Day: December 12, 2022

Fugitive Do Kwon Now Staying in Serbia Report Says — Terraform Labs CEO Suggests SBF Is to Blame for UST Depeg – Regulation Bitcoin News

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A new report has claimed that Do Kwon, the fugitive CEO of Terraform Labs, is currently staying in Serbia. The report added that the South Korean government has engaged the Serbian government regarding the matter. Meanwhile, Kwon has accused Sam Bankman-Fried and Alameda Research of orchestrating events that led to the “depeg” of Terra’s once-stable coin UST. Do Kwon Getting Help in Serbia According to South Korean online publication Chosun, Do Kwon, the CEO of Terraform Labs who is wanted on charges of providing false information to investors, is living…

$75M worth of FTX’s political donations at risk of being recalled due to bankruptcy: Report

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Following the collapse of FTX and its Nov. 11 bankruptcy filing, $73 million worth of its political donations is currently at risk of being recalled to repay the failed exchange’s creditors, according to a report by Bloomberg. Speculators online allege that the former FTX CEO and his executives sought to influence industry regulations with their generous multimillion-dollar donations to politicians and super PACs. Sam Bankman-Fried and executives Ryan Salame and Nishad Singh are believed to have been high-paying donors to both the Republican and Democratic United States political parties. Many politicians who…

FTX was an ‘utter failure of corporate controls at every level of an organization’, says new CEO

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John Ray, who took over as CEO of crypto exchange FTX amid bankruptcy proceedings, has provided detailed written testimony ahead of his Dec. 13 appearance before the United States House Financial Services Committee.  In testimony made available for the “Investigating the Collapse of FTX, Part I” hearing, Ray reiterated many of the claims made in bankruptcy court, saying the collapse of the collapse was due in part to “the absolute concentration of control in the hands of a very small group of grossly inexperienced and unsophisticated individuals.” Ray, who oversaw…

Why The GBTC Discount Could Lead To A Bitcoin Sell-Off

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Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) remains the largest bitcoin trust in the world with billions of dollars worth of BTC, but in the last year, the trust has had a hard time keeping up with the market. The result of this has been a large premium that has continued to widen through the bear market. Currently, the GBTC is trading at a record-high premium, which has sparked speculations of a potential BTC sell-off in the pipeline. GBTC Nears 50% Premium The month of November was fraught with adversity for the crypto…

Coinbase report shows dramatic increase in law enforcement enquiries worldwide

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Coinbase has seen information requests from law enforcement surge over the past year, the cryptocurrency exchange reported in its latest transparency report. The vast majority of the enquiries came from the United States and were tied to criminal investigations.  Coinbase’s new transparency report covers the last four quarters ending with September. In that time, the exchange received 12,320 information requests from law enforcement, an increase of about 66%. The United States accounted for 5,304, or 43%, of those requests. The United Kingdom, Germany and Spain produced between 1,000 and 2,000…

Bitcoin’s bear market is far from over, but data points to improving investor sentiment

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It’s been a near-unprecedented year of extremes and black swan events for the crypto market, and now that 2022 is about to wrap up, analysts are reflecting on the lessons learned and attempting to identify the trends which may point to bullish price action in 2023.  The collapse of Terra Luna, Three Arrows Capital and FTX created a credit crunch, a severe reduction in capital inflows and an increased threat that additional major centralized exchanges could collapse. Despite the severity of the market downturn, a few positives have emerged. Data…

In the Wake of Collapse, FTX Fortune Cookies Are Still on the Menu

Even if OpenFortune doesn’t honor the remainder of its contract with FTX, the company’s fortune cookies will be on the menu for at least a few more months. A representative of Hua Ting in Hillsdale, Illinois, a Chinese restaurant that works with OpenFortune, said that it still had over three months of FTX cookies left in stock as of late November. OpenFortune distributed more than 400,000 of its cookies to Bradenton, Florida, alone in March. Source