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The Royal Bahamas Police Force arrested FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, following the US authorities filed criminal charges against him. The Bahamas intends to extradite Bankman-Fried after US officials request it. Meanwhile, the “surprising” arrest comes just a day before a scheduled hearing before the US House Financial Services Committee hearing on the FTX collapse, “disappointing”…

Crypto media site The Block was secretly funded over the last two years by Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alameda Research. CEO Michael McCaffrey has resigned as a result of the news coming to light, The Block confirmed on Dec. 9. Michael McCaffrey, The Block’s CEO, immediately resigned after the loans from Alameda Research came to light and…

Sam Bankman-Fried is a con man and fraudster of historic proportions. But you might not learn that from the New York Times, CoinDesk’s Chief Insights Columnist David Z. Morris writes. In the weeks since Sam Bankman-Fried’s cryptocurrency empire was revealed to be a house of lies, mainstream news organizations and commentators have often failed to…

The real reason why the FTX failure hits so hard is not that the crypto industry was duped but because it proved that the industry was vulnerable to being duped – Sam Kessler explains on CoinDesk. Depending upon whom you ask, last week’s FTX blowup feels bigger than when Mt. Gox, the original Bitcoin exchange,…

In a previously undisclosed detail, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried personally received $300 million from a $420 million funding round for the company in October 2021, Wall Street Journal reported. Meanwhile, major companies and funds are losing millions of investments stuck in FTX after the troubled crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy protection. According to the…

Over $400 million outflow crypto exchange FTX and Alameda wallets on Nov. 11. FTX confirmed that there was “unauthorized access” to crypto it is holding following a reported hack. However, Reuters reported that FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried built a “backdoor” to his exchange in an effort to change financial records and move funds. Crypto exchange…