FTX រាយការណ៍ថាកំពុងពិភាក្សាដើម្បីទិញ Bithumb របស់កូរ៉េខាងត្បូង

Sam Bankman-Fried's FTX is looking to buy South Korean crypto exchange Bithumb, នេះបើយោងតាមទីភ្នាក់ងារព័ត៌មាន Bloomberg.

Acquisition talks have been ongoing for several months, a person familiar with the matter told the news outlet. There’s no word on Bithumb’s potential valuation.

The crypto bear market has given companies with larger cash reserves the perfect opportunity to acquire struggling competitors. FTX recently reached a កិច្ចព្រមព្រៀង ដើម្បីទទួលបានអ្នកផ្តល់ប្រាក់កម្ចីដែលមានបញ្ហា ប្លុកហ្វាយហ្វាយ រហូតដល់ 240 លានដុល្លារ យល់ព្រមទិញ Bitvo និង Embed Financial នៅដើមខែមិថុនា។ 

Alameda Research, another company founded by Bankman-Fried, also ខ្ចី 500 លានដុល្លារ to bankrupt crypto lender អ្នកធ្វើដំណើរ. Bankman-Fried is also Voyager’s single largest individual shareholder, holding 11% of the company. 

These moves further strengthen the rumor that Bankman-Fried is actively using the crypto market crash to assert his dominance នៅក្នុងឧស្សាហកម្ម។

Chris McCann, a general partner at early FTX investor Race Capital, ប្រាប់ Bloomberg that Bankman-Fried is “not doing this out of the goodness of his own heart,” claiming that at this point “his ambitions knows no bounds.”

Founded in South Korea in 2014, Bithumb has grown to become one of South Korea’s “big four” cryptocurrency exchanges, alongside Upbit, Coinone and Korbit. Reports of Bithumb being up for sale have ចែកចាយ since 2020, with the firm រាយការណ៍ valued at 1.27 trillion won ($969 million) last year.

It currently handles about $560 million in daily trade volume, according to CoinGecko data.

Bithumb’s former chair Lee Jung-hoon was indicted in July last year after he allegedly swindled $100 million from the chair of BK Group, Kim Byung Gun. Bithumb was also among several South Korean crypto exchanges that were raided by local prosecutors last week, following investigations into ការដួលរលំរបស់ TerraUSD. 

An FTX spokesperson declined to comment. Bithumb did not respond to Blockworks’ request for comment by press time.

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