The 30-year-old former head of the failed cryptocurrency exchange is accused by prosecutors of allegedly carrying out “one of the biggest financial frauds in US history.’ Mr Bankman-Fried, who has denied the charges against him, arrived back in the US on Wednesday night and appeared in court in New YorkContinue Reading
Sam Bankman-Fried, former boss of failed cryptocurrency exchange FTX, has arrived by plane in New York from the Bahamas to face fraud charges. The 30-year-old was extradited on suspicion of committing “one of the biggest financial frauds in US history”, US authorities have said. Mr Bankman-Fried, who denies the allegations, mayContinue Reading
Bitcoin close to $70,000, “memecoins” worth billions of dollars, a blockbuster Wall Street listing and a sweeping Chinese crackdown: 2021 was the wildest yet for cryptocurrencies, even by the sector’s volatile standards. Digital assets started the year with a stampede of cash from investors large and small. And bitcoin andContinue Reading
Golden M Group has announced that Coin M will be the first of its kind in the Middle East A new gold-based, Sharia-compliant cryptocurrency is expected to enter the UAE market before the end of 2019. A new gold-based, Sharia-compliant cryptocurrency is expected to enter the UAE market before theContinue Reading
Image copyrightGETTY IMAGES As genome sequencing costs continue to fall and artificial intelligence gets to work on analysing all this new data, the era of personalised medicine draws closer. More than half of Icelanders have now had their precise genetic make-up sequenced and analysed. Tens of thousands of their genomesContinue Reading