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Celsius Network to make April 12 filing, including info on voting for restructuring plan

“Our Disclosure Statement will provide a summary of the Plan, account-holder recovery percentages, FAQs, and additional information on certain risk factors,” said Celsius. Bankrupt crypto lender Celsius Network has announced it will be moving forward on its Chapter 11 restructuring plan with a disclosure statement containing information for claim holders. In a April 7 notice…
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Crypto users react to Satoshi Nakamoto’s 48th birthday

Once again, the Bitcoin creator’s age increased by one year on their P2P Foundation profile — suggesting a birthday of April 5, 1975. The legendary creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, turned 48 years old today, at least according to information provided to the global network P2P Foundation when they registered. Though the identity of the…
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Stablecoin issuer Tether accessed US banking system using Signature: Report

At the time New York regulators took control of Signature in March, there was reportedly a system in place for Tether clients to send dollars though the bank’s Signet platform. Tether, the firm behind the largest stablecoin by market capitalization, reportedly allowed its clients to send funds through Signature Bank’s payments platform — granting the…
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Bitcoin white paper makes its F1 racing debut on Kraken-sponsored car

The Kraken logo on the car includes the entirety of the abstract and introduction of ‘Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System’, and has its next race in Australia. The Formula 1 car for the Williams Racing team will feature an excerpt from the Bitcoin white paper, as a result of a sponsorship deal with United…
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Crypto news site The Block gets new CEO and reported staff layoffs following admitted ties to SBF

The Block reportedly laid off roughly 33% of its staff including interim CEO Bobby Moran in an effort to stabilize the platform following loans it received from Sam Bankman-Fried. Larry Cermak, vice president of research at The Block, has announced that he will be taking the reins at the crypto and blockchain news website from…
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FTX’s Bankman-Fried Is Allegedly Using Alameda Funds to Pay for Legal Defense

According to two sources close to FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, the disgraced co-founder, gave his father, Stanford Law professor Joseph Bankman, millions of dollars. The funds are reportedly being used to pay for legal costs. The sources said that Bankman-Fried allegedly gave “at least $10 million” from the now-defunct quantitative trading firm Alameda Research to his…
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FTX debtors report $11.6B in claims, $4.8B in assets, with many crypto holdings ‘undetermined’

The presentation reported $25 million in donations — political and otherwise — from three of the FTX silos, but added “limited information” was available on crypto donations. The debtors in FTX’s bankruptcy case have reported that the various company silos had more than $4 billion in scheduled assets as of November 2022, but said they…
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Coinbase is planning to set up crypto trading platform outside US: Report

The reported move came amid many U.S. lawmakers and regulators taking aim at crypto firms for their perceived role in the failure of three major banks. Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase is reportedly planning to set up a crypto trading platform outside the United States, where it is currently headquartered. According to a March 17 Bloomberg report,…
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Crypto firms may turn to ‘shadow banks’ following major collapses — Molly White

Speaking at the SXSW conference in Austin, Molly White compared crypto companies’ current predicament to those in 2017 and 2018, when they had “trouble accessing banking.” In the wake of three major banks with ties to crypto firms collapsing, software engineer Molly White believes companies now looking at banking options may have to face “shadier”…
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Recent contagion was ‘TradFi to crypto’ and not vice versa — Circle policy director

“What happened over the last several days was a bit of an ironic black swan situation where the contagion was not from crypto to TradFi,” said Caroline Hill. Caroline Hill, the director of global policy and regulatory strategy for stablecoin issuer Circle, has placed some of the blame from the recent collapse of banks tied…
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