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    SBF Twitter latest: Bankman-Fried continues to rile customers with ‘Truth and beauty’ vagueness

    By Alara Jordan

    Edited by Charlie Mellor

    15:37, 16 November 2022

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    Bankman-Fried starting posting a string of one letter tweets on 14 November which attracted the attention of the crypto community – Photo: Shutterstock

    The fallout from FTX and the crypto empire that former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried once built has unfolded over the past week. 

    Bankman-Fried, who has regularly used Twitter to keep users updated on FTX and recent events, began posting cryptic tweets onn 14 November that angered users. 

    The series of strange tweets gained the attention of Crypto Twitter after the first tweet that read “What”, which he followed with one letter tweets hours apart until his messages spelled out: ‘What HAPPENED”.

    Twitter users were angered by what they believed was Bankman-Fried mocking the collapse of the crypto exchange that left thousands of users with nothing in their FTX accounts.

    Others tried to decipher the tweets, stating that the former CEO could be writing in code.

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    Breaking through ‘the mob mentality’

    Leaked Slack messages from an internal FTX conversation showed that the former CEO claimed he was posting one letter tweets as a way to “break through the mob mentality”.

    Bankman-Fried also said in an interview with The New York Times that he was “making it up as I go”. When pressed further about why, he said he didn’t know, adding that he was improvising. “I think it’s time,” he said.

    Eventually, Bankman-Fried added some context to his tweets, stating his upmost priority moving forward was to do right by his customers and make them “whole” again. He said:

    “Maybe I’ll fail. Maybe I won’t get anything more for customers than what’s already there. I’ve certainly failed before. You all know that now, all too well. But all I can do is to try. I’ve failed enough for the month.”

    He then signed off by adding a final cryptic message that read: “Truth and Beauty.”

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