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U.S. sending money to Ukraine: True Ukraine funding FTX: Mostly false. This appears to be a confusion related to the fact that Ukraine launched a website accep

U.S. sending money to Ukraine: True Ukraine funding FTX: Mostly false. This appears to be a confusion related to the fact that Ukraine launched a website accepting cryptocurrency donations that were processed via FTX [1]. However, as far as I can tell, there was no funding of FTX by Ukraine other than possibly FTX earning transaction fees for processing the donations. FTX being 2nd largest donor to Democratic party in the U.S.: Semi-true. SBF was the 2nd largest donor, not FTX the company. [2] [1] https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/14/ukraine-partners-with-ftx-everstake-to-launch-new-crypto-donation-website/ https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2022/03/14/ukraine-partners-... [2] https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-joe-biden-democratic-party-second-biggest-donor/ https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-joe-bid...

teh64 4y ago
Also quite a lot sent to republicans from the CO-CEO: https://www.ft.com/content/428c7800-c72d-4c59-9940-4376fea6e263 https://www.ft.com/content/428c7800-c72d-4c59-9940-4376fea6e... https://sherman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congressman-brad-sherman-statement-on-collapse-of-ftx#:~:text=However%2C%20we%20have%20also%20seen,and%20campaign%20groups%20in%202022 https://sherman.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/congre....
MichaelCollins 4y ago
> SBF was the 2nd largest donor, not FTX the company. It doesn't really seem like much of a distinction, since Bankman Fried viewed FTX as his personal piggy bank. Regardless, the DNC will be fine. They're still popular with voters, regardless of what donors are doing. Donor money doesn't actually win elections, voters do.