{"id":8079,"date":"2022-11-28T17:40:54","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/crypto-lender-blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-after-ftx-collapse\/"},"modified":"2022-11-28T17:40:54","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T16:40:54","slug":"crypto-lender-blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-after-ftx-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/crypto-lender-blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-after-ftx-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Crypto lender BlockFi files for bankruptcy after FTX collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BlockFi announces Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in US as fall of FTX continues to reverberate across industry<\/p>\n<p>The crypto lender BlockFi has become the sector\u2019s latest big operator to declare bankruptcy, as the fallout of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/18\/how-did-crypto-firm-ftx-collapse\">collapse of offshore cryptocurrency exchange FTX<\/a> continues to spread.<\/p>\n<p>BlockFi, which operates in a similar fashion to a conventional bank, paying interest on savings and using customer deposits to fund lending, says it has $256.9m cash in hand. According to court documents, its creditors include FTX itself, which it owes $275m, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission<em><strong> (<\/strong><\/em>SEC), which it owes $30m.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/nov\/28\/crypto-lender-blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-after-ftx-collapse\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1f9b4bd3107e48942eb438ad7feeb9fd53a4b826\/815_271_4989_2995\/master\/4989.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=47bb27da2077fbf4c2fc6393d61dc5d9\" title=\"Crypto lender BlockFi files for bankruptcy after FTX collapse\" \/>BlockFi announces Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in US as fall of FTX continues to reverberate across industry<br \/>\nThe crypto lender BlockFi has become the sector\u2019s latest big operator to declare bankruptcy, as the fallout of the collapse of offshore cryptocurrency exchange FTX continues to spread.<br \/>\nBlockFi, which operates in a similar fashion to a conventional bank, paying interest on savings and using customer deposits to fund lending, says it has $256.9m cash in hand. According to court documents, its creditors include FTX itself, which it owes $275m, and the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), which it owes $30m. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BlockFi announces Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in US as fall of FTX continues to reverberate across industry The crypto lender BlockFi has become the sector\u2019s latest big operator to declare bankruptcy, as the fallout of the collapse of offshore cryptocurrency exchange FTX continues to spread. BlockFi, which operates in a similar fashion to a conventional &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/28\/crypto-lender-blockfi-files-for-bankruptcy-after-ftx-collapse\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Crypto lender BlockFi files for bankruptcy after FTX collapse<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":8080,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8079\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}