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The new CEO of FTX, appointed after the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy, has blasted the company under former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried. “Never in my career have I seen such a complete failure of corporate controls and such a complete absence of trustworthy financial information as occurred here,” he said
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While the FTX crisis is continuing to unfold, the former head of risk at Credit Suisse believes the exchange's fall from grace should be the last catastrophic event — at least in this market cycle. CK Zheng, the former head of valuation risk at Credit Suisse and now co-founder of crypto hedge
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El Salvador will start buying bitcoin every day, according to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele. Since adopting the cryptocurrency as legal tender, El Salvador has bought about 2,381 bitcoins for its treasury. El Salvador to Buy Bitcoin Every Day The president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, announced on Twitter Thursday that his
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United States Sens. Elizabeth Warren and Richard Durbin wrote to the former and current CEOs of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried and John Jay Ray III, respectively, on Nov. 16 to ask for more information on the collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange. They made 13 requests for documents, lists and answers. “The
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Warren and Durbin, both longtime, outspoken crypto skeptics, said the collapse of FTX – which, until recently, had a $32 billion valuation and was largely perceived as one of the most stable exchanges in the industry – “justify our long-standing concerns that the crypto industry ‘is built to favor scammers’
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The agency overseeing Indonesia’s crypto market has stopped the trading of FTX tokens on domestic platforms. The announcement comes after FTX, the exchange that issued the FTT token, filed for bankruptcy in the United States and was subjected to investigations by regulatory bodies around the world. Indonesian Authority Orders Crypto
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The importance of remuneration in the design of a central bank digital currency (CBDC) was emphasized in a paper released by the United States Federal Reserve Board on Nov. 17. The paper, part of the Fed’s Finance and Economics Discussion Series, reviews the theoretical literature on CBDCs in large, developed economies,
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If, however, the funds don’t end up being recovered and the exchange gets shut down (as we’ve seen with Mt. Gox, QuadrigaCX, BTC-E, Cryptsy, Celsius and so many others), I would recommend classifying tokens lost on FTX as worthless investment losses, and taking a capital loss in the year that
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The "Bitcoin-is-dead" gang is back and at it again. The fall of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange has resurrected these infamous critics that are once again blaming a robbery on the money that was stolen, and not the robber. "We need regulation! Why did the government allow this to happen?" they
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While the FTX collapse may have had a severe effect on the broader crypto market, some companies bore the brunt of the impact and were directly hit by the storm that the embattled crypto exchange brought. Here are some of the affected companies that Cointelegraph tracked up to Nov. 17, 2022.
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