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Seibert, who is now managing director of the Fortress digital assets business, is working with part of the Signature Bank risk and compliance team and crypto payments specialists, to help exchanges, over-the-counter (OTC) desks and others in the industry solve their post-Signature/Silvergate fiat settlement at Fortress, he told CryptoX. Source
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The total value locked (TVL) in DeFi applications on the Arbitrum, a layer-2 Ethereum network blockchain, has doubled since the start of 2023. While investors’ hope of an ARBI token airdrop is a major factor attracting activity to the Ethereum layer-1 network, the ecosystem’s DeFi growth is also showing robust
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Bitcoin mining company Fortress Technologies has ordered 4,500 Bitmain Antminer S19j Pro machines as it seeks to capture a greater share of mining revenue.The purchase will more than triple Fortress’ hashrate from 195 petahash per second to 645 PH/s, the company announced Monday. A petahash is a measure of computational
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Scalia and Armstrong were granted a standard options deal for joining the company (650,000 committed shares at an exercise price of $0.56 per share), but there’s also an asset purchase agreement. Fortress agreed to purchase approximately CAD$254,000 (US$200,600 ) worth of bitcoin mining machines and CAD$306,000 (US$241,700) worth of bitcoin
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The New York-based private equity firm Fortress has issued a "premium" offer to buy out creditor claims from the now-defunct Mt. Gox exchange. In a letter said to be sent by Fortress managing director Michael Hourigan on Monday, the company said it was offering creditors with large claims at a
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Fortress Investment Group has increased its offer to purchase claims from creditors who lost money in the infamous $480 million Mt. Gox hack. The group, which aims to profit by eventually recovering the Bitcoin (BTC), upped its offer on the cryptocurrency to 88% of the estimated account value.CryptoX has
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In the countdown to the new year, private equity and hedge fund manager Fortress Investment Group is redoubling its efforts to buy up Bitcoin (BTC) claims from Mt. Gox creditors.A Bloomberg report on Dec. 19 alleged that Fortress’s offer is now roughly 13.5% lower than an initial bid it
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Fortress has reportedly issued a new – and lower – buyout proposal for claims from the creditors of defunct cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox. According to a one-page proposal obtained by Bloomberg, Fortress is offering Mt. Gox creditors 70 percent of their account value. Based on the current price of
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