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Crypto Magnate Do Kwon Found Liable for Multi-Billion-Dollar Fraud
The defense attempted to draw a distinction between the failure of Terraform’s crypto assets, whose risk profile it implied was…
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He Emptied an Entire Crypto Exchange Onto a Thumb Drive. Then He Disappeared
He told the court that he grew his beard down to his clavicle, shaved his head. He said that when…
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FTX Founder Sam Bankman-Fried Sentenced to 25 Years in Prison
A US federal judge in the Southern District of New York has sentenced Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of bankrupt crypto exchange…
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Lawyers Are Doing Just Fine, Actually
In the three weeks since his trial began, Sam Bankman-Fried, founder of crypto exchange FTX, has watched in near silence…
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Crypto Groups Gemini, Genesis, and DCG Sued for $1.1 Billion ‘Fraud’
“These cryptocurrency companies lied to investors and tried to hide more than a billion dollars in losses, and it was…
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Why Silicon Valley Falls for Frauds
Aditiya Baradwaj joined crypto-trading firm Alameda Research when it was run out of an anonymous first-floor office in downtown Berkeley,…
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Celsius Founder Alex Mashinsky’s Arrest Won’t Fix Crypto | WIRED
However, the collapse of the Terra Luna stablecoin in May 2022 blew a billion-dollar hole in the Celsius balance sheet…
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Molly White Tracks Crypto Scams. It’s Going Just Great | WIRED
As cryptocurrencies rise and fall, there’s one number that just keeps going up. Whenever somebody loses money to a crypto…
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Scams Are Ruining Pakistan’s Digital Economy
The last time Zippy posted to Instagram was in April 2022—a four-paragraph-long apology note saying he was sorry for not…
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FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Has Been Arrested
Photo: Craig Barritt (Getty Images) Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of collapsed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has been arrested…
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