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November 8, 2022, 12:55 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 20%+ to around $16 as investors fear possible contagion from the collapse of FTX-linked Alameda; Nansen shows FTX outflows reached $450M+  —  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.
Yogita Khatri / The Block:
On-chain data from Ethereum, Tron, and Solana: FTX appears to have stopped processing withdrawal requests, starting at 6:37am ET for ether  —  - Crypto exchange FTX seems to have stopped processing withdrawal requests, according to on-chain data.  — The last outgoing transaction …
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.
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
Jonathan Vanian / CNBC:
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.
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 …
Financial Times:
Sources: responding to a slowing economy and weakening ad market, ByteDance overhauls TikTok's US operations, including demoting general manager Sandie Hawkins  —  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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