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| Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: |
A look at North Dimension, a little-known Alameda Research subsidiary, where the SEC says FTX told customers to wire funds to trade without disclosing the ties — Among the 130 or so companies in Sam Bankman-Fried's sprawling crypto empire, North Dimension Inc. assumed a low profile.
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| Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Alameda-linked wallets traded Lido, Polygon, Uniswap, and other tokens for ether and USDT, before swapping for bitcoin, taking their holdings to 47.6 BTC — - Wallets linked to Alameda Research have sold several crypto tokens. — These swaps happened barely days after Sam Bankman-Fried posted bail.
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| Bloomberg: |
Court filings: Sam Bankman-Fried said in an affidavit that he and Gary Wang borrowed $546M+ from Alameda to buy a nearly 8% stake, or ~56M shares, in Robinhood — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said he and former executive Gary Wang borrowed more than $546 million from Alameda Research to buy …
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| Ava Benny-Morrison / Bloomberg: |
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Filings: the US charges Avraham Eisenberg with commodities fraud and manipulation for trying to steal ~$110M in October by rigging DeFi platform Mango Markets — U.S. prosecutors have filed criminal charges of commodities fraud and manipulation against a man accused of trying to steal …
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| Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Solana drops ~10% to around $10, as bitcoin and ether saw modest declines, over concerns that large holders could offload the token; SOL is down 94% in 2022 — Solana, the cryptocurrency backed by fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, tumbled on Wednesday amid concerns that large holders may be about to offload the token.
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
SEC filing: MicroStrategy acquires ~3,205 BTC for ~$56.4M between November 1 and December 24, taking its holding to 135K BTC, and sells 704 BTC to offset gains — Alongside the additional purchases, the company sold a small amount of bitcoin for the first time.| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin miner Argo Blockchain will avoid bankruptcy after agreeing to sell its Helios mining facility in Texas to Galaxy Digital for $65M and a $35M loan — Galaxy will buy Argo's Helios facility for $65 million and provide $35 million loan to help the miner amid restructuring.
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| Bloomberg: |
Kraken plans to close its cryptocurrency exchange services in Japan, operated by Payward Asia, on January 31, 2023, weeks after cutting its workforce by 30% — Kraken is closing its cryptocurrency exchange services in Japan as the company restructures to navigate the fallout from this year's meltdown in digital assets.
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon's video ambitions — Amazon is working on a stand-alone app for watching sports content, a source with direct knowledge of the plan told The Information.
Tweets: @itamarw and @theo_wayt
| Ian Johnston / Financial Times: |
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko says he rejected more than five US investors offering “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to preserve the platform's nonprofit status — Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter
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| Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: |
Investors sue Gemini and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss over offering Gemini Trust Earn interest-bearing accounts, which Gemini failed to register as securities — Gemini Trust Co. and its founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, were sued by investors who claim the crypto asset exchange sold …
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| Taylor Rains / Insider: |
Southwest Airlines says an operational meltdown over the holiday weekend was partly caused by its scheduling software, which a union rep called “outdated” — - Southwest Airlines has canceled nearly 2,600 flights so far on Tuesday after canceling over 2,900 on Monday.
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