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SBF’s lawyers move to block release of bail guarantors' identities
8.2.2023
The appeal, filed on the last possible day, prevents the names of two bond guarantors for SBF from being revealed until at least Feb. 14
FTX Lawyers Attempt to Question Bankman-Fried’s Family and Inner Circle for Financial Insight
27.1.2023
According to court documents in the FTX bankruptcy case, the company’s attorneys seek to subpoena FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, his brother Gabriel Bankman-Fried, and his parents, Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried. Additionally, the attorneys intend to question some...
Crypto Regulation Is Like a Flimsy Umbrella in a Monsoon
25.1.2023
You know what they say, “when life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” But when it comes to protecting your crypto funds on centralized exchanges (CEXes), the old adage should be “when life gives you regulations, make a self-custody wallet.” Self-custody is undoubtedly...
Major media outlets demand identities of SBF's $250M bond guarantors
13.1.2023
The media’s lawyers argued the public’s right to know Bankman-Fried's sureties outweighed their privacy and safety rights, but Bankman-Fried’s lawyers strongly disagreed
Like son, like father as Joseph Bankman retains attorney: Report
12.1.2023
Sam Bankman-Fried’s father reportedly advised his son on matters related to lobbying lawmakers in Washington D.C. and may now be cooperating with prosecutors
Crypto Twitter confused by SBF's $250M bail and a return to luxury
23.12.2022
The crypto community raised many questions about how FTX's former CEO was able to secure bail and the conditions it will come with
New FTX CEO Told Members of Congress SBF’s Family ‘Certainly Received Payments’ From the Business
19.12.2022
According to multiple reports, FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s parents face scrutiny over their reported involvement with their son’s business operations. The two Stanford professors Joseph Bankman and Barbara Fried have not been charged with any wrongdoing, but the current FTX CEO, John J....
SBF to Remain in a Bahamian Jail for 2 Months, Report Claims FTX Execs Had a Covert Chat Channel Called ‘Wirefraud’
14.12.2022
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...
Report: FTX Co-Founder SBF Retains White-Collar Lawyer Who Represented Ghislaine Maxwell
7.12.2022
On Dec. 6, 2022, the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) reportedly retained the attorney Mark Cohen, the lawyer that represented Ghislaine Maxwell during her recent sex trafficking case. SBF’s spokesperson further explained that the FTX co-founder is being consulted by a professor at Stanford...
A loophole allowed FTX to secure its Aussie license without full checks: ASIC's Longo
6.12.2022
ASIC's Joseph Longo pointed the finger at a loophole that allowed FTX to acquire an Australian Financial Services License under its watch
Report: State Securities Regulators Probe Crypto Lender Genesis
26.11.2022
State securities regulators are reportedly investigating Genesis Global Capital in a broad range probe into the “interconnectedness of crypto firms,” Barron’s reported on Friday. The report notes that the Alabama Securities Commission is looking into whether or not cryptocurrency firms have...
Citi Analyst Joseph Ayoub Warns of Serious Contagion Risks From FTX Implosion, Here’s What Could Happen
16.11.2022
As collapsed exchange FTX is advancing through its voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings, some market observers are concerned over the risk of a broader contagion spreading across the crypto ecosystem, according to Joseph Ayoub, an analyst at international financial industry player...
Citi Analyst Warns of ‘Serious’ Contagion Risk to Crypto Ecosystem From FTX Failure
16.11.2022
A Citi analyst has warned of a serious risk of broader contagion to the crypto ecosystem stemming from the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, noting that the contagion “can last for a significant amount of time.” He added that the crypto industry seems to have “no significant lender...
Finder’s Experts Predict Bitcoin Will End the Year at $21K, Panel Expects BTC to Hit $79K by 2025
20.10.2022
Following the recent xrp and ether prediction forecasts by crypto and fintech experts chosen by the product comparison web portal, finder.com, Finder’s latest handful of specialists have produced a predictions report for bitcoin. The group of 55 Finder’s experts think bitcoin will...
Texas Securities Regulators and Attorney General Object to FTX Purchasing Voyager Digital
17.10.2022
Regulators from the state of Texas and the state’s attorney general are objecting to FTX purchasing Voyager Digital, as the state’s securities commissioner needs to “determine whether FTX US is complying with the law.” Texas State Securities Board, Department of Banking, and Attorney General File...
Report: CME Group to Face off With FTX After Filing for Futures Commission Merchant Status
2.10.2022
According to a recent report, the world’s largest derivatives exchange CME Group is looking to register as a direct futures commission merchant (FCM). CME Group’s decision follows the digital currency exchange FTX, as the crypto company applied to become a derivative clearing...
Ethereum Hard Fork Instigator Chandler Guo Claims the Value of ETH and Forked ETHW Will Be the Same in 10 Years
23.9.2022
The U.S. dollar value of the recently airdropped coin native to the forked Ethereum proof-of-work (PoW) blockchain will be at par with that of ether, Chandler Guo, the instigator of the latest Ethereum hard fork, has said. Guo added that he expects the value of the token, which is currently...
Joseph Lubin’s Infura Plans to Create an Amazon Web Services for Ethereum Nodes
19.9.2022
In response to the most complex upgrade to occur to Ethereum up to now, infrastructure provider Infura is developing a decentralized version of its service that provides scalable Ethereum infrastructure and Web3 developer application programing interfaces (APIs). The company is controlled by Joseph...
Analysts Suspect the Fed Will Bump Federal Funds Rate by 75 bps Next Week, Others Predict the ‘Biggest Hike in Decades’
20.7.2022
Following the recent U.S. consumer price index report that indicated inflation in America has reached a 40-year high, many expect the Federal Reserve to hike the benchmark interest rate by 75 to 100 basis points (bps) on July 26. Blackstone’s Private Wealth Solutions expects the Fed to raise...
DeFi community rallies behind PoolTogether to hit $1.4M NFT defense funding target
6.6.2022
“Don't have a lot of words right now. Blown away by how the community has rallied around PoolTogether Inc and myself,” said PoolTogether co-founder Leighton Cusack