BREAKDOWN: Bitz Who Now? Department of Justice Takes Down Russian Exchange Bitzlato
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 18 January 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
After much buildup this morning, the DoJ’s Bitzlato announcement was underwhelming to some.
On today’s episode, NLW catches up on the latest on crypto crime and fall out, including:
- Disgraced 3AC founders’ attempt to build a new exchange with bankrupt CoinFLEX called GTX.
- Sam Bankman-Fried’s latest blog post arguing about how FTX.US assets should be considered by the bankruptcy committee.
- The DoJ’s much anticipated announcement about an “international enforcement action” that turned out to be an exchange most people had ever heard of.
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| 1:11.2 | It is Wednesday, January 18th, and today we are doing an update on the crypto cleanup. |
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