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Nearly all of FTX’s former customers will get back almost 100% of the money they lost at the time of the cryptocurrency exchange’s collapse — if not more.

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Binance founder and former CEO Changpeng “CZ” Zhao was sentenced to four months in federal prison on Tuesday, first reported by the Associated Press.

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Well, Sam Bankman-Fried is headed up the river. Once a powerful crypto power broker, SBF’s glittering Web3 kingdom came crashing down on his head after a multi-billion dollar scandal. It’s a good reminder that not only does Silicon Valley produce a lot of software products, but it also produces a whole lot of…

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Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday by Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan. A jury found Bankman-Fried guilty of one of the largest white-collar crimes in history roughly five months ago. The 32-year-old could be in jail until he’s 57.

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Coinbase users’ accounts showed a “zero balance” on Wednesday afternoon. Coinbase confirmed the problem on its status page at 12:40 p.m. ET but claims customer cryptocurrency funds are safe.

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It’s official: There will be no further attempts to salvage FTX. The once popular but now defunct crypto exchange that “misplaced” billions of dollars in user assets before collapsing in a heap of scandal is officially headed to the corporate graveyard.

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Well, that’s one way to see your investment pay off. In 2014, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, Mt. Gox, suffered a notorious hack that stole 850,000 Bitcoins from the platform. Victims are finally starting to get their money back on Tuesday, nearly 10 years later. However, some are reporting Mt. Gox…

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Binance founder Changpeng Zhao (CZ) will step down from his CEO duties and plead guilty to criminal charges, paying a $50 million fine, according to court documents made public Tuesday. The Department of Justice is expected to announce a $4 billion settlement with Binance this afternoon, putting an end to an…

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