FTX
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Sep 22, 2026
Tom BilyeuHOST
The year is 2022, and Sam Bankman Freed, better known as SBF, is the richest 30-year-old on planet Earth.
Tom BilyeuHOST
He runs a company called FTX, looks like he hasn't showered in weeks, and is the poster child for a movement called Effective Altruism.
Tom BilyeuHOST
Their entire pitch is that the most important thing you can do with money is prevent the end of the world.
Tom BilyeuHOST
And the thing most likely to end the world, according to the movement, is AI.
Tom BilyeuHOST
In April of that year, SBF, through his company FTX, put $500 million into Anthropic.
Tom BilyeuHOST
That was 86% of the entire round.
Tom BilyeuHOST
That same year, SBF became the second largest Democratic donor in the country, giving about $40 million and coming in behind only George Soros.
Tom BilyeuHOST
The industry called it the SBF bill because he was essentially the only person pushing it.
Christopher RufoHOST
The Sam Bankman Freed people and we're hinting at a kind of collection of interest.
Christopher RufoHOST
Sam Bankman Freed, of course, famously of FTX, who's now in jail and for defrauding his investors, but who nonetheless – For defrauding his customers.
Christopher RufoHOST
For stealing his customers' deposits.
Christopher RufoHOST
Yeah.
OptiHOST
Anyways, James Lavish followed this up.
OptiHOST
And he goes, comparing the current Bitcoin cycle to the 2019-2021 cycle makes sense to me, as there were just too much noise and confusion surrounding Bitcoin in the last bear cycle of 2021 and 2025 due to fraud from FTX, Celsius, etc., causing a longer and deeper drawdown, in my opinion.
OptiHOST
And so looking at the current price versus peak to trough drawdown, I would agree that without a major overall market disruption, Bitcoin should be bumping up against all time highs again in the next 60 to 120 days.
OptiHOST
And Checkmate has been on a pretty solid heater this morning, doubling down on this.
Orest GavryliakGUEST
And also some bans on custodial or asset controlling side of industry.
Orest GavryliakGUEST
Think of FTX and Alameda.
Orest GavryliakGUEST
So basically, what Bill was banning is that every platform must give fair and objective pricing.
Orest GavryliakGUEST
It cannot trade against its own users on the platform, you know, with privileges.
Orest GavryliakGUEST
Like, for example, Alameda were doing on FTX.
Orest GavryliakGUEST
So a lot of things were done, you know, for this bill to pass.
Orest GavryliakGUEST
But on Tuesday, the Senate didn't say a word, didn't vote on the bill.
Dan NovaesGUEST
At the time, they owed us millions of dollars and they went bankrupt.
Dan NovaesGUEST
FTX went bankrupt, another advertiser.
Dan NovaesGUEST
Aspiration, which wasn't even in crypto, was like a neobank, went bankrupt.
Dan NovaesGUEST
Everyone that was going to go public suddenly couldn't go public because all the VCs are underwater.
Delphine FormaHOST
Wow, this is really interesting.
Delphine FormaHOST
And indeed, 2021 working for OTC Walker, just before FTX happened, must have been quite an interesting time from a compliance point of view.
Sugandhi GovilGUEST
Absolutely.
Sugandhi GovilGUEST
It was really interesting.
GonzoPANELIST
like layer one, that it was freezing all the time.
GonzoPANELIST
And then the media connected it to Sam Baikman-Freem and FTX because he owned a big chunk of it.
GonzoPANELIST
But the blockchain itself, Solana, wasn't related to them.
GonzoPANELIST
It's just that he owned a lot of it.
Paolo ArdoinoGUEST
Everyone was focusing on, you know, mean coins.
Paolo ArdoinoGUEST
It was 2021, yes, pre-FTX.
Paolo ArdoinoGUEST
So yeah, there was a lot of noise in digital assets and crypto.
Paolo ArdoinoGUEST
No one really cared about tokenization of real world assets.
Stewart CrownGUEST
Interesting.
Roy CoughlanHOST
I know you touch on FTX as well.
Roy CoughlanHOST
So you may kind of share thoughts on that one.
Stewart CrownGUEST
Don't run a crypto exchange like a fractionalized bank because when people come a calling for their money and you don't have it, at least banks are insured.
Stewart CrownGUEST
We've bought up everything we can.
Stewart CrownGUEST
We've got $150 million worth of property under the company name, all that sort of stuff, of clients' funds.
Stewart CrownGUEST
So when they came to CFTX, they only had, I think it was like $9.6 billion.
Stewart CrownGUEST
They only had $900 million or $90 million.
Richard CoffinHOST
So that's the situation around WeWork.
Richard CoffinHOST
And with the recent guilty verdict handed down to SBF regarding the whole FTX scandal, you might think this is 0-2 for quirky startup founders.
Richard CoffinHOST
But don't worry too much about Adam.
Richard CoffinHOST
He's doing just fine.
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