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The Latest Breaking News from Cryptocurrency

What’s the true value of crypto? It lays bare the lies of libertarians

The downfall of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange proves how much markets need rules, writes Zoe Williams

The Guardian - UK

The Hidden History of the World’s Top Offshore Cryptocurrency Tax Haven

The Bahamas represents how global capitalism can go very right, and very wrong, at exactly the same time.

Foreign Policy

Environmental group sues New York for approving crypto mining facility

Lawsuit argues move to allow energy-intensive cryptocurrency miner to take over power plant violates state’s 2019 climate law

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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried launches newsletter to defend himself: ‘I didn’t steal funds’

Disgraced cryptocurrency CEO Sam Bankman-Fried launched a newsletter Thursday in his latest attempt to defend himself.

Tribune News Service

What next for crypto? Industry faces new challenges after rollercoaster year

2022 was a tumultuous year for crypto. One company fell after another, culminating with the spectacular collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange and the arrest of its founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who is now under investigation for fraud. So what's in store for the industry this year? FRANCE 24's Kate Moody…

France 24

Sam Bankman-Fried claims ‘I didn’t steal funds’ in first response to FTX case

Disgraced cryptocurrency boss says FTX customers could get their money back in statement published on Substack

The Guardian - US

Podcast: Senegalese riflemen, cryptocurrency woes, Napoleon III

Long-awaited recognition for France's colonial infantry corps. Who are the French victims of the collapse of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange? Napoleon III's transformation of France.

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Tom Brady and New England Patriots owner 'lose fortune' as £26billion crypto goes bust

Cryptocurrency site FTX has gone bankrupt and lots of rich investors have taken a big financial hit, including the likes of Tom Brady and New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft

Daily Mirror

Individual creditor names remain secret in FTX bankruptcy

The judge presiding over the bankruptcy of cryptocurrency exchange FTX Trading is allowing the company to maintain a veil of secrecy over the names of individual customers and creditors

The Independent UK

Commentary: We should celebrate, not bemoan, the swift collapse of FTX

If indeed all the reports are true— that the cryptocurrency exchange FTX lent out billions of dollars in customer deposits for risky bets without their consent — then the world should celebrate its swift demise. Markets are ruthless in rewarding success and punishing failure. And FTX’s fall from grace over…

Tribune News Service

'A fraud and a bubble are two different things': Crypto is shocking to a financial historian who literally wrote the book on financial bubbles

Financial historian William Quinn says crypto is either the smartest “Ponzi” or the stupidest “bubble” in history: “And the truth is probably somewhere in the middle.”

Fortune

Logan Paul withdraws threat of legal action over $6million crypto "scam" documentary

Paul had previously posted a seven-minute long video responding directly to a documentary accusing him of running a cryptocurrency scam that cost fans millions

Daily Mirror

The ‘everything bubble’ has popped and the experts on Wall Street and in Silicon Valley were spectacularly wrong about a ton of things

Morgan Stanley analysts were sure Carvana stock would hit $430 a share and the crypto faithful believed Bitcoin would top $1 million.

Fortune

‘Mutant Ape Planet’ NFT seller arrested for alleged fraud

U.S. prosecutors charged a French national with defrauding buyers of his “Mutant Ape Planet” non-fungible tokens, alleging he duped investors out of more than $2.9 million in cryptocurrency before his arrest Wednesday at a New York airport.

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Kathleen Breitman of Tezos on 5 crypto trends that need to die—and 1 big reason for optimism

The downturn of 2022 culled many projects with shaky fundamentals—or that were outright frauds—but 2023 is the year that can reward honest actors in the space.

Tribune News Service

After a year of collapses, cryptocurrency’s future in the balance

WASHINGTON — Spectacular cryptocurrency failures in 2022 have raised the stakes for the industry amid questions about the enduring viability of a technology that advocates say has the potential to revolutionize finance.

Fortune

Crypto took such a beating in 2022 that U.S. regulators have teamed up for the first time to sound the alarm to banks

Deutsche Bank, Wells Fargo, Citigroup and Bank of America have all invested in crypto staffing divisions in recent years.

Roll Call

After a year of collapses, cryptocurrency’s future in the balance - Roll Call

The cryptocurrency industry's failures in 2023 could mean its demise or a chance to regroup and build on its cultural reach.

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France 24

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to fraud charges

The founder and former CEO of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX appeared in a New York court for an arraignment hearing on Tuesday. Sam Bankman-Fried's lawyers maintained his innocence amid accusations he misappropriated customer and investor funds. The trial is set for October 2 and Bankman-Fried could still change his plea.…

Daily Mirror

iPhone and Android users given warning over 'pig butchering' crypto scam

Sean Gallagher, a senior threat researcher, said the tactic sees scammers recommending victims invest in a cryptocurrency scheme - before "going after the whole hog"

Al Jazeera

Former crypto titan Sam Bankman-Fried pleads not guilty to fraud

The 30-year-old FTX founder, formerly worth an estimated $26bn, could face a sentence of up to 115 years in US prison.

Fortune

How will the ultrawealthy ride out the recession? 1,200 investors worth $130 billion have one big strategy—and it's not playing the stock market

The über-rich are keeping their powder dry in the new year, a poll of ultra-high-net-worth investors found. Then they'll "pounce."

Tribune News Service

Will 2023 bring more crypto bankruptcies to weed out ‘the pumps and the frauds’?

The crypto industry had a rough go of it in 2022, with crashing cryptocurrency prices and a series of catastrophic bankruptcies.

The Independent UK

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried faces arraignment in New York

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is returning to a Manhattan federal court to face charges of cheating investors and looting customer deposits on his cryptocurrency trading platform

Evening Standard

Reasons to be cheerful in 2023

MANY of the main reasons to be cheerful in 2023 are negative ones. For instance, Liz Truss is not our prime minister and it is looking increasingly unlikely that any of us will need to take the tech bros promoting cryptocurrency and NFTs seriously; above all, it’s not 2022 anymore.…

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