Zuberi,
@Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

Can’t wait to see how the 1:1 GME tokens are resolved

afraid_of_zombies,

Should have stolen from poor people and gotten involved with the big banks instead of going against them. Be a free man with a golden parachute today if he had.

Species8472,

I can’t be the only one always making this ‘Sam Bankman-Fraud’ in my head when reading his name.

derpgon,

I read is as “Fried” (as it Kentucky Fried Chicken).

flop_leash_973,

It really is a mind fuck that I could walk out into the middle of the street in broad daylight in full view of 100 people, shoot someone in the head at point blank range, killing them and still end up with less time than this guy will most likely get so long as the person I murdered wasn’t well to do financially.

GamingChairModel,

Do you really believe that the typical murderer serves less time than the typical securities fraudster?

isles,

A lot of people are using the cheat code of being a cop and then doing 0 time.

nutsack,

looks like shit

mawkishdave,
@mawkishdave@lemmy.world avatar

That is what happens when you steal from the rich.

podperson,

Try to incite an insurrection and steal an election: you’ll walk away with no consequences.

Steal money from the rich: you will burn.

Blackmist,

See Anna Sorokin, or Elizabeth Holmes.

Or for the elders among us, Nick Leeson. He didn’t even steal the money, he just fucked up.

andros_rex,

Has Holmes even gone to jail yet? She got knocked up twice to dodge prison

JohnDClay,

Trump’s still on trial. I’m sure he’ll go to jail for something or other.

afraid_of_zombies,

He won’t.

solidsnake2085,
@solidsnake2085@lemmy.world avatar

There it is.

eya,
@eya@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

W

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

So, will all the conservative chuds who were convinced he was going to walk because he donates to the Democrats do any kind of follow-up on that theory?

DragonTypeWyvern,

“We got him, despite the DEMONRATS”

TheDarksteel94,

Demonrats sounds like either a biker gang or a punk rock band lol

pinkdrunkenelephants, (edited )

Waiting for the hopelessly retarded vegans to come out in force and cry for their new cult symbol like they did the last time there was a .world news thread about this.

Remember, he’ll only get peanut butter sandwiches in prison 🤣

DragonTypeWyvern,

Are these Vegans in the room with you?

pinkdrunkenelephants,

If you look back in the .world news feed, you’ll find a couple of months ago that dumbass fucking Bankman-Fried was complaining that there were no vegan options for him in jail, and he was forced, forced I tell you, to subsist on peanut butter sandwiches. And vegans came out in full force in defense of that fucking jelly roll. Others were arguing about it in there… I remember reading the comments and losing a little bit of my faith in humanity.

I had hoped they were actually being serious about it and weren’t just a bunch of paid shills or concern trolls or whatever exploiting the situation to upset others. I honestly don’t know which would have been worse, but I now feel deprived, as if they actually were serious about the vegan thing, they would’ve come up here bitching and I could have laughed at them.

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

Maybe, maybe people just believe that human rights matter? That he belongs in prison but his human right to live according to his creed matters? Do you think Jews and Muslims in prison shouldn’t turn their noses up at ham?

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Oh god, here they come 🤣

Thank you zombie Jesus, for I was not left deprived of my precious lulz. Praise be to the holy father and son

Honytawk,

Damn, you are more obnoxious than those vegans you complain about

pinkdrunkenelephants,

And I don’t pretend to be anything but. Yet you do. Your one response to me was a way to make yourself superior to both, and that was what was most important to you.

So welcome to the club. I’m sure more of their ilk will be around. And I can certainly be entertained laughing at you.

Pxtl,
@Pxtl@lemmy.ca avatar

I’m not vegan.

DragonTypeWyvern,

Are you fully aware that the traditional “bread and gruel” prison diet is vegan?

It’s not a big ask. It’s just basic human rights to meet reasonable dietary restrictions, especially for people in the “innocent until proven guilty” stage.

Devouring,

Not your keys, not your coins

Not your keys, not your coins

ShittyBeatlesFCPres,

I would simply have not given real money to some company in the Bahamas in exchange for a token and a promise the token would be good for more money later. But I’m street smart like that.

ours,

They didn’t make their own crypto coin.

I remember finding them in a list where they offered something like 8% interest if you deposited your bitcoins with them which was still fishy as hell. It looked like a sweet deal but I wondered how they managed to do that sustainably. I guess the answer was “they didn’t”.

Raiderkev,

I think you’re thinking about Celsius. SBF absolutely had his own coin, and it is tantamount to the whole FTX collapse. Their competitor owned a shit load of it, it was called FTT iirc. He then just decided to tweet out that they were selling all their FTT, and then everyone started selling FTT which started a run on the token.

The company also pumped FTT and other tokens value through their hedge fund Alameda research. The man deserves every last day of sentencing.

ours,

I think you’re right. I must be mixing up all these crypto-based scams.

Raiderkev,

It’s almost like crypto itself is one giant Ponzi scheme?! Forget I said that. It’s tHe FutUrE

Raiderkev,

Also, be glad you didn’t put money in Celsius. I have a friend that did for the interest that they were offering. It worked… Til it didn’t. He lost $50k.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

Yet people do the same thing with literal U.S. dollars and we think nothing of it when banks lose billions gambling our money in the stock market. 🤔

Or open credit cards in their customers’ names without their consent.

Or tear down whole economies with no consequences. Or take almost complete control of the housing market and turn Americans into serfs. Or…

Strange, that that fat fuck is only being held accountable because he used bitcoins to do the same things banks do on the regular. Strange indeed…

SomeRandomWords,

People absolutely think something about it when it happens, and hell sometimes the government even does something about it (as demonstrated in the article you linked). Just a whole lot of us would argue they don’t do enough about it.

pinkdrunkenelephants,

I’m not actually defending Sam Bankman-Fried. I’m pointing out the obvious hypocrisy in the system. Both that fat fuck and actual bank execs need to waste away in prison cells.

Anonymousllama,

Finally some actual good news for a change, let me break out the bubbles! 🍾🥂

waz,

While reading your comment I somehow managed to overlook the emojis initially and I just pictured you running outside with a bubble wand and a container of soapy water to celebrate.

StraightArrow,

He was Bankman, now he’s Fried

jeffw,

slow clap

phoneymouse,

Come Mr. Bankman, bank me crypto-bonanza…

MisterChief,

“Originally placed under house arrest, he was sent to jail in August for violations of his bail conditions, including using a VPN to watch a football game and leaking the diary entries of his ex-girlfriend”

Ok I get the diary, that’s shitty…but using a VPN to watch football? That’s a normal Saturday afternoon.

Taako_Tuesday,

Not when you could be also using that vpn to communicate with people without them knowing

lobut,

He also got caught sending some cryptic messages to someone saying something along the lines of getting their stories straight.

He said he had concluded that Mr. Bankman-Fried’s communication with the media and a separate attempt to contact a former FTX employee were intended to “intimidate or also to influence” witnesses in the case.

www.nytimes.com/…/sam-bankman-fried-jail.html

echodot,

leaking the diary entries of his ex-girlfriend

August 4th
Dear diary, I have tried once again in vain to get Sam to get a decent haircut. In the movie of your life you’re going to be played by Jesse Eisenberg, the least you could do is move over to his default haircut. It’s only courteous.

Unless he listens not.

Tar_alcaran,

When you’ve got bail conditions on the order of roughly a lifetime’s income riding on not using a VPN, I think you can skip football for a while.

Honytawk,

He can claim it was to watch football, doesn’t mean it was.

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