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[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago

Billionaire only went to prison because he fucked with billionaires. If this had only affected the lower/middle class, he would have gotten off with a slap on the wrist.

He won't serve 25 either, maybe 5 at most.

[-] TxzK@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

you mean 5 months right?

[-] ItsAFake@lemmus.org 3 points 1 year ago

They'll send him to one of those privately funded prisons that will all of a sudden get a large mysterious investment.

[-] AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's federal, so 50% minimum. Also I think he pissed a lot of people off, I think he's going to be in there a while

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 0 points 1 year ago

Nah, it wasn’t just billionaires he fucked over, not even primarily. Some of his customers probably were in the multimillionaire category, but the vast majority were average folks just trying to build a nest egg.

Not many billionaires even bothered with crypto, they tend to be much more conservative with their investments. Mark Cuban was the only one I know of who had money in it, and it amounted only a few millions, which is literal chickenshit for someone like him.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

He's not there because of Bitcoin. Your meme is dumb.

[-] ililiililiililiilili@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Right? Its like saying Jeffrey Skilling went to jail because of stocks. Bitcoin is just a system doing what it was designed to do. Criminals gonna crime regardless of the medium.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, that’s like saying a murderer is there because gun.

No, they’re there because of what they used it for.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

You're closer, but he didn't use Bitcoin. The scam was a shitcoin he had made up.

[-] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 1 year ago

As far as I know, the FTX token wasn't even the main problem. He did all kinds of shady stuff, mishandling customer funds, illegal business loans, etc.

[-] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] comfydecal@infosec.pub 13 points 1 year ago

Ummm actually... he laundered money through a newly invented coin. If he only had bitcoin he probably couldn't have figured out how to scam those people

[-] Son_of_dad@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Now we're changing history? What's next, we're gonna say Pharma bro went to jail cause wutang?

[-] HikingVet@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[-] banghida@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Tether billionaires are not real, they can't hurt you.

[-] OpenStars@discuss.online 2 points 1 year ago
[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 1 year ago

"Oh man, that's what I've been doing to people? I belong in here."

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