저자: KenGriffin · 외국인
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FTX 붕괴는 금융시장 신뢰를 훼손한 중대한 사건이다. 암호화폐 시가총액은 과거 약 3조 달러에서 현재 1,000억 달러 미만으로 급감했고, 그중 상당 부분은 스테이블코인이며 비트코인 등 주요 코인은 CFTC 규제 대상이다. FTX는 금융시장 역사상 최악의 사례 중 하나로, 개인 투자자 수십억 달러 손실과 전체 금융시장에 대한 신뢰 훼손이 우려된다. 20~40대가 노후 자금을 마련하려면 주식·회사채 등 글로벌 자본시장에 참여해야 하므로 이는 심각한 문제다. 재무제표상 거대한 구멍이 있으며 고객 자산이 투자 결정에 사용된 것은 의심의 여지가 없다. 미국 브로커딜러에서는 고객 자산으로 자기매매를 하는 것이 허용되지 않는다. 미국 규제당국 간 관할권 다툼(turf war)이 끝나야 하며, 지난 2년간 암호화폐 시가총액 감소로 미국 투자자들이 수천억 달러 피해를 입었다는 점에서 투자자 보호의 핵심이 훼손됐다. 창업자 샘 뱅크먼프리드는 민주당 후보의 두 번째 최대 기부자였다는 사실이 언급되었으며, 이 사태에서 규제 당국이 사전에 막지 못했다는 점이 문제로 지적된다.
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I don't have much time left, but I have to go to one other place and I can't believe it's taken this long. We've gone this far into the program and nobody's talked about crypto. You and I have had a long running conversation about crypto currencies, and every time you were critical of crypto, remember the time he described it as a jihadist call against the dollar?
You were pilloried, pilloried by the crypto faithful. And of course, when Citadel started a crypto trading business, they celebrated your supposed capitulation. So that's the scene setter for the question, folks. What I want to know from you, Ken, is what do you make of the spectacular collapse of Sam Banks and Freed's FTSE ex?
Well, okay. So big picture. The crypto market cap today is a fraction what it was. We first started talking about it. So cryptos not. It was three trillion and now it's well under a billion. It's like a hundred billion of which a big part of that stable coins, right? So you really move back into world of bitcoin and the theorem is the two dominant crypto currencies, both of which actually happen to be CFTC regulated.
Look, RTX is one of these absolute travesties in the history of financial markets. I mean, people will lose billions of dollars collectively. People are going to lose billions of dollars. And that undermines trust in all financial markets. It was the fundamental problem that it was a business built on cryptocurrency to begin with or that it was a business that wasn't adequately regulated or that it was a business that the venture capital and other investors who put money into RTX didn't didn't adequately.
You know, diligence. What's the fundamental problem? Well, I think the fundamental is it's just fraud. So. So first of it's a really big choice of words to use. And I can't go there at this point in time. But we do know is the balance sheet shows a giant black hole. And there's no doubt that customer assets were used to make investment decisions.
In favor of FTSE DAX shareholders, which didn't work at the expense of the customers. That's not permitted in American broker dealers. You can't just use your customer assets to go engage in proprietary trading. That's a that's a huge no, no, it's a no no in most parts of the world. At most parts of the world.
And it's a good. No, no, to be clear, too. All right. So RTX, you know, billions of dollars have been lost here. The confidence, though, of a generation in financial markets has also been shaken. That's really awful because the 20 some year olds to 40 year olds who are so engaged in crypto. They've got to save for their retirement.
And if they don't believe or trust in financial markets, this is a huge problem. They need to own stocks. They need to own corporate debt. They need to partake in our global capital markets. Now, with with FTSE, there are there are a few points here that we should talk about. The turf war by American regulators has got to end.
It's just preposterous that. Without naming the agencies, they all dance around who owns what and who. And the bottom line is American investors have really gotten hurt here to the tune of hundreds of billions of dollars in decline in market cap and crypto over the last two years. I mean, that that really strikes at the entire core essence of what's investor protection all about.
The second is that RTX. Crosses into it into a zone that that all of us are worried about, you know, on the balance sheet of RTX line called Trump Lose. And Sam was the second biggest donor to Democratic candidates. I'm going to leave it to everybody else to draw their own conclusions about what you're saying here, right.
Those are those are really, really ugly facts. When you see a fraud of this magnitude having played out and you find no regulators were there to prevent it. That's a really, really tough story.
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