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I haven’t read Michael Lewis’ The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, but I find it difficult to believe that the author expressed much sympathy for those involved in the United States housing bubble prior to the 2008 financial crisis. By contrast, his account of former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried
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Binance CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao reportedly declined to pay $40 million to former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) for a futures crypto exchange in March 2019, according to an excerpt from Michael Lewis’ book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon.According to the book, SBF proposed a
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Michael Lewis, author of The Big Short, has painted an interesting picture of Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) in his soon-to-be released book on the former FTX CEO.In an excerpt of Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon published in the Washington Post on Oct. 1, Lewis described several
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Nexera Exchange, a decentralized exchange (DEX) by AllianceBlock, has unveiled its first trading feature, an on-chain limit order book, according to a press release shared exclusively with crypto.news on Sep. 19. Nexera’s on-chain limit order book The Nexera Exchange, designed as an intermediary layer, is focused on enhancing user interactions with any
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Apple reportedly acquired the rights to a book by author Michael Lewis based on FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s bio. Tech giant and iPhone maker Apple scooped up the rights to an upcoming book centered around Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), the founder of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, currently facing criminal charges. Apple paid
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Multinational technology company Apple has reportedly paid $5 million for the rights to author Michael Lewis’ upcoming book on former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) following a bidding war.According to a Sept. 7 report from The Ankler, Apple secured the rights to the book Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall
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Decentralized exchange (DEX) platform dYdX plans to offer a “purely decentralized” order book exchange as it migrates its ecosystem from the Ethereum network to the interchain network Cosmos.At the Korea Blockchain Week 2023, Cointelegraph's Andrew Fenton spoke with dYdX Foundation CEO Charles d'Haussy about the DEX’s plans to implement decentralized
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A multidisciplinary research team from the University of Oxford recently developed a GPU-accelerated limit order book (LOB) simulator called JAX-LOB, the first of its kind. JAX is a tool for training high-performance machine learning systems developed by Google. In the context of a LOB simulator, it allows artificial intelligence (AI) models
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“DeepBook provides the essential financial foundation for every DeFi tool built on Sui," said Greg Siourounis, managing director of the Sui Foundation. "Combined with the scalability and composability built into the Sui Network, DeepBook offers developers the chance to build applications that are simply not possible on other networks.” Source
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Former FTX executives allegedly splurged millions on funding niche projects completely unrelated to crypto or Web3, including a uniquely named $1.8 million “Pineapple house.”A June 26 report from FTX restructuring chief and CEO John Ray laid out the uses of the allegedly misappropriated customer funds.According to the report, this included
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