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Alameda Research lost $190M to scams and ‘questionable’ blockchains: Whistleblower

FTX’s sister hedge fund, Alameda Research, lost at least $190 million of its trading funds due to arguably avoidable scams, according to a former engineer at the firm.In an Oct. 12 post to X titled “The Hacks,” former Alameda Research engineer turned whistleblower Aditya Baradwaj claims that the firm’s “breathtaking”

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Tether USDT Trading Volume Falls to Multi-Year Lows, Market Cap Rise Is ‘Questionable,’ Kaiko Says

As trading volumes are falling, and assuming that trading is the dominant use case for stablecoins, a respective decline in market capitalization would be anticipated, according to Clara Medalie, Kaiko’s research director. USDC and BUSD stablecoins’ market caps have shrunk in tandem with trading volumes. “But we are not seeing

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FTX Contract Deployer Unlocks 192 Million FTT, Exchange Token’s Questionable Tokenomics Highlights Red Flags – Altcoins Bitcoin News

Following the collapse of FTX and the exchange filing bankruptcy on Nov. 11, the trading platform’s exchange token called ftx (FTT) has shed 91.6% in value during the last seven days. While the FTT token’s utility is based entirely on the backing of the now-bankrupt FTX and Alameda Research, the

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TreasureDAO engineer alleged to have past involvement in questionable NFT projects

On Wednesday, decentralized finance (DeFi) detective Zachxbt published a long thread on Twitter about TreasureDAO’s front-end engineer Just Cheese, or JC, and his alleged past involvement in several nonfungible token (NFT) projects. According to its white paper, TreasureDAO is a “decentralized NFT ecosystem on Arbitrum that is built specifically for

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Kim Kardashian Continues to Display Her Questionable Mothering Skills

Kim Kardashian took her daughter, North West, for a wakeboard session. West — who is Kardashian’s eldest daughter with Kanye West — screamed the entire time. Why does Kim think it’s cute to traumatize her child? During a family outing to a lake, Kim Kardashian decided to show off her parenting skills. Unfortunately, she

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Vitalik Buterin Uses Questionable Historical Comparison to Explain Crypto Tribalism

Ethereum (ETH) co-founder Vitalik Buterin tweeted that TRON (TRX) sympathizers within the Bitcoin (BTC) community are a “perfect example” of German Nazis aligning with Japan during the Second World War. Vitalik drew the questionable comparison in a reply to Bitcoin activist and independent developer Udi Wertheimer, who tweeted: “#Tron > #Ethereum”. The

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