$SAM

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/ftx-leadership-sues-sam-bankman-fried-over-deal-made-prior-to-bankruptcy

OPENAI CEO SAM ALTMAN SAYS AI AND ELECTIONS ARE A “SIGNIFICANT AREA OF CONCERN” AND “SOME REGULATION WOULD BE QUITE WISE”

https://cryptonews.com/news/openai-ceo-sam-altman-verge-of-securing-100-million-for-worldcoin-crypto-project.htm

https://cryptonews.com/news/ftx-founder-sam-bankman-fried-seeks-dismissal-of-most-criminal-charges-against-him.htm

a plus sam

salut Sam Sam, perso je choisis les paire comme ça : je regarde quel devise seras là plus forte dans la semaine par exemple USD car beaucoup de data à venir, ( en plus de la situation extérieur crise etc) ensuite j'essaye de voir avec des data ou autre contre quel autre devise le $ va perdre ou gagner de la valeur

By Ankika Biswas and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) - The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq slipped on Wednesday as weaker-than-expected private payrolls data for March deepened worries that the rapid interest rate hikes by the Federal Reserve may tip the U.S. economy into a recession. The ADP National Employment report showed U.S. private employment rose by 145,000 jobs last month, compared with economists' projections of an increase of 200,000 jobs, adding to recent signs of a cooling economy. With growing concerns about a worsening economic outlook following the recent turmoil in the banking sector, market expectations have shifted in favor of the U.S. central bank hitting the brakes on its interest rate hikes. Traders' bets of a pause by the Fed in May shot up to 60.8%, while odds of a 25-basis point interest rate hike fell to 39.2%, according to CME Group's (NASDAQ:CME) Fedwatch tool. Major technology and growth stocks such as Meta Platforms Inc (NASDAQ:META), Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) Inc and Amazon.com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN) slipped between 0.3% and 1.4% in early trade. Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA) Corp was among top drags on the S&P 500, down 2.2%, after Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc's Google said the supercomputers it uses to train its artificial intelligence models were faster and more power-efficient than comparable systems from the chipmaker. Defensive stocks such as healthcare, utilities and consumer staples were in the green among major S&P 500 sectors. Keeping the Dow Jones afloat was a 3.2% gain in Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) after the company's $8.9-billion offer to settle talc-related lawsuits gained support of thousands of claimants, easing an overhang on its plans to list consumer health unit Kenvue. All eyes are now on the non-farm payrolls data for March, a more comprehensive employment report, that is due on Friday for further clues on the state of the labor market. "The Street is realizing that with slower ADP payrolls ... and the possibility that we get an undercut in Friday's payroll numbers, the economy is indeed slowing and the Fed will only need to make one more rate hike, if any," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist of CFRA Research in New York. "But at the same time, I think investors are closely watching to make sure that we don't fall into a deep recession." A report on non-manufacturing activity in March from the Institute for Supply Management is expected later on Wednesday. At 9:38 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 57.17 points, or 0.17%, at 33,459.55, the S&P 500 was down 6.16 points, or 0.15%, at 4,094.44, and the Nasdaq Composite was down 61.98 points, or 0.51%, at 12,064.35. Both the benchmark S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq are now on track for their first weekly declines in four in the holiday-shortened week. FedEx Corp (NYSE:FDX) rose 3.6% as the freight bellwether firm said it will fold its operating divisions into one organization as it steps up efforts to cut costs and increase efficiency. Declining issues outnumbered advancers for a 2.10-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 2.02-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The S&P index recorded four new 52-week highs and one new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 17 new highs and 85 new lows.

