FinTelegram has been warning about the Blockchain.com crypto exchange for some time. The company delays payouts and seems to be under financial stress. It was already known that Blockchain.com lost a lot of money in the collapse of the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (3AC). CoinDesk reports today on the true extent that is frightening. Blockchain.com apparently lost $250 million. We recommend again that all Blockchain.com customers immediately withdraw their funds or stop depositing new funds.
We continue to warn against the crypto exchange Blockchain.com. Co-founded by US citizen Peter Smith (@onemorepeter), the crypto exchange has apparently lost a lot of money recently. In early May 2022, the 18-billion Terra-Luna scheme exploded and triggered the collapse of the crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital (A3C) shortly after. Blockchain.com was also invested in #3AC and lost a lot of money in the process. Since then, complaints have been mounting on Trustpilot about payouts not being made. Clients start to call for lawsuits and criminal investigations.
The Celsius Network and Three Arrow Capital debacle perfectly demonstrated that the crypto market has a fundamental regulatory issue. In March 2022, the UK FCA warned that it could not efficiently regulate the crypto giant Binance Group, which operates a wide variety of legal entities in different jurisdictions. The same is arguably true for the Blockchain.com Group. The company claims to have 37 million verified users with $1T+ transactions, which accounts for one-third of all Bitcoin. Largely without supervision because the company is not licensed but just registered.
The Florida-based Peter Smith founded Blockchain.com in 2012. He still is the CEO of the company, which claims to be responsible for about 28% of all BTC transactions since 2012. In spring 2021, the company raised $420 million and received a valuation of $5.2 billion. In April 2021, Smith announced the "first-ever" digital asset partnership with an NFL team, the Dallas Cowboys. But times have changed. The crypto & fintech market collapsed. Many hyped companies are faced with lethal liquidity troubles. Blockchain.com may be one of them given their payout issues.
Currently, the entire crypto scene is in a state of emergency. After the collapse of the Terra Luna scheme, crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital and crypto lender Celsius Network, many crypto companies are struggling to survive because they lost a lot of money. Even the major providers are not exempt from this. A kind of domino effect has set in and no one currently knows the true extent of this liquidity crisis. Some crypto companies have frozen withdrawals. Blockchain.com is likely to be among them.