Sam Bankman-Fried criminal trial starts today — here’s what’s at stake
A year ago, Sam Bankman-Fried was revered as a titan of the industry and living large at a $40 million penthouse in the Bahamas, while he ran a crypto empire …
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Sam Bankman-Fried considered paying Trump $5 billion not to run: Lewis
Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder of bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX, arrives at court as lawyers push to persuade the judge overseeing his fraud case not to jail him ahead of trial, …
Fugitive founder of 3AC crypto hedge fund arrested in Singapore
Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Authorities have arrested crypto fugitive Su Zhu, co-founder of bankrupt digital asset hedge fund Three Arrows Capital, who was apparently attempting to flee …
JPMorgan Chase UK shouldn’t ‘deplatform’ crypto industry
Brian Armstrong, chief executive officer of Coinbase Global Inc., speaks during the Messari Mainnet summit in New York, on Thursday, Sept. 21, 2023. Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images …
Where are bitcoin miners in 2023: Texas
Foundry’s Kevin Zhang with Jihan Wu, the founder and chairman of Bitdeer and a co-founder of Bitmain. Kevin Zhang Crypto winters don’t scare Kevin Zhang, who has been in the …
Ethereum founder on U.S. crypto crackdown
Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin in Prague. CNBC PRAGUE — For Vitalik Buterin, the idea of home is fleeting. The Russia-born coder, who built ethereum in his late teens, doesn’t stay …
SBF’s parents sued by FTX for millions in ‘misappropriated funds’
Bankrupt crypto exchange FTX is looking to claw back luxury property and “millions of dollars in fraudulently transferred and misappropriated funds” from the parents of Sam Bankman-Fried, the exchange’s disgraced …
What it’s like in Europe’s crypto hub Portugal as the U.S. cracks down
Alexander Spatari | Moment | Getty Images LISBON, PORTUGAL — Matadors and bitcoin maximalists are regulars at Campo Pequeno, a neo-Moorish bullring in the northernmost reaches of the Portuguese capital …
Texas paid bitcoin miner Riot $31.7 million to shut down in August
During the crypto boom of 2021, Riot Platforms was raking in cash from bitcoin mining. Now the company is losing so much money that it’s counting on energy credits from …
Investors still aren’t convinced by bitcoin
A sign is seen in a stand during the Bitcoin Conference 2023, in Miami Beach, Florida, U.S., May 19, 2023. Marco Bello | Reuters This report is from today’s CNBC …