James Cirrone

James Cirrone

James Cirrone is a breaking news reporter based in New York. Prior to joining Blockworks, James was a reporter and newsletter writer at Bloomberg News. He graduated from the University of Maryland with a degree in journalism. He also played trumpet in the university’s marching band. Contact James via email at james.cirrone@blockworks.co.

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Blockworks took a look at what really happened behind the scenes at FTX and Alameda in the days leading up to the demise of both firms

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From ETFs to ordinals to mining, Bitcoin has become a much more complex asset with highly specialized financial products surrounding it

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The Bitcoin white paper was released on Oct. 31, 2008, and the cryptocurrency’s first block was mined on Jan. 3, 2009

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Backpack Exchange will be publicly available sometime in early 2024

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New a16z crypto investing vehicles could be introduced in 2025

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Fireblocks also made a key pickup with a former NYDFS regulator

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$103M raised this week by blockchain builders, including $20 million for a Call of Duty style shooter

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Most crypto stocks, with the exception of MicroStrategy, cooled down a bit as trading continued into the afternoon

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AllianceBernstein is an asset manager with $669 billion in AUM as of September 2023

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Futures and options contracts for bitcoin and ethereum are soared in Q3 as institutions continue to grow more interested

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Mining stocks were particularly improved after a pretty brutal summer that chipped away at their share prices

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The US specifically drives the vast majority of crypto activity in North America, helped by large institutional traders

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Bitcoin miners serving AI-curious customers is becoming a trend, with Hive Blockchain and Hut 8 the first to capitalize during the brutal summer months

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A wide variety of firms had successful raises this week, including one developing a decentralized alternative to Google Docs

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Polkadot developer Parity is also weathering some shake ups in its 300+ roster

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Ripple lost a key executive, and reportedly launched a search for a replacement

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Also, a new Google-enabled crypto wallet could sell to the general public

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Sotheby’s held a 3AC bankruptcy auction back in June 2023 netting $11 million

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Ripple has gotten a lot of attention for its court sparring with the SEC as of late

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The top performers with respect to realized hash rate gains in Q3 were Bitdeer, CleanSpark and Marathon Digital

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A key bitcoin mining expert also called it quits at Galaxy Digital this week

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Former FTX CTO Gary Wang alleged that on days when a loss for FTX might have occurred, that loss was shifted over to Alameda

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Two former FTX and Alameda employees, Gary Wang and Adam Yedidia, as well as Paradigm co-founder Matt Huang, testified in court Thursday

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Former FTX employee Adam Yedidia described Sam Bankman-Fried’s state of mind in June 2022 when Alameda Research allegedly owed FTX customers $8 billion