Matt Levine on FTX implosion
2022-11-14 21:06:40.214796+01 by Dan Lyke 0 comments
Like a movie that's so bad that the reviews of the badness are entertaining, cryptocurrency does offer us something of value: Matt Levine on Bloomberg: FTX’s Balance Sheet Was Bad
$16 billion of dollar liabilities and assets consisting mostly of some magic beans that you invented yourself and acquired for zero dollars? WHAT? Never mind the valuation of the beans; where did the money go? What happened to the $16 billion? Spending $5 billion of customer money on Serum would have been horrible, but FTX didn’t do that, and couldn’t have, because there wasn’t $5 billion of Serum available to buy. FTX shot its customer money into some still-unexplained reaches of the astral plane and was like “well we do have $5 billion of this Serum token we made up, that’s something?” No it isn’t!