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Sbf could have printed money if he didn’t get so greedy.

Maybe ftx would have been a top 10 exchange, instead of the third largest.

Maybe alameda would have been a standard successful prop shop (though they were really struggling as trading got more competitive).

He would have just been worth a few billion.

But here we are now.

I have a lot of friends on the inside and nobody knew at all. These friends knowingly kept money there confident the rumors weren’t true. I don’t know how much all of alameda knew but I don’t think the rank and-file knew the full story.

And how do you even lose 8bn? Did alameda become a shop making leveraged long crypto bets? Using a shitcoin as collateral? I know they’re smarter than that, so what happened????



How are you aware of how profitable alemedas trading was?

I haven’t seen any data on it


I worked at a crypto trading firm ~two years ago and became good friends with some people at both alameda and ftx during that time.

I obviously don’t get to look at balance sheets or daily pnl or anything though so it’s all second hand and lagged.




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