> FTX assembled and delivered a pacakge of loans up to $400 million. In return, FTX reserved the right to acquire BlockFi as soon as July 2023, the court filing said.

So SBF and FTX bailed them out; had they not been around, BlockFi would've been in serious trouble. Then FTX went under.

Funny SBF hasn't been arrested yet.

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Who fucking cares?

Binance is be next. I’m not sure how many other players are left in the game.

tl;dr House of cards fell over into other house of cards

If your company's survival depends solely on a single other company for survival, you never really owned your company (or you have car dealerships aka sanctioned monopoly)

Exchanges? Plenty.

Shit coin fabs masquerading as exchanges? New ones every day.

Which domino will be the final straw?

TL;DR

Fancy dressed shitcoin exchange bailed out fancy dressed shitcoin investment company pretending to be in the loan business while having the majority of loans to a shitcoin investment fund pretending to be a serious hedge fund but somehow paying too high interest rates while gambling in ponzi yield shitcoins.

People who handed their life savings over to these other people in an attempt to Get Rich Quick.

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but where did the money go? its gone

Lol no, dominoes have some stability and you can build structures out of them. These are cards.

From what I've heard, FTX's books and corporate controls were such a mess that they're still in the process of trying to figure out where all the money went and how it got there. It's going to take a long time to figure out what the hell to even charge him with.

Can we just have a major coin like ETH or BTC go to zero next?

Im sure Maxine Waters will get to the bottom of it. Given enough time to sort it out.

What you have to remember is that cryptocurrencies can't just "go to zero" because of the solid fundam—

/snort

BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!

/deepbreath

BWAH-HAH-HAH-HAH-HAH!

/wipetear Sorry, I thought get there but I just couldn't hold it together long enough.

"Oh darn" comes to mind.

"If it's too good to be true, it usually is"

"Thoughts and prayers"

"Sweet summer child..."

Sometimes when dominoes fall one just decides to say no and breaks the chain reaction

Fiat currency is bad because it's not backed by anything, see Bitcoin will keep value because.

They used their own customers' funds. It's pretty simple.

If we say so it's true.

Criminal negligence to start with, or whatever is the equivalent in the accounting world.

They won't, because their natural function is replacing wads of cash in the underground economy. So long as people want to hide what they are doing, there is an actual use for dodges like crypto coins. So they will have some value, just like people pay Western Union to move more legitimate funds.

Coinbase is still around, even listed on the NASDAQ (COIN).

Some value could be a fraction of a cent and it could be in any of the various crypto.

True. There are 21,888 cryptos. Most of them are "shitcoins" (i.e. they ain't worth shit). The top 5 account for 75% of the total value, and two of those are tied to the US dollar. Five is enough. The reason for more than one is swapping among different coins is part of how people hide what they are doing.