Sam Bankman-Fried: 5 unknown facts about crypto’s fallen king

[ad_1] Once hailed as crypto’s white knight, Sam Bankman-Fried has had a meteoric fall from heights after a bombshell report that questioned the stability of Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire, which consists of Alameda Research and FTX. The report by CoinDesk triggered an avalanche of customer withdrawals, with FTX seeing an estimated $6 billion in withdrawals over […]

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FTX’s founder was called a modern-day J.P. Morgan Sr. The analogy still works

[ad_1] With inflation still roaring, it is a hard time to make a case for the value of central banks. But the boy wizards of cryptocurrency have done it. The great benefit of crypto was said to be decentralization. This was accompanied by all manner of gasbagging about the liberating power of money unhinged from […]

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FTX looks for $9.4 bn in rescue funds, Bahamas freezes some assets

[ad_1] FTX is scrambling to raise about $9.4 billion from investors and rivals, a source said on Thursday, as Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried urgently seeks to save the cryptocurrency exchange that has been buffeted by a rush of customer withdrawals. Bankman-Fried has discussed raising $1 billion each from Justin Sun, the founder of crypto token […]

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