Sam Bankman-Fried: belief

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…It is worth noting because you just brought up this in the United States and outside the United States, for our half of listeners that are in the US, you'll note that the thing you can use when I can use FTX US is not a derivatives platform. It's just to trade the underlying assets, and it's a very, very simplified version of the complex platform that you all have built, Sam, at FTX. Can you talk a little bit about your realization of that early on that actually international is the addressable opportunity for now and how you structured the company to be able to go after that? I guess I should also just explicitly flag that my thoughts on this have, to some extent, changed over time. That I think my thoughts have become a bit more nuanced. I think that I was a little too skeptical of the US opportunities when we first started. Thank you for being with us because you testified in front of Congress yesterday. We really appreciate a) your testimony, and b) you being here with us.…

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