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The strategy was something like the opposite of Binance’s. When FTX launched, in May 2019, Binance was merely one of a handful of crypto exchanges with roughly the same market share, of roughly 10 percent. One of those, BitMEX, soon ran afoul of the US Department of Justice, for “willfully failing to establish, implement and maintain an anti-money
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out on June 5 when Senator Chuck Schumer of New York held a heavily covered news conference, at which he decried the brazen business of Silk Road and called for prosecutors to shut it down. He described Bitcoin as an “online form of money laundering used to disguise the source of money, and to disguise who’s both selling and buying the drug.”