The scandalous collapse of crypto exchange FTX shook the crypto world last year, affecting many investors and businesses.

Some celebrities are among the victims, such as star quarterback Tom Brady, who owns more than a million shares in FTX Trading, or Brady's former wife, model Gisele Bundchen, who owns more than 680,000 of those shares.

This is reported by the Bloomberg news agency, citing court documents.

FTX Trading was valued at around $32 billion a year ago and is practically worthless today.

Martin Hock

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Crypto assets are in vogue again this year.

The MVIS CryptoCompare Digital Assets 10 index has risen by 10 percent so far.

But the shocks can still be felt in the crypto industry.

For example, the accounts of customers who have money in the "Earn" savings program of the Gemini company, launched by the Facebook co-founders, the Winklevoss twins, have been frozen for two months.

Around 900 million dollars in customer funds are stuck.

Gemini had passed on the funds, for which there was a lavish interest rate of up to 8 percent, to the crypto lender Genesis Global in order to manage them.

When he then froze the accounts, Gemini was forced to do the same.

mud fights

Since then, the Winklevoss brothers have been in a mud fight with Genesis owner Barry Silbert.

On Tuesday, they called for his dismissal, accusing him of defrauding Gemini Earn customers.

Silbert or his company Digital Currency Group called the Winklevoss brothers' request another desperate and unconstructive PR measure intended to distract from their own fault.

You at the Winklevoss there is criticism.

About two years ago, Gemini employees said they had been pushing to find other partners besides Genesis, but they probably couldn't be found - especially since the bankruptcies of the distributors Celsius and Voyager and the imbalance of BlockFi, in which the Winklevoss had invested, the situation had deteriorated dramatically.

As a result, the brothers are said to have decided to hire Earn.

But the FTX bankruptcy then brought the whole program into the current imbalance, especially since Genesis had already gotten itself into trouble with risky loans to the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows, which has also since gone bankrupt.

Earn is now officially discontinued after Gemini canceled agreements with Genesis and was supposed to return all assets.

But while the customers are waiting for their money, the Winklevoss are not in trouble.

Her personal fortune is estimated by Bloomberg at $6 billion.

And despite the problems with Earn, Gemini is not facing bankruptcy, despite losing customers and making layoffs in June.

Miners with debt problems

Layoffs are currently common in the once booming industry.

On Tuesday, the largest American crypto exchange Coinbase announced further extensive layoffs, on Wednesday it was announced that Coinbase will largely withdraw from Japan – despite the forthcoming relaxation of regulations there.

Bitcoin mining does not seem to be a cash cow either.

The largest miner, Core Scientific, became the first major to file for bankruptcy in December, citing falling prices and higher energy costs as the reason.

Many others seek debt relief.

Investments in mining infrastructure fell 77 percent in the third quarter of last year.

Because some miners are holding reserves in Bitcoin, the urge to deleverage is putting pressure on prices.

Only the Binance exchange, whose boss Changpeng Zhao played a somewhat opaque role in the FTX bankruptcy, is optimistic – despite recent reports of high outflows of money.

It is said that they want to secure a license in Japan and are now probably in possession of the assets of the insolvent lender Voyager, which were originally supposed to go to FTX.

Voyager still has around 1.2 million customers and around $1 billion in assets, which Binance is now expected to pay $20 million for.

Meanwhile, another member of former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried's inner circle, former FTX chief engineer Nishad Singh, appears to be breaking away from him.

He is said to have met with the prosecutor in New York.

While Bankman-Fried has pleaded not guilty, co-founder Gary Wang and former CEO of FTX hedge fund Alameda Caroline Ellison have pleaded guilty to fraud.

Singh could shed light on FTX's fundraising campaigns for the Democratic Party, which new management now wants back, they say.