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| Sam Bankman-Fried / @sbf_ftx: |
[Thread] FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried apologizes, says he “fucked up” and his priority is “doing right by users”, plans to raise funds and close Alameda, and more — 1) I'm sorry. That's the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Source: SBF told investors that Alameda owes FTX ~$10B and FTX extended loans to Alameda using customer funds, describing the decision as a poor judgment call — FTX Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried told an investor this week that Alameda owes FTX about $10 billion| Nikhilesh De / CoinDesk: |
FTX US tells users to close out positions as it may halt trading in days, hours after SBF said FTX US is “100% liquid”; some Tron-linked tokens can be withdrawn — Sam Bankman-Fried said the FTX US entity's users would be able to withdraw all their funds.
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| Reuters: |
Sources detail FTX's rise and fall: Changpeng Zhao's ~$100M investment in 2019, the souring Binance relationship, Alameda's series of losses in 2022, and more — On Tuesday morning, Sam Bankman-Fried, owner of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, caught his employees off-guard with a somber message.
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Tweets: @cz_binance, @snarkyzk, and @wublockchain
| Bryce Elder / Financial Times: |
Untangling FTX's extremely complex corporate structure, which could pose a problem for liquidators and law enforcement, as the crypto exchange faces bankruptcy — Relationship status: it's complicated — With crypto exchange FTX short $8bn and hurtling towards bankruptcy … | Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
Tether freezes FTX's $46M in USDT on the Tron blockchain at the request of law enforcement while an investigation occurs — The stablecoin lost its $1 peg earlier on Thursday. — Stablecoin issuer Tether has frozen $46 million of USDT held on the Tron blockchain by failing crypto exchange FTX following …
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Tweets: @whale_alert, @tier10k, @pentosh1, and @whale_alert
| Callan Quinn / The Block: |
Binance shares the addresses for its wallets and a snapshot of its holdings: 475K BTC, 4.8M ETH, 17.6B USDT, 21.7B BUSD, 601M USDC, 58M BNB, and a $1B SAFU fund — - Binance has released the addresses of its hot and cold wallets. — It provided a snapshot of its current holdings.| Dan Primack / Axios: |
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Tweets: @sequoia, @thestalwart, @firstadopter, @ashleevance, @dsquareddigest, @lmatsakis, @taylorlorenz, and @pythianism
| Alex Heath / The Verge: |
Sources: Twitter's chief privacy officer, CISO, and chief compliance officer have resigned; legal now asks engineers to “self-certify” compliance with FTC rules — Twitter's privacy and security teams are in turmoil after Elon Musk's changes to the service bypassed its standard data governance processes.| Washington Post: |
Twitter employees are concerned by the rapid rollout of features without the security reviews required by the FTC's consent decree reached with Twitter in May — Yoel Roth had become the public face of Twitter's efforts to reassure users and advertisers the service would not become a ‘free-for-all’
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| Erin Woo / The Information: |
Sources: at an all-hands, Elon Musk told staff that Twitter may have a “net negative cash flow” of billions in 2023 and “bankruptcy is not out of the question” — Elon Musk told Twitter employees on Thursday the company may have a “net negative cash flow of several billion dollars” …
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| Kurt Wagner / Bloomberg: |
In his first email to Twitter staff, Elon Musk warns of “difficult times ahead” and bans remote work, saying employees must be in the office 40+ hours per week — New Twitter Inc. owner Elon Musk emailed his workers for the first time late Wednesday to prepare them for …
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| The Verge: |
Elon Musk says Twitter will not survive “without significant subscription revenue” and that the company needs roughly half of revenue to come from subscriptions — Elon Musk has sent his first email to Twitter employees, warning them to prepare for a “dire” economy and putting an immediate end to remote work.
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Tweets: @joshuatopolsky, @sarahfrier, and @kantrowitz
| Kif Leswing / CNBC: |
Apple plans to launch Emergency SOS with Satellite in November and pay $450M to US companies enabling the texting feature, with the majority going to Globalstar — - Apple said Thursday that it will spend $450 million with U.S. companies including Globalstar to enable its new emergency satellite texting feature.
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| Wall Street Journal: |
Sources: Amazon started a monthslong cost-cutting review of its unprofitable businesses, like its devices unit, which had a $5B+ operating loss in recent years — Review takes a close look at devices unit, which includes Alexa and has had an annual operating loss of $5 billion in some recent years, documents show
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Tweets: @sebasaherrera, @_katya_long, @priyasideas, @shiraovide, @firstadopter, and @producercities
| Sarah Perez / TechCrunch: |
Google Play expands its third-party billing pilot to the US, Brazil, and South Africa, with Bumble joining Spotify as one of the pilot testers — Google today announced it's expanding its user choice billing pilot, which allows Android app developers to use other payment systems besides Google's own.| Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: |
Apple limits iOS' AirDrop in China for receiving files from non-contacts to 10 minutes after its use in protests, and plans to change the global default in 2023 — Apple Inc. has limited the AirDrop wireless file-sharing feature on iPhones in China after the mechanism was used by protesters to spread images to other iPhone owners.
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9to5Mac, Macworld, MacRumors, AppleInsider, The Verge, and Insider
Tweets: @therealjoshye and @zeyiyang
| Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: |
After Twitter labels select accounts as “Official”, Elon Musk says he “killed it” and an executive says the label “is still going out” as part of the new Blue — Update: Well, that was fast. The grey checks have begun to disappear following a tweet …
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| Taylor Hatmaker / TechCrunch: |
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