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Report: Flutterwave CEO in Bid to Recover Millions Stuck in Kenya
14.2.2023
According to reports, the CEO and co-founder of the Nigerian fintech Flutterwave, Olugbenga Agboola, recently visited Kenya where he sought to convince the country’s monetary authorities to grant the firm access to funds that have been blocked since July 2022. Agboola claimed that his firm...
Berlin's TV Tower Lights Up with Giant Bitcoin Logo and This Twitter User Just Claimed Responsibility
23.1.2023
The famous Berliner Fernsehturm tower in Germany's capital was on Saturday decorated with the Bitcoin (BTC) logo - and it wasn't the only iconic monument to be dressed in ₿....
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Objections Raised Over Appointment of Sullivan & Cromwell as Debtors’ Counsel for FTX
21.1.2023
On Friday, bankruptcy judge John Dorsey approved the law firm Sullivan & Cromwell (S&C) to be appointed as the debtors’ counsel for FTX, despite an objection from Daniel Friedberg, a former FTX US compliance officer. During a Zoom presentation, Friedberg claimed there was a conflict...
Bitzlato Exchange Busted as US Deals ‘Blow to Crypto Crime,’ Arrests Owner
19.1.2023
Cryptocurrency exchange Bitzlato, better known to the Russian-speaking segment of the market, has been taken down as part of an “international cryptocurrency enforcement action,” the U.S. Justice Department announced. The Russian owner of the platform has been arrested for his role...
Nearly $1 Billion Poured Into Egypt’s Forex Market — Local Currency Now World’s Worst Performing Currency in 2023
18.1.2023
The Egyptian central bank recently claimed that its decision to devalue the local currency has been vindicated by foreign investors’ return to the country’s foreign market where they reportedly poured in $925 million in just three days. The surge in the sales of Egyptian treasury bills...
SBF Fights for Robinhood Shares — Says He Needs Them More Than FTX Customers Who Only Suffer ‘Possibility of Economic Loss’
9.1.2023
Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) is attempting to regain access to his Robinhood shares, worth over $460 million. The former CEO of the collapsed crypto exchange claimed that he needs them to “pay for his criminal defense,” stressing that without them the consequences would...
SEC Charges Team Behind Coindeal Crypto Fraud That Promised 500,000 Times Investment Returns
7.1.2023
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the team behind Coindeal, a $45 million fraudulent crypto investment scheme. The regulator explained that the defendants falsely claimed that Coindeal “would generate investment returns of more than 500,000 times...
Gemini’s Cameron Winklevoss Insists Digital Currency Group Needs to Resolve Liquidity Issues in Open Letter to CEO Barry Silbert
3.1.2023
Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of the cryptocurrency exchange Gemini, published an open letter to Digital Currency Group (DCG) CEO Barry Silbert on Jan. 2, 2022, stating that it had been 47 days since withdrawals from Genesis had been halted. In the letter, Winklevoss claimed that DCG owes $1.675...
Kevin O’Leary’s Twitter Account Hacked to Promote Bitcoin, Ethereum Giveaway Scam
30.12.2022
Shark Tank star Kevin O’Leary’s Twitter account was hacked Thursday and used to promote a bitcoin and ethereum giveaway scam. The scammers claimed that Mr. Wonderful is giving away 5,000 bitcoin and 15,000 ether, and anyone can participate. Kevin O’Leary’s...
Robinhood shares claimed by BlockFi and FTX may move to a neutral broker
29.12.2022
Bankruptcy judge Michael Kaplan reportedly said that on Jan. 9, he will review if the shares should be transferred to a neutral broker
Report: R&B Artist Akon Denies Claims His Crypto City Dream Is Crumbling
27.12.2022
Senegalese-American artist, Akon, reportedly reassured participants in his so-called token of appreciation (TOA) that they will be reimbursed for donations. To back this promise, the singer reportedly claimed he is even willing to do “a world tour just to pay them all back.” Akon...
Gemini Forms Creditors Committee With Houlihan Lokey to Resolve Genesis Liquidity Issues
18.12.2022
Roughly two weeks ago a report from the Financial Times (FT) claimed Genesis Global Capital owed $900 million to Gemini customers and the publication’s sources noted that the exchange was attempting to recover the funds by creating a creditors committee. 31 days after Gemini paused the Earn...
Fugitive Do Kwon Now Staying in Serbia Report Says — Terraform Labs CEO Suggests SBF Is to Blame for UST Depeg
12.12.2022
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...
FTX Insider Reveals New Document, Musk Catches Flak for SBF Comments, Nobel Prize Laureate Krugman Warns of Eternal Winter for Blockchain — Week in Review
11.12.2022
It’s been another wild week in crypto, with a claimed FTX insider revealing a controversial document related to former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison’s account at FTX. In related news, Elon Musk has been criticized for suggesting that former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF)...
FTX Co-Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Agrees to Testify Before US Congress
10.12.2022
The co-founder of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), has agreed to testify at one of the two congressional hearings set for next week. “I had thought of myself as a model CEO, who wouldn’t become lazy or disconnected,” Bankman-Fried claimed. Sam Bankman-Fried...
South Korean Crypto Exchanges Delist WEMIX — Token Price Plunges by Nearly 70%
25.11.2022
The Digital Asset Exchange Joint Consultative Body (DAXA), the South Korean association of crypto exchanges, announced on Nov. 24 that the WEMIX token would be delisted. In justifying the decision to delist WEMIX, the association claimed the information provided by the token’s issuer Wemade...
Federal Reserve Bank President Says ‘Entire Notion of Crypto Is Nonsense’
22.11.2022
The president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, Neel Kashkari, says crypto exchange FTX isn’t “one fraudulent company in a serious industry.” Stating that the “Entire notion of crypto is nonsense,” the Fed president claimed it is “just a tool...
Binance CEO CZ Calls SBF a ‘Psychopath,’ 3AC Co-Founder Accuses FTX, Alameda of Stop Hunting His Hedge Fund
17.11.2022
During a conversation with Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and the Milken Institute, the exchange executive called the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) a “psychopath” for one of the tweets SBF wrote last week. CZ’s statements further follow the accusations stemming from Three Arrows Capital...
Crypto.com’s Exposure to FTX Less Than $10 Million Says CEO — CRO Token Not Used as Collateral
15.11.2022
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 exposure to the crypto platform was below...
FTX Collapse: Africa-Focused Payments Firm AZA Finance Slams ‘Erroneous Inclusion’ in FTX Bankruptcy Filing
13.11.2022
The founder and CEO of an Africa-focused payments firm, Elizabeth Rossiello, claimed on Nov. 11 that the beleaguered crypto exchange FTX had incorrectly included AZ Finance in its chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing. The CEO insisted that her firm does not hold customer funds and is presently...