Sema Bankmena-Fraida uzplaukums un kritums

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Sema Bankmena-Fraida uzplaukums un kritums

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Stāsts Bitcoin has certainly had its fair share of nefarious characters, criminal activity, bad haircuts and worse wardrobes, and yet our anti-hero du jour has seemed to outdo them all. Sam Bankman-Fried, better known by the three letter acronym SBF, burst onto the scene at the peak of the 2017 bubble, founding Alameda Research that September, just four years after graduating from an internship into a full-time position at one of the world’s largest market makers, Jane Street Capital.

SBF is the son of Stanford Law professor and founder of left-wing super PAC Mind The Gap, Barbara Fried, and Stanford professor Joseph Bankman, an expert on tax shelter laws and government regulation. At the start of 2018, SBF had struck digital gold while taking advantage of the arbitrage opportunity presenting itself between a higher demand for bitcoin in the Asian market, colloquially known as the “kimchi premium”. By the end of the year, and after amassing a considerable fortune from this high-volume bitcoin/dollar spread, he officially moved to Hong Kong, formally founding the derivatives exchange FTX in the following spring.

Jūsu darbs IR Klientu apkalpošana Bitcoin network that SBF rode from rags to riches and back again was partially launched in direct response to the fiat money experiment rearing its ugly head in the subprime mortgage, real estate and eurodollar crises that culminated into what is now known as the Great Financial Crisis of 2007 to 2009.

"The Times 03 / Jan / 2009 kanclere uz otrās banku glābšanas robežas"

- Satoshi Nakamoto, January 3, 2009

This now infamous inscription in the genesis block made clear the inappropriate fractional reserve banking and predatory loan fiascos of our regulated banking industry was to be put to rest once and for all by this emergent monetary protocol; a completely transparent and decentralized ledger would de-incentivize fraud and prevent obfuscation of illicit activity. A new competitor to the dollar arose from the ashes of the meltdown, and with it, a new standard for financial fairness, complete with predictable issuance, controlled once and for all by the people for the people. Yet in any system made with good intentions, criminals like SBF and his bought-and-paid-for political and media allies manage to find a way to hurt innocent people for the advantage of an unknown few. Like most intriguing stories of fraudulent financial crimes, this one starts in the Bahamas, and ends with a tidal wave of asset liquidations and broken homes.

"Ja jūs domājat, ka Bahamu salas ir izpostījušas jūsu globālo nodokļu sistēmu, jums ir diezgan briesmīga globālā nodokļu sistēma."

- Steven Dean, Summer 2020 [1]

The Stablecoin, CBDC Race To The Bottom palaišana

Bahamu salas šķiet pietiekami nekaitīgas, un tomēr ASV ir sena vēsture, kas saistīta ar izvairīšanos no nodokļu maksāšanas, un to papildina ruma smēķētāji aizlieguma laikmetā. Turpinot šo tradīciju, Karību jūras reģiona banku centri, tostarp Bahamu salas un Kaimanu salas, 2022. gada augustā bija ceturtie lielākie ārvalstu valsts vērtspapīru turētāji, atpaliekot tikai no Japānas, Ķīnas un Apvienotās Karalistes Neilgi pēc FTX dibināšanas. pilnībā izmantoja brīvās naudas ēru, kas sākās ar 2008. gada avāriju un kuru uzturēja Trampa administrācijas noteiktās zemās līdz nulles procentu likmes.

These rate cuts were started by the Trump-nominated and Biden-renominated Jerome Powell and were further exacerbated by both of their administrations’ COVID responses. An unprecedented pumping of all things dollar denominated occurred, with real estate, stock indexes, bitcoin and a whole bunch of unregistered securities known as altcoins reaching new highs across the board. In June 2019, one month after the founding of FTX, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg announced Libra, a digital currency based on a basket of international currencies; a novel take on stablecoins. This launched the stablecoin and CBDC race in earnest, and coincidentally enough, the Central Bank of the Bahamas became the first such institution to announce its own CBDC, the sand dollar, in October 2020. The sand dollar itself was pegged to the Bahamian dollar, which is itself pegged to the United States dollar, and thus with its government-sanctioned launch, the birth of the first central bank-issued stablecoin dollar came to be on the sandy beaches of SBF’s new home.

