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> Bankman-Fried has maintained that FTX has never invested the deposits of crypto account holders on the exchange. I pressed him on that point via Twitter, and
by SevenNation 4y ago
> Bankman-Fried has maintained that FTX has never invested the deposits of crypto account holders on the exchange. I pressed him on that point via Twitter, and while he continued to insist that FTX did not directly use account money in this way, he said that Alameda — which he also owns — had borrowed far more money from FTX’s balance sheet for investments than he had realized, which ultimately left FTX vulnerable to the crypto equivalent of a bank run.
> Why didn’t Bankman-Fried realize what was happening until it was too late? “Sometimes life creeps up on you,” he said.
This is the central issue of the case. There aren't many paths for an exchange to experience a run unless it's acting like a fractional reserve bank.
So here's an admission that Alameda borrowed from the FTX balance sheet. There's also a denial that FTX invested deposits. There's no way for both statements to be true.
- jaywalk 4y agoFTX loaned the deposits to Alameda, and Alameda invested them. It's totally different from FTX making the investments themselves! /s
- sailplease 4y agoA loan is an investment.
- CuriousCosmic 4y agoIt's somehow even worse given that according to SBF, they didn't even loan all the deposits. Something like $8B of them were being deposited to Alameda directly from users without their knowledge. https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24202784/Screen_Shot_2022_11_16_at_7.32.22_AM.png https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_asset/file/24202784/S...