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I'm wondering the same thing. He must've known for a long time it'll come crashing down eventually and made proper arrangements. Perhaps the sources are fake and he has already fled.

If I were to find myself in the middle of running such a scam and was a billionaire I would spend all my waking hours preparing ways to get out of it.

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I think this kind of reasoning comes from ‘you’ as you are now imagining yourself suddenly ‘finding yourself’ in that situation - a bit like the character in Quantum Leap.

SBF seems like Evel Knievel - i.e. he became identified with being SBF. It wasn’t a heist as such. Just the byproduct of him playing this fictional ‘genius’ character, and then getting so into it that he forgot it was just a role play.

Yeah I get what you're saying and there's something to it. It's just difficult to imagine to become disillusioned to the point where you're not realizing your criminal actions.

I think something like Theranos is a different story. In that case it would've been much harder to escape for the founder. But for someone in crypto like SBF...

I am think he knew something was wrong, but probably was in denial about it, and held on to the idea that as a genius he’d be able to get out of it.

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