Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 months ago
The Christmas holiday season has already been eventful for the crypto markets, as Bitcoin and Ethereum have both pulled back from their recent peaks. Despite those bearish moves from the key market leaders, some altcoins have shown considerable stren...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 5 months ago
Ryan Salame and Caroline Ellison, two former top FTX executives now in prison, have had significant reductions in their sentences, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.Reduction in Prison TimeSalame, the former co-CEO of FTX, was sentenced to s...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 months ago
After years of uncertainty, the defunct cryptocurrency exchange FTX, previously led by convicted founder Sam Bankman-Fried, has announced the effective date for its Chapter 11 reorganization plan aimed at distributing funds to affected customers.
Ini...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 5 months ago
FTX Trading Ltd. (FTX) and its affiliated debtors have locked in Jan. 3, 2025, as the kickoff day for their court-endorsed Chapter 11 Reorganization Plan. FTX Creditor Distribution Is Coming Soon According to the press release, this date will also ac...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 5 months ago
Collapsed cryptocurrency exchange, FTX will start distributing
funds to investors who incurred losses through partner crypto firms, including Kraken
and BitGo.The company announced today (Monday) that its court-approved
Plan of reorganization will be...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 5 months ago
As the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, once run by convicted founder Sam Bankman-Fried, continues its bankruptcy proceedings, significant developments have emerged regarding the recovery of funds for affected users.Β
A recent court filing reveals that d...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 6 months ago
FTX plans to start distributing $16 billion to creditors by March 2025.
Distributions will begin 60 days after the Chapter 11 plan becomes effective in Jan.
Customers must complete KYC verification and submit tax forms to receive payments.
The FTX...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
Gary Wang, the co-founder of the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX, was sentenced on Wednesday to time served, along with three years of supervised release for his involvement in a sweeping $8 billion fraud scheme. This makes him the fifth and final ex...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 6 months ago
Inner City Press reports that the former FTX executive Gary Wang, who admitted to creating the code enabling Sam Bankman-Fried to misappropriate $8 billion from the now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange, has avoided prison. Crypto Whistleblower or Acc...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 6 months ago
Gary Wang, the former cryptocurrency executive who created
the software that enabled FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried to misappropriate
around $8 billion from customers, was sentenced to no prison time by US District
Judge Lewis Kaplan. Meanwhile, the F...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 6 months ago
Gary Wang is now the fifth former executive of collapsed crypto exchange FTX to be sentenced for their role in the company’s implosion.
Wang received a sentence of time served and three years of supervised release and will forfeit $11 billion....
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 6 months ago
Crypto mogul Changpeng Zhao—notoriously known as “CZ”—may be out of prison, but he’s not out of hot water yet. The bankruptcy estate of former-leviathan FTX has filed suit against Binance and its ex-CEO, CZ,...
by COINS NEWS - 6 months ago
At the time of the FTX collapse reports were around $8.9b of customers funds had gone missing. The demise of FTX was covered literally everywhere, making headlines around the world. All the outlets that you never see any coverage on crypto on were ou...
Cryptocoins News / Finance Magnates - 6 months ago
Nearly two years after FTX's
collapse impacted Solana's decentralized finance (DeFi) sector, Coinbase is
attempting to reintroduce bitcoin-based trading to the Solana blockchain with
its new token, cbBTC. Launched recently, cbBTC is a
bitcoin-backed...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoin.com - 6 months ago
Apple and A24 are in the early stages of developing a film adaptation of Michael Lewis’s book “Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon,” with Lena Dunham attached to write the script, Variety has reported. The film will co...
Cryptocoins News / CoinJournal - 6 months ago
In 2019, Binance acquired a 20% stake in collapsed FTX in a deal with Sam Bankman-Fried
In 2021, Binance and FTX agreed to a deal that saw FTX buying back the stake, amounting to $1.76bn in FTT, BNB, and BUSD
The transfer was done by Alameda Researc...
Bitcoin News / Bitcoinist - 6 months ago
The estate of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX filed a lawsuit against Binance and its former CEO, Changpeng Zhao, for alleged fraudulent transfers and starting a campaign to βdestroyβ its competitor. The $1.8 billion legal action follows another 23 laws...