‘Black Swan’ Author Explains Why the Former FTX CEO ‘Needs To Be Behind Bars’

Nassim Nicholas Taleb, the best-selling author of “Black Swan” and “Antifragile” believes that Sam Bankerman-Fried (aka “SBF”), the disgraced co-founder and former CEO of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, should be “behind bars” right now (rather than in his $30 million penthouse apartment in The Bahamas. Nassim Nicholas Taleb is a Lebanese-American essayist, scholar, mathematical statistician, and former quantitative trader. He […]

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US Regulator CFTC Met With Sam Bankman-Fried 10 Times Before Crypto Exchange FTX Collapsed – Exchanges Bitcoin News

The chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has revealed that he and his team met with Sam Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives 10 times before the crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy. The regulator sees the FTX collapse as “a classic run based on liquidity crunch.” CFTC’s Meetings With FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried The chairman of the Commodity Futures […]

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US Trustee Plans to Appoint an Examiner to FTX Case, While SBF Describes Strange Margin Trading Practices – Bitcoin News

On Dec. 1, 2022, an attorney for the U.S. Trustee submitted a written letter to Delaware bankruptcy court officials that seeks to establish an independent examiner to investigate the FTX Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings. The U.S. Trustee explained in the letter that FTX’s collapse was comparable to complex bankruptcy cases like Lehman’s, Washington Mutual Bank’s, and New Century Financial’s. Moreover, […]

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Crypto community weighs in on SBF’s ‘apology tour’

The former CEO of FTX, Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried, has seemingly begun to embark on an apology tour to redeem his image a month after the sudden implosion of FTX, which revealed that the exchange had been improperly using customer and investor funds.  OnNov. 30, Bankman-Fried made his first live public appearance since the collapse of FTX — answering a number […]

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Crypto Firm Core Scientific Says It's Considering Bankruptcy Crypto Firm Core Scientific Says It's Considering Bankruptcy

Core Scientific – one of world’s biggest publicly traded crypto mining firms – has announced it is considering bankruptcy protection as its stock has fallen by over 90 percent since the beginning of the year. The company has also stated it’s not likely to make any upcoming debt payments. Core Scientific Says It’s Thinking About Bankruptcy Core Scientific has been in trouble […]

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Brian Armstrong Says He Was Wrong About BTC

In a recent interview, Brian Armstrong – the CEO of popular digital currency exchange Coinbase – commented that he “overestimated” bitcoin as a hedge against inflation, and he’s learning now – like so many other traders – that bitcoin is not yet ready or mature enough to handle the hard-hitting economic factors that the country has been facing over the last […]

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