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Digital Currency Group Reports $1.1B Loss In 2022
Monday, February 27, 2023 - 7:01pm | 323Connecticut-based cryptocurrency giant Digital Currency Group (DCG) reported on Monday a loss of $1.1 billion in 2022 due to a decline in cryptocurrency prices and the restructuring of Genesis, its lending platform. What Happened: According to the company's fourth-quarter investor...
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Bitcoin ATM Operator Coin Cloud Seeks Bankruptcy Protection, Owes Millions To Genesis Global
Thursday, February 9, 2023 - 3:00pm | 401Coin Cloud, a Las Vegas-based company that operated more than 4,000 Bitcoin ATMs in the U.S. and Brazil, declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The court filing estimated the company's liabilities to be between $100 million and $500 million, with Genesis Global Trading, a subsidiary of...
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CoinDesk Parent DCG Sells Prized Crypto Funds At Steep Discount To Raise Capital
Tuesday, February 7, 2023 - 10:37am | 415Crypto company Digital Currency Group (DCG) is selling stakes in some of its investment funds at a steep discount to raise capital, as it tries to pay back creditors of its bankrupt lending unit Genesis, Financial Times reported, citing U.S. securities filings. The sale of the shares in several of...
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Why Barry Silbert's Digital Currency Group Is Suspending Dividends
Wednesday, January 18, 2023 - 2:45am | 360Digital Currency Group (DCG) has announced that it is suspending all dividend payments to its shareholders until further notice. What Happened: According to the letter to shareholders seen by Bloomberg, the move comes as a result of contagion in the crypto space brought on by the bankruptcy...
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Digital Currency Group Details Millions In Outstanding Debts To Genesis, Investment In Exchanges Like FTX
Wednesday, January 11, 2023 - 11:11am | 696Institutional investor Digital Currency Group has revealed it owes Genesis, a digital currency lending firm, $447.5 million and an additional $78 million in Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC). These debts are set to mature in May of this year and come in addition to an outstanding promissory note. DCG...
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Barry Silbert Says DCG Did Not Borrow $1.6B From Winklevoss' Gemini: 'Current On All Loans Outstanding'
Monday, January 2, 2023 - 11:17pm | 749Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert has refuted Gemini co-founder Cameron Winklevoss's allegations that his venture capital company owes hundreds of millions to the cryptocurrency platform. What Happened: Winklevoss said on Monday that DCG parent...
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Ethereum Classic Rallies 5% After Barry Silbert's DCG Sees Dramatic Decline
Thursday, December 22, 2022 - 2:03am | 649Ethereum Classic (CRYPTO: ETC), is up 5% topping intraday gains, outpacing the movement seen on the second-largest cryptocurrency Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH). What Happened: At the time of writing, ETC was trading at $16.46. Santiment, a blockchain analysis firm, recently posted a tweet...
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Genesis Lends $2.36 Billion To 3AC, Which Filed Chapter 15 Bankruptcy: What's Next?
Monday, July 18, 2022 - 6:03pm | 476Three Arrows Capital (3AC), a cryptocurrency hedge firm that just filed for Chapter 15 bankruptcy in New York, received a $2.36 billion loan from Genesis. It required a margin of more than 80% on its loans to 3AC, and when 3AC failed to meet those criteria, it liquidated collateral. After that...
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Bitcoin To Eat Ethereum? This $165M Fund Bets It Will
Friday, March 11, 2022 - 12:39pm | 318Major cryptocurrency exchange Okcoin partnered with Stacks Accelerator and Stacks Foundation to launch Bitcoin Odyssey, a project aiming to bring the decentralized application (DApp) ecosystem that Ethereum (CRYPTO: ETH) is known for to the Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) blockchain. What...
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Digital Currency Group Sells $700M Shares To Alphabet, SoftBank At $10B Valuation
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 11:14am | 429The Digital Currency Group (DCG) has completed a $700 million investment round from high-profile investors such as SoftBank Group Corp - ADR (OTC: SFTBY) and Alphabet Inc (NASDAQ: GOOG) (NASDAQ: GOOGL). What Happened: According to a report from The Wall Street Journal, DCG’s $700 million...
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Where Bitcoin Headed Next Depends On Stock Market? So Says Crypto Big Shot Barry Silbert
Monday, May 24, 2021 - 4:37am | 563Digital Currency Group CEO Barry Silbert said Sunday on social media that the direction of the cryptocurrency market will be determined by the stock market in the near future. What Happened: “Where the crypto market goes from here is completely dependent on the stock market over the next...
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Grayscale Parent Expands Potential Purchase Of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Shares By $500M
Monday, May 3, 2021 - 5:02pm | 215Digital Currency Group — the parent company of the world's top crypto asset manager Grayscale Investments — announced Wednesday it is considering a purchase of more shares of the world's biggest Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) fund Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (OTC: GBTC). What...
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Digital Currency Group To Buy $250 Million Of Grayscale Bitcoin Trust Shares
Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 6:14pm | 451Digital Currency Group Inc (DCG), the parent company of Grayscale Investments, plans to purchase $250 million worth of shares in Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (OTCQX: GBTC). What Happened: In a press release shared by the company earlier today, DCG disclosed that it would make...
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Reveal Finds A Way To Make Your Social Media Habit Worthwhile
Monday, June 22, 2015 - 8:43am | 345Reveal is hoping to change the direction of social media by shifting the focus away from advertising and on to quality content creation. The startup has created a space where users can contribute to a social network and get paid for it. The company is using its own cryptocurrency to reward...