"What is the reserve currency of the crypto economy going to be? Right now it's unambiguously the USD. And interestingly it's USD whether or not you're looking at the American crypto economy."

- Sam Bankman-Fried, November 5, 2021

Lai gan ASV valdība tolaik izlikās bailēs no sistēmiskā riska, Ķīnas valdība saprata, ka projekts Svari ir G7 valūtu aizmugures dolārizācija, par ko tika baumots, ka tās tiks iekļautas tās grozā. Saskaņā ar Metaverse 1985. gada Plaza Accord ideju, šis koordinētas centrālo banku darbības plāns izplatītu USD tīkla lietotājus visā interneta lielākajā tīklā, ko paātrinātu lielais ātrums, kas pieejams centralizētajos digitālajos maksājumos un globalizēts ar Facebook lietotāju bāzes bezrobežu raksturu. .

The digital yuan was trialed in April 2021 with great haste in reaction to this development, and by the Winter Olympics 2022, had launched for foreign attendees in Beijing. Not to be outdone by these new-look, same-shit fiat cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin made its own financial history when President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador took to the stage at Bitcoin 2021 to announce the legal tender aspirations of his small but dollarized nation. On March 9, 2022 President Joe Biden signed Executive Order #14067–”Ensuring Responsible Development of Digital Assets”, which included aspirations for mitigation of financial risks in digital asset markets, as well as a clause stating that within 210 days, the attorney general, in consultation with the secretary of the treasury and the chairman of the Federal Reserve, must provide a formal proposal for a government-issued CBDC.


By this point, the Bitcoin financial system had been utterly and properly dollar-ified, with billions of dollars in liquidity of dollar-denominated trading pairs making up the lion’s share of market activity. The same can be said for the Ethereum network, which has seen its compliance-driven perversion by non-native assets taking the wheel from its token Ether, as stablecoin and other dollar derivatives now uphold the majority of economic weight of the system. Both stablecoin giants Circle, issuer of USDC, and Tether came out in support of the merge, further ossifying their stake in the now-nearly-70%-OFAC-compliant blockchain. [2] As of this article’s writing, over 15.5 million ether are currently staked without active withdrawals in the Ethereum 2.0 beacon chain, worth nearly $18 billion dollars.[3] Fortunately for Bitcoin, the consensus weight of its system is not manipulated by user stake, and thus the Bitcoin market has been seemingly unaffected – negatively anyway – by this decade-long development. At least until scammer Do Kwon and his ponzi-scheme Luna wreaked havoc on investors at the start of May of 2022.

"[Kripto" ir acīmredzami nopietns… jūs vēlaties rīkoties pareizi ar to normatīvajā telpā.

- President Bill Clinton, April 27, 2022 (Allegedly) [4]

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Infekcija izplatās

Only a few weeks after SBF hosted a keynote with former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair and President Bill Clinton at the FTX-organized Crypto Bahamas conference, one of the largest-ever over-the-counter bitcoin purchases was announced by the LUNA team.

Terraform Labs and the non-profit Luna Foundation Guard, two entities headed by Do Kwon, had begun a campaign to purchase bitcoin as a reserve asset in the event that their algorithmic stablecoin, UST, deviated from its $1 peg. Shortly before their collapse, the plan had ballooned to the lofty goal of stacking over $10 billion in the hardest known digital commodity known to man. This purchase was financed with Three Arrows Capital, or 3AC, and was facilitated by cryptocurrency broker Genesis.

"Terra's remarkable growth has continuously reshaped crypto markets over the last two years”, said Joshua Lim, head of derivatives at Genesis. “Genesis is excited to be a liquidity partner to the Terra ecosystem, connecting it to a broader audience of institutional market participants."

