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Sources: Sam Bankman-Fried will likely plead not guilty to fraud and other charges at a January 3 hearing; SBF returns to Twitter to deny he moved Alameda funds — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is likely to plead not guilty to eight counts of fraud at a hearing next week, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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The Bahamas' Securities Commission says it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5B temporarily and plans to deliver them to customers and creditors who own them — The Securities Commission of the Bahamas said on Thursday that it is holding FTX assets worth $3.5 billion based on market pricing …
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| Nathan Crooks / The Block: |
FTX says it would seek the return of its digital assets held by the Bahamas, claiming the value was ~$296M when transferred on November 12 and is now ~$167M — - FTX Trading and its affiliated debtors said Friday that they would seek the return of crypto held by the Securities Commission …
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Sources detail Elon Musk's Twitter cost-cutting measures, including closing a data center, reducing training for new staff, and canceling janitorial services — Elon Musk has reduced the company to a bare-bones operation, and employees are under a “zero-based budgeting” mandate to justify any spending.
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| Taylor Soper / GeekWire: |
After not paying rent, Twitter is reportedly closing its Seattle office, its second-largest engineering hub outside of San Francisco, and asking staff to WFH — Twitter is reportedly facing eviction at its Seattle office and is asking employees to work from home as the social media giant looks to cut costs under new owner Elon Musk.| Matt Levine / Bloomberg: |
Crypto created a toy financial system and had a toy financial crisis; in order to work in the long run, crypto must prove its real usefulness outside of finance — On Oct. 25, Bloomberg Businessweek published “The Crypto Story,” a cover-to-cover issue of the magazine that I wrote about what crypto is and what it all might mean.
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Tim Wu, who helped shape Joe Biden's antitrust agenda, plans to leave his adviser role on January 4 and return to teaching antitrust law at Columbia Law School — Adviser Tim Wu, who helped to shape President Joe Biden's antitrust agenda, will leave his position Jan. 4, the White House said Friday.
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Italy's parliament approves a 26% tax on gains of €2,000+ from crypto trading per tax period and offers incentives for declaring crypto profits for tax purposes — Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's new bill also includes an incentive for those declaring crypto for tax purposes.
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Google changes its appeals process for CSAM-flagged accounts; content deemed exploitative will still be removed and reported but users can plead their innocence — People who upload images of children that Google flags as potentially illegal will be able to provide more context to appeal bans.| Ryan Broderick / Polygon: |
A look at the disastrous 2022 for NFT-based games, after interest from EA, Ubisoft, Zynga, Niantic, and others, as the community grew more niche and scam-filled — The NFT gaming community only grew more niche and scam-filled in 2022 — Less than 12 months ago, it felt as if 2022 …
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Sources: the FBI is probing the leak of ~100K API keys linked to users of crypto trading service 3Commas; a victim group of ~60 members tallies losses at $20M+ — This week, an anonymous person leaked 100,000 API keys connected to the crypto trading service.
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| Ian Johnston / Financial Times: |
Accounting software maker Sage threatens to turn off UK customers' single-payment licenses on security grounds, forcing them to buy costly monthly subscriptions — FTSE 100 group has forced small UK businesses using its accounting services to adopt costly new monthly packages
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Huawei has exited “crisis mode” following US restrictions and expects ~$91.5B in 2022 revenue, unchanged from 2021, due to growing telecom infrastructure sales — Chairman says U.S. restrictions are new normal and company is back to business as usual
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