Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Shark Tank star and the owner of the NBA team Dallas Mavericks, Mark Cuban, says recent blowups in the crypto space, including the FTX implosion, “have been banking blowups,” not crypto blowups. He also explained why he invests...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard have stressed the need for strong crypto regulation. Yellen said the FTX collapse shows “the weaknesses” of the entire crypto sector while Brainard cautione...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Nov. 14, the New York Times (NYT) published a massive 2,200-word expose and interview with the former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), and the article was criticized a great deal after it was published. The article noted that SBF would only of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Three days ago, on Nov. 11, 2022, it was reported that FTX’s wallets saw unusual activities and FTX Telegram channel admins stressed that FTX was “hacked.” The same day, the new FTX CEO John Ray confirmed there were &...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. WAHED is delighted to announce the Grand WAHED Pitchfest, an opportunity for entrepreneurs and innovators to secure funding for their next world-changing idea. Founders are invited to present their ideas to the WAHED Team, and the most...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Nov. 15, 2022, the crypto exchange Liquid Global revealed that it has suspended fiat and crypto withdrawals “until further notice.” The same day, customers leveraging the crypto lending platform Salt were also informed that Salt has paused withdra...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. In a move that will excite crypto enthusiasts, IllumiShare SRG has announced its token presale launch, which will hold on the 23rd of November after an unveiling party in Dubai on November 22nd. His highness Sheikh Mohamed Bin Ahmed Bi...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Nov. 14, 2022, the Securities Commission of the Bahamas (SCB) published a press release that explains the ‘Big Four’ accounting firm PWC (Pricewaterhousecoopers) has been designated as provisional liquidator in the FTX investigation. The SCB detai...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Uniswap rose to a one-week high in today’s session, as crypto markets seemed to have settled following recent turbulence. The last seven days were filled with increased levels of fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the marketplace, as participants...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Since bitcoin started falling from its all-time high last year, the economist and gold bug, Peter Schiff, made sure everyone knows that he wholeheartedly believes the leading crypto asset will fall to zero. Now that FTX has collapsed, Schiff has doub...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to the CEO of Crypto.com, Kris Marszalek, his firm had recovered much of the $1 billion that had been sent to FTX when the crypto exchange collapsed. However, he acknowledged that at the time of FTX’s collapse, Crypto.com’s expo...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Bitcoin was trading marginally higher on Nov. 15, as the U.S. dollar continued to weaken, dropping to multi-month lows versus several G7 currencies. The decline of the dollar overshadowed tweets from FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, who cryptically tw...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Renault, one of the biggest automakers in the world, has announced it has built the first industrial metaverse, with all its production lines supplying data to this world. According to the company, this digital twin replica will allow it to save $330...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Nov 15th, 2022 – Leading global cryptocurrency exchange, Bitget announces that it will increase its Protection Fund to 300 Million USD, in order to provide better protection and further assurance to crypto users. This is part of...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
A study from Technavio, a market research firm, has predicted that the area of the metaverse dedicated to entertainment, including virtual concerts, video games, and movies, will grow to $28.92 billion in value from 2021 to 2026. The report states th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to a report stemming from the blockchain analytics firm Argus, Sam Bankman-Fried’s trading firm Alameda Research obtained tokens ahead of FTX.com listings. The report claims that Alameda acquired roughly $60 million worth of tokens b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Huobi, the Seychelles-based crypto exchange, recently became the latest digital asset exchange platform to reveal the number as well as the value of its digital assets held in reserves. Huobi has said disclosing the assets held in reserves helps to b...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Visa has reportedly terminated its global agreements with collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX and its U.S. arm, FTX US. The payments giant added that FTX’s “U.S. debit card program is being wound down by their issuer.”
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Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Tesla CEO and Twitter chief Elon Musk has made bullish statements about bitcoin and dogecoin despite crypto market sell-offs. He said bitcoin “will make it” and “DOGE to the moon.” Amid crypto winter and th...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary, aka Mr. Wonderful, has investments in FTX. Following the collapse of the crypto exchange, he said it’s a turning point for the industry, emphasizing that the “crypto bottom is in.” He is now push...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
After Kevin Zhou, the co-founder of the hedge fund Galois Capital, revealed half of the firm’s assets were held on FTX, another crypto asset management firm called Ikigai detailed that “a large majority of the hedge fund’s total assets” were stored o...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
According to the blockchain infrastructure company Paxos, the firm has frozen 11,184.38 pax gold (PAXG) tokens held on the platform FTX.com. The regulated token issuer noted that it was directed to freeze the PAXG tokens after “direction f...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
PRESS RELEASE. Nov 14th, 2022 – Leading global cryptocurrency exchange Bitget announces that it has set aside a 5 Million USD worth of Builders’ Fund, aiming to help those affiliates, influencers and professional traders who are distressed by t...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
In light of a recently published real estate listing, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is reportedly selling a 12,000-square-foot penthouse in the Bahamas for $39.9 million. Moreover, reports further detail that FTX Property Holdings spent roug...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 1 year ago
On Nov. 14, cronos rebounded, as Crypto.com CEO Kris Marszalek held an “Ask me Anything” (AMA) session, while speculation grew on the company’s level of solvency. The concerns came after it was revealed that a transfer of $400 million was...