Directly after outlandish new comments from FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried became public, FTX’s new CEO took a moment to distance the company from the exchange’s former leader.
In an interview with Vox, Bankman-Fried criticized regulators and expressed regrets about filing for bankruptcy, while downplaying the practice of loaning customer assets to sister firm Alameda Research.
“Mr. Bankman-Fried has no ongoing role at [FTX], FTX US, or Alameda Research Ltd. and does not speak on their behalf,” FTX CEO John Ray tweeted Wednesday.
Ray’s tweet came after Vox published screenshots of a series of Twitter direct messages from Bankman-Fried.
Among the messages was, “F— regulators. They make everything worse. They don’t protect consumers at all.”
He also told Vox that he regretted filing for bankruptcy, noting that doing so was “maybe my biggest single f—up.”
“If I hadn’t done that, withdrawals would be opening up in a month with customers fully whole,” h
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