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FTX Chief Engineer Reveals Reckless Spending by SBF on Deals and Sponsorships

Former FTX’s head of engineering Nishad Singh spills the beans over reckless expenditure of customers’ funds by Sam Bankman-Fried. He also admits to being part of these crimes. During his trial at the Manhattan Federal court on Monday, October 16, FTX chief of engineering Nishad Singh disclosed the reckless spending

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Effective altruism fueled SBF’s ‘ridiculous’ actions at FTX: Ex-Alameda engineer

Effective altruism was used to justify “increasingly risky and ridiculous” actions at crypto exchange FTX prior to its ultimate collapse in November 2022, says a former software engineer at Alameda Research.Speaking to Cointelegraph just days before FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s Oct. 3 trial, Aditya Baradwaj shared how the ideology played

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You can build your own Trezor but here’s the price: DIY wallet engineer

The open-source nature of many hardware cryptocurrency wallets allows one to build a do-it-yourself (DIY) wallet like Trezor from scratch, but it requires certain skills.Florin Cocos, an electronics design manager from Romania, built his own DIY Trezor with the wallet’s open-source code in 2018, without having access to a “real”

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Reddit engineer shares strategy behind NFT onboarding at EthCC

Mirela Spasova, a Reddit senior engineer on the Collectible Avatars project, took to the master stage at the Ethereum Community Conference (EthCC) event in Paris to shed light on Reddit’s strategy for onboarding millions of users to its blockchain-backed digital collectibles.In her presentation, Spasova said that the primary motivation behind running Collectible

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Google engineer concerned about open-source AI gaining edge

According to a critique written by a senior software engineer at Google, the company’s artificial intelligence (AI) development is threatened by the open-source community. The engineer contends that independent researchers in open-source technology are making swift and unforeseen strides in AI technology. In early April, software engineer Luke Sernau published a document on

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FTX former lead engineer in talks with federal prosecutors in Bankman-Fried case

As the investigation into FTX continues, the crypto exchange’s former engineering chief Nishad Singh followed former FTX and Alameda Research executives Gary Wang and Caroline Ellison by reportedly meeting with federal prosecutors to cut a deal.Singh attended a proffer session sometime last week at the United States Attorney’s office for

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