The Chopping Block on FTX/Alameda: Is Sam Bankman-Fried 'Crypto Kanye'? - Ep. 424

Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, Tom Schmidt, and Tarun Chitra chop it up about the latest news concerning the collapse of FTX.

Show topics:

the statements of newly appointed CEO John Ray in the first day declaration

why Tarun, Robert and Haseeb think SBF is possibly delusional or at least in denial

whether the assets of FTX and Alameda were commingled from the beginning or whether they had been separate and at a certain point, FTX loaned money to Alameda

whether the Bahamian government was the 'FTX' hacker

the theories of why Alameda started falling

how regulators and legislators are assessing the failure of FTX

whether SBF will get a pardon like Mark Rich and the chances of him being charged criminally

whether Genesis will go insolvent and its potential contagion effects

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Hosts

Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital

Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures

Robert Leshner, founder of Compound

Tom Schmidt, general partner at Dragonfly Capital

Episode Links

Previous coverage of Unchained on FTX:

Jesse Powell and Kevin Zhou on How FTX and Alameda Lost $10 Billion

Is the Collapse of Crypto Lending Over, or Is It Just Starting?

Did the Bahamian Government Direct SBF and Gary Wang to Hack FTX?

The Chopping Block: Why Lenders Didn’t Liquidate Alameda When It Was Underwater

Erik Voorhees and Cobie on Why FTX Loaned Out Customers’ Assets

The Chopping Block: FTX: The Biggest Collapse in the History of Crypto?

Sam Bankman-Fried on How to Prevent the Next Terra and 3AC

FTX Collapse:

First declaration document

Unchained: FTX Bankruptcy Overseer Says Company’s Collapse Is Worst He’s Ever Seen

Unchained: Bahamas Regulator Directed SBF to Transfer FTX Assets to Government Wallet

SBF tweet: FTX files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection

WSJ: FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Cashed Out $300 Million During Funding Spree

Vox interview with SBF: Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

NYT: How Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Empire Collapsed

Arthur Hayes’s article on SBF: ‘White Boy’

NYT: Elizabeth Holmes Is Sentenced to More Than 11 Years for Fraud
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