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December 28, 2022, 9:40 PM

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Jonathan Stempel / Reuters:
Court records: SBF is expected to enter a plea before a new judge on January 3; the original judge recused herself because 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 …
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 …
Osato Avan-Nomayo / The Block:
Alameda-linked wallets traded Lido, Polygon, Uniswap, and other tokens for ether and USDT, before swapping for bitcoin, ending with a combined total of 47.6 BTC  —  - Wallets linked to Alameda Research have sold several crypto tokens.  — These swaps happened barely days after Sam Bankman-Fried posted bail.
Gretchen Morgenson / NBC News:
A look at North Dimension, a little-known Alameda Research subsidiary, where the SEC says FTX told clients to wire funds for trading 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.
Oliver Knight / CoinDesk:
Filing: MicroStrategy bought ~3,205 BTC for ~$56.4M from November 1 to December 24 and sold ~704 BTC on December 22 to offset gains, amassing ~132.5K BTC total  —  The software company also sold a small amount of the cryptocurrency for the first time.  —  MicroStrategy (MSTR) …
Theo Wayt / The Information:
Source: Amazon has discussed a standalone app for watching sports, decluttering the Prime Video app; Andy Jassy recently reaffirmed Amazon's streaming ambitions  —  Amazon has discussed doing a stand-alone app for watching sports content, people briefed on the conversations told The Information.
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
Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg:
Solana drops 10%+ to under $10, as bitcoin and ether fall 1% to 2%, over concerns that large holders may be about to 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.
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 …
Sam Kessler / CoinDesk:
A hacker leaks 10K+ API keys belonging to users of crypto trading service 3Commas, which had 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.
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.
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 …

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