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- Fortress Investment Group and 507 Capital, which have spent years hoovering up unpaid Mt. Gox claims, stand to make huge profits.
- So too do creditors of the crypto exchanges Bitcoinica and Bitcoin Builder, which used Mt. Gox as a custodian, thanks to massive growth in the price of bitcoin since the infamous hack.
| Crypto exchange FTX is in the process of closing a funding round said to value the company at around $20 billion, three sources familiar with the situation told The Block.
It's not clear who is leading the round at this stage. A source familiar with the raise, which could be announced in the next month, said it could bring in anywhere from $400 million to $1 billion.
The source added that the fresh capital injection would go towards improving its relationships with large financial services firms and broaden its reach beyond crypto-native market participants.
Last year, FTX made $85 million in fee revenue in 2020, CEO Sam Bankman-Fried told The Block, adding that for 2021, the exchange expects to make $400 million. The projections are made based on FTX's December fee revenue of $200 million, said Bankman-Fried.
FTX's funding round, once completed, will join a growing list of big-ticket capital raises for 2021. These include Paxos's $300 million Series D funding round in April and BlockFi's $350 million round in March. Both raises gave these firms valuations above $1 billion. This year also saw crypto exchange Coinbase go public via a direct listing on Nasdaq with a first-day valuation above $80 billion. | | |  | Crypto lender Celsius increases Bitcoin mining investment to $500 million | Celsius Network has doubled down on its Bitcoin mining investment, adding a further $300 million. In an interview with The Block on Monday, Celsius CEO Alex Mashinsky said that the investment was made to expand its proprietary Bitcoin mining hash rate and power capacity in North America. | Biden re-nominates Powell as Fed chair, with Brainard as vice chair | Powell, a Republican who began his current term under President Trump, has enjoyed a reputation as a moderate in volatile times. Thanks to that reputation, he has been the presumptive candidate for Biden's nomination for months. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen, herself a former Fed chair, praised "[t]he steady leadership of Chair Powell and the Federal Reserve" in a statement alongside the nomination. | Citigroup appoints new head of digital assets for institutional clients as it eyes up to 100 new hires | American banking giant Citigroup has promoted Puneet Singhvi from head of blockchain and digital assets in the global markets division to lead its institutional clients group (ICG) in the space. Starting his role on December 1, Singhvi will report to Emily Turner, the head of business development for ICG, and will "outline a distinct strategy on where and how ICG should pursue digital asset opportunities" according to a memo shared with The Block. | | | THIS NEWSLETTER IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY |  | The traditional technology you are using is not built for crypto assets.
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