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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by vanattab on Thursday November 10, 2022 @10:20PM (#33556941)
>It is also a regulatory failure, there are reasons this kind of dipping into customer funds is quite illegal in the US. FTX should not have been reachable by US citizens (funding should have been impossible) _or_ FTX should have been sanctioned _by_ the US

I wonder if Sam being the 2nd biggest funder of Democrats has anything to due with this...

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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by tru3_power on Thursday November 10, 2022 @10:33PM (#33557024)
Source?
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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by zoklet-enjoyer on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:29PM (#33557319)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattdurot/2022/11/08/ahead-of-h...

His mom is Barbara Fried https://stanforddaily.com/2020/01/16/stanford-connected-fund...

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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by foobiekr on Thursday November 10, 2022 @11:55PM (#33557439)
I am in awe of this reality. So wait, his mom is a law professor?
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Re:FTX Tapped into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Set... by colechristensen on Thursday November 10, 2022 @10:24PM (#33556968)
The SEC has been pretty slow across the board at regulating crypto.
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