Ar bitcoin reserves of Luna Foundation Guard totalling 80,394 BTC, valued at over $3.1 billion on May 5, 2022, this purchase placed LFG among the top-10 bitcoin holders in the world. [5] But only for a moment, for while it might feel like a lifetime ago, what happened next should look awfully familiar; the peg was attacked, the recently-purchased bitcoin fortune was liquidated, Binance, led by CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ), aptly halted all trading on LUNA and UST pairs – with notable exceptions to their own stablecoin BUSD – and Kwon seemingly fled to outside of U.S. jurisdiction to Asia. [6]

Thus begins our first of many repeatable points of inquiry; where exactly did this bitcoin go? According to an audit released in November 2022, over 33,000 bitcoin were transferred to Binance on May 10, 2022, and sold along with other assets while failing to defend the peg. [7] The same day the nearly $1 billion dollars worth of bitcoin hit Binance’s order books, bitcoin’s USD price broke below $30,000, falling from $40,000 just a week before.

13. maijā SBF iegādājās 7.6% akciju Robinhood — tirdzniecības platformā, kas tika pārbaudīta, lai apturētu tirdzniecību GameStop fiasko laikā 2021. gada sākumā. Bloomberg ziņoja, ka aptuveni 40% no Robinhood ieņēmumiem tika tieši no klientu pasūtījumu pārdošanas tādām firmām. kā Two Sigma vērtspapīri un Citadeles vērtspapīri. [8] Citadelei 700,000. gada jūlijā tika uzlikts naudas sods 2020 XNUMX USD apmērā par tūlītējiem darījumiem, kas veikti pēc klientu pasūtījumiem, un tā paša gada septembrī ASV Vērtspapīru un biržu komisija (SEC) nopratināja pašu Robinhoodu par klientu nepareizu informēšanu par akciju darījumu pārdošanu. zināmām ātrās tirdzniecības firmām.

Iepriekš 2020. gada decembrī Robinhood bija piekritis samaksāt 65 miljonus ASV dolāru, lai nokārtotu maksas par atkārtotiem nepatiesiem apgalvojumiem par to, ka netika atklāti saņemtie maksājumi no minētajām tirdzniecības firmām. [9] Kad jaunievēlētā Valsts kases sekretāre Dženeta Jellena 2021. gada februārī informēja jaunievēlēto prezidentu Džo Baidenu par šo interešu konfliktu, viņai pašai bija jāiegūst ētikas atbrīvojums, jo viņa gadā no Citadel LLC bija saņēmusi vismaz 700,000 10 $ runātāju honorārus. iepriekš. [13] SBF bija atklājis šo pirkumu, izmantojot SEC iesniegtu 648.3. D grafikas veidlapu, kas maksāja 2.8 miljardus dolāru un deva viņam 11% balsstiesību viņu divu šķiru akciju struktūrā saskaņā ar uzņēmumu Emergent Fidelity Technologies; nosaukums ir nejauši ģenerēts. [XNUMX]

“13. jūlijā Coinbase Exchange apvienos USD un USDC pasūtījumu grāmatas. Apvienošanas procesa ietvaros USDC pasūtījumu grāmatas tiks apvienotas USD pasūtījumu grāmatās, lai radītu labāku, vienmērīgāku tirdzniecības pieredzi ar lielāku USD un USDC likviditāti.

