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SBF TRIAL PODCAST 10/10: Caroline Ellison Testimony Day 1

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4.7698 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2023

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Gary Wang asserts that SBF was aware of the $8 billion deficit in Alameda’s balance sheet but continued to publicly deny that there were any issues in FTX’s liquidity or accounting. Caroline Ellison begins her testimony. Link to story: Bankman-Fried Seeks to Probe Lawyers’ Involvement in $200M ‘Sham’ Alameda Loans Sign up for The SBF Trial Newsletter Credits: Nikhilesh De, Nick Baker and Wondercraft AI Voice See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Team and voiced by Wondercraft AI. FTX co-founder and former chief technology officer Gary Wang

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began testifying in earnest last Friday in Sam Bankman-Freed's trial. He revealed, FtX's

1:26.0

insurance fund was calculated by taking the total volume of

1:28.9

trades over the past 24 hours, multiplying that by a random number that's around 7,500, and dividing

1:35.9

that figure by $1 billion. The prosecutor asked if the number had anything to do with the actual

1:41.2

number in the insurance fund, to which the answer obviously was

1:44.9

no. FTX customer balances were approximately equal to what was in the company's hot wallets,

1:51.8

except there was an Alameda sub-account with a balance around minus $8 billion that was excluded

1:57.1

from the list of customer balances. In hindsight, we knew this, but FTX and

2:02.6

Bankman Freed were tweeting that FTX was fully liquid and funded after CoinDesk reported on the balance

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