Welcome to the Tech Mean Ride Home for Tuesday, September 27, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

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FTX US has won the auction for bankrupt crypto brokerage Voyager Digital's assets

with a bid valued at around $.4 billion dollars. It includes an additional

consideration worth around $111 million, quoting Bloomberg. Customers will be able to transfer

to the FTX U.S. platform after the conclusion of the bankruptcy

process, Voyager said, adding the purchase agreement will be presented for approval in court

on October 19. The purchase follows several earlier attempts

by FTX to bailout or acquire Voyager. The New York-based platform had about

three and a half million users at the end of March and 1.19 million funded accounts.

Voyager filed for bankruptcy protection in July after a failed attempt by Alameda Research,

a training house affiliated with FDX to bail it out with a revolving line of credit.

That same month, FTX and Alameda disclosed a joint bid for Voyager, but Voyager called it a

lowball offer.

In September, Alameda said it would return about $200 million worth of

Bitcoin and Ether it had borrowed from Voyager by the end of the month.

Bankman Freed has been aggressively buying up distressed crypto companies this year, scooping up millions of customers

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