🚨How FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Went From Crypto's Golden Child to The Most Hated Villain in 36 Hours..
Tom Brady is not having a good week, and neither is anyone who is involved with now Bankrupt FTX and affiliated companies.
What the F happened here? pic.twitter.com/exhKn0VP7y
— MMCrypto (@MMCrypto) November 13, 2022
Just a week ago, SBF, Sam Bankman-Fried, the darling CEO, was headlining Crypto events, naming sports arenas, and testifying in front of congress to shape Crypto regulations, and had investors like Sequoia, SoftBank, BlackRock, and dozen other top VCs.
HOLY SHIT
— MrChief (@HaloCrypto) November 9, 2022
In front of a room of lawmakers… pic.twitter.com/7aGWdJ0l9W
Mario has been up for 36 hours covering the breaking FTX story on his Twitter spaces with his team and Kim Dot Com and Elon Musk joining the discussion.
Twitter at its best!
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 13, 2022
Paradigm, a crypto-focused venture fund that put $278 million into FTX, told its backers in a Wednesday letter that the investment was likely worthless.
Sequoia said in a statement that it valued its $213 million investment in FTX at $0.
Here is the note we sent to our LPs in GGFIII regarding FTX. pic.twitter.com/Cgp1Yxk1pz
— Sequoia Capital (@sequoia) November 10, 2022
Even the Whitehouse had a comment, and you can see what happened in this simple explanation by Coffeezilla.
The venture capital arm of the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, which put $95 million into FTX, said in a statement, “Not all of the investments in this early-stage asset class perform to expectations.”
“I Had to scratch my head a bunch of times like where is this guy getting all of this liquidity” -
— n0body (@biiliions) November 12, 2022
Brian Armstrong of #Coinbase
#SBF_FTX and #FTX collapse pic.twitter.com/FaMirN0AM5
In the bankruptcy filing, FTX indicates it has more than 100,000 creditors, assets in the range of $10 billion to $50 billion, and liabilities in the range of $10 billion to $50 billion. By comparison, Lehman had more than $600 billion in assets.
The exchange’s founder, once seen as a golden genius in the world of digital assets, is under investigation, and his company filed for bankruptcy.
It has been 23 hours since @SBF_FTX made a tweet.
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) November 12, 2022
The longer this goes ... the higher the confidence level is that it wasn't a "hack" and the guy just flat out stole the crypto coins from customers and ran. pic.twitter.com/uKxWzKtbnD
There are also some interesting coincidences regarding Sams's and Caroline's families, who are very prominent lawyers, educators, and Democratic donors.
Jeez- corruption runs deep in America, who could’ve thought! Success is all hard work right? 🥴 #SBF_FTX #SBF pic.twitter.com/k7760TBVmt
— Cloud9 Crypto Trader (@thecloud9crypto) November 12, 2022
“Sam ran the shop, Sam ran everything, we all trusted him, and believed him. It was a dictatorship, in a good way, a benevolent dictatorship.”
According to a rumor, three former FTX executives and Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison are looking for ways to flee to Dubai. While the plan was made assuming that the United States “doesn't have any extradition treaties” with the UAE, the nations signed a mutual legal assistance treaty (MLAT) back on Feb. 24, 2022, to work against criminals.
Taken 2 hours ago in Argentina, a couple calling themselves Samantha and Carl. 🤔🤔🤔#SBF_FTX #runSBFrun pic.twitter.com/MXS1TKnPo2
— Richard Reloaded【Ø】 (@richard8064) November 13, 2022
This might be the worst day for Crypto since 2017, but the talent in this space and the drive are nothing like we have ever seen.
Which one are you giving your seed phrase to? pic.twitter.com/qwwaOhK1bm
— Vanessa Sierra (@vanessasierra00) November 13, 2022
Elon on Spaces shared that his bs meter was activated in a meeting with SBF on his Twitter deal.
— dirtyjerz (@gingerwittasoul) November 12, 2022
Some management, like Dan Friedberg, has interesting pasts and was involved in major scandals.
The Puppet Master Dan Friedberg. He is busy scrubbing the internet of his existence. Don’t let him. Plaster this everywhere pic.twitter.com/8CYQHbB7LD
— Ben Armstrong (@Bitboy_Crypto) November 13, 2022