Blockspace: A Bitcoin Podcast

What we know about the FTX insolvency 3 years later


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Investigative reporters Jonathan & Sophie dive much deeper into what happened *after* SBF was ousted. Hundreds of thousands of individual customers became creditors, getting paid in dollar values from the bankruptcy filing date when the market bottomed out (Meanwhile, nearly $1 billion in fees went to the bankruptcy process expenses) When you're waiting for money and told you won't get it back while watching massive fee statements pile up, something feels really wrong.

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Notes:

• FTX had hundreds of thousands of individual creditors

• Creditors repaid in bankruptcy filing at market low

• Nearly $1 billion total in bankruptcy fees

• Sullivan and Cromwell among multiple firms paid

Timestamps:

00:00 Start

02:56 Beginning the investigation

05:37 Interviewing SBF

08:21 Beginning bankruptcy

10:23 The bankruptcy claim experience

13:30 Who handled the bankruptcy?

16:08 What were the FTX assets?

17:35 A complicated portfolio

20:07 Bankruptcy firm double dipping?

22:50 Customer questions

27:56 Are these fees normal?

33:19 Reimbursements to date

35:33 BTC go up

36:58 What's next?

39:35 Next step for journalists?

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