The Crash Cost Them Crypto. They are attempting to recover it.
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12th October,2022
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When the experimental crypto bank Celsius Network declared bankruptcy this summer, he lost a sizable portion of his cryptocurrency investments, which once made up more than half of his net worth, along with thousands of other investors.
Then he had a thought. In a letter to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York in July, Mr. Little, a 35-year-old Houston engineer, argued that he and others who had placed their digital currencies in a particular kind of Celsius account should be permitted to withdraw the money. He soon began receiving calls from other depositors, including a man who was having trouble making ends meet and a woman who had lost her retirement funds.
A group chat that Mr. Little created quickly attracted hundreds of Celsius users. They gathered $100,000 in a matter of days to pay the legal team Togut, Segal & Segal to represent them in court.
If I contribute to the crypto industry's cautionary tale, Mr. Little added, "I'll know I didn't just sit by and do nothing."
The company's collapse was one of the worst incidents of the crypto crisis this summer, a turning point that revealed the dangerous practises of the sector and bankrupted hundreds of investors. Customers of Celsius lost $5 billion in all, and the firm's failure sent shockwaves through the market for digital currencies, driving down the value of Bitcoin and Ether.
A critical new stage in the disaster has already begun: a mad dash to retrieve lost money. The campaign goes beyond Celsius as inexperienced traders who staked money on a number of dud cryptocurrency ventures seek recompense, launch lawsuits, and organise online. At the same time, some of the most powerful organisations in the sector are looking over what's left of the struggling businesses in search of prospective acquisition targets.
For the average investors who lost everything, the stakes are higher. Celsius depositors have gathered in online forums to discuss legal strategies and provide emotional support as they struggle to recover even a small fraction of their cash. For weeks, they have poured hundreds of fervent letters outlining their losses and offering suggestions for maximising recoveries into the Bankruptcy Court.
A customer alliance other than Mr. Little's organisation has retained legal counsel to pursue a portion of Celsius's surviving assets, which is an extraordinary display of grassroots engagement in a bankruptcy case.
Partner at the bankruptcy-focused investment firm 507 Capital Thomas Braziel remarked, "I'm amazed by how fast and furious some of the creditor bodies are creating." "Big law firms and the debtor typically get utterly hosed in bankruptcy cases with really modest claimants."
As the bitcoin market has steadily steadied, the recovery attempts have gained momentum. Although it is still more than 60 percent below its peak of nearly $68,000 last November, the price of Bitcoin increased this week from a low of approximately $18,000 in June to about $25,000.
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