By Ankika Biswas and Amruta Khandekar (Reuters) - Wall Street's main indexes were muted on Tuesday as investors awaited key economic data that could decide the U.S. Federal Reserve's monetary tightening path, with gains in shares of Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) capping losses on the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq. Tesla Inc rose 1.7% in early trade as sales of its China-made electric vehicles rose in March, bouncing back from 6% declines on Monday following data on March-quarter deliveries. The stock's move made consumer discretionary shares the top gainer on the S&P 500, while energy stocks edged lower after a strong rally on Monday. Rising oil prices following the OPEC+ group's output cuts have renewed fears about inflation, denting hopes of an end to aggressive interest rate hikes despite recent signs of cooling prices and turbulence in the banking sector. "We think that it (soaring oil prices) will cause inflation to remain sticky and the Fed definitely wants to ensure that they have a stranglehold on inflation before they take their foot off the brake," said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist of CFRA Research in New York. Bets by traders of a 25-basis point rate hike in May stood at 60%, with odds of a pause at 40%, according to CME Group's (NASDAQ:CME) Fedwatch tool. Later on Tuesday, investors will watch out for data on U.S. job openings that is likely to show a fall in February, as they attempt to assess if the aggressive rate hikes have cooled the economy to the Fed's satisfaction. A separate report expected is likely to show factory orders fell 0.5% in February and will come on the heels of surveys showing weak U.S. manufacturing activity in March. "Factory orders are expected to show a decline. That would imply that the war against inflation is working," Stovall said. The S&P 500 and the tech-heavy Nasdaq have gained 7.5% and 16.5% so far in 2023, steadying from their worst annual drop last year since the 2008 financial crisis. At 9:39 a.m. ET, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 5.83 points, or 0.02%, at 33,606.98, the S&P 500 was up 3.91 points, or 0.09%, at 4,128.42, and the Nasdaq Composite was up 7.55 points, or 0.06%, at 12,197.00. Among stocks, Virgin Orbit Holdings Inc tanked 20.1% after the satellite launch company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on failing to secure long-term funding. AMC Entertainment (NYSE:AMC) Holdings Inc shares tumbled 15.9% after the movie theater chain said it agreed to settle litigation and proceed with converting its preferred stock into common shares. Shares of Digital World Acquisition Corp fell 4.3% after the SPAC linked to former U.S. President Donald Trump delayed the filing of its annual financial report. Advancing issues outnumbered decliners for a 1.10-to-1 ratio on the NYSE and a 1.27-to-1 ratio on the Nasdaq. The S&P index recorded nine new 52-week highs and no new low, while the Nasdaq recorded 36 new highs and 38 new lows.

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2023/03/28/sam-bankman-fried-faces-new-us-indictment-over-chinese-bribery/

**CRIPTOVALUTE - Le autorità di regolamentazione** sono preoccupate per i modelli di business delle banche che si concentrano in attività legate alle criptovalute o che hanno esposizioni concentrate al settore delle criptovalute. L'emissione o la detenzione di criptovalute su una rete aperta, pubblica o decentralizzata può violare le pratiche bancarie sicure. Le banche devono essere consapevoli dei principali rischi associati alle criptovalute, come il rischio di frode e le incertezze legali - Dichiarazione. **SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried)** si dichiara non colpevole, il giudice fissa la data del processo di Bankman-Fried al 2 ottobre 2023.

> FORMER FTX CEO SAM BANKMAN-FRIED EXITS VEHICLE OUTSIDE COURTHOUSE IN NASSAU, BAHAMAS -REUTERS WITNESS

**CRIPTOVALUTE** - Secondo una fonte, lunedì SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) si presenterà in tribunale alle Bahamas per revocare la decisione di contestare l'estradizione.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11535725/Sam-Bankman-Frieds-chronically-overcrowded-Bahamas-jail-infested-rats-maggots.html

