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‘Sam? Are you there?!’ The bizarre and brutal final hours of FTX
How Sam Bankman-Fried and his band of millennial millionaires lost a $40bn crypto empire #sambankmanfried
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Payments provider Affirm to sunset crypto program after 19% staff cut
Payments provider Affirm to sunset crypto program after 19% staff cut
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How Shane Warne built $20.7M fortune and what his kids should do with their $6.41M inheritance
Shane Warne's three children are now reaping the rewards of their dad's extraordinary post cricket career as a 'rock star' businessman, but can they spin their $6.4m each into a similar $20m fortune?
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Play-To-Earn Won’t Work: This Web3 Gaming Startup Wants The Industry To Keep It Real
Play-to-earn games like Axie Infinity only works if new players enter the gaming ecosystem to generate demands for older players’ assets. Ready Player DAO wants the industry to focus on traditional gamers.
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Getting rid of crypto staking would be a 'terrible path' for the US — Coinbase CEO
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong has responded to rumors that the SEC wants to get rid of retail cryptocurrency staking in the United States in a lengthy Twitter thread.
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Hut 8 merger would've happened even without FTX or crypto turmoil, says CEO
Hut 8 CEO Jaime Leverton said the merger with US Bitcoin would have happened regardless of the market turmoil and the collapse of FTX.
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Tech Layoffs: Affirm Cuts 19% Of Staff, Shuts Down Crypto Department
Affirm admitted that it over-hired during the pandemic when consumer spending was at its peak.
Lido DAO Governance Token Surges on Armstrong Comments About SEC Staking Ban
The SEC has declined to comment on rumors that it intends to classify tokens that allow staking as securities.
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US banking giant BNY Mellon says digital assets are 'here to stay'
Michael Demissie, the head of digital assets at BNY Mellon said institutional interest in digital assets — particularly that of tokenized products — continues to skyrocket despite bleak market conditions.
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Starbucks Odyssey: Right Metaverse Strategy, Wrong Web3 Strategy
In a way, Starbucks Odyssey is both a metaverse strategy (gamified experience) and a Web3 strategy (CRM).
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Robinhood aims to buy-back its shares seized by Department of Justice in FTX failure
Robinhood Markets Inc., the U.S.-based financial services company, aims to purchase the 55 million of its shares that FTX-linked Emergent Fidelity Technologies bought in May 2022, according to its earnings report released Wednesday.
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Bitcoin and Ethereum prices at a steady pace
The crypto markets are heating up as the prices of Bitcoin and Ethereum is on increase. Both digital currencies have seen significant growth, with Bitcoin reaching a market cap of over $1 trillion and Ethereum not far behind.