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> It won’t, just like even in this thread you see the perennial “this is good, actually.” That's not quite what the grandparent poster was talking about. One
by Majromax 4y ago
> It won’t, just like even in this thread you see the perennial “this is good, actually.”
That's not quite what the grandparent poster was talking about.
One strain of thought on FTX/SBF has been conspiratorial. Allegedly, SBF was "a big Democratic donor" with connections in high places, so he would evade any serious US-based law enforcement action.
This view is likely related to FTX's (previous) attempts to present itself as the lawful-good crypto exchange, actively lobbying for US regulation. Such efforts necessarily come with a lot of political deal-making, making the idea of a corrupt bargain more superficially plausible.
- ethanbond 4y agoRight, I'm aware of this. My claim (feel free to disagree) is that this conspiratorial thinking is coming from the exact same region of CryptoBrain as what built up crypto-land and FTX/SBF to begin with. It is the sensation that you are in on something special, everyone who is not in on it is either an antagonist or an idiot, and you deserve more than they deserve.
- vgatherps 4y agoI would suspect it's also that crypto tends to attract "government bad" sort of folk with the whole "rebuild some decentralized world" or something, as well as folks whothink "government bad" because they don't want those pesky regulators getting in the way of ponzishop1000 as they can only see the next bull market in their mind. I think a lot of people are in the second camp, but dress it up as the first. It's funny how tons of people who claim "I'm here for the tech, hodl" get mad whenever somebody shorts their coin or the price goes down
- Sporktacular 4y agoPlease don't feed the distraction machine. He donated just as much to Republicans.