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>I believe that, had FTX International been given a few weeks, it could likely have utilized its illiquid assets and equity to raise enough financing to make cu
by rocket_surgeron 4y ago
>I believe that, had FTX International been given a few weeks, it could likely have utilized its illiquid assets and equity to raise enough financing to make customers substantially whole.”
I haven't really been following this because I think crypto is one of the dumbest fucking ideas a human being has ever come up with, but isn't the above quote just describing a ponzi scheme without using the word ponzi?
Like, what do the people who cover the losses of the ponzi-schemed customers get, promises of more rounds of fundraising to cover THEIR inevitable future losses?
- fatnoah 4y ago> ...isn't the above quote just describing a ponzi scheme without using the word ponzi? It's definitely not a ponzi scheme. It's using money from new investors to pay existing customers vs. using money from new customers to pay existing ones. See? It's totally different! ;)