Two Executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Plead Guilty to Fraud

Re:Two Executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Plead... by fnands on Thursday December 22, 2022 @10:16AM (#34094117)

As far as I understand they were making pretty good bank with Alameda doing crypto arbitrage. Could probably have been set for life just doing that.

Human psychology is funny. Not content with being stinking rich in their 20's, they embarked on a massive fraud to get even richer.

To give them the benefit of the doubt, I'm not sure they set out to commit fraud, just make money off suckers, but when the temptation presented itself they couldn't resist it seems.

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Re:Two Executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Plead... by cellis on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:19AM (#34094975)

Their margins got squeezed quickly. Like the trader that makes a million one year and can’t repeat the random walk the next and starts pitching his “trading course” on YouTube instead of continuing to lose money, same for this but replace “trading course” with a much more sophisticated level of how to fleece retail. And they believed in themselves. I still think they don’t consider what they did “fraud”. They’re just now cooperative because the legal needle has pierced their Bahamas and SV bubble.

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Re:Two Executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Plead... by michaelcampbell on Sunday December 25, 2022 @12:20PM (#34128967)

> doing crypto arbitrage.

They were, but arbitrage can only last so long and theirs ran out. They were convinced of their own genius I think which is what got them on the FTX train.

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Re:Two Executives in Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Plead... by fnands on Wednesday December 28, 2022 @03:55AM (#34158974)

Agreed. I am just fascinated by the fact that they made an few million easily, and instead of rolling that into something productive they went for fraud.

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