The Royal Bahamas Police Force arrested FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried. The founder of the collapsed crypto exchange will appear in court on Tuesday in the Bahamas. “He was arrested in reference to various financial offenses against laws of the United States, which are also offenses against laws of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas,” a document said. This comes after the collapsed crypto exchange filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. last month, owing its 50 largest creditors almost $3.1 billion.
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has charged Bankman-Fried for defrauding investors, according to a release on Tuesday. Legal filings claim that he inappropriately used customer funds to bail out the supposedly separate trading arm Alameda Research and fund both Bankman-Fried’s personal lifestyle and political donations. “We allege that Sam Bankman-Fried built a house of cards on a foundation of deception while telling investors that it was one of the safest buildings in crypto,” SEC Chairman Gary Gensler said in a statement.
Grayscale’s Bitcoin Trust (GBTC) won’t be converted into a spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund anytime soon. Grayscale sued the SEC over its bitcoin ETF application rejection on June 29. But the SEC is sticking to its guns. In the regulator’s first response brief since Grayscale filed suit, the SEC reiterated that its reasons for denying Grayscale’s applications were consistent with its earlier decisions to deny everyotherspotbitcoin ETF application it had received. GBTC was trading at a record discount of 49.12% relative to the price of bitcoin on Tuesday. (Grayscale is a sister company of CoinDesk.)
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Market Insight: BTC Strategies for CPI
The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics is scheduled to release the all-important Consumer Price Index figures for November at 8:30 a.m. ET (13:30 UTC) on Tuesday.
If the inflation report comes hot, risky assets, including bitcoin, may face selling pressure.
On the contrary, bitcoin could rally if data shows inflation showing signs of responding to the Federal Reserve’s rate hike cycle.
In other words, the CPI release could spark bitcoin, and trading giant Cumberland recommends an options strategy to profit from the post-data price action.
“Sell BTC June calls and hedge with December options,” Cumberland said in the CPI preview published on dominant crypto options exchange Deribit’s market insights blog.
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Chart of the Day
Source: Glassnode
The chart shows the number of bitcoin held in miner wallets going back to January 2021.
The balance held by miners or those responsible for making coins has now dropped to 1.818 million BTC, the lowest since October 2021, extending the slide from the July high of 1.84 million.
Miners’ balance sheets have deteriorated this year as bitcoin prices have slumped, denting revenues.
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