The parallels between Sam Bankman-Fried and Bernie Madoff are ample. On the bright side, both men highlighted the fact that Bitcoin maximalists are immune to Ponzi schemes. Long before Bitcoin, Bernie Madoff sat atop the longest-running, largest fraud in history. The rise and real-time fall of Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, former CEO of crypto exchange FTX,…
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission chair called crypto “the Wild West” and urged troops not to “get caught up in the FOMO.” United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) chair Gary Gensler has found a new audience for his crypto-skeptical pep talks — the United States Army. On Jan. 11 the U.S. Army hosted…
The majority of centralized exchange volume is fake, according to the billionaire investor and Dallas Mavericks owner. Crypto token wash trading on centralized exchanges will be the cause of the next crypto “implosion,” according to billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner and crypto investor Mark Cuban. In an interview with The Street on Jan. 5, the billionaire investor…
ShapeShift CEO Erik Voorhees expects Bitcoin to reach $40,000 by the summer, while Tim Draper has stood by his $250,000 prediction for the second year running. There is little agreement among Bitcoin’s commentators over the last few weeks, with crypto execs, research analysts and billionaire investors offering wildly different takes on what’s in store for…
Turmoil in the crypto sector in 2022 will see the tech change hands to “more regulated and established institutions,” says Circle’s chief strategy officer. Circle’s chief strategy officer and head of global policy, Dante Disparte, believes that the turmoil in the crypto sector over the last year could mark the handover of crypto technology to…
Expect blockchain adoption to increase in the year ahead, in addition to the culture wars surrounding it – predicts Mahesh Vellanki on Cointelegraph. This year has been a particularly tumultuous one for the crypto market, with many decentralized and centralized entities failing or struggling to stay afloat. It feels as though we are in the…