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Sam Bankman-Fried Sort of Had a Rough Day
22.9.2023
Yesterday was arguably not a great day for Sam Bankman-Fried. First, the judge overseeing his case rejected all seven of his proposed expert witnesses*, questioning at least one’s qualifications and saying some others really wouldn’t be relevant to the case
Dogecoin Beats Bitcoin in Price Stability Amid Crypto Trading Lull
22.9.2023
DOGE's new-found stability reflects a lack of investor interest in trading alternative cryptocurrencies
Shiba Inu Developers Floated a Dummy Token and Now Activist Traders Are Making It a Real Thing
22.9.2023
A token meant for testing purposes wasn’t intended to be traded, yet some traders have pounced on the supposed opportunity
FTX Sues Former Employees of Hong Kong Affiliate, Seeks $157 Million
22.9.2023
The bankrupt crypto exchange has sued former employees of Salameda, a Hong Kong-incorporated affiliate, to recover about $157.3 million
Bankrupt Bitcoin Miner Core Scientific to Buy 27K Bitmain Servers for $77M
22.9.2023
Bitcoin miner Core Scientific (CORZQ) has agreed to exchange $23.1 million in cash and $53.9 million in common stock for 27,000 Bitmain S19J XP 151 TH bitcoin mining servers, according to a press release
Ethereum's Shanghai Upgrade Has Failed to Boost Network Activity, JPMorgan Says
22.9.2023
Daily transactions, daily active addresses and total value locked on the blockchain have all fallen since the upgrade, the report said
Japanese Exchange GMO to Offer XRP Users Yen for Delayed Songbird Airdrop
22.9.2023
The handouts are part of a token airdrop whose snapshot took place in 2020
Binance, U.S. Affiliate, Changpeng 'CZ' Zhao File to Dismiss SEC Lawsuit
22.9.2023
Binance, Binance.US and Changpeng Zhao filed to dismiss a Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) lawsuit Thursday, claiming the regulator hadn't "plausibly alleged" various securities-related violations
Vote if You Want, but Remember 'Cypherpunks Write Code'
22.9.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried Will Remain in Jail Through the Start of His Trial
21.9.2023
An appeals court rejected his attorneys’ attempt to free him in the run-up to the trial
Nouns DAO’s $27M Revolt Reveals Toxic Mix of Money-Hungry Traders and Blockchain Idealists
21.9.2023
It wasn't only the $90,000 spent on naming rights for a rare Ecuadorian frog species that turned off members of this decentralized blockchain-powered community project; some savvy arbitrageurs just wanted their share of the project's treasury
Bitcoin Slides to $26.5K Amid Surging U.S. Dollar; Record-High Rates Are ‘Nightmare’ for Crypto Firms
21.9.2023
BTC slid to $26,500 as interest rates and the U.S. dollar surged while equities declined
Judge Blocks Sam Bankman-Fried's Proposed Witnesses From Testifying
21.9.2023
Judge Lewis Kaplan, who's overseeing Sam Bankman-Fried's trial, granted the U.S. Department of Justice's motion to block all of the FTX founder's proposed witnesses from testifying at his trial next month
NFTs Aren’t Dead Just Yet (But the MSM Might Be)
21.9.2023
The success of a recent post from Rolling Stone calling NFTs worthless struck a nerve. But the reality is more complicated and more hopeful
‘You Can Do Nothing’: Crypto Trading Titans Are Yelling at Each Other on Elon Musk’s X
21.9.2023
“I never thought that you could be THAT scared of us,” DWF’s Andrei Grachev posted on X. Wintermute’s Evgeny Gaevoy: “We are trembling in your presence.”
Ex-Senator Who Once Shepherded Crypto Legislation Sees No Path in Current Congress
21.9.2023
Former U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey, who tried and failed to push his own crypto legislation through Congress before leaving at the start of the year, can’t see how the current Senate will have any better luck, despite recent progress in the House of Representatives
Polygon Emerges as Suitor for Celo’s New Layer-2 Blockchain, Competing With OP Stack
21.9.2023
Celo, which is ditching its standalone blockchain in favor of a new "layer-2" network atop Ethereum, had originally signaled plans to rely on Optimism's OP Stack, a similar customizable kit to Polygon's but using Optimism’s “optimistic” technology
Is Crypto-AI Really a Match Made in Heaven?
21.9.2023
There’s lots of talk these days about how blockchains can make AI safe for human consumption. But is the idea, widely touted in the crypto community, workable in practice? Jeff Wilser takes a critical look
Top 3 Crypto Myths Tackled for Advisors
21.9.2023
Christopher Jensen from Franklin Templeton tackles myths about crypto in the Crypto for Advisors newsletter
Stablecoin Issuer Tether Ventures Into AI With Northern Data in $427M Nvidia Chip Splurge
21.9.2023
Damoon, a Tether subsidiary in which Northern Group acquired a stake earlier this year, has purchased $427 million of Nvidia chips for generative AI cloud computing