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Former FTX director Sam Bankman-Fried has put his home in Washington up for sale, the New York Post reports. It is valued at $3.28m. The mansion includes 4 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms, a lift, two walk-in wardrobes, a fireplace, a large kitchen and a special wine fridge. Its total area
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Decrypt journalists wrote an article about Ukrainian entrepreneur Alex Polishchuk's TimeMachineDAO project. It aims to raise investment from around the world through DAO to fund the development of a time machine. The time machine project was created in 2022 by scientists from South-East Asia. In the first phase,
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U.S. bank Signature will no longer process SWIFT transactions of its crypto-customers of less than $100 thousand. The policy change will primarily affect cryptocurrency exchange Binance and its users. Signature Bank explained its decision by its desire to distance itself from the cryptocurrency segment and minimize risks.
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The government is considering an additional tax burden on oil companies. Or rather, it is changing the existing one. At present the export duty calculation is linked to the Urals price, but there are plans to correct this. It will be based on the benchmark grades - Brent and Dubai.
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The Filecoin Foundation has announced a new joint project with Lockheed Martin. Its goal is to launch and test a decentralised network storage based on the IPFS protocol in space. The first phase will be a test one. The experiment will take place on board the LM 400 satellite. The
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SkyBridge founder Anthony Scaramucci spoke at the Davos Forum about betrayal in life and business. As an example, he cited his history with Sam Bankman-Fried. Scaramucci admitted that he used to consider the FTX head a friend. But after the fall of the crypto exchange, he felt "betrayed"
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A user with the nickname "NFT God" lost more than $50,000 after he downloaded a malicious application that promoted Google Ads. He revealed this on his Twitter page. In addition to social media, his wallets were also hit - the attackers managed to steal NFT from his
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The US District Court for the Southern District of California has approved the payment of $17 million in compensation to victims of BitConnect. It is one of the most high-profile "Ponzi schemes" in cryptocurrency history. Customers of the platform suffered $2.4bn in damages. Some 800 affected BitConnect
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Ava Labs has announced that it has expanded its partnership with Amazon Web Services. Based on the latter, Avalanche plans to launch a number of new features, including maximum node deployment via Marketplace. "It is very important that Avalanche developers are able to work in AWS via GovCloud when
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The cryptocurrency is rising amid widespread positive sentiment from lower inflation in the US. The December US price growth rate data will be released today at 4:30pm. Analysts expect inflation to be negative. This will be a big win for the Fed.
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ChainArgos revealed that the Binance-peg BUSD stabelcoin had insufficient collateral between 2020 and 2021. The crypto-exchange explained the situation. It said the discrepancies were due to "shortcomings" in the team. Binance also noted that many teams were involved in issuing and maintaining the peg, including Paxos Trust. "
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Last week, on January 5, the first 2023 Ethereum All Core Developers (ACD) conference was held. During that event, it was announced the launch of testnet Shanghai, the next major update to the network after its transition to PoS. The new date is the end of February. Deployment of the