By Lawrence Delevingne, Harry Robertson and Tom Westbrook (Reuters) -Wall Street stocks, bonds and the dollar were muted on Wednesday morning ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting later in the day and central bank decisions in Europe and Britain on Thursday. The subdued price moves followed a rally in stocks and a sharp drop in the U.S. dollar in the previous session when the consumer prices data showed a slowdown in inflation. That lifted hopes that central banks will stop raising rates in early 2023. The U.S. consumer price index increased 0.1% last month, 0.2 percentage points slower than economists expected. In the 12 months through November, headline CPI climbed 7.1% - its slowest pace in about a year. British inflation also moderated more than anticipated in November, Data on Wednesday showed. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 0.37%, the S&P 500 gained 0.48% and the Nasdaq Composite added 0.49% in early trading. The MSCI All World stock index edged about 0.4% higher, with European shares slipping, but Asian markets rising overnight. It had jumped more than 1% the previous day. In currency markets, the dollar dipped for the second straight day. It was last down 0.35% against Japan's yen, while the euro was up 0.04% against the greenback. The broader dollar index was 0.1% lower at $103.97 after hitting a six-month low of 103.57 the previous day. The dollar, a safe-haven asset which has been boosted by U.S. rate hikes this year, has dropped around 9% from a two-decade high in September in the hope that the central banks would soon stop raising interest rates. Susannah Streeter, senior markets analyst at Hargreaves Lansdown, said investors were in a "wait-and-see mood" ahead of the Fed rate decision. "There was that pop we saw in markets, but then there's a realisation perhaps dawning that it's not necessarily going to be an easy path ahead... it's a long way down," she said of U.S. inflation. European stocks fell, with the continent-wide Stoxx 600 down 0.3% after rising 1.3% in the previous session. In Asia, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 0.94%, with easing Chinese COVID-19 curbs boosting sentiment. "It's hard to see where more good news is going to come from on the inflation front," said Jonas Goltermann, senior global markets economist at Capital Economics. "The question for next year is are we going to get all the way back down to 2%." FED AHEAD Markets expect the Fed to slow the pace of hikes when it announces its decision at 2:00 pm Washington time (1900 GMT) and raise its funds rate target range by 50 bps to between 4.25% and 4.5%. Much of the focus will be on the "dot plot" chart that will show the projection about future rate movements by committee members and the tone chairman Jerome Powell strikes in his press conference. The median projection in September was for a peak in the Fed funds rate of around 4.6% next year, but some analysts think the Fed could go higher. "The market wants to know if the Fed will change their stance on the dot plot," said Tareck Horchani, head of dealing, Prime Brokerage, at Maybank Securities in Singapore. The yield on benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasuries was little changed at 3.512% after tumbling 11 basis points (bps) on Tuesday. Yields move inversely to prices. COMMODITIES HOLD GAINS In commodities, oil prices rose again on Wednesday after OPEC and the International Energy Agency forecast a rebound in demand in the next year and on hopes of a slowdown in U.S. rate hikes alongside inflation. U.S. crude rose 1.71% to $76.68 per barrel and Brent was at $81.88, up 1.49%. Expectations of a less aggressive monetary policy by the Fed also helped gold prices hold above the $1,800 per ounce pivot. U.S. gold futures ticked down 0.24% to $1,809.60 an ounce. Bitcoin rose despite the arrest of FTX exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was accused by U.S. prosecutors of fraud. It was last up 1.3% to $18,002.

