Morgan Stanley warned in a study published on Monday that Silvergate Capital (SI) faces a variety of risks due to the turmoil in the cryptocurrency industry after the bankruptcy of the crypto exchange FTX. Wall Street bank team led by analyst Manan Gosalia slashed Silvergate shares ratings to underweight from
The memo, headlined “The financial-market surprises of 2023,” was released by Standard Chartered Bank on Sunday. Eric Robertsen, Standard Chartered’s global director of research, said that some of the possibilities outlined in the report are “under-priced by the markets.” The price of bitcoin may fall below $5,000 in the next
Jim Cramer, head of CNBC’s Mad Money, cautioned investors that they still had time to liquidate their cryptocurrency holdings. Cramer warned investors to liquidate their cryptocurrency holdings before it’s too late since he anticipates a market collapse in 2023. He continued by saying that it’s never too late to sell
In a hearing on Thursday titled “Why Congress Needs to Act: Lessons Learned from the FTX Collapse,” U.S. Senator John Boozman (R-AR), the ranking member of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry, discussed bitcoin and cryptocurrency regulation. Moreover, the committee’s mandate includes monitoring the American commodities markets.
The Nobel prize laureate Paul Krugman is warning that blockchain-based projects, such as Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency networks, will soon enter an unending cryptocurrency winter. A column written by an economist and published in the New York Times on December 1st explains the technology’s true value and the warning signals
Crypto exchange Bybit has announced yet another round of widespread layoffs for the year 2022. Bybit co-founder and CEO Ben Zhou recently unveiled a restructuring plan that includes a significant decrease in staff in the face of a protracted bear market. All staff will be impacted by the “planned downsizing”.
Similar to Binance, INX has submitted a non-binding letter of intent to purchase troubled assets from defunct asset management Voyager Digital. INX CEO Shy Datika stated in a press release: “We believe that INX can offer the right combination of credibility, technology, and unique regulatory positioning to protect Voyager customers
Billionaire Mike Novogratz, one of the cryptocurrency advocates, is now included in the catastrophic collapse scenario. Novogratz pulled off his previous prediction that Bitcoin (BTC) will reach $500,000 in five years, blaming the Federal Reserve interest rate hike. The Galaxy Digitals CEO stated that Bitcoin will reach the $500K level,
Pavel Durov, the founder of the messaging app Telegram, revealed on November 30 through his Telegram channel that they are all set to build a collection of crypto tools. It includes non-custodial wallets and decentralized exchanges (DEX). Telegram's next step is to build a set of decentralized tools, including non-custodial
JPMorgan predicted that centralized exchanges would continue to dominate the bulk of global digital-asset trading volumes despite predictions from certain crypto analysts that a move toward decentralized platforms would follow after FTX’s demise. The bank’s strategists, led by Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, warned clients on Thursday that the DEXs’ slower transaction speeds,
