{"id":9419,"date":"2023-03-26T14:37:40","date_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/26\/caught-in-the-ftx-storm-how-a-crypto-high-flyer-fell-to-earth\/"},"modified":"2023-03-26T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T12:37:40","slug":"caught-in-the-ftx-storm-how-a-crypto-high-flyer-fell-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/26\/caught-in-the-ftx-storm-how-a-crypto-high-flyer-fell-to-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Caught in the FTX storm: how a crypto high-flyer fell to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercard has cuts its ties with the Maps payments app run by British-educated cryptocurrency tycoon Alex Grebnev, who was backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, amid a row over Russian users<\/p>\n<p>As western brands began the stampede out of Russia a year ago, its citizens found themselves unable to pay for the international goods and services with which they had become so familiar.<\/p>\n<p>Among the first firms to sever ties were the credit card companies Visa and Mastercard, leaving Russians struggling to spend their cash on services from Netflix to Amazon.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/mar\/26\/caught-in-the-ftx-storm-how-a-crypto-high-flyer-fell-to-earth\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/aa8ec08160a43f2e89ece3a15f8ee9abb12a9b8b\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=2577d6811ffe0757f03a93d07fe9cf91\" title=\"Caught in the FTX storm: how a crypto high-flyer fell to Earth\" \/>Mastercard has cuts its ties with the Maps payments app run by British-educated cryptocurrency tycoon Alex Grebnev, who was backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, amid a row over Russian users<br \/>\nAs western brands began the stampede out of Russia a year ago, its citizens found themselves unable to pay for the international goods and services with which they had become so familiar.<br \/>\nAmong the first firms to sever ties were the credit card companies Visa and Mastercard, leaving Russians struggling to spend their cash on services from Netflix to Amazon. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mastercard has cuts its ties with the Maps payments app run by British-educated cryptocurrency tycoon Alex Grebnev, who was backed by Sam Bankman-Fried, amid a row over Russian users As western brands began the stampede out of Russia a year ago, its citizens found themselves unable to pay for the international goods and services with &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/26\/caught-in-the-ftx-storm-how-a-crypto-high-flyer-fell-to-earth\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caught in the FTX storm: how a crypto high-flyer fell to Earth<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9420,"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\/9419"}],"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=9419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}