- Coinbase Exchange Twitter, June 29, 2022 [12]

Circle, uzņēmums, kas veido arvien vairāk izmantoto USDC stabilo monētu, iepriekš bija paplašinājis savu starptautisko piedāvājumu ar meitasuzņēmumu Bermudu salās ar paziņojumu 22. gada 2019. jūlijā. [13] Šī vienība tika iesniegta saskaņā ar 2018. gada Digitālo aktīvu uzņēmējdarbības likumu ( “DABA”) nozīmēja, ka Circle bija pirmais lielais stabilo monētu emitents, kas saņēma F klases (“Pilna”) DABA licenci, kas aptvēra to glabāšanas, maksājumu pakalpojumu, maiņas, tirdzniecības un citus finanšu pakalpojumus digitālo aktīvu jomā. Citi Circle banku partneri Signet, Signature Bank un Silvergate Capital bija izsnieguši USD aizdevumus Celsius, Voyager, Block Fi, Three Arrows Capital un Alameda Research. Līdz šī raksta tapšanas brīdim visi bija iesnieguši bankrota pieteikumu. Divas citas viņu biznesa filiāles, Galaxy Digital un Genesis, arī ir ziņojušas par milzīgiem zaudējumiem FTX sabrukuma rezultātā, un ir baumas par turpmāku infekcijas izplatību. Coinbase, publiski tirgota birža ar atzīmi $COIN, savā 2. gada 2022. ceturkšņa akcionāra vēstulē paziņoja, ka gandrīz viena trešdaļa no kopējiem ieņēmumiem tika gūta no procentiem par USD denominētiem ieguldījumiem, tostarp lielu USDC pozīciju:

“Procentu ienākumi bija USD 33 miljoni, kas ir par 211% vairāk nekā pirmajā ceturksnī. Pieaugumu galvenokārt noteica mūsu USDC aktivitāte, kā arī augstākas procentu likmes, jo mēs ģenerējam procentus par fiat klientu drošības līdzekļiem… 1. ceturkšņa beigās mums bija 2 miljardi USD kopējie resursi USD USD. Turklāt mums bija kriptoaktīvi 6.2 miljonu dolāru vērtībā. [428]

Kad vēstule tika publicēta 2022. gada augusta beigās, USDC līdzdalības procenti par 12 mēnešiem bija līdz 4.7%, savukārt viena mēneša ienesīgums bija pat 4%. Līdz 16. gada 2022. novembrim USDC ienesīgums bija samazinājies līdz 0% visos laika periodos.[15]

"1) Binance converts USDC --> BUSD, and we see the change in supplies. Thus begins the Second Great Stablecoin War.”

- @SBF, October 23, 2022 [16]

Gada septembrī 4, 2022, Binance announced that it would be auto-converting all USDC, USDP and TUSD, three major dollar stablecoins, into its self-issued BUSD, effective in just 25 days. [17] This led to continued concerns about Binance’s solvency with the preceding few months, especially July 2022, seeing the largest known outflows of bitcoin in the exchange’s history, eclipsing even March 2020’s black swan bottom.

11. oktobrī, 216 dienas pēc Baidena izpildu rīkojuma ar iepriekšminēto 210 dienu klauzulu, BNY Mellon, pasaulē lielākā turētājbanka ar vairāk nekā 43 triljoniem dolāru uzskaitē un nejauši Circle rezervju turētāja USDC, paziņoja par tās uzsākšanu. digitālo aktīvu glabāšanas programma. [18] Kases pirmā sekretāra Aleksandra Hamiltona dibinātā banka, kas ir saistīta ar vairāk nekā 20% pasaules ieguldāmo aktīvu, tika iekļauta arī kā FedNow pilotprojekta partneris. [19]

Despite these institutional developments, a continued bear market weighed heavily on the now-plummeting bitcoin price. Paradoxically, more and more Bitcoin hash rate poured onto the network. These concurrent movements saw Bitcoin’s hash price plummet to an all-time low, spurring a massive liquidation of bitcoin liabilities off mining operators books. On October 26, Pamata zinātniskā, then the largest Bitcoin mining operation in the world, filed for bankruptcy with millions of dollars in debt liabilities, thousands of ASICs, and yet in their filings, held only 24 bitcoin total when the circus came to town. [20] Where exactly did all this bitcoin go? On that same day, barely two weeks before the FTX collapse, Binance saw its largest single day outflow, with 71,579 coins, totalling over $1.1 billion in dollar terms. [21] This pushed net outflows to nearly 95,000 coins from the world’s largest exchange since just that July. Again, where exactly did all this bitcoin go? The very next day, October 27, 2022, SBF appeared on The Big Whale and announced future plans for FTX to launch its very own stablecoin. [22]