By Tom Westbrook SINGAPORE (Reuters) -Asian stocks advanced on Wednesday, bonds were firm and the dollar nursed losses after data showed U.S. consumer prices barely rose in November, stoking hopes inflation has peaked and interest rate increases will slow and eventually stop in 2023. Nervousness about policymakers' next moves, though, kept the mood in check ahead of a Federal Reserve meeting later in the day and central bank meetings in Britain and Europe on Thursday. Investors are also turning watchful on the global economy, despite China's reopening from tight COVID restrictions. The U.S. consumer price index increased 0.1% last month, 0.2 percentage points slower than economists expected, and in the 12 months through November, headline CPI climbed 7.1% - its slowest pace in about a year. European markets were set for a higher open with pan-region Euro Stoxx 50 futures up 0.15%, German DAX futures flat and FTSE futures rising 0.05%. U.S. stock futures, the S&P 500 e-minis, meanwhile, advanced 0.35%. In Asia, MSCI's broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares outside Japan rose 1%. The index is up 1.2% so far this month. Japan's Nikkei was up 0.78% while Australian shares advanced 0.67%. China and Hong Kong stocks also jumped on Wednesday as easing COVID-19 curbs and refocus on economic growth underpinned sentiment. China's blue-chip CSI 300 Index rose 0.3% while the Hang Seng Index climbed 0.89%. "If CPI comes off and China fully reopens, that's still not really enough to go gung-ho in Asia markets, because we're facing a scenario where the more developed markets, the major markets are facing a recessionary environment in 2023," said Sat Duhra, Portfolio Manager on Janus Henderson Investors’ Asia ex Japan Equity Team. "There will be some upside from China reopening, but I think it's not enough to offset the negatives." Overnight Wall Street surged, before paring gains to leave the S&P 500 up 0.7% at the close. The index was up nearly 2.8% at one stage, while the Nasdaq rose as much as 3.8% before closing 1% higher. The dollar, which is falling from 20-year highs as U.S. interest rate expectations retreat, dropped broadly and sharply, while bonds rallied. The yield on benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasuries fell 11 basis points overnight and was steady at 3.4956% in afternoon Asia trade. Two-year yields, which track short-term interest rate expectations, touched 4.2053% compared with a U.S. close of 4.229%. [US/] The U.S. dollar fell 1.5% against the yen after the inflation data and was steady at 135.37 yen in Asia. The U.S. dollar index, which tracks the greenback against a basket of currencies of other major trading partners, fell to a six-month low of 103.57, before steadying at 104.04. It is down more than 9% from a two-decade high made in September. [FRX/] FED AHEAD Futures pricing shows markets expect the Fed will slow the pace of hikes, but still raise its Funds rate target range by 50 bps to between 4.25% and 4.5% later on Thursday. Much of the focus then falls on the "dot plot" chart of committee members projections about future rate movements, and the tone chairman Jerome Powell strikes in his press conference. "There are now clear signs that inflation is softening, but it is still at elevated level," said Tareck Horchani, head of dealing, Prime Brokerage, at Maybank Securities in Singapore. "The market wants to know if the Fed will change their stance on the dot plot," he said, with the median projection in September being for a peak in the Fed funds rate of around 4.6% next year. Oil was carried 1% higher with the broader mood, before trimming gains a bit in Asia with Brent futures last at $80.35 a barrel and U.S. crude at $75.12 a barrel. Bitcoin got a bounce overnight, but was unable to hold onto gains above $18,000. Cryptocurrency markets have been unmoved, but transfixed, by the arrest of FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who was accused by U.S. prosecutors on Tuesday of misappropriating billions of dollars in customer funds from the cryptocurrency exchange.

**CRIPTOVALUTE STATI UNITI - SEC: SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried) ha raccolto più di 1,8 miliardi di dollari da investitori azionari. **La SEC accusa Sam Bankman-Fried di aver frodato gli investitori.** Sostiene che SBF ha utilizzato i fondi dei clienti FTX presso Alameda. Le Accuse contro SBF sono state annunciate anche da SDNY e CFTC.

