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It's wild. The place is brazenly being robbed in public eyes. Is it under the Bahamas laws? What can anyone do?



Bahamas has an extradition treaty with the US. If SBF doesn’t flee he will definitely get indicted in US court


I don’t think SBF would be dumb enough to steal $400m right now when the whole world is watching his every move.


Well he was dumb enough to post a bunch of lies and nonsense to Twitter the last couple days…


Maybe I'm more cynical than most but those tweets to me feel like they will be used as evidence in the future to argue that he didn't really have the full picture what was going at FTX and that it was really the Alameda people or the devs etc behind everything.


> Alameda people or the devs etc behind everything.

SBF used to have intercourse with the Alameda CEO, and if I'm not mistaken they were all in this together (FTX + Alameda, that is). Article on the intercourse thing [1]. The admins of this forum can complain about "the level of discussion getting low" as much as they want, but this is the reality, this is how billions of dollars have been stolen.

[1] https://www.coindesk.com/business/2022/11/10/bankman-frieds-...


He's going to prison anyway, his reputation is tarnished, maybe he figured: Why not make a run for it?


This could be pretty interesting leverage.

"I hold the private key to refund 80% of my victims losses, reduce my sentence or it dies with me."


> reduce my sentence or it dies with me

He would go to jail. This isn’t even a tough one.


Why not? Lying got him this far!




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