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Ryan Salame

@rsalame7926

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Awaiting 7.5 year prison sentence. Former: US Republican Mega-donor, CEO of FTX Digital Markets, Circle Trade, CPA. HK/US/Bahamas. Not a lawyer.

Joined August 2016
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2 years
Bitcoin is everything the United States was founded on
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2 years
hear me out, airbnbs but just a ton of them in the same building with a dedicated staff to clean them and get you stuff
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2 years
The more I see CZ attacking FTX on twitter the more I know we’re doing something right! 😀
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3 years
Sold everything I had in Robinhood / left a one star review / withdrew funds / deleted the app! Free markets only! #FTX
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2 years
Who you want controlling your money? 👀
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2 years
@FTX_Official Bahamas HQ looking amazing! Q1 ground breaking imminent then full speed ahead. Auditorium / gym / cafeteria / daycare / badminton / what are we missing?
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2 years
I remember when satoshi famously said - “and be sure to closely monitor fed interest rates”
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3 years
A Christmas miracle! Honored to have the largest tungsten cube in the Bahamas 😍. And we’re just getting started 😂.
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1 month
tough to see two great men convicted this week
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3 years
I learned today that @SBF_FTX owned a cube prior to even starting FTX and has said nothing about it, absolute legend once again.
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2 years
fun fact, when Sam moved to the Bahamas I bought him a BMW to drive around in and he made me sell it and get him a Corolla. Real leaders in crypto made different.
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CZ worth over $96B? Still prob not enough to justify SoundCloud premium smh
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1 month
hot damn, this is going to get interesting quickly
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3 years
Living and working in the Bahamas has been just terrible!
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2 years
How do people have time to golf?
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Ryan Salame
3 years
My first /thread. For over 2.5 years now FTX has been seeking proper global banking. The amount of effort that has gone into this is beyond what most people outside crypto could imagine.
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2 years
take note of the people you offer something to for free but they insist on paying fair for, those are the people you want in your life and your real partners
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3 years
Having an absolute blast watching the renderings and progress on FTX Campus design here in the Bahamas. Excited to break ground here shortly and bring this to life!
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2 years
im suprised other industries haven't adopted the crypto customer support model, i'd love to jump in an amazon telegram group and berate their staff every time my product arrives a day late and threaten to go to walmart instead
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Ryan Salame
3 years
I can feel that soon I will not need a bank account and I'm so ready for that day
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Ryan Salame
2 years
Time and again VCs and consultants told us we needed to hire faster, grow more quickly, and increase headcount. Through all of the pressure to do that @SBF argued that more headcount was unlikely to increase productivity and output.
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Sucks that if I had just sold off my pile of crypto like I was going to instead of listening to multiple lawyers and borrowing from Alameda against it instead, I likely wouldn't be going to prison for seven and half years.
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2 years
@lawmaster Is it though? I’ve traded through stables crashing before, not sure I think trust is irreversibly gone either way…
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3 years
I think for the first time I do feel genuinely concerned for people who don't hold some crypto...
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2 years
Legend promoted:
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3 years
The world is divided between those that can do complex math, those that understand the implications of complex math, and those don’t get it at all.
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2 years
I have never been to Ukraine or Russia, I still feel terrible right now, can't imagine how people more directly and impacted feel <3
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2 years
Getting @SBF_FTX ready for a hearing in a tough market!
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2 years
Tremendous groundbreaking for the #FTX campus and a perfect way to kick off #cryptobahamas . @SBF_FTX @Constance_FTX @opmthebahamas @FTX_Official
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3 years
FTX from day one has sought to be completely compliant and still corespondent banks hold the world hostage. Kudos to deltec / silvergate / signature / prime trust / and others for doing their part when it wasn’t so easy. Crypto will win on this merit alone.
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3 years
If anyone you report to uses the term KPI find a new job asap
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2 years
I miss caring about tungsten cubes
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3 years
Phase 2 of @FTX_Official : Bahamas coming soon!
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2 years
been an absolute pleasure watching @cz_binance have the extremely difficult but transformative debates on twitter this past week to ensure the crypto industry moves forward in the best possible way
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2 years
Crypto Bahamas is sold out! Not a little sold out. Not kind of sold out. Completely sold out! Sincere apologies to everyone who can’t attend this yes, we’ll be taking over the entire Bahamar next year with how well this is going to go! #FTX #SALT
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Ryan Salame
3 years
If you’ve ever been on the phone with Chase to send a bank wire you know why crypto is gunna make it
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2 years
Seriously, is there a better market in the world than crypto?
