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November 8, 2022, 1:25 PM

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@cz_binance:
Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao says the company signed a non-binding LOI to fully acquire FTX.com and help cover its liquidity crunch, pending due diligence  —  This afternoon, FTX asked for our help. There is a significant liquidity crunch. To protect users, we signed a non-binding LOI, intending to fully acquire https://ftx.com/ and help cover the liquidity crunch. We will be conducting a full DD in the coming days.
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Sam Reynolds / CoinDesk:
FTX's FTT drops 45%+ to under $10 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda  —  The FTT price has declined nearly 14% over the past 24 hours, with Solana's SOL and Serum's SRM taking losses along with bigger cryptocurrencies like bitcoin and ether.
Andrew Rummer / The Block:
FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says “FTX is fine” as Binance begins selling FTX's FTT token; an Alameda balance sheet leaked on November 2 showed $8B in liabilities  —  - FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried insisted his crypto exchange is “fine” after rival Binance announced it would start selling its holdings of FTX's FTT token.
Angus Berwick / Reuters:
In a message to staff, FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says withdrawals on FTX.com are “effectively paused” after FTX saw $6B in net withdrawals in 72 hours  —  Crypto exchange FTX saw around $6 billion of withdrawals in the 72 hours before Tuesday morning, according to a message …
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Sources: Elon Musk pitched charging most or all Twitter users for a subscription; internal estimates show Blue could lose the company ~$6/user/month in the US  —  Will he go through with it?  PLUS: Botched layoffs, how the new Blue could lose money, and more
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Financial Times:
Analysis: Apple's corporate diplomacy in Beijing helped it evade crackdowns and kept its profits above China's tech giants but exposes it to supply chain shocks  —  The most profitable tech company operating in China is not a homegrown internet giant such as Alibaba or Tencent, but California-based Apple.
Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo reports Q2 operating profit of ~$809M, up from ~$685M YoY, and cuts its fiscal year Switch sales forecast by 10% to 19M; a weakened yen boosts results  —  Nintendo Co. cut its fiscal-year forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million after reporting earnings in line with expectations.
Stephanie Bodoni / Bloomberg:
The European Commission opens an in-depth investigation into Microsoft's proposed $69B Activision Blizzard acquisition and sets a March 23 decision deadline  —  Microsoft Corp.'s proposed $69 billion takeover of games developer Activision Blizzard Inc. faces an in-depth European Union probe …
Jane Lanhee Lee / Reuters:
Nvidia offers Chinese customers the A800 GPU, which the company says meets US export control rules, as an alternative to the A100 that the US banned for export  —  U.S. chip maker Nvidia Corp (NVDA.O) said on Monday it is offering a new advanced chip in China that meets recent export control rules aimed …
Joseph Menn / Washington Post:
An investigation shows TrustCor Systems, used by Chrome, Safari, and Firefox as a root certificate authority, has ties to US intelligence and law enforcement  —  TrustCor Systems vouches for the legitimacy of websites.  But its physical address is a UPS Store in Toronto.
Financial Times:
Sources: responding to a slowing economy and ad market, ByteDance overhauls TikTok's US operations, moving general manager Sandie Hawkins to TikTok Shop  —  Chinese-owned social platform makes sweeping leadership changes in its largest market  —  TikTok's US operations are undergoing …
Connie Loizos / TechCrunch:
Q&A with outgoing Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston on his decision to leave the accelerator, its investing capital sources, the market slowdown, and more  —  Last week at Web Summit, we were asked to interview outgoing Y Combinator President Geoff Ralston about the past, present, and future of the popular accelerator program.
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
The US DOJ seized 50,676 bitcoins in November 2021, now worth ~$1B, from James Zhong, who pled guilty to wire fraud for taking the coins from Silk Road in 2012  —  The bitcoins, obtained in in 2012, were valued at $3.36 billion when discovered in November; now they're worth $1.04 billion.

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