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Sam Bankman-Fried Found Guilty on All Charges
  • The New York Jurors took 4 fours of deliberating before pronouncing the former FTX CEO guilty of all seven charges of fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.
  • Bankman-Fried will now have to appear in court on 28 March, 2024, where he will face a potential maximum sentence of 115 years in prison.
November 3, 2023, 8:54 AM
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Former CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the Federal Court in New York after pleading not guilty, 3 January, 2022.
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s First Expert Witness to Rebuke DoJ Witnesses
  • Joseph Pimbley, a member of litigation consulting firm PF2 Securities, will try to rebuff testimonies from Caroline Ellison, Gary Wang, Nishad Singh, and Adam Yedidia.
  • During his testimony Pimbley will try to establish a timeline for the FTX-Alameda line of credit, and convince the jury it fluctuated between $1 billion and $3 billion between 2021 and 2022.
October 24, 2023, 11:00 AM
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Former CEO of FTX Sam Bankman-Fried leaves the Federal Court in New York after pleading not guilty, 3 January, 2022.
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Worldcoin to Pay Orb Operators in WLD From November
  • The digital ID project said Orb Operators received USDC payments as part of the project’s transitional phase after launch, and now that it is nearing its end Worldcoin will be switching to WLD payments.
  • Worldcoin warned Orb Operators to check if they can claim rewards in their region as WLD are not available in the United States and “certain other restricted territories”.
October 23, 2023, 10:53 AM
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Reddit to Shut Down Community Points Feature
  • Launched in May 2020, the Community Points feature allowed Reddit users to earn points in the form of ERC-20 tokens through positive engagement.
  • After the news broke out, the price of several Reddit-based tokens quickly crashed, with r/CryptoCurrency’s MOON going down by 85%, and r/FortNiteBR’s BRICK by 50%.
October 18, 2023, 2:32 PM
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Oct 6, 2023
THORSwap Ethers Maintenance Mode Due to Illicit Activity
  • The DEX said it will remain under maintenance mode until a more permanent solution to counter the movement of illicit funds through the platform is implemented.
  • THORSwap has seen a rise in popularity amongst bad actors, and was even used earlier this month by a hacker connected to the $600 million FTX hack from last year.

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Oct 3, 2023
Celsius Seeks Court Approval on Restructuring Plan
  • The bankrupt crypto lender said that if its reorganization plan is approved, it is ready to start repaying its customers using $2 billion in BTC and ETH by the end of the year.
  • If given the green light, Celsius will restart its business under the “NewCo” brand without any funded debt, and with seed funding of up to $450 million.
Sep 8, 2023
CEO of Collapsed Turkish Exchange Sentenced to 11,000 Years in Prison
  • Faruk Özer and his two siblings were sentenced to 11,196 years in prison for their involvement in the $2 billion rug pull of Turkish crypto exchange Thodex in 2021.
  • Özer fled the country after the collapse of the exchange, but was detained in Albania a year later, and extradited back to Türkiye in April 2023 where he faced seven criminal charges.
Sep 7, 2023
Genesis Sues DCG and DCGI for Over $600M in Unpaid Loans
  • Bankrupt crypto lender Genesis is trying to recover around $500 million from DCG, and another 4,550.5 BTC from DCGI, which it had loaned to the two companies in 2022.
  • Both DCG and DCGI requested that the debts were converted to open loans on 9 May, but Genesis declined both offers and demanded the repayment of the loans with interest.
Aug 22, 2023
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