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Yellow (Daryl)Oct 23 20231

For every dollar someone lost, someone else gained a dollar, I wonder where that money went.

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Yellow (Daryl)Oct 21 2023-8

If you think about the fraud SBF did, it could technically be thought of as merely a redistribution of wealth from those who held FTX to those who shorted ftx and almeda.
Could it be possible that this redistribution was good?

JasonOct 21 20237

Among other reasons to disagree with this statement, I don't think it is accurate to say that depositors "held FTX."

CCOct 23 20231

Was anyone able to short FTX or Alameda? Neither was publicly traded.

JasonOct 23 20233

Presumably could short the FTT token, which was a form of psuedo-equity in FTX.

Yellow (Daryl)Oct 23 20231

For every dollar someone lost, someone else gained a dollar, I wonder where that money went.

JasonOct 23 20235

Overpriced private equity investments, bad crypto trades, celebrity endorsers, etc. Pretty sure the marginal utility of Tom Brady having more money is minimal at best!

CCOct 24 20232

Michael Lewis tries to provide some rough estimates in the last chapter or two of "Going Infinite". From memory, his answer is more or less along the same lines as Jason's comment. Also, some of the money was stolen in hacks, and some has now gone to the bankruptcy lawyers etc.