They’re probably selling every unit at a loss. A big part of the Amazon smart home stuff also has to be the data it collects and the way it integrates with ordering off the retail site which might not have been counted…
But no one knew ftx had written the shitty loans until last week. You can speculate that he was risking billions in depositor funds but there wasn’t really any evidence.
FTX was never doing a ponzi. All the threads are about how everyone was ok with SBF ponzi’ing because the money went to a good cause but that’s just not the case. EA proponents thought SBF was just running a normal…
Most EA’s are just donating to givewell(global health and poverty). The long termists are a small portion of the movement and ai safety even smaller.
You are wrong. Without existing deposits the bank has no money to loan out. They can write numbers on screens, but eventually the money they loaned out will be transferred and the bank that it was transferred to will…
Not before giving away hundreds of millions of dollars
Obviously not op, but it sounds like the issue is that the cure makes you sick in the short term which requires expensive care. If the sickness is inherent to the solution it’s hard to see how this gets cheaper.
breaking a law is not an uncivilized act. Everyone breaks laws all the time
Well he's in the bahamas, not the US.
So my understanding is that alameda needed more capital to fund its operations that had a track record of success, so sbf created ftx and gave customer assets to alameda to invest. So the business thesis here isn’t “use…
Bill hwang didn’t even take investor money. How did you come to the conclusion that his behavior was ponzi adjacent?
Gas exploration is way down. No gas production won't stop, but supply growth seems to be completely stalled while demand is not due to developing countries continuing to get richer. Gas will likely continue to be…
You're just talking about different time frames. Yearly inflation can be positive and prices can also be lower than they were last month. Ergo prices are going down but inflation still positive.
08-20 money supply tripled but no inflation.
I mean really it seems like FTX’s issue is that it got raided to serve as a hedge funds piggy bank. They’re not stupid, they wouldn’t accept such a massive amount of collateral in their own token if it wasn’t mostly…
Binance loans customer funds too… maybe not to themselves but it could still come crumbling down
FTX fucked up big time, but if they didn’t allow alemeda to siphon all the customer funds away they’d still be chugging along just fine. The issue is Sam used it as his hedge funds piggy bank.
FTX made a boatload of money. They just threw it all away at the casino.
No, FTX was making bank in fees. They just got greedy and loaned customer funds the SBF’s hedge fund to gamble with. Hedge fund went bust and now the loans default and the collateral which was just funny money to begin…
Right so they didn’t invest customer assets, they just loaned them to themselves in exchange for their own token so that they could invest the customer assets.
No, banks loan customer funds out as mortgages. It is not literally created out of thin air. You deposit money, the bank gives it to joe to buy a house, he sends it to the seller. Now the seller has your physical money,…
Ea probably isn’t super worried about crypto gamblers tbh.
Coin base doesn’t offer margin loans?
EA was created by will macAskill at Oxford.
and in modern terms it makes you a social pariah. Really though trimming the fat probably refers to a butcher removing the unwanted flesh from meat, not losing weight.
They’re probably selling every unit at a loss. A big part of the Amazon smart home stuff also has to be the data it collects and the way it integrates with ordering off the retail site which might not have been counted…
But no one knew ftx had written the shitty loans until last week. You can speculate that he was risking billions in depositor funds but there wasn’t really any evidence.
FTX was never doing a ponzi. All the threads are about how everyone was ok with SBF ponzi’ing because the money went to a good cause but that’s just not the case. EA proponents thought SBF was just running a normal…
Most EA’s are just donating to givewell(global health and poverty). The long termists are a small portion of the movement and ai safety even smaller.
You are wrong. Without existing deposits the bank has no money to loan out. They can write numbers on screens, but eventually the money they loaned out will be transferred and the bank that it was transferred to will…
Not before giving away hundreds of millions of dollars
Obviously not op, but it sounds like the issue is that the cure makes you sick in the short term which requires expensive care. If the sickness is inherent to the solution it’s hard to see how this gets cheaper.
breaking a law is not an uncivilized act. Everyone breaks laws all the time
Well he's in the bahamas, not the US.
So my understanding is that alameda needed more capital to fund its operations that had a track record of success, so sbf created ftx and gave customer assets to alameda to invest. So the business thesis here isn’t “use…
Bill hwang didn’t even take investor money. How did you come to the conclusion that his behavior was ponzi adjacent?
Gas exploration is way down. No gas production won't stop, but supply growth seems to be completely stalled while demand is not due to developing countries continuing to get richer. Gas will likely continue to be…
You're just talking about different time frames. Yearly inflation can be positive and prices can also be lower than they were last month. Ergo prices are going down but inflation still positive.
08-20 money supply tripled but no inflation.
I mean really it seems like FTX’s issue is that it got raided to serve as a hedge funds piggy bank. They’re not stupid, they wouldn’t accept such a massive amount of collateral in their own token if it wasn’t mostly…
Binance loans customer funds too… maybe not to themselves but it could still come crumbling down
FTX fucked up big time, but if they didn’t allow alemeda to siphon all the customer funds away they’d still be chugging along just fine. The issue is Sam used it as his hedge funds piggy bank.
FTX made a boatload of money. They just threw it all away at the casino.
No, FTX was making bank in fees. They just got greedy and loaned customer funds the SBF’s hedge fund to gamble with. Hedge fund went bust and now the loans default and the collateral which was just funny money to begin…
Right so they didn’t invest customer assets, they just loaned them to themselves in exchange for their own token so that they could invest the customer assets.
No, banks loan customer funds out as mortgages. It is not literally created out of thin air. You deposit money, the bank gives it to joe to buy a house, he sends it to the seller. Now the seller has your physical money,…
Ea probably isn’t super worried about crypto gamblers tbh.
Coin base doesn’t offer margin loans?
EA was created by will macAskill at Oxford.
and in modern terms it makes you a social pariah. Really though trimming the fat probably refers to a butcher removing the unwanted flesh from meat, not losing weight.