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2 years
It’s so powerful learning who your friends are! Very excited to grow with them in the long term. It’s not hard to genuinely figure out who cares about customers and who doesn’t if you look past the insanity
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Ryan Salame
1 month
@tittyrespecter No, I'm going to jail for campaign finance fraud and unlicensed money transmitting
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Ryan Salame
3 years
Beautiful last few weeks in the Bahamas meeting with organizations FTX is supporting and giving back to students and teachers throughout the entire country! #FTX
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Ryan Salame
2 years
A great night to close out an amazing week! Thank you to everyone who came out for #cryptobahamas and look forward to making next years event bigger and better! @katyperry @michellebond111 #OrlandoBloom
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3 years
Even with an enhanced focus on regulation and compliance the… horrific… network and companies that has been established that runs our global monetary transfer system is so outdated it feels like a practice joke.
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Ryan Salame
2 years
Explaining the real basics to someone brand new to crypto how the blockchain works right now and I’m just as excited as I was the first time I discovered bitcoin. It’s just so fucking cool.
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2 years
probably just easier for everyone who’s not stepping down from their role this month to raise their hand!
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3 years
Love how we all keep paying tons of money to see basically fake fights
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Watching @CryptoBahamas come together, truly going to be an incredible event! #FTX #SALT
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2 years
Where the tether truthers at? Other stablecoins came and went, even some large funds came and went, but tether remained. 1:1. ☮️
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Ryan Salame
3 years
Happy to share the desk had its first billion dollar day! Here's to efficient markets. 🍻
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2 years
FTX @SBF_FTX actually doing deals to try and help the industry, others just talk about it while creating FUD to hide their lack of action 😂.
@BTC_Archive
Bitcoin Archive
2 years
💥BINANCE CEO: We’re looking at a high number of deals. 🤔
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2 years
god i love the internet
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Christopher Bloomstran
2 years
Dear Mr. Price, er, @rajgokal , Given your age, you may be getting forgetful. A little help for your updated Twitter bio: Recall you founded Price Club, which then MERGED with Costco, founded by your mentee, Jim Sinegal. I apologize for calling the crypto third rate. 1/(of course)
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3 years
we going to stop pretending this is a good blockchain at some point?
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3 years
Doing what we can to get ERC20's out. $100 gas per withdrawal. Blockchain pretty slow. But we'll keep processing them! May need to gate the free withdrawals for it though.
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What does the BNB ticker stand for?
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@SantiagoAuFund I've been minting/redeeming USDT on an institutional scale for over 3 years with multiple desks! While admittedly I've done far more mints than redemptions, below you'll find all USDT redeemed in my current role. Note the process has always been smooth.
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Who should I do the first public interview with? Top vote wins.
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Yah terrible tweet, like the worst. I get it, I've cringed reading it nearly every day since I found out half of ftx customers money was somehow missing.
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Ryan Salame
2 years
It’s so powerful learning who your friends are! Very excited to grow with them in the long term. It’s not hard to genuinely figure out who cares about customers and who doesn’t if you look past the insanity
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2 years
peoples ability to be extremely confident in their feelings about something they actually know nothing about never ceases to impress me. like im not confident i know how to pronounce my last name and its my own name.
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Ryan Salame
3 years
. @SBF_FTX and I are excited to hire @vkrussell as VP of Communications and CSR for FDM (FTX: Bahamas). Valdez has been integral to our efforts in the Bahamas to grow our team and presence and give back to the country in a meaningful way.
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@CH_Ltd_3D who said anything about hotels sir. these are consolidated airbnbs
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one part of going to prison they don't talk about - its like being alive for your own funeral
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I'm excited tonight to share that I’ve found myself exactly where I want to be.
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@FTX is incredibly well positioned in the current environment and is continuing to both not have a hiring freeze and not sacrifice our culture. In the end this helps the users who are ultimately who we are here for.
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3 years
It's been an incredible experience thus far and we're just getting started!
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SBF
3 years
1) Today we're proud to announce that FTX has been registered with the Securities Commission of The Bahamas under the DARE Act of 2020.
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lil blue check mark feels good
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@QDagelet I am not and would never be a victim, just slowly going to share what really happened. Lots not public yet.
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Ryan Salame
2 years
Huge difference between what happened to UST and what happened to USDT (disingenuous to compare them) however the dialogue on stablecoins in the clip by @michellebond111 @SBF_FTX and @Brett_FTXUS is excellent!