Vairāk smilšu nekā dolāru

"CIP un Mossad un pedo elite izplata sava veida seksuālās kontrabandas šantāžas lokus no Puertoriko un Karību jūras salām. Viņi gatavojas ierāmēt mani ar klēpjdatoru, ko iestādījis mans bijušais spiegs. Viņi mani nomocīs līdz nāvei.

- Nikolai Muchgian, October 28, 2022 [23]

24. gada 2022. oktobrī MakerDAO apstiprināja kopienas priekšlikumu ar Coinbase Prime turēt gandrīz 1.6 miljardus USDC. [24] Četras dienas vēlāk Nikolajs Mučigans, MakerDAO līdzdibinātājs un DAI dakšas stabilās monētas Rai izgudrotājs, tviterī paziņoja, ka viņa dzīvība ir apdraudēta Karību salu šantāžas zvana dēļ, ko it kā atbalsta Izraēlas un ASV izlūkdienesti. . Trīs dienas vēlāk, Helovīna dienā, 29 gadus vecais kodētājs Mučigans tika atrasts miris, noslīcis jūrā pie Kondado pludmales Puertoriko. [25]

Two days later, on November 2, 2022, CoinDesk reporter Ian Allison released findings that over a third of all assets – around $5.8 billion of $14.6 billion – on the balance sheet of SBF’s Alameda Research was intrinsically, and soon to be fatally, linked to FTX’s exchange token FTT. A “bank” run commenced, and after three days of nearly $6 billion in withdrawals, FTX was left with literally one single bitcoin. Where exactly did all this bitcoin go? The next day in an interview with Fortune, Coinbase founder and CEO Brian Armstrong made note that USDC will become the de facto central bank digital currency in the U.S. [26]

“ASV politikas veidotāji noteiks ietvaru, kas jāievēro, lai privātais tirgus patiešām radītu risinājumus, un ASV dolāra monēta ir patiešām strauji pieaugusi… normatīvā vide ir viens no lielākajiem atslēgumiem, ko mēs ejam. attīstīt šo nozari un, iespējams, pat panākt, lai cenas atkal pieaugtu pareizajā virzienā.

- Brian Armstrong, November 3, 2022

On November 6, CZ announced Binance would liquidate a remaining portion of FTT it had acquired from exiting FTX’s equity, having received around $2.1 billion in BUSD and FTT. Minutes after his announcement, Caroline Ellison, SBF’s partner and the CEO of Alameda Research, offered to purchase the tokens at $22 each, in an over-the-counter fashion. [27] By November 8, CZ and SBF had a phone call and seemingly came to a tentative deal for acquisition, reserving the right to back out of the deal at any time, while interestingly also leaving both U.S.-based proprietary exchanges, Binance.us and FTX.us, outside the scope of the deal.

“Things have come full circle, and FTX.com’s first, and last, investors are the same: we have come to an agreement on a strategic transaction with Binance for FTX.com (pending DD etc)”, SBF tweeted. [28]

Vēlāk tajā pašā vakarā FTX oficiāli apturēja visu līdzekļu izņemšanu. Iegādes nosacījumu ietvaros SBF bija spiests atvērt FTX grāmatas un parādīt savu kabatu dibenu; redzot vairāk smilšu nekā dolāru, CZ atteicās no darījuma. Apmēram 48 stundu laikā tika izteikti daži svarīgi paziņojumi, kas noveda pie šīs pēkšņās kataklizmas, tostarp no pašas šausmīgi klusās ASV Vērtspapīru un biržu komisijas.

