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Tiny Farmington State Bank - in which Alameda Research had invested $11.5M - is getting out of the crypto business. SteveAlpher reports

The bank, which is based in Farmington, Wash., a tiny town in the eastern part of the state, is dropping the Moonstone Bank brand and will do business as Farmington State Bank instead.

Eyebrows were raised after the collapse of FTX when court documents showed the crypto exchange's sister company Alameda Research purchased an $11.5 million stake in Farmington State Bank last January. It was a sizable amount,, given that Farmington generally had only about $10 million in assets over the last decade.

Farmington was owned through a holding company by French banking executive Jean Chalopin. Chalopin is the chairman of Bahamas-based Deltec Bank & Trust, whose parent company, Deltec International Group,

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SteveAlpher Interesting news, it's a big reminder that HODLing is the way to go and don't FOMO on bad investments. BitcoinRevolution

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