Yeah, just yesterday SBF tweeted:
> This was about FTX International. FTX US, the US based exchange that accepts Americans, was not financially impacted by this shitshow.
> This was about FTX International. FTX US, the US based exchange that accepts Americans, was not financially impacted by this shitshow.
Was he in denial? Lying? Clueless? I have no idea at this point.
He seemed earnest and genuine, but everything he’s saying is the exact opposite of reality.
Maybe he was having an anxiety attack. I had one once, and it completely sucks. It ruins your ability to form logical thoughts.
(It’s rare to see someone so powerful be so confidently mistaken. The confidence is the part I’m struggling to figure out. There doesn’t seem to be much benefit for him to knowingly lie about FTX US not being impacted, so it seemed like something else was going on.)
It seems like there was negative benefit: not only did it accomplish nothing in practice, but it couldn’t have helped even theoretically.
So when someone does something like that, I can’t help but speculate.
I struggle to see how this could be true after 4 years of President Trump and Elon Musk's various undelivered promises. It's not rare, it seems to be extremely commonplace.
It is very common
I don't think Joe Biden has ever said that.
https://www.nationalreview.com/news/fbi-officials-told-agent...
Con man is short for “confidence” man for a reason. What they’re good at is gaining the unmerited confidence of others. You got played by his charisma. Remember this for next time.
The weirdest part is that all 23 tweets were posted simultaneously at 8:13am. So he had the opportunity to say nothing; he could’ve clicked “save draft” instead of “tweet all”.
Here's another...SBF has stepped down, and his replacement is John J. Ray III, a famous bankruptcy lawyer who helped clean up Enron...yes, that Enron.
I suppose the writers could mine[0] this for inspiration.
[0] Pun intended.
"Here is a bunch of information about the ongoing potentially criminal collapse of my company - oh by the way I'm a bad dev so some of what I said above might be wrong, don't act on this information."