“Liquidating our FTT is just post-exit risk management, learning from LUNA. We gave support before, but we won't pretend to make love after divorce. We are not against anyone. But we won't support people who lobby against other industry players behind their backs. Onwards.”

- CZ, November 6, 2022 [29]

7. gada 2022. novembrī SEC oficiāli atzina LBRY jeb Library Coin par nereģistrētu drošības piedāvājumu, radot postošu precedentu visā paplašinātajā kriptovalūtu tirgū. [30] Amerikas Savienoto Valstu Ņūhempšīras apgabala apgabaltiesā memorandā un rīkojumā teikts: “Vērtspapīru un biržu komisija (SEC) apgalvo, ka LBRY, Inc. piedāvāja un pārdeva nereģistrētus vērtspapīrus, pārkāpjot Vērtspapīru 5. sadaļu. 1933. gada akts”, akts sarunvalodā pazīstams kā The Howey Test.

Sakarā ar to, ka LBRY rezervēja gandrīz 400 miljonu LBC žetonu iepriekšēju raktuvi, un zinot, ka uzņēmums līdz šim bija iztērējis aptuveni pusi no iepriekš iegūtās LBC, SEC noteica kopīgu uzņēmumu bez informācijas izpaušanas un pienācīgas iesniegšanas. tagad apgalvotais drošības piedāvājums, izmantojot nepieciešamos kanālus Gerija Genslera vadītajā SEC. Šīs iesniegšanas sekas izraisīja triecienviļņus visā iepriekš iegūto marķieru nozarē, tostarp biržās, kurās tika uzskaitīti šie marķieri, kā arī to izsniegšanas organizācijas. Ērti, nākamajā dienā bija 8. novembris, Amerikas Savienoto Valstu vidustermiņa vēlēšanas, un atkal uz spēles bija likts Senāta un palātas līdzsvars un, iespējams, digitālo līdzekļu nozares regulēšanas ceļš.

Meklējot FTX vietnē FEC.gov, tiek parādīti 456 individuālie kampaņas ieguldījumi no SBF, izpilddirektora Raiena Salame un citiem. [31] Salame ieguldījums GOP kandidātiem pārsniedz 14 miljonus ASV dolāru, savukārt SBF "efektīvais altruisms" ziedoja vairāk nekā 20 miljonus ASV dolāru DNC politiķiem. Bidena otrais vadošais ziedotājs Baidena kampaņā, līdz vēlēšanu vakara pēdējiem rādītājiem SBF bankroll beidzot bija sasniedzis viņa morāli, un viņš atklāja, ka ir gandrīz pilnībā bankrotējis.

By November 9, the day after the elections, SBF had reportedly lost 94% of his net worth, down to $1 billion from more than $15 billion, leaving him with the largest single-day loss by a person according to the Bloomberg Billionaire Index. [32] Early in the morning of November 10, SBF took to Twitter to explain what happened, writing “I'm sorry. That's the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better”, before making a specific note that “THIS IS ALL ABOUT FTX INTERNATIONAL, THE NON-US EXCHANGE. FTX US USERS ARE FINE!” [33]

Nodaļa 11

“The administration [...] has consistently maintained that without proper oversight, cryptocurrencies risk harming everyday Americans…The most recent news further underscores these concerns and highlights why prudent regulation of cryptocurrencies is indeed needed.”

- White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre, November 10, 2022 [34]

Vienpadsmitā mēneša vienpadsmitajā dienā FTX un Alameda Research oficiāli iesniedza 11. nodaļas bankrota aizsardzību, un SBF atkāpās no izpilddirektora amata. Turklāt 130 saistīti uzņēmumi, kas bija saistīti vai saistīti ar FTX, arī uzsāka brīvprātīgas procedūras saskaņā ar 11. nodaļu. [35] Paisums bija pagājis, un gandrīz visi iesaistītie tika pieķerti peldam kaili, jo notika gandrīz nebeidzams dolāros denominētu likvidāciju paisuma vilnis. SBF Karību jūras impērijas ātrs darbs.

