The FTX cryptocalypse
Today, Explained
Vox
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe a year or two ago your friends started buying crypto. Oh man |
| 0:03.6 | I just got one eighty-fifth of a Bitcoin right now and then you notice celebrities endorsing crypto |
| 0:09.3 | Fortune favors the brave and then your dad was telling you he got a bunch of crypto |
| 0:13.7 | Hey, Harvey. What's a doge and then you couldn't take it anymore and you were like maybe I should get me some crypto |
| 0:21.6 | I don't think so. Well if you didn't a crypto exchange called FTX |
| 0:26.9 | Just gave you a reason to patch yourself on the back |
| 0:31.2 | New chaos in the world of cryptocurrency FTX shocked investors by declaring bankruptcy this week |
| 0:37.0 | It's spent millions making shorts name was seen and no FTX now under federal investigation and its founder taking responsibility |
| 0:46.0 | There was a run on the bank because it's customers lost confidence in the entire system |
| 0:51.3 | The cryptoclips is coming on today explain |
| 1:02.2 | Perhaps you like many of us at today explained have been wondering what the hell is going on with crypto all of a sudden |
| 1:09.7 | So first of all there's like a succession level human drama here. I have you beat you |
| 1:15.9 | One right role destroying another you've got financial chaos you've got exotic locals |
| 1:23.0 | This is going to be a movie and a probably a good one Liz Hoffman has been following the story for a brand new news outfit called |
| 1:30.5 | Semaphore I think you don't need to either understand crypto or care about it to like understand and care about this story |
| 1:39.2 | There was a run on the bank new chaos in the world of cryptocurrency FTX shocked investors by |
| 1:45.6 | Declaring bankruptcy this week. It's spent millions making shorts name was seen and known crypto pioneers for the last decade have been |
| 1:55.5 | Talking a big game about how they have |
| 1:58.4 | Created their own financial system the one that you know that we all live in is rigged and it's unfair |
| 2:04.4 | And they are living outside of it and building a parallel one that will be the sort of financial utopia |
| 2:09.7 | They have not done that the gravitational pull of the basic laws of finance continue to apply and that's what brought FTX down last week |
| 2:21.1 | And a lot of people probably hear FTX and think WTF what is FTX and |
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