FTX Execs zouden als eerste worden afbetaald: hier zijn de feiten
- FTX verwerkt opnames, maar alleen voor adressen die vreemd lijken en het lijkt erop dat deze adressen worden gebruikt om de persoonlijkheden van mensen erachter te verbergen.
- Twitter-gebruikers beweren dat de uitwisseling eerst haar werknemers en VP's uitbetaalt in plaats van de opnames van de gebruikers te verwerken.
- Sam Bankman-Fried verklaarde dat het eerste en belangrijkste probleem voor de uitwisseling is om opnames van de gebruikers te verwerken en bevestigde dat hij met verschillende mensen praat.
FTX crypto exchange announced that it wasn’t liquid anymore and a crisis had engulfed the exchange, which meant that the users couldn’t process withdrawals anymore. This announcement came as a shock to every user of the once-second-biggest crypto exchange in the blockchain space. Interestingly, almost every executive at the Bahamas-based firm, including the CEO and co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried stated that their firm was liquid a few days ago while the situation did not seem like it.
The executives at the exchange asked users not to withdraw funds from the platform as everything was safe and sound despite Binance’s announcement that it would sell FTX Tokens (FTT) worth billions, hinting at the possibility of a strong crash. This led to people immediately taking money out of their platform, and a record $5 billion was withdrawn from the exchange on Sunday, as noted by Bankman-Fried, also called SBF in the crypto space.
Volgens Jason Choi, de mede-oprichter van Tangent en de oprichter van Blockcrunch, zijn de executives, waaronder de VP's en andere insiders, de eersten die worden afbetaald en vullen ze momenteel hun koffers. Hoewel opnames momenteel niet worden verwerkt bij FTX, wees Choi erop dat dit niet het geval was en verschillende mensen hebben uitstroom van de beurs gemeld.
Choi further pointed out that the withdrawals are being made to addresses that are quite “fishy.” While a number of these addresses look like “clean” addresses, it seems that these blockchain addresses are being used “deliberately to obfuscate any linkage to real individuals,” according to Choi, who has been in the crypto space for a considerable amount of time.
De auteur van het bestverkochte boek, Nik Patel, wees erop that around $200,000 were sent to an address that’s interacted with other exchanges but not FTX but nothing in over 500 days. This is strange considering the fact that in the last 500 days, the crypto market has been increasingly volatile and almost every crypto coin has either made significant strides, or collapsed completely like LUNC.
“I don’t think I believe in coincidences anymore after what happened. My hunch is that VIPs/insiders are being paid off first as many employees – many of whom were publicly asking people to not withdraw – had their assets stored on FTX,” Choi added.
Many other people also pointed out the fact that FTX is paying employees first despite Bankman-Fried apologizing and stating that he plans to “goed doen door de gebruikers.”
Choi zelf heeft geld vast op FTX en weigert iets te geloven zonder bewijs.
“For now, not believing a single word until I have evidence. I have initiated withdrawals since the 8th and will keep Twitter posted if any of them are processed – then I’ll know it’s real,”Choi said.