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| Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block: |
Alameda-linked wallets traded Lido, Polygon, Uniswap, and other tokens for ether and USDT, before swapping for bitcoin, taking their holdings to 47.6 BTC — - Wallets linked to Alameda Research have sold several crypto tokens. — These swaps happened barely days after Sam Bankman-Fried posted bail.
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| Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News: |
A look at North Dimension, a little-known Alameda Research subsidiary, where the SEC says FTX told customers to wire funds to trade without disclosing the ties — Among the 130 or so companies in Sam Bankman-Fried's sprawling crypto empire, North Dimension Inc. assumed a low profile.
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| Jonathan Stempel / Reuters: |
Court records: SBF is expected to enter a plea before a new judge on January 3, after the original judge recused herself as her husband's law firm advised FTX — Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to enter a plea next week to criminal charges he defrauded investors and looted billions of dollars …
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| Bloomberg: |
Court filings: Sam Bankman-Fried said in an affidavit that he and Gary Wang borrowed $546M+ from Alameda to buy a nearly 8% stake, or ~56M shares, in Robinhood — FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried said he and former executive Gary Wang borrowed more than $546 million from Alameda Research to buy …
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| Oliver Knight / CoinDesk: |
SEC filing: MicroStrategy acquired ~3,205 BTC for ~$56.4M from Nov. 1 to Dec. 24 and sold ~704 BTC on Dec. 22 to offset gains, taking its holding to ~132.5K BTC — The software company also sold a small amount of the cryptocurrency for the first time. — MicroStrategy (MSTR) … | Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: |
Solana drops ~10% to around $10, as bitcoin and ether saw modest declines, over concerns that large holders could offload the token; SOL is down 94% in 2022 — Solana, the cryptocurrency backed by fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried, tumbled on Wednesday amid concerns that large holders may be about to offload the token.
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| Theo Wayt / The Information: |
Source: Amazon is working on a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon's video ambitions — Amazon has discussed doing a stand-alone app for watching sports content, people briefed on the conversations told The Information.
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| Joe Schneider / Bloomberg: |
Investors sue Gemini and Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss for offering Gemini Trust Earn interest-bearing accounts, which the company didn't register as securities — Gemini Trust Co. and its founders, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, were sued by investors who claim the crypto asset exchange sold …
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| Ian Johnston / Financial Times: |
Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko rejected more than five Silicon Valley VC offers for “hundreds of thousands of dollars” to protect the platform's nonprofit status — Fast-growing open-source microblogging site has seen a surge of interest since Elon Musk took over Twitter
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| Moira Warburton / Reuters: |
The US House bans TikTok on all House-managed devices, citing a “high risk due to a number of security issues”, after similar bans by US state governments — The popular Chinese video app TikTok has been banned from all U.S. House of Representatives-managed devices … | Sam Kessler / CoinDesk: |
A hacker leaks API keys belonging to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, which said its users were “phished”; 3Commas CEO confirms the leaked data — The leak comes after 3Commas repeatedly told users that they had been “phished” after widespread hacks.
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| Aoyon Ashraf / CoinDesk: |
Bitcoin miner Argo Blockchain avoids bankruptcy after agreeing to sell its Helios mining facility in Texas to Galaxy Digital for $65M and taking a new $35M loan — Galaxy will buy Argo's Helios facility for $65 million and provide $35 million loan to help the miner amid restructuring.
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Tweets: @argoblockchain, @argoblockchain, @_amanda_fab, @argoblockchain, and @smtuffy
| Jonathan Vanian / CNBC: |
CCS Insight: global shipments of VR and AR devices fell 12%+ YoY to 9.6M in 2022; NPD: US annual sales of VR headsets fell 2% YoY to $1.1B as of early December — - Sales of virtual reality headsets in the U.S. declined 2% year over year to $1.1 billion as of early December, according to NPD Group.
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