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SBF/FTX

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  • IvorythumperI Offline
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    Ivorythumper
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    #10

    I heard they’d approve or reject corporate matters with emojis….

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    • IvorythumperI Ivorythumper

      @Jolly that would be our money, dude.

      jon-nycJ Offline
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      jon-nyc
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      #11

      @Ivorythumper said in SBF/FTX:

      @Jolly that would be our money, dude.

      You had money in FTX?

      Only non-witches get due process.

      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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      • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

        @Ivorythumper said in SBF/FTX:

        @Jolly that would be our money, dude.

        You had money in FTX?

        IvorythumperI Offline
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        @jon-nyc no, I misinterpreted Jolly’s comment.

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        • IvorythumperI Ivorythumper

          @jon-nyc no, I misinterpreted Jolly’s comment.

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          jon-nyc
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          #13

          @Ivorythumper whew!

          I didn’t take you for a crypto bro. Lol

          Only non-witches get due process.

          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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          • George KG Offline
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            George K
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            #14

            https://finance.yahoo.com/news/justin-bieber-bought-bored-ape-190922945.html

            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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            • Doctor PhibesD Offline
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              Doctor Phibes
              wrote on last edited by Doctor Phibes
              #15

              I still don’t understand any of this.

              It sounds like maybe I’m not alone

              I was only joking

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              • jon-nycJ jon-nyc

                @Ivorythumper whew!

                I didn’t take you for a crypto bro. Lol

                IvorythumperI Offline
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                Ivorythumper
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                #16

                @jon-nyc said in SBF/FTX:

                @Ivorythumper whew!

                I didn’t take you for a crypto bro. Lol

                We can’t in the house due to MS’s work restrictions.

                Good thing— I started seriously thinking about it exactly 1 year ago!

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                • jon-nycJ Offline
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                  #17

                  I sent that last twitter thread to a okd Credit Suisse buddy who later worked in crypto.

                  His reply:

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                  Only non-witches get due process.

                  • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                  • AxtremusA Offline
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                    Yeah, just recently a Sequoia guy said it has done "careful due diligence" on FTX and "there's nothing much we could have done any differently."

                    https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/18/vc-firm-sequoia-capitals-doug-leone-on-the-fallout-from-ftx-collapse.html

                    SoftBank also invested in FTX but it’s the VC that has also lost a ton of money in WeWork, so I suppose it doesn’t quite qualify as “proper investor” as much as Sequoia.

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                    • jon-nycJ Offline
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                      #19

                      Another friend, who's had some dealings with SBF, told me that they paid employees and contractors into their FTX accounts, meaning they're all creditors too.

                      Only non-witches get due process.

                      • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                      • HoraceH Online
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                        If the company had its own boutique crypto currency which was valued at the most recent transaction price, which in turn was whatever SBF wanted it to be, then I suppose the bubble pop makes sense. But that would be the pop of a bubble that wasn’t inflated with real money to begin with. My question is where did all the real money go? I mean other to Democrats, as SBF tried to climb socially through the high status political ranks of the left.

                        Education is extremely important.

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                        • HoraceH Horace

                          If the company had its own boutique crypto currency which was valued at the most recent transaction price, which in turn was whatever SBF wanted it to be, then I suppose the bubble pop makes sense. But that would be the pop of a bubble that wasn’t inflated with real money to begin with. My question is where did all the real money go? I mean other to Democrats, as SBF tried to climb socially through the high status political ranks of the left.

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                          @Horace The immediate answer is Alameda but it's still unclear what they were doing with it.

                          Also it's unclear when the shady stuff (using customer money) started. Did they do that from the get-go? Or was it an act of desperation over the summer when crypto started to go south that they hoped would be temporary?

                          Only non-witches get due process.

                          • Cotton Mather, Salem Massachusetts, 1692
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                          • George KG Offline
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                            George K
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                            "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                            The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                              #23

                              The well from which my money cometh.

                              Remind me to check my IQ again...

                              “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                              Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                jon-nyc
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                                #24

                                Check your IQ again.

                                Nobody disputes that he gives lots of money to Dems. It’s the idea that he suddenly, years into the project, decides to charge Ukraine for it that is ridiculous.

                                Only non-witches get due process.

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                                  Sure.

                                  “Cry havoc and let slip the DOGE of war!”

                                  Those who cheered as J-6 American prisoners were locked in solitary for 18 months without trial, now suddenly fight tooth and nail for foreign terrorists’ "due process". — Buck Sexton

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                                    "Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08

                                    The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.

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                                      #27

                                      @George-K I was reading that Caroline Ellison's father is the dept head of economics at MIT and her mother is a eon comics professor there. When she (Caroline) was 8 years old, she wrote a economics paper on toy pricing at Toys are Us.

                                      She is probably alot of fun at parties!!

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                                        The new CEO is getting paid $1300/hr.

                                        (But, it is quite a specialized skill set, so he is probably worth it if he can figure out the USD billions that are floating around).

                                        https://fortune.com/2022/11/21/new-ftx-ceo-john-ray-hired-clean-sam-bankman-fried-mess-paid-1300-hour/

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                                          Only non-witches get due process.

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