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Re:What Happened at Alameda Research by ChrisMarshallNY on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @08:51AM (#33609130)
I'm wondering if the numbers are believable. That's because I think they are doing "paper valuation," like when a drug bust happens, and the value of the kilo is broken into "street-level" packets; quadrupling the value.

I am not a crypto expert, but from the bit I do know, it seems as if it's fairly difficult to correlate fiat with crypto.

Re:What Happened at Alameda Research by pjc50 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @09:26AM (#33609504)
The Matt Levine article looks at that and claims quite a lot of it is just tokens issued by FTX themselves or related trading entities. In the words of Walter Sobchak from the Big Lebowski : "Mark it zero!"

Perhaps "only" $5bn was real and much of that was from institutional investors. Not yet clear how many retail rubes have been caught up in this.