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https://www.investopedia.com/why-ftx-plan-to-refund-90-percent-of-recovered-assets-doesnt-add-up-to-90-percent-of-what-customers-lost-8362556 https://www.invest
by Mistletoe 3y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/why-ftx-plan-to-refund-90-percent-of-recovered-assets-doesnt-add-up-to-90-percent-of-what-customers-lost-8362556 https://www.investopedia.com/why-ftx-plan-to-refund-90-perce...
> FTX expects to pay all customers in full, although it will calculate their repayment based on cryptocurrency prices from November 2022, when FTX filed for bankruptcy amid a prolonged slump in the crypto market, rather than at the present, higher value of crypto assets.
November 2022 was a bottom they themselves created. Bitcoin has tripled in value since then so paying in USD is a huge loss for the affected customers.
And let’s not neglect the massive fees that the bankruptcy lawyers for FTX have raked in.
> The filings also show that FTX has paid lawyers a total of $350 million since bankruptcy proceedings began earlier this year and that from August to October, it shelled out somewhere in the region of $1.4 million per day.
That was from Dec. 2023 I’m sure it is much more now. That money comes from somewhere.
- hef19898 3y agoYeah, that's what happens when a fraud, a crook ruins a business and bankruptcy lawyers have to take over to save whatever can be saved for victims of said fraud.
- sidewndr46 3y agoHoly shit, $350 million? how the hell is that even possible?
- Scoundreller 3y agoTrick is to be lucky like Bernie Madoff creditors. Then SIPC covers all the fees. > No funds recovered in the Madoff Recovery Initiative are used to pay costs associated with the recovery. All trustee, legal, and accounting fees, as well as administrative expenses, are paid by SIPC. https://www.sipc.org/news-and-media/news-releases/20231208 https://www.sipc.org/news-and-media/news-releases/20231208 Still chugging along doing collections and distributions, oh and of course billing, to this day 16 years later.