The fall of crypto platform FTX is coming with a lot of baggage for a lot of people and places. As the time of writing, here’s the latest. Sam Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old son of an upper-middle-class Jewish family in California, is currently ‘under supervision’ in the Bahamas. He is said to be accompanied by his […]
With all the doom and gloom surrounding multiple crypto bankruptcies (we now have Luna and FTT going under) this year, with Bitcoin breaking under 20,000 level, we may forget that there’s still a coin out there which is having a pretty good year. Ethereum has shifted from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake whilst the world is faced […]
Jack Brolin, better known by his identity Captain Hindsight, is a character in the animated series South Park who usually shows up after a disaster to inform everyone what should have been done. In the past few days as questions surrounding the fall of Sam Bankman-Fried swirled all around, there have been many in the […]
The crypto market is reeling from the scandal surrounding FTX. Another token that could now be in trouble is Solana, which lost more than half its value in the past week. It even emerged that crypto platform Crypto.com holds some 20% of it’s assets in Shiba Inu, the highly volatile memecoin. Then again, although crypto is down […]
US President Joe Biden seems to surround himself with questionable donors. During the presidency of Barack Obama, when Biden was still vice-president, the Democrats occupying the White House liked to be seen with Elizabeth Holmes, a self-made billionaire of a tech-company that promised to revolutionize healthcare. The promise turned out to be false and Ms […]
Whereas we would have cheered a value of $16,000 per Bitcoin in 2020 and pretty much every year prior, the fact that the biggest cryptocurrency in the world just touched a new year low for 2022 sends the market into a frenzy again. The new yearly bottom was touched as FTX’s demise sends shivers through […]
Binance, the largest crypto platform in the world, reached an agreement last night with Sam Bankman-Fried’s American platform FTX for a takeover during a very eventful day in the cryptosphere. The New York Times called it a ‘megadeal’. Panic had erupted in recent days after it emerged that much of Alameda, FTX’s main company, had invested […]
Something is moving for FTT, the coin of crypto platform FTX founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. After users on social media sites like Twitter and Reddit sounded the alarm over withdrawals that were being paused and messages from the platform stating ‘everything is fine’, some panicked and thought we faced another Celsius-styled collapse. One user even […]
The US government has always feared the moment when China would become so powerful that it could crash the price of an asset simply by dumping it on the open market, leaving capitalism in turmoil. Because of a centralized government which controls most market assets, Beijing could deal with such a disruption far quicker than […]
Although the conditions surrounding the Qatar soccer World Cup aren’t ideal in terms of human rights or the conditions of the immigrants who built the stadiums, you can be pretty sure that the soccer fever will reach a boiling point again in a few weeks. This will be the same in most participating countries. Also, […]
