SBF to Remain in a Bahamian Jail for 2 Months, Report Claims FTX Execs Had a Covert Chat Channel Called ‘Wirefraud’ – Bitcoin News

On Tuesday, the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), appeared in court with his newly appointed lawyer Mark Cohen, and his legal team asked the Bahamian judge Joyann Ferguson-Pratt to release SBF on bail with an ankle bracelet. Amid the lengthy court hearing reports detail that SBF’s parents Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried attended the proceedings. Toward the end of the hearing, judge Ferguson-Pratt denied SBF’s request to be released on bail and remanded Bankman-Fried to the Bahamian jail until Feb. 8, 2023. Bankman-Fried’s Media Tour Comes to an…

Binance net withdrawals topped $3.6B over the last 7 days: Report

Binance appears to be suffering from a decline in liquidity. A report from crypto analytics firm Nansen, indicates that Binance had net withdrawals of more than $3.6 billion from Dec. 7 to Dec. 13. Binance gross outflows have been approximately $8.8 billion, while gross inflows have been around $5.1 billion. Binance Netflow 7D ($) -3,660,311,347 8,783,380,428 – Outflow5,123,069,081 – Inflow Exchange Flows dashboard ⤵️https://t.co/CYrBQLryQ0 pic.twitter.com/vV6vcqoWKK — Nansen (@nansen_ai) December 13, 2022 In addition, while Binance saw more than $2 billion in daily net inflows of Ethereum ERC-20 tokens back in…

Binance Refutes Report That DoJ Considers Suing the Crypto Exchange

According to a report, the US Department of Justice is considering filing charges against Binance and several of its officials as part of a lengthy investigation. Binance has denied this news. In a tweet posted on Monday, the official Binance Twitter account made reference to the “wrong” Reuters report and pointed readers to the whole statement it provided to the news outlet on the subject. Changpeng “CZ” Zhao, the CEO of the company, later tweeted this. Reuters has it wrong again. Now they’re attacking our incredible law enforcement team. A…

Economists Expect Lower Consumer Inflation in November Ahead of CPI Report

The incoming CPI report is less likely to affect the Federal reserve’s meeting, but it may indicate a longer-term trajectory for interest rates. Prices of goods and services continue to surge even though economists expected that consumer inflation probably dropped in November. Fingers are crossed as hopes are high that November consumer inflation could show cooling signs when the consumer price index is released. The report is expected to be out by 8:30 a.m. ET on Tuesday, with the Federal Reserve kick-starting the two-day meeting. Economists’ Expectation on November Consumer…

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

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

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…

Coinbase report shows dramatic increase in law enforcement enquiries worldwide

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…