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Here’s How Some FTX Account Holders Can Get Their Money Back – But Time Is Running Out

Entrepreneur Joshua Browder, CEO of robo-lawyer DoNotPay, said certain customers have a chance if they file a Schedule E tax form.

By Fran Velasquez

Nov 18, 2022 at 4:55 p.m. UTC

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CDCROP: Janitors sweep the trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange - NYSE - following the closing bell. October 10th 2008 was a historic low for the Dow Jones index. (Orjan F. Ellingvag/Corbis via Getty Images)

Custodians Could Sweep Up Following FTX Collapse: Strategist

Opimas CEO Octavio Marenzi discusses why some corporate giants could stand to benefit from FTX fallout and why institutional investors may be hesitant to leave their funds in the hands of overleveraged hedge funds.

By Fran Velasquez

Nov 17, 2022 at 8:45 p.m. UTC

Nov 17, 2022

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FTX Employees Were Encouraged to Keep Life Savings in the Now-Bankrupt Exchange, Sources Say

Sources told CoinDesk that FTX was used as a bank by many of its employees. Now, their money is probably gone.

By Cheyenne Ligon

Nov 16, 2022 at 10:45 p.m. UTC

Nov 16, 2022

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CDCROP: Lex Sokolin Global Director Fintech Strategy, Partner Autonomous Research panel speaker at Invest 2018 (CoinDesk)

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ConsenSys Economist Still Has Hope for Crypto After FTX's Fall

Lex Sokolin said the sector can thrive if people develop useful applications based on blockchain technology.

By Fran Velasquez

Nov 15, 2022 at 6:48 p.m. UTC

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CDCROP: Crypto Exchange FTX Grapples With 'Liquidity Crunch' As Binance Deal Fades (Leon Neal/Getty Images)

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FTX Hack or Inside Job? Blockchain Experts Examine Clues and a ‘Stupid Mistake’

Insolvent crypto exchange FTX suffered a $400 million exploit late Friday after filing for bankruptcy protection.

By Krisztian Sandor

Nov 14, 2022 at 8:30 p.m. UTC

Nov 14, 2022

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CDCROP: FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried testifies before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington, DC, December 2021

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FTX’s Failure Is Sparking a Massive Regulatory Response

Lawmakers, regulators and criminal investigators are looking into FTX’s collapse, and Sam Bankman-Fried’s tweets aren’t helping.

By Nikhilesh De

Nov 14, 2022 at 7:56 p.m. UTC

Nov 14, 2022

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CDCROP: Kevin O'Leary (Michael Kovac/Getty Images)

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Kevin O’Leary Says Comments From Gensler Killed His Attempts to Help Save FTX

The "Shark Tank" star said he was receiving requests from funds about the crypto exchange, but remarks from the SEC's chairman threw a wrench in the plans.

By Fran Velasquez

Nov 14, 2022 at 6:26 p.m. UTC

Nov 14, 2022

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CDCROP: Annotated chart of the 162-asset CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) over the course of the FTX and Alameda saga. (CoinDesk Indices and Research/Sage D. Young)

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The Epic Collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX Exchange: A Crypto Markets Timeline

Tracing the CoinDesk Market Index (CMI) through key news developments in the swift unraveling of billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried's crypto empire shows just how quickly the speculation kept shifting.

By Sage D. Young Bradley Keoun

Nov 12, 2022 at 4:01 p.m. UTC

Nov 12, 2022

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CDCROP: Sam Bankman-Fried The Most Generous Billionaire (Nas Daily/YouTube)

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FTX's 'Effective Altruism' Future Fund Team Resigns

In an open letter, the team said it was unable to perform their work or process grants and have "fundamental questions" about the legitimacy and integrity of business operations.

By Sam Reynolds

Nov 11, 2022 at 3:45 a.m. UTC

Nov 11, 2022

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