Simonetti writes, “But now, the complications for CoinDesk are even greater. One of the businesses owned by its parent company, Digital Currency Group, a venture capital firm with stakes in numerous crypto projects, faces its own financial troubles and questions about its operations. It is part of the broader fallout in the crypto industry since FTX’s collapse.
“This month, Genesis, a cryptocurrency lender owned by DCG, laid off 30 percent of its staff. And on Thursday, federal regulators charged Genesis with offering unregistered securities through a program that promised investors high interest on deposits. The regulators said that Genesis and Gemini Trust, a cryptocurrency exchange, raised billions of dollars of assets from hundreds of thousands of investors without registering the program.
“The developments have forced CoinDesk to cover its owners, publishing numerous articles about related developments in the past couple of weeks.
“‘We cover DCG like any other company, that’s part of our regular coverage,’ Michael Casey, CoinDesk’s chief content officer, wrote in a statement to The New York Times.”
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