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  Crypto Tips Dominate Whistleblowing Activity This Year, Says CFTC Commissioner

  The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) has paid out a total of $16 million to individuals who offered information leading to successful enforcement actions this year alone, with most of the tips provided by whistleblowers centered around cryptocurrencies. CFTC Commissioner Christy Goldsmith Romero revealed the numbers in an October 31 statement, saying that whistleblowers—who are eligible to receive up to 30% of the monetary sanctions collected—play “a vital role” in supporting the regu...

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  Chainlink Leads Crypto Market Rally, Soaring 8% Overnight

  LINK, the native token of the Chainlink decentralized oracle network platform, is leading the market this morning in a bullish start to the week for cryptocurrencies. The token spiked to $10.93 earlier today—a level not seen in May 2022 just before the collapse of the Terra ecosystem dragged the markets into a prolonged crypto winter—before backtracking to $10.01 by press time. At the time of this writing, LINK is up 8% over the past 24 hours, and almost 38% over the last week, according to data...

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  5 Lessons From the Stunning Implosion of SBF and FTX

  It turns out Sam Bankman-Fried wasn't "the next Warren Buffett." Just six months ago I was in The Bahamas at the FTX/SALT conference, where Sam was treated like Taylor Swift. He chatted onstage with Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, and Gisele Bundchen. Posed for selfies with admirers. Interviewed Tom Brady about the art of winning—and found time to make some TikTok videos with him. Brady has since deleted those videos amid Sam's total public disgrace. But FTX's damage and impact on the entire crypto i...

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   This Week on Crypto Twitter

  This Week on Crypto Twitter: OpenSea's Ape Nightmare, Musk Pushes Dogecoin on McDonald's

  Illustration by Mitchell Preffer for Decrypt We’ve reached the end of the first month of January, and the crypto markets have been topsy-turvy in the new year, to say the least.   The first week of 2022 was really quite bad. Week two showed some promise. In the third week, Bitcoin and Ethereum crashed to their lowest prices since last summer. The past week has looked like the start of a full recovery, but you can never be sure with crypto.  Thank goodness then for Crypto Twitter, an endless sour...