After the publicly-listed bitcoin mining firm Argo Blockchain suspended trading on Nasdaq and the London Stock Exchange, the company said it would follow up the next day with an announcement. The following day, on Dec. 28, 2022, Argo detailed it is selling its Helios facility to Galaxy Digital for $65 million, and the financially troubled business plans to refinance asset-backed…
Cryptocurrency had its Lehman moment with FTX — or, perhaps, another Lehman moment. The macroeconomic downturn has not spared crypto, and as November rolled around, nobody knew that we were in for the collapse of an empire worth billions of dollars. As the rumors of bankruptcy began to take hold, a bank run was inevitable. Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, the once…
In brief A parade float based on the Nouns NFT project will appear in next week’s Rose Parade, alongside costumed characters. The project was proposed and built by Stoopid Buddy Stoodios, co-founded by actor Seth Green, and funded by the Nouns DAO. The Nouns NFT project has already appeared in a Super Bowl commercial as well as an indie film.…
According to court documents, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is set to be arraigned by the federal court in the Southern District of New York (SDNY) on Jan. 3, 2023. The disgraced FTX co-founder plans to enter a plea in his fraud case in front of U.S. judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan, according to a report published by Reuters. Report Claims FTX…
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) warned his 8 million Twitter followers on Dec. 28 that he is “reasonably sure” that API key leaks are taking place at the cryptocurrency trade management platform. I am reasonably sure there are wide spread API key leaks from 3Commas. If you have ever put an API key in 3Commas (from any exchange), please disable…
The crypto world is still developing at lightning speed. The adoption of projects built on blockchain technology has increased tremendously in 2022, and this is partly due to the celebrities who have contributed to it. Thanks to these well-known people, crypto-related projects have reached a large audience, through their social media accounts and the many news outlets that wrote about…
The United States Department of Justice is investigating the hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of cryptocurrency taken in unauthorized transactions from collapsed exchange FTX, according to a report on Tuesday. FTX was hit with a mystery attack on November 11, shortly after it filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy, adding a surprise twist to the saga around the exchange and…
Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried is scheduled to appear in court on the afternoon of Jan. 3 to enter a plea on two counts of wire fraud and six counts of conspiracy against him in relation to the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange, Reuters reported Dec. 28 citing court records. Bankman-Fried will appear before District Judge Lewis Kaplan in…
The severe winter storm in North America shut down Binance’s cloud mining products between Dec. 24-26, according to an official announcement on Dec. 28. As a result of the power outage, the company announced that users’ subscriptions to cloud mining products were extended for three days. Binance has noted that further outages as a result of the weather conditions will…
On Dec. 27, 2022, a number of onchain researchers noticed that funds connected to Alameda Research and FTX have moved and have been swapped for other tokens. Reports show the hacker known as the ‘FTX Accounts Drainer,’ traded large sums of ERC20 tokens for digital assets like tether, ethereum, and bitcoin. Funds Tied to Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research Traded for…
