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No it isn't. That's what SBF is trying to tell people to make it sound like it's just a story of incompetence and incorrect valuations. They stole user deposits which were specifically not meant to have anything done to them but be held and used them in the trading arm/to prop up other things.

The price of FTT shouldn't have mattered to anyone not holding FTT. But yes the precipitant here was that they had clearly been thinking "oh we have loads of FTT still so can always sell that to cover user withdrawals and won't get caught".

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ok, I agree with that too, but I also strongly believer that FTT (and most tokens) are created to enable fraud such as this (we can use our fradulent token as a means of collateral). Perhaps your argument is, even without FTT they would have found other means of stealing peoples deposits with a different cover story, and I guess I buy that as well.

Just use their list of "assets" to illustrate your point. In descending order from the back-of-the-envelope balance sheet of doom: SRM $2,187M "other ventures" $1,475M GDA $1,150M SOL $981M MAPS $616M FTT $553M Anthropic $500M "locked" USDT $500M HOOD $472M USD in Ledger Prime $200M USDB $73M PYTH $63M OXY $54M ETHE $53M TWTR $43M STG $45M FIDA $36M DAI $28M DOT $28M

and so on in to irrelevancy. Its a bunch of garbage "coins-that-definitely-arent-unregulated-securities" (SOL, MAPS, OXY, MSOL) and related garbage producers (SRM, GDA, etc). More or less their entire set of assets is either crap that they made up to sell to rubes, or crap that someone else made for FTX to invest in and sell to rubes. They dont and never did have meaningful assets to back teh house of cards once they stole their customers real USD.

https://d1e00ek4ebabms.cloudfront.net/production/7ab64a3b-6c...

The root basis for the for all of the fraud Sammie boy engaged in starts with the FTT token.

Now the no true Scotsman fallacy people are throwing around is just that, FTX is and was a crypto company.

Do you mean that before FTX directed customers to wire deposits to Alameda and then immediately misappropriated the funds, they launched a token? like, one of them temporally preceded the other, even though the actions were unrelated?

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