You pretty quickly run out of really effective ways to make yourself happier by spending money. — Sam Bankman-Fried Copy Share Image
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