Crypto in 2022: It wasn’t all bad December 22, 2022 This year was turbulent, even by crypto standards. If the past twelve months have taught us anything it’s that crypto is still far from a mature asset class and time may be running out for the industry to prove itself as a functional and beneficial cog in our financial system. There are a number of [...]
Binance Deals With ‘Stress Test’ as Crypto Market Leverage Drops, FTX Founder is Charged December 19, 2022 Data from CryptoCompare shows that the price of Bitcoin started this past week moving up steadily from around $17,000 to a high above the $18,000 mark, before it quickly collapsed and dropped to $16,500. Ethereum’s ether, the second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap, traded in a similar way, seeing a high of $1,350 after starting the [...]
Auditor Mazars halts work with Binance December 16, 2022 Mazars has ceased work on providing proof-of-reserves statements with Binance, Crypto.com and other crypto firms.
Binance ‘temporarily pauses’ stablecoin withdrawals after run December 13, 2022 Binance has registered $1.9 billion of withdrawals in the past 24 hours, blockchain data firm Nansen said on Tuesday, as the world’s biggest crypto exchange said it had “temporarily paused” withdrawals of the USDC stablecoin. How crypto exchanges such as Binance and its now-bankrupt former rival FTX handle customer deposits is under close scrutiny from [...]
SBF facing charges while federal investigations rock crypto – what’s next? December 13, 2022 Nigel Green takes an optimistic look at the long-term benefits in the wake of the FTX collapse and Sam Bankman-Fried's arrest.
FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried arrested in the Bahamas December 13, 2022 Sam Bankman-Fried - founder of the collapsed FTX exchange - has been arrested at his home in the Bahamas.
What’s that coming over the hill? Is it regulation? December 9, 2022 IDnow's Jason Tucker-Feltham believes the FTX collapse has invited the inevitable, but urges crypto companies to embrace regulation.
Annus Horribilis 2022: Regulation may be the only way out of crypto’s ‘Horrible Year’ December 5, 2022 Peter Fitzgerald and Amalia Neenan of Peters & Peters point to regulation as the answer to a steady future for cryptocurrency.
FTX, LUNA, Celsius, et al – a post-mortem November 30, 2022 Dr Chris Kacher checks the health report of some deeply troubled crypto platforms as he lauds the inevitability of the metaverse.
Crypto AM Awards: And the winners are… November 29, 2022 Some of the finest people and businesses in cryptocurrency and blockchain were honoured at the Crypto AM Summit and Awards 2022.