Crypto

Crypto firm Binance endures wild weeks in wake of FTX collapse
Crypto firm Binance endures wild weeks in wake of FTX collapse

Even by the extreme standards of cryptocurrency trading, the past few weeks have been a wild ride for Binance, the world's biggest exchange for crypto assets. For Leigh Drogen of Starkiller Capital, it would be "armageddon" for short-term crypto asset prices if Binance collapsed.

Crypto could cause next financial crisis: India central bank chief
Crypto could cause next financial crisis: India central bank chief

India's central bank governor warned Wednesday that cryptocurrency markets risked causing the next global financial crisis, saying the recent collapse of FTX was proof of the sector's "inherent risks". Das said the fall in crypto prices and recent developments around FTX validated his long-held view that cryptocurrencies have "huge inherent risks for our macroeconomic and financial stability".

Sam Bankman-Fried: crypto rock star facing life in jail
Sam Bankman-Fried: crypto rock star facing life in jail

Sam Bankman-Fried has had a dizzying fall from top of the heap in the world of cryptocurrencies to staring down a hefty jail sentence on a raft of fraud charges. "I didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone," Bankman-Fried told a New York Times conference on November 30.

Keep talking: Disgraced crypto king's high-risk strategy
Keep talking: Disgraced crypto king's high-risk strategy

Omnipresent on talk shows and conference panels, disgraced cryptocurrency tycoon Sam Bankman-Fried is defying the advice of the legal profession and staying in the public eye despite facing the real threat of prosecution and even jail time. "I didn't ever try to commit fraud on anyone," Bankman-Fried told a New York Times conference on November 30.

Kazakhstan moves to reel in crypto mining
Kazakhstan moves to reel in crypto mining

Kazakhstan, one of the world's leading locations for cryptocurrency mining, has moved to reel in the power-hungry industry that has often burdened the ageing energy grid of the Central Asian country. According to data from the University of Cambridge, Kazakhstan was the world's third-largest miner of cryptocurrency as of January 2022, behind the United States and China.

India's Modi says digital currencies being used to fund terror
India's Modi says digital currencies being used to fund terror

Digital currencies need more regulation to stamp out funding for terror operations, India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Friday at a major international forum to combat financing of extremist groups. On Friday, he went further and told delegates at the Conference on Countering Financing of Terrorism that "private currencies" posed a grave security risk.

Salvadoran president vows to buy "one #Bitcoin every day'
Salvadoran president vows to buy "one #Bitcoin every day'

President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, the first country to make bitcoin legal tender, said Thursday the nation would buy one unit of the currency every day, doubling down in the face of public criticism of his embrace of the crypto money. "We are buying one #Bitcoin every day starting tomorrow," the president tweeted.

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