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"

Hosts

• Haseeb Qureshi, managing partner at Dragonfly Capital
• Tarun Chitra, managing partner at Robot Ventures
• Robert Leshner, founder of Compound 

Guest:

• Laura Shin, author, host of Unchained

Episode Links

FTX:

• Unchained:CFTC and SEC File Damning Complaints Against Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX
• SBF Denied Bail in The Bahamas, Will Remain in Fox Hill Prison
• Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested Amid US Indictment
• Bahamas Asked SBF to Mint Hundreds of Millions of Dollars’ Worth of New Tokens After Collapse, Say FTX Liquidators
• SBF Directed $8B Alameda Liabilities to an FTX Account He Called ‘Weird Korean,’ Says CFTC
• Forbes: Despite Boasting Of Big Profits, FTX And Alameda Lost $3.7 Billion Before 2022
• Bloomberg: FTX Bankruptcy Standoff Heats Up as Bahamas Challenges US Case
• Sam Bankman-Fried’s Harsh Bahamas Jail Could Shift His Stance on Extradition
• Fortune: Sam Bankman-Fried indicted on multiple conspiracy and fraud charges by U.S. officials
• Previous coverage of Unchained on Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX:How Much Prison Time Is FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried Facing?
• Why the Legal Process for FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried Could Take Years
• The Chopping Block: SBF Wants to Win in the Court of Public Opinion. Will He?
• Jesse Powell and Kevin Zhou on How FTX and Alameda Lost $10 Billion
• Is the Collapse of Crypto Lending Over, or Is It Just Starting?
• Did the Bahamian Government Direct SBF and Gary Wang to Hack FTX?
• The Chopping Block: Why Lenders Didn’t Liquidate Alameda When It Was Underwater 
• Erik Voorhees and Cobie on Why FTX Loaned Out Customers’ Assets
• The Chopping Block: FTX: The Biggest Collapse in the History of Crypto?
• Sam Bankman-Fried on How to Prevent the Next Terra and 3AC

Binance:

• Unchained: Binance Passes Withdrawal ‘Stress Test’ After $3B in Daily Outflows
• Forbes: Kevin O’Leary Points Finger At Binance For FTX Crash In Senate Testimony

The Block

• Unchained: The Block CEO Steps Down After Revealing He Was Secretly Funded By SBF

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