With bitcoin firmly standing below $20,000, it’s visible that the bear market still remains in the spotlight, which harms native businesses. Miners and exchanges have been hit the hardest. Amid numerous trading platforms laying off staff members, the latest to join this trend is Bybit. Bybit to Cut Off 30% of Staff The overall cryptocurrency...Read More
Samuel Bankman-Fried took Do Kwon’s spot by becoming the most talked-about and arguably hated person in the cryptocurrency industry in November when his empire collapsed, and the community found out about his dirty laundry. The latest to join the bashing fest is Coinbase’s CEO – Brian Armstrong – who had some strong words to say...Read More
The collapse of the cryptocurrency exchange FTX will go down as one of the darkest moments in crypto’s history. The company experienced severe liquidity issues in November and couldn’t honor the withdrawal requests of its customers. Binance – the world’s largest crypto platform – was ready to acquire the exchange but, after auditing, walked away...Read More
Elon Musk has alleged that the former CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, has donated over a billion dollars to the Democratic party to support them in the elections. In a recent discussion on Twitter, Will Manidis, the Chief Executive Office of healthcare AI platform Science, called SBF’s donations to politicians “one of the highest...Read More
Chapter 3 of the book Reckless: The Story Of Cryptocurrency Interest Rates is published below. The full book is available on Amazon. The book was written before the bankruptcy of FTX and therefore does not include coverage of this event. However, the book does provide useful commentary in the run up to the failure of FTX, which provides...Read More