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Sam Bankman-Fried: belief

15 Dec 2021 Acquired FTX (with Sam Bankman-Fried & Mario Gabriele)

“The answer is that there actually weren't a lot of other players in this value chain. That's one of the bigger differences between what we see in crypto and I think what we see in most financial ecosystems.”

— Sam Bankman-Fried

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Speaker
Sam Bankman-Fried
Attribution
Verified speaker
Claim type
belief
Recorded
15 Dec 2021
Publisher
Acquired

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…All right. There are lots of other players in this potential value chain here. Right. So why exchange? The answer is that there actually weren't a lot of other players in this value chain. That's one of the bigger differences between what we see in crypto and I think what we see in most financial ecosystems. Where usually, by the time from start to finish, how many people are involved in an average equities trade? It's a pretty big number in fact. As we learned with the whole Robinhood situation.…

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