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Old 12-13-2022, 01:57 PM
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Incredulous New CEO Says FTX Used QuickBooks to Manage Billions

WTF!?!?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/sam-bankm...154744385.html

Newly appointed FTX CEO John Ray could barely disguise his disbelief as he listed all the failures at the now-bankrupt crypto exchange before Congress on Tuesday—among them, the use of QuickBooks to manage the finances of the multibillion-dollar company.

Ray took the stand in front of the House Financial Services Committee as FTX’s founder and former CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, arrived at court in the Bahamas on charges of wire fraud, conspiracy to defraud the United States, and more.

“I’ve done probably a dozen large-scale bankruptcies over my career, including Enron,” said Ray, who took over the company shortly after it filed for bankruptcy last month. “The FTX group is unusual.”

Ray expressed astonishment that there was “no record-keeping whatsoever” at the business. Employees passed along invoices and expenses via Slack as opposed to a formal process, he said, and used QuickBooks to manage its finances. There was also no independent board to serve as a watchdog, he said.

Asked whether he trusted the company’s audited financial statements, Ray added: “We’ve lost $8 billion dollars of customer money, so by definition I don’t trust a single piece of paper in this organization.”

Sam Bankman-Fried Wire Fraud, Money Laundering Charges Unsealed

Ray also claimed that Bankman-Fried, the 30-year-old former crypto wunderkind, took multiple personal loans from his trading firm, Alameda Research. Bankman-Fried told regulators he re-invested the money back into the exchange, but Ray said there is no documentation of what the loans were for or how they were used.

In at least one case, Ray said, Bankman-Fried signed the loan as both the issuer and recipient.
That last sentence sounds like wire fraud to me but I'll have to ask my daughter the accountant.
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Old 12-13-2022, 03:05 PM
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It's pretty clear to me that whether or not SBF/FTX committed fraud in a legal sense, their actions are mixed with a rather large dose of hubris, ignorance, naivete and stupidity.

SBF is just some bright guy who had an idea and enough drive to make something of it and convince people it had value. 'Wunderkind'? More like Glückskind.



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Old 12-13-2022, 09:58 PM
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Dude burned a lot of rich folks, I wouldn't be surprised if the cameras in his prison stop working for a few minutes.
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Old 12-15-2022, 09:33 PM
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Did you get your Trump NFT?
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...d-nfts-2022-12

Trump teases 'major announcement' that ended up being 'Donald Trump Digital Trading Card' NFTs

https://www.collecttrumpcards.com/
No purchase necessary
No shit

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Old 12-16-2022, 11:28 AM
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Old 12-16-2022, 02:29 PM
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This is also very appropriate here: https://acurazine.com/forums/sports-.../#post16860971

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Old 12-16-2022, 09:13 PM
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Did you get your Trump NFT?
https://www.businessinsider.com/trum...d-nfts-2022-12

Trump teases 'major announcement' that ended up being 'Donald Trump Digital Trading Card' NFTs

https://www.collecttrumpcards.com/

No shit

Sold out on the first day?


There really is a sucker born every minute.


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I bet Trump told them to put up a sold out sign after 24 hours no matter what. That will cause demand for the next batch of skinny Trump gifs.
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Old 12-28-2022, 11:21 AM
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If they keep hodling...the $$$ will roar back and they will gain 23421742X in value.
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Should've hodled his kidney

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Explain to me one more time: Why is the same monkey image...albeit in different clothing, hats, or whatever...but basically the same pose in all images, such a big deal?

Like, in the world of digital art, this is not very special?


What concept here do I need to hodl on to in order to understand the hype for this and that cruder image, those punks?
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Originally Posted by Yumcha
Explain to me one more time: Why is the same monkey image...albeit in different clothing, hats, or whatever...but basically the same pose in all images, such a big deal?

Like, in the world of digital art, this is not very special?


What concept here do I need to hodl on to in order to understand the hype for this and that cruder image, those punks?

With regard to non-differentiated digital art, the key concept you need to hodl is that some people have more money than sense.



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Originally Posted by Bearcat94
With regard to non-differentiated digital art, the key concept you need to hodl is that some people have more money than sense.
Hodl on...that can't be all there is to this.
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I've had my Helium hotspot for a year. It earned about as many coins as I was hoping, 51. If Helium was still worth $24 that would have been $1224. But no, It's worth $2.27 or $129. Failed experiment. Oh well.

58.53 HNT = $89.56

I turned off my hotspot today.
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Originally Posted by doopstr

58.53 HNT = $89.56

I turned off my hotspot today.
I think you should hodl out a bit longer.
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Pls bro! Ape strong together! Hodl

Diamond hands, bro, diamond hands

WAGMI bro WAGMI
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guy summed it up with 2 words: mass delusion


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Post Miami is one step closer to the implosion of its crypto dreams

Keep hodl-ing Miami!


https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/15/opini...trp/index.html
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I think they mean "hacked" ... wink, wink, nudge, nudge.



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Hodl...!!!!
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^ Genesis should hodl longer and they could be rebranded as Revelations.
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I closed down my Coinbase account today, cashed out $12 worth of ETH I still had in there, I hadn't logged in over 5 years.
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I closed down my Coinbase account today, cashed out $12 worth of ETH I still had in there, I hadn't logged in over 5 years.
$12? If you hodl, it'll be $1200000 soon.
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That's cuz, he hodl-ed when he said he had only $100K left and see what happened when he hodl-ed? It grew to this new amount.


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That's cuz, he hodl-ed when he said he had only $100K left and see what happened when he hodl-ed? It grew to this new amount.
Damn, if I hodled like SBF instead of cashing out my $12 it'd be worth $84,000 now
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There is SBF...and then, there's Ruja Ignatova. Took suckers' $4B...disappeared...and well, I guess those investors just have to hodl on for a bit longer.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/22/busin...cec/index.html



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If that bank hodls, it'll be as big as the biggest of the banks. Give 'em time.
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So...hodl? Definite. Yeah. Need to hodl.


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