Lai gan Bahamu salās varētu būt sākušās pirmās dolāra CBDC pūtes, Otrā lielā stabilo monētu kara gaidāmais regulējums un izplatība nebūt nav beidzies. Kopš septembra dolāra vērtība ir samazinājusies par 10% no 35 gadu DXY maksimumiem, un tas meklē jaunus veidus, kā ieviest jauninājumus un turpināt dolārizēt tirgus visā pasaulē.

On November 15, just four days after the SBF tsunami crashed to shore, BNY Mellon, as well as a dozen or so other banking institutions, announced the start of a twelve-week digital dollar pilot program with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. [36] On the very same day, BlockFi announced plans for bankruptcy filings, only five months after taking a $250 million loan from FTX, and Circle announced users would now be able to settle payments by accepting Apple Pay. [37,38] With a significant 43% discount now showing on the highly-regulated Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, further community requests for proof of reserves are growing around Genesis and Grayscale, both owned by the Digital Currency Group, and even their custodian, Coinbase Custody. [39,40] As of this writing, these requests have so far been denied for security reasons.

Lai gan šķiet, ka tas uzbrūk plaukstošajai digitālo līdzekļu revolūcijas vilnim, gūstot gan slavenību atbalstu, gan politiskos sabiedrotos, izrādās, ka SBF slīkst parādos un nepareizā kapitāla sadalē starp skaļajām, plaši izplatītajām uzslavām. Vēlāk tajā pašā mēnesī, 30. novembrī, SBF bija paredzēts ierasties klātienē New York Times pasākumā, ko sponsorēja Accenture, kopā ar sekretāru Jellenu, Meta izpilddirektoru Marku Cukerbergu, Ukrainas prezidentu Volodimiru Zelenski, BlackRock izpilddirektoru Leriju Finku, TikTok izpilddirektoru Šou Čevu, bijušais viceprezidents Maikls Penss, Amazon izpilddirektors Endijs Džeisijs, Netflix līdzdibinātājs un izpilddirektors Rīds Heistings, Ņujorkas mērs Ēriks Adamss un citi; Biļetes uz pasākumu bija norādītas USD 2,499 apmērā vienam apmeklētājam.[41] Intervija starp SBF un Endrjū Rosu Sorkinu tika straumēta, kā reklamēts, lai gan abas puses fotografēja attālināti.

Bitcoin tends to be a ballast of truth, bringing all sorts of ballooning fraud rushing to the surface. FTX and Alameda Research will take their place amongst the seemingly too-big-to-sink players that ended up doing just that. They will certainly not be the last. However the following weeks, months, and years play out, it is clear that SBF was but a small fish in an ocean-sized, dollarized pond. And as he quickly found out, there is always a bigger fish.

"Kādā brīdī man varētu būt vairāk sakāmā par konkrētu sparinga partneri, tā sakot. Bet ziniet, stikla mājas. Tāpēc pagaidām viss, ko es teikšu: labi nospēlēts; tu uzvarēji." [42]

– Sems Bankmens-Frīds, 10. gada 2022. novembris

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BEIGAS PIEZĪMES:

[1]https://www.forbes.com/sites/taxnotes/2021/06/24/in-the-1930s-the-bahamas-became-a-tax-problem-for-treasury/

[2]https://fortune.com/2022/08/09/stablecoins-circle-tether-support-ethereum-merge-proof-of-stake

[3]https://ethereumprice.org/eth-2-deposits/

[4]https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/entertainment-celebrity/inside-bahamas-crypto-festival-where-ftx-ceo-bankman-fried-welcomed-bill-clinton-and-katy-perry/

[5]https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/luna-foundation-now-holds-more-bitcoin-than-tesla

[6]https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/binance-remove-trading-pairs-ftx-114338983.html

[7]https://lfg.org/audit/LFG-Audit-2022-11-14.pdf&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1668725884650403&usg=AOvVaw22nNl-O_mnhcT8MxsEtEiX

