Just six months ago, CEOs, celebs and world leaders like Bill Clinton and Tony Blair flocked to him, gathering at a Davos-like conference he hosted in the Bahamas where he Read more
Tag: Virtual Currencies/Cryptocurrencies
These money and investing tips can help you see this bear market more clearly
Don’t miss these top money and investing features: Sign up here to get MarketWatch’s best mutual funds and ETF stories emailed to you weekly! INVESTING NEWS & TRENDS Bitcoin owners are Read more
Opinion: Pain and losses in crypto will clear out the losers and strengthen the case for bitcoin
Cryptocurrency is a mess right now. And rightly so. I wrote about buying bitcoin for MarketWatch in 2013 when it was trading for $100, but I’ve spent the past year or Read more
FTX files for bankruptcy. Here’s everything you should know
FTX, once the world’s third-largest crypto exchange, filed for voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy in a Delaware court on Friday. Once one of the most prominent players in the industry, FTX’s Read more
FTX founder’s charitable fund halts donations amid ‘questions about legitimacy’
Sam Bankman-Fried once promised to give away most of his fortune to help humanity, but now some of the people who benefited from that generous pledge are wondering if they Read more
‘I have never before seen a CEO take responsibility as he does’: investor Bill Ackman comments on Sam Bankman-Fried in now-deleted Tweet
Bill Ackman, famous hedge fund billionaire investor, defended former chief executive of crypto exchange FTX Sam Bankman Fried’s leadership in a now deleted Tweet on Thursday. “You have to give Read more
‘A lot of people have compared this to Lehman. I would compare it to Enron’: Larry Summers comments on FTX bankruptcy
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is likening the collapse of troubled cryptocurrency exchange FTX to the meltdown that engulfed Houston-based energy company Enron two decades ago. In an interview Read more
You need to understand the FTX debacle even if you have no investments in crypto
The sudden collapse of FTX, the world’s third-largest cryptocurrency exchange, underlines how important it is for any investor to learn about the risks taken when money is parked with a Read more
FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried: ‘I was shocked to see things unravel the way they did’
Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder at crypto exchange FTX, tweeted Friday that he was “shocked to see things unravel the way they did,” after he quit as chief executive and the company Read more
‘I was shocked to see things unravel the way they did’: FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder at crypto exchange FTX, tweeted Friday that he was “shocked to see things unravel the way they did,” after he quit as chief executive and the company Read more