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Using the word "Liquid" in the context of these accounts is... I don't know? Fraudulent? I understand that in the context of real finances things might be illiquid - it might take time to sell your house, or if you're a particularly big holder of stock in a company you founded you might have liquidity problems divesting over time. But it's really just taking the piss describing a lot of this stuff as "illiquid". FTT is a coin that they have made up themselves, which they themselves own the vast majority of, and which only had value in connection to the exchange that they just bankrupted. So no, it isn't "illiquid" its "worthless". It's not just that they'll take a hair cut if they liquidate it quickly, they could never liquidate even a significant portion of this. This whole thing started when CZ tried to liquidate 500m in FTT and the whole of FTX collapsed, they're now claiming their remaining FTT tokens are worth $600m (down from $6Bn). It's just so absurd to suggest you can mark to market like that.
parent SilverBirch 4 years ago

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