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Gemini Blasts DCG and Genesis Bankruptcy Plan, Calling It ‘Misleading at Best’

Under the plan, Gemini creditors would receive a “fraction” of the money they are owed, Gemini’s lawyers said.

Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss at TechCrunch Disrupt NY 2015 (TechCrunch/Wikimedia)

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Celsius, Core Scientific Resolve Acrimonious Mining Dispute With $45M Deal

Celsius had previously claimed hundreds of millions in damages in a squabble over unpaid dues that led to its mining rigs being powered down.

Bitmain Antminer S19 Hydro mining rigs, the company's latest technology, installed at a Merkle Standard facility in Washington state. (Eliza Gkritsi/CoinDesk)

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Judge Allows Bankrupt FTX to Sell Its Crypto Holdings, Including BTC and SOL

Lawyers of FTX had submitted a filing with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware, asking for permission to sell, stake and hedge its crypto holdings in order to pay back creditors.

John J Ray III took over as FTX CEO in November (House Committee on Financial Services)

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Surprisingly Few U.S. Customers Want Their Bittrex Money Back

The U.S. Secret Service kept millions on the exchange, company lawyers told a bankruptcy court – but other creditors have been strangely reluctant to ask for their funds back

Bittrex filed for bankruptcy in the U.S. in May 2023 (Flickr/Alpha Photo)

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Beleaguered Gemini Earn Customers Will Be Made ‘Nearly Whole,’ DCG and Genesis Say About Remuneration Plan

A filing on Wednesday states that if the assorted creditor groups vote through the proposed deal, then “Gemini Earn users are estimated to recover approximately 95-110% of their claims.”

Digital Currency Group's Barry Silbert, right (Getty Images)

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FTX Tweaks Crypto Sale Proposal to Placate U.S. Government

The bankrupt crypto exchange wants to sell off its billions of dollars in crypto before returning funds to creditors – but doesn’t want markets forewarned

John J Ray III took over as FTX CEO in November (House Committee on Financial Services)

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FTX Holds $1.16B in SOL, $200M in Bahamas Real Estate, Court Filing Says

The company says it paid billions to executives including founder Sam Bankman-Fried before filing for bankruptcy last year.

Nassau, the Bahamas, where FTX owns hundreds of millions of dollars of real estate (Flickr)

Finance

Steve Kokinos, Creditors Named to Run Celsius 2.0

Executives from WeWork, Lehman Brothers and miner US Bitcoin will serve on the board of the crypto lender’s successor, as will two members of Celsius’ own creditor committee

Celsius is being sold to crypto consortium Fahrenheit (Pixabay)

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Celsius Network Files 'Adversary Complaint' Against EquitiesFirst to Recover Assets

The private lender owed Celsius $439 million of assets as of July 2022.

(Mustang Joe/Flickr)