cryptocurrency exchange
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FTX Workers Knew About Alameda’s Backdoor into Customer Funds: Report
Last year, it took reporters digging into Alameda Research’s balance sheet to finally show that ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried’s big crypto house of cards was built on a shaky bedrock of customer funds. But according to a new report, a few FTX employees were well aware that Bankman-Fried’s hedge fund Alameda had backdoor access to…
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Should Have Said No: Taylor Swift Reportedly Did Sign a Deal With FTX
While news of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange’s crumbling castle has come and gone, there is a new wrinkle in the tale involving one of the world’s largest singer-songwriters. After reports that Taylor Swift knew all too well that the exchange would fail and declined to sign a deal with Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX, news has broken…
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Coinbase Is Selling Data on Crypto and ‘Geotracking’ to ICE
Coinbase Tracer, the analytics arm of the cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase, has signed a contract with U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement that would allow the agency access to a variety of features and data caches, including “historical geo tracking data.”
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Coinbase Says Screw It, We’ll Let You Buy Doge
The cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase has caved. After a long silence to the hoards imploring the company to let them trade Dogecoin, they’ve decided to list the meme, adding a sheen of legitimacy to a cryptocurrency with limitless supply, which whales could squash with a whale-sized dump at any moment. On a call with investors…