Oliver Knight

Oliver Knight is the co-leader of CoinDesk data tokens and data team. Before joining CoinDesk in 2022 Oliver spent three years as the chief reporter at Coin Rivet. He first started investing in bitcoin in 2013 and spent a period of his career working at a market making firm in the UK. He does not currently have any crypto holdings.

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Finance

Bitcoin Miner Argo's $27M Fundraise Falls Through; Shares Plunge

The bitcoin mining industry is battling soaring energy prices coupled with the stagnated value of cryptocurrencies.

Argo Blockchain's Helios facility in Dickens County, Texas. (Argo Blockchain)

Finance

After Huobi Delisting Stablecoin HUSD Falls 72% From Dollar Peg

Huobi has said it will assist customers in exchanging HUSD for USDT.

Bitcoin prices fell further on Thursday (Chris Liverani/Unsplash)

Finance

Hodlnaut Judicial Managers Say Lender Lost $189.7M in Terra Collapse

The company's records were not properly maintained and some company executives are not cooperating, the managers said in a report.

Singapore's Skyline (Swapnil Bapat/Unsplash)

Finance

WisdomTree's Q3 Crypto Assets Under Management Falls 36%

The decline was 33% from the second quarter, which coincides with a downturn across the digital-asset market.

Asset manager WisdomTree (WETF) managed crypto assets worth $265 million in Q2, a decrease of nearly 12% compared to the equivalent figure of $300 million a year ago (Tumisu/Pixabay)

Finance

Crypto Exchange FTX Is Working on Creating a Stablecoin: Report

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried also ruled out a potential acquisition of popular trading app Robinhood.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

A16z's Largest Crypto Fund Loses 40% in First Half of 2022: Report

Andreessen Horowitz has slowed down its crypto investments, making just nine in the third quarter, compared with 26 in the fourth quarter of last year.

A16z's flagship crypto fund loses 40% in the first half of 2022. (Haotian Zheng/Unsplash)

Finance

South Korean Prosecutors Seeking 8-Year Sentence for Ex-Bithumb Chairman

Lee Jung-hoon, who led the company that operated the exchange, is charged with committing $70 million in fraud.

Bithumb is one of South Korea's largest crypto exchanges (Shutterstock)

Finance

Crypto Exchange FTX to Compensate API Phishing Victims With as Much as $6M

Sam Bankman-Fried has said this is the last time FTX will compensate users for a phishing attack.

FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)

Finance

Turkish Authorities Seize Crypto Worth $40M in Illegal Gambling Sting

Investigators are probing a $135 million transaction that links back to organized crime groups in the country's capital city Ankara.

Ankara, Turkey (Ekrem Osmanoglu/Unsplash)

Finance

Binance Wins Registration as Crypto Asset Service Provider in Cyprus

The crypto exchange can now offer more types of digital-asset services.

Binance has registered an entity with regulators in Cyprus. (Sasha Cures/Unsplash)