Chartered.A further Bitcoin plunge of about 70% to $5,000 next year is among the “surprise” scenarios that markets may be “under-pricing,” the bank's Global Head of Research Eric Robertsen wrote in a note on Sunday. Demand could switch from Bitcoin as a digital version of gold to the real thing, spurring to a 30% rally in the yellow metal, Robertsen also said. This possible outcome involves a reversal in interest-rate hikes as economies struggle and more crypto “bankruptcies and a collapse in investor confid...
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