On Nov. 29, 2022, the crypto supporter and reporter, Tiffany Fong, published an interview with the former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) that was recorded 13 days before the interview was released. During the interview, SBF discussed who he thinks may have hacked FTX and he further denied he had a backdoor installed to funnel funds between FTX and Alameda Research. “I don’t even know how to code,” SBF stressed to Fong during the conversation. Additionally, the New York Times claims to have obtained a slew of emails and text messages between FTX’s legal counsel, other top executives, and SBF while the exchange was in the midst of collapse.
SBF Claims Backdoor Accusations Are ‘Definitely Not True,’ Probably a ‘Poorly Labeled Accounting Thing’
Roughly two weeks ago, the co-founder and former CEO of FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF), decided to do a phone interview with Tiffany Fong. The telephone interview (here and here) was revealed by Fong a few days before she published it, and on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022, the discussion with SBF was published on Youtube.
“You don’t get into the situation we got in, if you make all the right decisions,” SBF said during his chat. “If I’d been more careful … there’s a billion things I could have done.” In the interview, Fong talked about the alleged “backdoor” that was mentioned in a Reuters article that said, “executives set up a book-keeping backdoor.”
SBF denied the “backdoor” claims when he spoke with Fong, and he insisted that he “literally never opened the codebase for any of FTX.” “That’s definitely not true … I don’t even know how to code,” the former FTX CEO remarked. SBF said he doesn’t know exactly what the Reuters article was referring to when they published a story about the backdoor. SBF said, however, it may have been a “poorly labeled accounting thing,” when he stated:
I was wrong … I was incorrect on Alameda’s balances on FTX by a fairly large number, an embarrassingly large one.
SBF Discusses ‘Dark’ Donations to Republicans to Appease ‘Super-Liberal’ Media, FTX Co-Founder Touches on FTX’s Wallet ‘Hack’
During the interview with Fong, SBF touched upon campaign finance in the U.S. and addressed how high-up FTX officials donated millions of U.S. dollars to America’s two-party system of politicians. While its widely known SBF donated to the Democratic party, the FTX co-founder said he donated to Republicans in the dark to…
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