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CoffeeZilla

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

So let's talk about SBF and FTX.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Who is Sam Bankman-Fried?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Can you tell the story from the beginning as you understand it?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

I can't wait till that actually enters the lexicon, like a Wikipedia page on it, like economic students are learning in a school.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

That's like a chapter in a book.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Anyway.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

I mean, this is the reality of our world.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

This is a really big part of the economic system is cryptocurrency and stablecoin is part of that.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Does FTT almost approximate like similar things if you were to buy a stock in a public company?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Is that kind of like a stock in FTX?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

Actually, this structure, it's a pretty nonstandard structure.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

did the architects of its initial design anticipate the wobbliness of the whole system?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

So putting fraud and all those things that happened later aside, do you think it was difficult to anticipate this kind of FTT, FTX, elementary research, weird dynamic?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

And these people- As your financial advisor, I would definitely recommend you do not put all your eggs in this basket.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

So when you say customer assets, I come to this crypto exchange, I have Bitcoin or some other cryptocurrency, and this is a thing that has pretty stable value over time.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

I mean, as crypto, relatively so, and I'm going to store it on this crypto exchange.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

And that's the whole point.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

This is...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

So this thing, to the degree that crypto holds value, is supposed to continue holding value.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power

There's not supposed to be an extra risk inserted into the thing.