Welcome to The Chopping Block! Crypto insiders Haseeb Qureshi, Robert Leshner, and Tarun Chitra were joined by Laura Shin to chop it up about the latest news. Show topics:
- the details of the SEC and CFTC complaints
- how crypto traders have always speculated about Alameda’s preferential treatment
- whether many people knew about the mismanagement of funds and alleged fraud
- why Haseeb thinks SBF was a “f*cking psycho”
- how helpful Tarun believes a testimony from Sam Trabucco, former co-CEO of Alameda, would be
- why Alameda and FTX lost billions of dollars, and the poor diligence of SBF’s venture investments
- Sam’s “ineffective altruism”
- why a bull market wouldn’t have solved the insolvency problems of FTX
- whether SBF will fight extradition and how long it would take
- how Sam’s consistent use of Facebook and his anti-Maker stand shows he was not a crypto-native
- why Laura thinks that The Block CEO’s undisclosed loans represent a “total betrayal”
- Robert’s take on the ineffectiveness of the government’s control of information
- why Binance is under scrutiny and whether it’s the “next FTX”
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