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$165,000,000 in Bitcoin Linked to Mt. Gox Suddenly Moves As Quant Analyst Issues Warning

The co-founder and chief executive of on-chain data analytics firm CryptoQuant is revealing that a stash of seven-year-old Bitcoin (BTC)…

November 25, 2022

Feds Announce Indictment of Two Individuals in Alleged $575,000,000 Crypto Mining Scheme

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) is announcing the arrest of two Estonian citizens in connection with an alleged crypto…

November 22, 2022

Blockchain Analysis Firm Issues Alert, Says Over $60,000,000 in Crypto Stolen From FTX on the Move

Market intelligence firm Chainalysis warns that the bad actor responsible for draining funds from FTX is relocating $60 million worth…

November 22, 2022

Wolf of Wall Street Jordan Belfort Says Sam Bankman-Fried Used FTX As ‘Personal Piggy Bank’

Jordan Belfort, otherwise known as the original Wolf of Wall Street, is giving his view on what he thinks happened…

November 21, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried Personally Collected $300,000,000 After Raising Funds for Bankrupt FTX Last Year: Report

The disgraced founder of FTX reportedly personally took in hundreds of millions of dollars last year after a funding round…

November 20, 2022

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Says Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Clearly’ Lied to FTX Users, Investors and Employees

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is unveiling more details about the call he had with Sam Bankman-Fried as the FTX founder…

November 20, 2022

Crypto Analytics Platform Nansen Finds FTX May Have Colluded With Alameda Since the Exchange’s Inception

Crypto analytics firm Nansen is turning to on-chain data to take a deeper look at the relationship between embattled crypto…

November 18, 2022

New FTX CEO Says the Collapsed Exchange’s Top Leaders Were ‘Potentially Compromised Individuals’

The new chief executive of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX says that the platform’s leadership was made up of “potentially compromised…

November 17, 2022

‘And so He Won’: SBF Dishes on Changpeng Zhao, Bankruptcy and Regulators in Candid DM Exchange With Vox Reporter

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is speaking his mind following the crash of his crypto empire in a direct message…

November 17, 2022

Former Kraken CEO Jesse Powell Says Mainstream Media Complicit in FTX ‘Ponzi’

Former Kraken chief executive Jesse Powell thinks the mainstream media shares some of the blame for the FTX fiasco that…

November 16, 2022