The Federal Reserve said this week that it will raise interest rates by more than it has ever done since 1994. Money used to be easy to get, but that will soon change with cryptocurrencies in the future generation. This has already caused a lot of worry in the world’s financial markets and caused cryptocurrencies to break down.
Bankman-Fried says that the markets are “literally” full of fear. “People with a lot of money are always afraid.”
Bitcoin, the most well-known cryptocurrency, lost almost 20% of its value over the past week, and it lost even more over the weekend. At this point in the year, it’s worth less than half of what it was at the start of the year. In the same amount of time, other digital currencies, like Ether, have lost much more than 70% of their value.
People are most worried about how this will affect the many new investors who have built up large amounts of a cryptocurrency over the past few years. In 2021, the total value of all cryptocurrencies reached $3 trillion because the cryptocurrency industry did everything it could to attract new investors and raise brand awareness. This year, the cryptocurrency market hit its all-time high.
The Message of the Sponsors
FTX bought the naming rights to a venue in Miami and made a Super Bowl ad with the comedian Larry David. A lot of new people came because of the extra attention. A December poll found that 25 percent of investors already have Bitcoin and that more than half, 55 percent, just started investing in the last year.
Some people even put their money in places that lend out cryptocurrency. Only in the last week, a few lenders have stopped their customers from getting their money back. People are worried that this could spread to the whole financial system and make things worse.
It did this because another lender, Celsius Network, had already stopped transfers and withdrawals. The company’s CEO said that this was “a hard time.” Celsius said in a statement that the move was made “to stabilize liquidity and operations while we work to keep and protect assets.”
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A cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund called Three Arrows Capital is in the middle of yet another crisis right now. It put a lot of money into TerraUSD and Luna, two digital currencies that have recently failed as a way to trade. This week, it was said that the fund didn’t meet lender margin calls, which means it couldn’t pay its lenders the money it owed them.
A picture shows the FTX logo on the screen of a smartphone. FTX is a platform for trading cryptocurrencies. Another screen shows the FTX website in the background.
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The liquid was able to get a 120 million dollar loan from FTX. Soon after that, FTX said they wanted to buy Liquid, but they didn’t say how much they would pay.
“A few days later, we helped them out by giving them a big credit line, which let them pay for everything. In the meantime, we were able to go about our normal business.”
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Some of the biggest names in the cryptocurrency industry, like BlockFi, Crypto.com, and Gemini, have fired workers in the past few days. Also, in a memo to employees, the CEO of Coinbase, one of FTX’s biggest competitors, said that the company will lay off almost a fifth of its workers.
Brian Armstrong wrote in his journal, “We grew too fast.” “To deal with the problems that come with down markets, you need to think in a different way.”
18% of the people who worked for Coinbase have lost their jobs. The CEO talks about an upcoming “crypto winter.”
