SBF Confesses, “But All I Can Do Is To Try”

FTX ex-CEO unveiled that before the FTX crash, it was handling ~$10b/day of volume and billions of transfers.

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Sam asked his followers what can he do, “Raise Liquidity And Restart”.

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In a cryptic series of tweets, SBF mentioned, maybe he can fail but all he is trying to do is to try.

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In addition, he hopes “And part of me thinks I might get somewhere.”

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Later in his tweets, he specified roughly the things they have today.

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It includes: Liquid: -$8b, Semi: +$5.5b, Illiquid: +$3.5b.

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He also disclosed that about a month ago “it was worth $18b; +$10b net.”

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