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🗓️ 23 November 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | Next, on Making Sense of the Madness, the Kate's brothers will help us understand how the deep state control over elections and big tech are being deconstructed in real time. |
0:09.7 | We're going to question the mainstream narrative and expose media propaganda right now. Well, Dr. Kirk Elliott is a PhD economist and the founder of Kirk Elliott, Private Advisors. |
0:39.9 | Kirk, thanks so much for joining us. |
0:41.2 | Just curious about the FTX issues. |
0:44.1 | It just seems like every day we find out a new crypto fund or lending program is going bust. |
0:52.2 | And I just wonder, when is this going to to end is it already over or do we have more |
0:56.0 | of the bloodbath yet to see when when you look at what happened with FTX right it's uh |
1:03.0 | the company it's in exchange right but and they offered a token FTT was the, but how do people fund into the exchange? |
1:13.6 | They didn't take wires. So wires were sent to Alameda Research. |
1:17.6 | Alameda Research is one of like 100 companies in the swamp of everything that Sam owned, right? |
1:26.6 | And so $8 billion over the last three years went into Alameda research. |
1:31.3 | How much of that went to FTX? |
1:33.0 | Zero, right? |
1:34.7 | So they had a capitalization issue. |
1:38.3 | And then when, when finance decided we want to, we want to cash in some of our FTT tokens, and there wasn't any there. |
1:46.0 | It created a run on the exchange. |
1:48.7 | And I've never seen anything quite like it, right? |
1:51.2 | You saw a guy who was worth $16 billion, $72 hours later. |
1:55.7 | He was worth nothing. |
1:56.6 | It's like, oh, my word. |
1:58.0 | So I think what this is going to bring to the table, Sean, is trust issues with |
2:04.0 | cryptocurrency and exchanges across the board, right? |
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