When you think about yourself personally, about spending money on yourself, how much can you spend usefully on yourself? You can buy nice food. You're talking about hundreds of thousands a year, right? You get to millions a year with… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
The bitcoin network is not a payments network and it is not a scaling network. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
If you do something to see if it works, and then it doesn't work, was that a valuable educational experience for you - that… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
We've put a lot of attention and care into regulation and interfacing with regulators. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
FTX has shareholders and we have a duty to do reasonable things by them and I certainly feel more comfortable incinerating my own money. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
Just like an idle software, your brain is less efficient after a long break. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
The SEC is very likely going to end up regulating spot security token markets. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
Lack of trust is an enormous transaction cost, and I underestimated this when I first got into business. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
I wanted to get rich, not because I like money but because I wanted to give that money to charity. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
It is easy to get lulled into thinking that everything you do is all you can do - but you're not thinking more globally… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
We are the most regulated crypto exchange by far. We are regulated by some definition by more regulators than any exchange of any type. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
I am legitimately worried about doing things that will make people view me as partisan when it's not how I feel. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
We're really excited to support candidates who are making a point of putting pandemic prevention as one of their core policy positions and promising… — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
When we think about what FTX represents, we want to be the best product that is out there. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
