FTX’s bankruptcy estate has been holding customers’ bitcoin that has quadrupled, yet it will only repay about $16,871 per coin. The post Bitcoin is worth $69,000 — unless you’re an FTX creditor appeared first on Protos.

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    1 month ago

    FTX had a lot of mainstream credibility.

    this wasn’t the equivalent of a nigerian prince email

    Hard disagree. There were red flags all over FTX if you spent a minute on their own website.

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        1 month ago

        The fact that they used a cryptocurrency they invented to be the basis of account for all internal funds and accounting. This cryptocurrency they invented was for the sole purpose of keeping their records in the invented cryptocurrency as disclosured prominently on their website.

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          1 month ago

          That was definitely incredibly sus but not something I would expect the average person mostly unfamiliar with finance and cryptocurrency to identify as a red flag and not an “innovation”, especially before the cascade of disasters related to various schemes of this type.