Why the Twitter owner’s ruthless, unsparing style has made him a hero to many bosses in Silicon Valley. Story Published at: December 16, 2022 at 10:00AM Continue Reading…
FTX chief: Company Appeared to Use ‘Old-Fashioned Embezzlement’
The man charged with recovering customer funds from the collapsed crypto exchange described an ‘unprecedented’ lack of record keeping. Story Published at: December 13, 2022 at 07:55PM Continue Reading…
Lawmakers to Push for Answers Despite Bankman-Fried’s Arrest
Representative Maxine Waters said the charges against Bankman-Friend “denies the public” the opportunity to get answers. Story Published at: December 13, 2022 at 05:08PM Continue Reading…
The Parents in the Middle of FTX’s Collapse
The FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother and father, who teach at Stanford Law School, are under scrutiny for their connections to their son’s crypto business. Story Published at: December 13, 2022 at 01:01AM Continue Reading…
Inside the Frantic Texts Exchanged by Crypto Executives as FTX Collapsed
A group chat including crypto leaders shows Binance’s Changpeng Zhao accusing FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried of orchestrating trades to destabilize the industry. Story Published at: December 9, 2022 at 06:04AM Continue Reading…
The Crypto Industry Struggles for a Way Forward
The implosion of the exchange FTX shows how an industry built in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis has drifted far from its original ideals. Story Published at: December 5, 2022 at 10:00AM Continue Reading…
How the Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Has Disrupted A.I.
Mr. Bankman-Fried and his colleagues spent more than $530 million to battle what they saw as the dangers of artificial intelligence. Now those efforts are reeling. Story Published at: December 1, 2022 at 10:00AM Continue Reading…
‘No Cooperation’: How Sam Bankman-Fried Tried to Cling to FTX
Emails and text messages show how lawyers and executives struggled to persuade the 30-year-old entrepreneur to give up control of his collapsing crypto exchange. Story Published at: November 29, 2022 at 10:00AM Continue Reading…
U.S. Crypto Exchange Kraken Settles With Treasury Department
The crypto exchange, which had been under investigation for violating U.S. sanctions, agreed to pay $360,000 to settle the allegations. Story Published at: November 28, 2022 at 07:01PM Continue Reading…
Inside a Crypto Nemesis’ Campaign to Rein In the Industry
Gary Gensler, the chair of the S.E.C., is at the center of a reckoning over the future of cryptocurrency after the implosion of FTX. Story Published at: November 21, 2022 at 08:00AM Continue Reading…