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FTX’s SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions off the books

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Re: FTX’s SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions off the books

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This has been some of the funniest few days in recent memory. Even my crypto true-believer HODL maximalist friends are questioning the entire ecosystem and its value.

I think it’s funny that so many people have been hypnotized by get-rich-quick schemes and promises of a utopian monetary system while forgetting what the original —actual— value proposition of crypto was: Buying heroin.

As a corollary to “not your keys not your coins” I submit “if you can’t confidently exchange it for illegal drugs, it’s not a currency”

Re: FTX’s SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions off the books

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They'll all get away clean. Check out Sam's parents, and other attached people...

Crypto has a strong reputation as a haven for money laundering, drug sales... So if any of the Mexican/South American drug cartels lost a lot of money Sam and the other top management of those companies could end up dead.

Re: FTX’s SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions off the books

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They'll all get away clean. Check out Sam's parents, and other attached people...

I actually think this blowback is going to hit Sam's parents, who are part of the liberal intelligentsia.

Sam himself is unquestionably going to jail or exile.

Re: FTX’s SBF had a secret 'back door' to transfer billions off the books

#8
It's tempting to say he did it or inside job, but things never are as obvious as they seem. Why not just quietly siphon off funds from a cold wallet to his personal wallet? Why use a malicious app at all? This leads me to believe it was not an inside job.
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