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Re:FTX Appears to Have Stopped Processing Withdrawals, On-Ch... by rafaelero on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @09:53AM (#33519602)
Wow, that's crazy. FTX was the company that saved a lot of crypto companies that were about to default on their liabilities in the first stages of crypto winter. And now they are the one that are going under. Ironic.
Re:FTX Appears to Have Stopped Processing Withdrawals, On-Ch... by jerf on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:06AM (#33519767)
With respect, this isn't "ironic" at all, and I don't mean this as some stupid quibbling about the definition because I mean this for all definitions. Those two facts are quite connected; maybe not completely directly, but they are far from independent events that just happen to be occurring in some unexpected manner. At the very least, it means I interpret the rescue as another level of razzle-dazzle rather than a rescue based on solid fundamentals. This doesn't surprise me too much, your mileage may vary.
Re:FTX Appears to Have Stopped Processing Withdrawals, On-Ch... by shapefrog on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:10AM (#33519809)
I took all my money, put it into a metal bin, poured petrol on it and set it alight.

Now all I have is a metal bin, how Ironic

Re:FTX Appears to Have Stopped Processing Withdrawals, On-Ch... by tootie on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:19AM (#33519908)
What's ironic is that they did this at all. It's like they positioned themselves as the central bank of the crypto world. Only they skipped the "full faith and credit" part and made their contract be "hey, don't worry about it".
Re:FTX Appears to Have Stopped Processing Withdrawals, On-Ch... by marshmallowmad on Tuesday November 08, 2022 @10:46AM (#33520241)
I’m not convinced they’re going under. Is Alameda in trouble? Maybe, but FTX is basically having a bank run. Just because things are slow processing doesn’t mean they’re going under. SBF came out and claimed to have all customer deposits.