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The Chopping Block: Was FTX a Scam From the Very Beginning?

Episode 433

Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, and Tarun Chitra were joined by Laura Shin to chop it up about the latest news.


Show topics:

  • the details of the SEC and CFTC complaints
  • how crypto traders have always speculated about Alameda's preferential treatment
  • whether many people knew about the mismanagement of funds and alleged fraud
  • why Haseeb thinks SBF was a "f*cking psycho"
  • how helpful Tarun believes a testimony from Sam Trabucco, former co-CEO of Alameda, would be
  • why Alameda and FTX lost billions of dollars, and the poor diligence of SBF's venture investments
  • Sam's "ineffective altruism" 
  • why a bull market wouldn't have solved the insolvency problems of FTX
  • whether SBF will fight extradition and how long it would take
  • how Sam's consistent use of Facebook and his anti-Maker stand shows he was not a crypto-native
  • why Laura thinks that The Block CEO's undisclosed loans represent a "total betrayal"
  • Robert's take on the ineffectiveness of the government's control of information
  • why Binance is under scrutiny and whether it's the "next FTX"

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