Sam Bankman-Fried

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Finance

Temasek Says Its FTX Investment Is Now Worth Zero

The Singaporean investment fund said it conducted 8 months of due diligence on FTX in 2021 before buying a 1% stake in the exchange.

Singapore's skyline (Unsplash)

Finance

Bankman-Fried Praises Regulators Hours After Saying 'F*** Regulators'

Icarus keeps live-tweeting his fall from the Firmament.

Sam Bankman-Fried sticking his tongue out while at Crypto Bahamas earlier this year. (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

FTX Employees Were Encouraged to Keep Life Savings in the Now-Bankrupt Exchange, Sources Say

Sources told CoinDesk that FTX was used as a bank by many of its employees. Now, their money is probably gone.

FTX's collapse is having ripple effects across the crypto universe. (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

Finance

Sam Bankman-Fried's Frequent Commenting Draws Icy Response From FTX's Restructuring Chief

John Ray's statement on Twitter stressed that SBF no longer speaks on behalf of the exchange and affiliated companies.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Temasek to Write Off up to $300M Invested in FTX; House Committee to Hold Hearing on FTX Collapse

Genesis Global Trading's lending arm is temporarily suspending redemptions and new loan originations. Singapore's state investment fund Temasek is preparing to write off between $200 million and $300 million invested in FTX. The House Financial Services Committee will hold a hearing into FTX next month. Sam Bankman-Fried, Tom Brady and other FTX promoters have been sued. Genesis and CoinDesk both operate under Digital Currency Group.

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Markets

Have Crypto Markets Reached Bottom?

Investors maintain confidence in crypto, but are anxiously eyeing developments that could sink prices further.

Pause, Breathe, Resume (Brett Jordan/Unsplash)

Finance

US Crypto Investors Sue FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried, Company’s Celebrity Endorsers

The plaintiffs in a class-action suit claim that the heavily-marketed FTX yield-bearing crypto accounts were actually a Ponzi scheme.

Comedian Larry David appeared in a Super Bowl ad for FTX (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for HBO)

Videos

Ex-FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Continues to Engage Public via Twitter

Following a series of curious one-letter tweets over the past couple of days, Sam Bankman-Fried, former CEO of crypto exchange FTX, has returned to typing out full sentences and can't seem to stay off of Twitter. "The Hash" panel discusses the latest in FTX's collapse and the role of social media.

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