Sam Bankman-Fried, the previous CEO of bankrupt cryptocurrency trade FTX, has concluded a Twitter thread he began Nov. 14. In roughly 40 hours, he spelled out “What HAPPENED” throughout 9 tweets after which concluded with 5 tweets of textual content.
The weird Twitter storm attracted intensive consideration. The primary tweet (“What”), for instance, was retweeted practically 6,000 occasions as of the afternoon of Nov. 15, with over 6,000 quote tweets on prime of that.
1) What
— SBF (@SBF_FTX) November 14, 2022
Within the textual content tweets, Bankman-Fried (SBF) guarantees to inform what occurred “as I bear in mind it.” In accordance with the twelfth tweet, posted the morning of Nov. 15, “To the most effective of my data, as of post-11/7, with the potential for errors: a) Alameda had extra belongings than liabilities M2M (however not liquid!) b) Alameda had margin place on FTX Intl c) FTX US had sufficient to repay all prospects Not everybody essentially agrees with this.”
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The disagreement his Twitter thread impressed was appreciable. Some customers simply wished to ship just a few phrases of negativity, reminiscent of “Shut up and Go to jail,” or “All lies.” Others supplied assist, reminiscent of “Everybody messes up in life. Can’t make issues higher in a day. But when your intentions are good, folks will rally behind you.”
.@elonmusk can we get this account deleted earlier than these tweets are cited in court docket as proof for a way this fraudulent psychopathic liar tried to do “proper by all the purchasers” until the final second
— Hsaka (@HsakaTrades) November 15, 2022
Autism Capital tweeted a screenshot of a prolonged message alleged to be from an worker on the FTX firm Slack that learn, “Sam, respectfully, this isn’t serving to. […] Your tweets simply made folks extra mad that you just had the audacity to tweet one thing cryptic when folks’s lives have been destroyed.” The writer went on to say that the tweets have been inflicting stress amongst individuals who have been ready for information in them, and:
“Quite a lot of us idolised you Sam and you’ve got allow us to down.”
