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FTX’s Future Fund donated $13.9M to the Center for Effective Altruism. This was apparently most (all?) of their 2022 donations and over 50% of their total donations ever received.

So, yeah, FTX paid for this mansion.

[1] https://donations.vipulnaik.com/donee.php?donee=Centre+for+E...

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> FTX paid for this mansion.

"I was the person who owned the early development of the project idea, and fundraised for it. (The funding comes from a grant specifically for this project, and is not FTX-related.) ..." https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/xof7iFB3uh8Kc53bG/...

Also, if you believe your link, the first FTX donation to CEA was in 2022, and this was purchased in 2021. But eyeballing the numbers at the link I don't think it's complete.

Just to be clear, this is because most people within EA circles don't donate to EA infrastructure. SBF was a director of CEA for a few months prior to opening Alameda and likely was lobbied by someone to donate to infrastructure after it received so little.

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