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Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M

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For anyone else enjoying the crypto meltdown, might I suggest the subreddit /r/buttcoin? It's quite enjoyable. https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/

Why would u enjoy people losing their life savings? Just because they told you to have fun staying poor on the way up?

People with crypto coins needs other people to be willing to buy them at higher price just slightly later. They keep exploiting fomo for their own gain. I don't think this is moral and a bit of karma is always welcomed.

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For anyone else enjoying the crypto meltdown, might I suggest the subreddit /r/buttcoin? It's quite enjoyable. https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/

Why would u enjoy people losing their life savings? Just because they told you to have fun staying poor on the way up?

It's a common human trait to enjoy when bad things happen to bad people, and crypto bros are the worst.

Re: Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M

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I really don’t understand the business model of making massive fiat loans to “firms” to buy bitcoin. If crypto goes up, you get a small amount of interest. If crypto goes down, you lose everything. What? Lol. Just spend a fraction of the sum on bitcoin and do something safe with the rest. What was the plan?

Edit: I guess when someone has “20 billion dollars” a 700mm loan doesn’t seem like a big risk.

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post #14

For anyone else enjoying the crypto meltdown, might I suggest the subreddit /r/buttcoin? It's quite enjoyable. https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/

Why would u enjoy people losing their life savings? Just because they told you to have fun staying poor on the way up?

I don't think anyone should act hateful to anyone else. However, seeing that specific bubble deflate though, and a return to, I don't know, sanity, is a welcome change. It's just a shame that so many people have to suffer though as a part of that process.

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post #14

For anyone else enjoying the crypto meltdown, might I suggest the subreddit /r/buttcoin? It's quite enjoyable. https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/

Why would u enjoy people losing their life savings? Just because they told you to have fun staying poor on the way up?

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post #14

For anyone else enjoying the crypto meltdown, might I suggest the subreddit /r/buttcoin? It's quite enjoyable. https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/

Why would u enjoy people losing their life savings? Just because they told you to have fun staying poor on the way up?

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Re: Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M

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I always have mixed feelings when someone is warned about the riskiness / foolishness / stupidity of a course of action, and then suffers for it. On the one hand, there's a certain satisfaction or Schadenfreude in the sense of vindication. And it's pleasant to feel like my own wisdom or self-control has been validated. OTOH, I know that everyone has limited wisdom / self-control / intelligence, including me. So it se…

Note that the longer this lasts, the more people are going to get hurt in scams, the earlier it all collapses the more will be saved. It does make sense to be pleased when a societal danger is reduced, not to mention the environmental impact, money laundering etc.

Re: Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M

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I always have mixed feelings when someone is warned about the riskiness / foolishness / stupidity of a course of action, and then suffers for it. On the one hand, there's a certain satisfaction or Schadenfreude in the sense of vindication. And it's pleasant to feel like my own wisdom or self-control has been validated. OTOH, I know that everyone has limited wisdom / self-control / intelligence, including me. So it se…

It is in line of 'a death is tragedy, a million statistics.' when thousands of people are losing it in a ponzi scheme, it becomes a matter of memes and I told you so.

Re: Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M

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post #14

For anyone else enjoying the crypto meltdown, might I suggest the subreddit /r/buttcoin? It's quite enjoyable. https://old.reddit.com/r/Buttcoin/

Why would u enjoy people losing their life savings? Just because they told you to have fun staying poor on the way up?

A fall in price doesn't mean that people are losing their savings. They might be short and thus gaining savings.

Re: Three Arrows Capital has defaulted on a loan worth more than $670M

#30
> As of Friday, Voyager said it had approximately $137 million in U.S. dollars and owned crypto assets.

> Last week, Alameda (FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s quantitative trading firm) committed $500 million in financing to Voyager Digital, a crypto brokerage. Voyager has already pulled $75 million from that line of credit.

Am I misunderstanding something, or: what kind of mismanagement could possibly lead to loans being given out to a single entity representing, like, over 70% of the entire value of your organization (pre-default)? Its excellent that FTX/Alameda stepped in to keep them solvent and not allow this to spiral further, but at the same time, its incomprehensible to me that Voyager allowed this to happen; so incomprehensible that it feels like I'm misunderstanding something.

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