[8]https://www.truthorfiction.com/does-citadel-own-robinhood/&sa=D&source=docs&ust=1668980992263700&usg=AOvVaw31decanIMGsjR2r2ceb0sP

[9]https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2020-321

[10]https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/02/treasury-secretary-janet-yellen-to-call-regulator-meeting-on-gamestop-volatility-seeks-ethics-waiver.html

[11] https://www.axios.com/2022/05/13/what-does-sam-bankman-fried-want-with-robinhood

[12]https://twitter.com/CoinbaseExch/status/1542270332299579396?s=20&t=3qAy3oJqtmMnLdfwk-JTJA

[13]https://www.circle.com/blog/circle-expands-international-offerings-with-new-bermuda-operations-and-digital-assets-business-license

[14]https://s27.q4cdn.com/397450999/files/doc_financials/2022/q2/Q2-2022-Shareholder-Letter.pdf

[15]https://www.circle.com/en/usdc-yield#start

[16]https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1584077423280521216?s=20&t=UB_GcB9mjBRJtNS8sS4RJQ

[17]https://www.binance.com/en/support/announcement/binance-to-auto-convert-usdc-usdp-tusd-to-busd-binance-usd-e62f703604a94538a1f1bc803b2d579f

[18]https://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/bny-mellon-launches-new-digital-asset-custody-platform-301645324.html

[19]https://www.frbservices.org/financial-services/fednow/community/news/012521-announcing-pilot-program-participants.html

[20]https://www.forbes.com/sites/rosemariemiller/2022/10/27/core-scientific-unable-to-pay-bills-warns-of-bankruptcy/

[21]https://bitcoinke.io/2022/11/largest-bitcoin-outflow-on-binance/

[22]https://finance.yahoo.com/news/sbf-ftx-stablecoin-second-great-055956820.html

[23]https://twitter.com/delete_shitcoin/status/1585918718088970241

[24]https://www.coinbase.com/blog/coinbase-launches-usdc-institutional-rewards-program-with-makerdao

[25]https://www.trustnodes.com/2022/10/31/etherean-nikolai-muchgian-dead-by-drowning

[26]https://fortune.com/crypto/2022/11/03/coinbase-ceo-says-usdc-will-become-de-facto-cbdc/

[27]https://twitter.com/carolinecapital/status/1589287457975304193

[28]https://www.binance.com/en/news/flash/7268278

[29]https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1589374530413215744

[30]https://odysee.com/@lbry:3f/secvslbrysummaryjudgementruling:a

[31]https://www.fec.gov/data/receipts/individual-contributions/?contributor_employer=FTX

[32]https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/09/business/sam-bankman-fried-wealth-ftx-ctrp/index.html

[33]https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709166515310593

[34]https://cointelegraph.com/news/white-house-says-prudent-regulation-of-cryptocurrencies-is-needed-hinting-at-situation-with-ftx

[35]https://cryptopotato.com/ftx-and-alameda-file-for-bankruptcy-sbf-resigns-as-ceo/

[36]https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/digital-dollar-wall-street-banks-new-york-fed-ftx-crash-2022-11?miRedirects=1&op=1

[37]https://www.businessinsider.com/blockfi-ftx-bankruptcy-crypto-lender-emergency-loan-pausing-withdrawals-2022-11?op=1

[38]https://www.circle.com/blog/apple-pay-is-now-available-on-circle

[39]https://news.yahoo.com/grayscale-bitcoin-trust-hits-record-132435240.html

[40]https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/stock-market-news-today-11-18-2022/card/coinbase-vouches-for-grayscale-investments-products-yA5vzaPEIvaOr7Ffj2GE

[41]https://www.nytco.com/press/the-new-york-times-to-host-annual-dealbook-summit-on-nov-30/

[42]https://twitter.com/SBF_FTX/status/1590709197502812160

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