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🗓️ 12 January 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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The most valuable crypto stories for Thursday, January 12, 2023.
"The Hash" group discusses the latest headlines moving the crypto markets, including crypto lender Nexo being investigated by authorities in Bulgaria on suspicion of money laundering, tax offenses, banking without a license, and computer fraud. Plus, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried denies stealing funds and claims FTX and sister company Alameda Research collapsed because of the crypto market meltdown and inadequate hedging on Alameda’s part, in a new post on Substack.
See also:
Crypto Lender Nexo Targeted in Bulgaria Probe Into Alleged Money Laundering, Tax Violations
Sam Bankman-Fried Denies Stealing FTX Funds in New Online Post
FTX Loan Wiped Out $800M in BlockFi Executives’ Equity, Court Filing Reveals
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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. |
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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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