THE HASH: Crypto Lender Nexo Under Investigation in Bulgaria; Sam Bankman-Fried Denies Stealing FTX Funds
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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the hash podcast. |
| 0:10.1 | Stay informed with the latest on Bitcoin, ETH, the Metaverse, Web3, and more, |
| 0:14.9 | with stories that matter to the crypto world, all on the hash for your ears. |
| 0:20.9 | You're listening to the Coin Desk podcast network. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey there. Welcome to The Hash here on CoinDest TV. I'm Zach Seward, joined today by Will |
| 0:30.1 | Foxley, Jensenassie, and Adam Levine. Good stuff, good squad. We're glad to be here. |
| 0:35.5 | All right. We've got plenty to get to today. Starting with another |
| 0:38.6 | crypto lender in some hot water. Will, take it away. That's right, Zach. And it's not because of |
| 0:45.0 | a lending scheme or anything of that sort at this moment. It's actually because of AML, KOC laws over in |
| 0:50.8 | Bulgaria. Questions around NXO finances compliance with with KOC laws. According to new reports, |
| 0:58.2 | especially on Facebook is what we're seeing actually. There's a Bulgarian government is looking into |
| 1:03.6 | the KOSC compliance of nexO finance, a pretty large lending provider out there saying that there |
| 1:08.6 | might even be some terrorist activity or terrorist linked organizations on top of NXO finance. This comes, of course, after a lot of these bigger |
| 1:16.2 | lenders, a collapse during the last year. We can actually throw up the graphic right here in a second. |
| 1:20.9 | We see that NXO has a pretty complex scheme in terms of how it gets a lot of its rewards and |
| 1:26.5 | yield for people who are using the application. |
| 1:29.6 | And that has led to a lot of people thinking, well, maybe they're the next crypto company to falter. |
| 1:34.9 | We see Celsius has collapsed. It's pretty complex. So a lot of people have been looking at them |
| 1:39.5 | saying, like, hey, maybe these are the next guys to falter. Maybe this is the next Celsius, |
| 1:44.0 | the next Voyager. |
| 1:45.1 | But we're seeing in this story that's a little bit different. |
| 1:46.9 | Actually, there's more than just risks on the lending side. |
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