Ex-funcionário da Alameda acusa empresa de causar queda de 87% no preço do BTC em 2021
The ‘honest’ mistake did eventually cost Alameda some millions of dollars. An individual simply identified as Baradwaj has dropped a bombshell of an accusation on his former employer Alameda Research. According to him, Alameda, which was owned by Sam Bankman-Fried, played a prominent role in the downward spiral of Bitcoin (BTC) that saw its prices plunge over 87% on Binance.US within minutes. This was back in 2021. At the time, BTCs price dipped to as low as $8,200 from around $65,760, albeit in a manner that could not be immediately explained. Although the price quickly bounced back up to around where it was before the fall, Baradwaj now claims that the dip did not just happen. He claims that it stemmed from a mistake that a trader at the firm made on October 21, 2021, which saw them punch in a wrong decimal. The incident meant that the Binance.US users who were trading Bitcoin on the crypto exchange were immediately thrown into confusion as they hurriedly scampered around after seeing their assets plunge so much within a few minutes. Even more worrisome on the day, was that other Bitcoin markets continued operating normally. At the time, Binance.US concluded that the incident was a result









