What Do You Think of Sam Bankman Friedon?

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Doberty made off that you made thogh when he made the proposal. He did not, but i think at persian capital, who originally suggested the scheme, might have made that allusion to it. I think sam bankman fried is an amoral actor willing to use his wealth to try to influence politics, regulations and anything else. So it benefits him with apparently not even enough shame to try to hide it here. But my issue with it is the current value of an unsustainable scheme itis basically entirely predicated on the belief that eventually you'll be able to identify people who don't recognize it as an unsustainable scheme.

Paris Marx is joined by Bennett Tomlin to discuss last week’s crash of Terra and Luna, the problems with stablecoins, and whether this collapse will finally force regulators to take action on cryptocurrency.

Bennett Tomlin is a co-host of Crypto Critics’ Corner and writer of the FUD Letter. Follow Bennett on Twitter at @BennettTomlin.

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Paris wrote about the Terra/Luna collapse and why we can’t let those who promoted crypto scams escape blame for their actions.
Bennett references George Soros’ attack on the British pound in 1992, also known as Black Wednesday.
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Vitalik Buterin backed a proposal for an FDIC-like response to rescue “small holders” who lost money in the Luna collapse.
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FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried described yield farming as a Ponzi scheme.
Justin Sun has already launched a copycat of the failed Terra algorithmic stablecoin. The Verge did a deep dive on him in March.
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