By Jasper Ward, Luc Cohen and Angus Berwick (Reuters) - FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in the Bahamas at the behest of U.S. prosecutors on Monday, the day before he was due to testify before Congress about the abrupt failure last month of one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges. The arrest marks a stunning fall from grace for the 30-year-old entrepreneur widely known by his initials SBF, who rode a boom in bitcoin and other digital assets to become a billionaire many times over until FTX's rapid demise. The exchange, launched in 2019 and based in the Bahamas, filed for bankruptcy Nov. 11 after it struggled to raise money to stave off collapse as traders rushed to withdraw $6 billion from the platform in just 72 hours. Since then it emerged Bankman-Fried secretly used $10 billion in customer funds to prop up his trading business. The arrest came as Bankman-Fried prepared to lash out at his former lawyers at Sullivan and Cromwell, new FTX CEO John Ray and rival exchange operator Binance at a Congressional hearing. In the testimony, a draft copy of which was seen by Reuters, Bankman-Fried planned to say he was pressured by Sullivan and Cromwell lawyers to nominate Ray as CEO following the sudden exodus of customer funds. And when within minutes he changed his mind, following an offer of billions of dollars of fresh funding, he was told it was too late. Bankman-Fried will now be unable to testify, according to Congresswoman Maxine Waters (NYSE:WAT), who said in a statement she was surprised to hear of his arrest. Ray's testimony will go ahead. Bankman-Fried was arrested shortly after 6:00 pm Monday (2300 GMT) at his apartment complex, a luxury gated community called the Albany, and will appear in a magistrate court on Tuesday, Bahamian police said. The Bahamas attorney general's office said it expects he will be extradited to the United States. A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan confirmed Bankman-Fried had been arrested in the Bahamas but declined to comment on the charges. U.S. prosecutors said they had a sealed indictment against Bankman-Fried and charges would be revealed on Tuesday. The New York Times reported he faces fraud and money laundering charges. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission separately authorized charges relating to Bankman-Fried's violations of securities laws, the regulator said on Monday. Bankman-Fried and his lawyer Mark Cohen did not immediately respond to requests for comment, nor did Sullivan and Cromwell, FTX, Ray and Binance. Bankman-Fried has said he doesn't think he has any criminal liability. "I didn't ever try to commit fraud," Bankman-Fried said in a Nov. 30 interview at the New York Times' Dealbook Summit. CRYPTO INDUSTRY REELING FTX's demise sent shockwaves through an already-battered cryptocurrency industry, which has seen a string of meltdowns this year that have taken down other key players including Voyager Digital and Celsius Network. More trouble might be on the horizon for the industry. Reuters reported Monday that some Justice Department prosecutors believe they have gathered sufficient evidence in their long-running investigation of Binance to charge the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange and some top executives. A Binance spokesperson told Reuters for the article: "We don't have any insight into the inner workings of the U.S. Justice Department, nor would it be appropriate for us to comment if we did." Bitcoin was steady at $17,150. It is down more than 60% this year. MEA CULPA Since the collapse of FTX, Bankman-Fried has given numerous media interviews apologizing for his mistakes and explaining what happened at the company, something that legal experts said could allow prosecutors to point to inconsistencies to undermine his credibility with a jury. "The defense is going to be completely boxed in by the prior statements SBF has made and the very incisive questions he has answered in the press and on social media,” said criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti. In his written testimony, Bankman-Fried repeated his mea culpa: "I would like to start by formally stating, under oath: I fucked up," he wrote. Then, he launched into an explanation of how things went badly at FTX and his hedge fund Alameda Research, while criticizing Sullivan and Cromwell and Ray as well as arch rival Binance for their actions as his firm imploded. UNDER PRESSURE Describing his decision to give up his role as CEO of FTX and appoint Ray, Bankman-Fried said he was pressured to do so by Sullivan and Cromwell and the general counsel of FTX's U.S. unit, who he said was a former lawyer at the law firm. Bankman-Fried said less than 10 minutes after he had signed a document at 4.30 am on Nov. 10 to make Ray the CEO of FTX, he received "a potential funding offer for billions of dollars." Bankman-Fried said he told his counsel to rescind the CEO appointment a few minutes later but was told it was already too late to do so. Bankman-Fried said he had since been cut off from FTX's systems and Ray had not responded to his emails offering help or other information. Bankman-Fried, who had become a prominent and unconventional figure known for his wild hair, t-shirts and shorts during crypto's boom, said the fortunes of FTX and his trading firm Alameda declined rapidly this year as crypto currencies crashed amid rising interest rates. In late 2021, he said Alameda had net asset value of more than $50 billion and manageable levels of debt. That became unsustainable as digital assets declined. "Last year, my net worth was valued at $20b,” Bankman-Fried wrote. “Last I saw, I believe my bank account had about $100k in it.”

FTX Sam-Bankman Fried arrested in the Bahamas. U.S. filing extradition back to the States. Should be interesting to see what happens.

**CRIPTOVALUTE - Waters conferma che SBF (Sam Bankman-Fried)** parteciperà al gruppo di discussione della Camera USA sull'FTX.

