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Re: Binance to acquire FTX

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its related to tech and the valley

It's a slippery slope. i've ran a few IRC and matrix channels. once the crypto people show up it all gets turned into a crypto circus. they will take over this site if it's allowed to continue. this site will literally be indistinguishble from coindesk.

Re: Binance to acquire FTX

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12:38 PM · Nov 7, 2022 2) FTX has enough to cover all client holdings. [0] 4:03 PM · Nov 8, 2022 2) Our teams are working on clearing out the withdrawal backlog as is. This will clear out liquidity crunches; all assets will be covered 1:1. This is one of the main reasons we’ve asked Binance to come in. [1] has enough to cover all client holdings ---> not enough to cover all client holding in 24 hours. Either they los…

Remember that blockchain transactions are slow and FTX has over 1m users. Even in the most positive of scenarios, I would not be surprised if it took days to clear the backlog of withdrawal requests.

Slow blockchain transactions and it would be shocking if they didn't stake user assets. Most (all?) proof of stake chains have lock up periods. Atom and other Cosmos chains are usually 21 days.

Re: Binance to acquire FTX

#113
post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

12:38 PM · Nov 7, 2022 2) FTX has enough to cover all client holdings. [0] 4:03 PM · Nov 8, 2022 2) Our teams are working on clearing out the withdrawal backlog as is. This will clear out liquidity crunches; all assets will be covered 1:1. This is one of the main reasons we’ve asked Binance to come in. [1] has enough to cover all client holdings ---> not enough to cover all client holding in 24 hours. Either they los…

Remember that blockchain transactions are slow and FTX has over 1m users. Even in the most positive of scenarios, I would not be surprised if it took days to clear the backlog of withdrawal requests.

Indeed, all Bitcoin blocks today are full. There is no physical possibility to withdraw all those funds. That's why Binance must implement Lightning deposits/withdrawals, like Kraken did.

Re: Binance to acquire FTX

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So after SBF came out yesterday and said FTX was totally fine.. it turns out they were insolvent and needed to get bailed out to cover withdrawals? Never a dull moment in the world of crypto.

It seems that Citadel may have short squeezed FTX's token and created this.

Re: Binance to acquire FTX

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He mentions that they have everyone’s money, and then the very next tweet says “we’ll clear out liquidity crunches”. Literally a contradiction.

Giving them the benefit of doubt, this is not a contradiction. The statement means that they have enough illiquid assets to cover the withdrawal that they are working on converting into liquidity.

But they're meant to store the customer assets in a cold wallet. They're not meant to invest them in illiquid assets that would need to be liquidated to give people their money. If it's not a contradiction, it's an intentionally misleading statement to avoid admitting they let Alameda Research invest the money when the entities are supposed to be completely separated.

Re: Binance to acquire FTX

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He mentions that they have everyone’s money, and then the very next tweet says “we’ll clear out liquidity crunches”. Literally a contradiction.

Giving them the benefit of doubt, this is not a contradiction. The statement means that they have enough illiquid assets to cover the withdrawal that they are working on converting into liquidity.

They're totally solvent but no one is willing to lend them money?

Re: Binance to acquire FTX

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Binance was threatening to dump a huge amount of FTT tokens on the market. FTX has a big+vulnerable position in FTT. FTX asked Binance to sell them the tokens for a fixed price, so as not to crash the FTT token price. Binance declined - this was yesterday/today. Of course the price of FTT crashed today. And now Binance buys FTX to help them out... smells like Binance played 4D chess all along.

https://decrypt.co/113674/binance-moves-to-liquidate-its-ent...

https://decrypt.co/113788/binance-ceo-declines-alamedas-bid-...

https://decrypt.co/113866/battle-crypto-titans-ends-binance-...

Re: Binance to acquire FTX

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post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

12:38 PM · Nov 7, 2022 2) FTX has enough to cover all client holdings. [0] 4:03 PM · Nov 8, 2022 2) Our teams are working on clearing out the withdrawal backlog as is. This will clear out liquidity crunches; all assets will be covered 1:1. This is one of the main reasons we’ve asked Binance to come in. [1] has enough to cover all client holdings ---> not enough to cover all client holding in 24 hours. Either they los…

Remember that blockchain transactions are slow and FTX has over 1m users. Even in the most positive of scenarios, I would not be surprised if it took days to clear the backlog of withdrawal requests.

Not sure what people are talking about here, bitcoin mempool doesn't even have a notably large backlog at the moment and fees are currently low/normal: https://mempool.space/

Exchange withdrawals are one to many for btc helping keep size down and most other chains shouldn't have any issues. Don't see how FTX or really any exchange should be bottlenecked by blockchains here.

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