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Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to users are “demonstrably false” and FTX had only 105 bitcoin when Ray took over — - Ray called the claims ‘callously’ and ‘demonstrably’ false — SBF had claimed customers on the exchange suffered no harm Sidhartha Shukla / Bloomberg: In a letter to Judge Kaplan, FTX CEO John Ray says SBF's claims of “zero” harm to…

Happy Monday! Almost a year after the country’s central bank imposed a freeze on onboarding new merchants for online payment firms, they have been forced to scout for alternative revenue sources. This and more in today’s ETtech Morning Dispatch.Also in this letter:■ EU founders and VCs turn to safer shores■ Beckn finds takers in distant shores■ Inside Zo House, the den of Web3 creatorsRBI ban makes online payment aggregators seek alternative business lines After almost a year of the Reserve Bank of India’s (RBI) ban on…

Social media and internet intermediaries should opt for an “app-store” level check for age verification and consent management of users below the age of 18, vice president of global policy at Meta Joel Kaplan said.“It works for everyone and you have to do it one time. People may be on social media apps that have greater or lesser capability to do it well. The burden for parents would be much simpler if they only had to do it one time for age verification,” Kaplan said in an exclusive interview with ET during his visit to…

US prosecutors urged a judge to impose tight restrictions on indicted FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried's internet use, arguing existing conditions "leave too much room for inappropriate conduct." Separately, court documents earlier on Wednesday revealed that a former Stanford University law school dean and a computer science researcher at the school co-signed Bankman-Fried's bond alongside his parents. He is out on $250 million bond after pleading not guilty to fraud charges stemming from now-bankrupt…

Vault Comics is gearing up for the debut of their new psychedelic sci-fi thriller Mindset. Written by Zack Kaplan (Eclipse, Port of Earth) and illustrated and colored by Eisner-winning artist John J. Pearson (Blue In Green), the series is lettered by Hassan Otsmane-Elhaou (The Blue Flame, Engineward) and designed by Tim Daniel. Pearson contributed one cover while Martin Simmonds added another. Issue #1 is slated to hit store shelves on June 29, introducing the story of grad students who accidentally discover mind control…