**STATI UNITI - Una denuncia per finanziamento illecito in campagna elettorale è stata presentata contro Sam Bankman-Fried - CNBC**

But Sammy Sam ruined it

**CRIPTOVALUTE - Il senatore repubblicano Toomey:** Sam Bankman Fried dovrebbe testimoniare davanti alla Commissione bancaria del Senato. Ex dirigente della TFX cerca finanziamenti per una nuova impresa di criptovalute - Informazioni.

**CRIPTOVALUTE - Sam Bankman-Fried:** Non sono sicuro del motivo per cui i prelievi dagli Stati Uniti siano stati disabilitati e, a quanto mi risulta, FTX è ancora solvibile. **Il vice segretario al Tesoro degli Stati Uniti Adeyemo:** È fondamentale completare la legislazione sulle criptovalute con il Congresso.

By Hannah Lang, Niket Nishant and Manya Saini (Reuters) -Cryptocurrency lender BlockFi has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, it said on Monday, the latest industry casualty after the firm was hurt by exposure to the spectacular collapse of the FTX exchange earlier this month. The filing in a New Jersey court comes as crypto prices have plummeted. The price of bitcoin, the most popular digital currency by far, is down more than 70% from a 2021 peak. "BlockFi's Chapter 11 restructuring underscores significant asset contagion risks associated with the crypto ecosystem," said Monsur Hussain, senior director at Fitch Ratings. New Jersey-based BlockFi, founded by fintech executive-turned-crypto entrepreneur Zac Prince, said in a bankruptcy filing that its substantial exposure to FTX created a liquidity crisis. FTX, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried, filed for protection in the United States this month after traders pulled $6 billion from the platform in three days and rival exchange Binance abandoned a rescue deal. "Although the debtors' exposure to FTX is a major cause of this bankruptcy filing, the debtors do not face the myriad issues apparently facing FTX," said the bankruptcy filing by Mark Renzi, managing director at Berkeley Research Group, the proposed financial advisor for BlockFi. "Quite the opposite." BlockFi said the liquidity crisis was due to its exposure to FTX via loans to Alameda, a crypto trading firm affiliated with FTX, as well as cryptocurrencies held on FTX's platform that became trapped there. BlockFi listed its assets and liabilities as being between $1 billion and $10 billion. BlockFi on Monday also sued a holding company for Bankman-Fried, seeking to recover shares in Robinhood Markets Inc (NASDAQ:HOOD) pledged as collateral three weeks ago, before BlockFi and FTX filed for bankruptcy protection. Renzi said BlockFi had sold a portion of its crypto assets earlier in November to fund its bankruptcy. Those sales raised $238.6 million in cash, and BlockFi now has $256.5 million in cash on hand. In a court filing on Monday, BlockFi listed FTX as its second-largest creditor, with $275 million owed on a loan extended earlier this year. It said it owes money to more than 100,000 creditors. The company also said in a separate filing it plans to lay off two-thirds of its 292 employees. Under a deal signed with FTX in July BlockFi was to receive a $400 million revolving credit facility while FTX got an option to buy it for up to $240 million. BlockFi's bankruptcy filing also comes after two of BlockFi's largest competitors, Celsius Network and Voyager Digital, filed for bankruptcy in July, citing extreme market conditions that had led to losses at both companies. Crypto lenders, the de facto banks of the crypto world, boomed during the pandemic, attracting retail customers with double-digit rates in return for their cryptocurrency deposits. Crypto lenders are not required to hold capital or liquidity buffers like traditional lenders and some found themselves exposed when a shortage of collateral forced them - and their customers - to shoulder large losses. BlockFi's first bankruptcy hearing is scheduled to take place on Tuesday. FTX did not respond to a request for comment. CREDITOR LIST BlockFi's largest creditor is Ankura Trust, which represents creditors in stressed situations and is owed $729 million. Valar Ventures, a Peter Thiel-linked venture capital fund, owns 19% of BlockFi equity shares. BlockFi also listed the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission as one of its largest creditors, with a $30 million claim. In February, a BlockFi subsidiary agreed to pay $100 million to the SEC and 32 states to settle charges in connection with a retail crypto lending product the company offered to nearly 600,000 investors. Bain Capital Ventures and Tiger Global co-led BlockFi's March 2021 funding round, BlockFi said in a press release issued at the time. Both firms did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In a blog post, BlockFi said its Chapter 11 cases will enable the company to stabilize its business and maximize value for all stakeholders. "Acting in the best interest of our clients is our top priority and continues to guide our path forward," BlockFi said. In its bankruptcy filing, BlockFi said it had hired Kirkland & Ellis and Haynes & Boone as bankruptcy counsel. BlockFi had earlier paused withdrawals from its platform. In a filing, Renzi said Blockfi intends to seek authority to honor client withdrawal requests from its customer wallet accounts, in which crypto assets are held in custody. However, the company did not disclose plans for how it might treat withdrawal requests from its other products, including interest-bearing accounts. "BlockFi clients may ultimately recover a substantial portion of their investments," Renzi said in the filing. ORIGINS BlockFi was founded in 2017 by Prince, currently the company's chief executive officer, and Flori Marquez. Though headquartered in Jersey City, BlockFi also has offices in New York, Singapore, Poland and Argentina, according to its website. In July, Prince had tweeted that "it's time to stop putting BlockFi in the same bucket / sentence as Voyager and Celsius." "Two months ago we looked the 'same.' They shut down and have impending losses for their clients," he said. According to a profile of BlockFi published earlier this year by Inc, Prince was raised in San Antonio, Texas, and financed his college education at the University of Oklahoma and Texas State University with winnings from online poker tournaments. Before starting BlockFi with Marquez, he held jobs at Orchard Platform, a broker dealer, and at Zibby, a lease-to-own lender now called Katapult. Marquez previously worked at Bond Street, a small business lending outfit that was folded into Goldman Sachs (NYSE:GS) in 2017, according to Inc.

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https://cointelegraph.com/news/the-fall-of-ftx-and-sam-bankman-fried-might-be-good-for-crypto

**MERCATI EUROPEI** - Dopo due giorni di perdite causate dai segnali della Federal Reserve, secondo cui i tassi di interesse continueranno a salire per qualche tempo, le azioni europee sono aumentate e i futures degli indici statunitensi indicano un'apertura al rialzo per Wall Street. - I settori energetico, bancario e dei servizi di pubblica utilità hanno guidato il rialzo dello 0,8% dell'indice Stoxx Europe 600, le azioni hanno proseguito nella serie di rialzi di quattro settimane. Nonostante l'inizio della settimana abbia registrato un calo dell'1%, per l'indice statunitense S&P 500, i futures riferimento sono saliti dello 0,3%. Inoltre, i contratti sul NASDAQ sono aumentati anch'essi. - I movimenti si concretizzano il giorno dopo le dichiarazioni del presidente della Fed di St. Louis James Bullard, che ha affermato che i tassi di interesse devono salire almeno al 5%-5,25% per scoraggiare l'inflazione, ciò ha spinto le azioni in forte ribasso. In risposta alle sue dichiarazioni, i mercati hanno incrementato le aspettative sull'aumento dei tassi di interesse statunitensi. - Dopo le dichiarazioni di Bullard, il dollaro è sceso mentre i rendimenti del Tesoro hanno continuato a salire. Bullard è solo l'ultimo funzionario a mettere in guardia i mercati sul fatto che, anche se l'inflazione sembra rallentare rispetto ai massimi pluridecennali, è necessario un ulteriore inasprimento delle politiche per controllare le pressioni sui prezzi. - Anche se il crollo dell'impero FTX di Sam Bankman-Fried ha continuato a turbare il mercato delle criptovalute, il bitcoin si è attestato su un lieve guadagno settimanale.

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https://cryptonews.com/news/was-sec-chair-gary-gensler-helping-sam-bankman-fried-find-legal-loopholes-for-ftx-heres-what-you-need-to-know.htm

https://cointelegraph.com/news/sam-bankman-fried-is-under-supervision-in-bahamas-looking-to-flee-to-dubai