@bbgoriginals
Bloomberg Originals
2 years
Following a massive crypto selloff, popular stablecoins like Tether and TerraUSD lost their dollar peg. Here's what you need to know about stablecoins👇
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Ryan Salame
3 years
They grow up so fast… 🥺 @jackshaftoes
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love that in crypto I also hope our competitors crush it. wagmi
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2 years
Excited to be personally doing my part to ensure the digital asset environment in the US gets the attention and development it deserves in DC. Can donate here:
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The Block
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Crypto leaders launch political action committee to back congressional candidates
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3 years
Our soon to be neighbors @quantfury stopped by for a visit to the new FDM office! Another incredible company in the crypto space building out a large presence in the Bahamas.
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2 years
Beautiful to see the Statue of Liberty at eye level
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2 years
Digital assets / blockchains / distributed ledgers / crypto / tokens / bitcoin will continue to change the world regardless of short term price action
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Ryan Salame
1 month
Advice for the day: if you have any ranking at a company (especially startup), do not speak to lawyers verbally and expect their answers to matter. Get every question, concern, comment - everything - in writing and store the records in a personal file outside of the company
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3 years
Being home for the holiday was great and all but finally holding my 2.5 x 2.5 was the magical.
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I'm so excited for a generation of people who grew up with the internet and with friends in countries all over the world to be in charge of the world.
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3 years
the hardest thing to filter for in an interview is the quality of gifs candidates will send to counterparties in chats and its so important
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@EleanorTerrett
Eleanor Terrett
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🚨NEW from me: Coinbase CEO says company has donated $25M to vote anti-crypto politicians out of Congress
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The 55m loan everyone keeps citing, I had no idea about it until after ftx collapsed. Not a dollar ever touched my account and the receiver had no clue I didn't know about it. Fun thing to learn while my whole world was imploding.
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Ryan Salame
2 years
@BouncyOnion44 nah at some point you gotta call out the shitty players
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Ryan Salame
2 years
being able to work with people you don't like is part of being good at a job. unless someone is net negative value to the company, figuring out how to make it work is (almost) always your responsibility
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3 years
there a pre owned cube market yet? looking to pay double what someone else bought it for
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It should be illegal to tuck the base of a bed sheet in a hotel. I’m tryin to be covered fully not half stuck out a shitty bed burrito
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Ryan Salame
2 years
Big shout out to @ChobanianMike during the Senate Banking hearing talking about the benefits digital assets are having to places like @Ukraine and the lack of evidence around criminal activity in comparison. Tuning in live from Ukraine nonetheless.
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Ryan Salame
3 years
I’ll go one step further. Next time you’re mad at @binance or @coinbase or @FTX_Official for banking issues and delays I’ll bet you it’s not their fault. I’ll bet they want to credit your funds equally as fast as you want them/us to
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3 years
My first /thread. For over 2.5 years now FTX has been seeking proper global banking. The amount of effort that has gone into this is beyond what most people outside crypto could imagine.
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Remember to let your new staff know that in down markets most clients they work with about to get meaner and blame them for everything. It helps to hear it while they’re grinding through it.
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During the past year I dedicated a significant amount of my time to writing a complete memoir of my time at ftx and alameda. I'll be keeping 0$ of the proceeds once it hits print. Waiting on publishers at this point but hope to get it done and out asap.
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Its amazing how no crypto people reach out for discounted tickets to @CryptoBahamas but everyone at these massive tradfi firms who traded crypto like once get upset they can't get free tickets
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3 years
Honestly Miami conference been great. actual conference almost always a shit show but great to see/meet as many people as I could and have some fun
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3 years
Gotta love the Volume/OI differences between Binance:Huobi:Bybit:Okex and FTX:Deribit:Bitmex:Bitfinex @coingecko 😂
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What an incredible first night of #CryptoBahamas and a beautiful morning to kick off our list of incredible speakers!
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Nothing beats watching the CEO of the @CMEGroup not be able to explain even the basics of what a blockchain or stablecoin is 😂
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2 years
The more I think about this…
@kneelingbus
Drew Austin
2 years
what if you discovered that your whole personality depended on low interest rates
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Not falling for the 50,000 btc otc deals is like a rite of passage in crypto otc and I love watching every time it happens
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Ryan Salame
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Honestly you know what's worse than going to prison? Being hated by the community more than @adamscochran
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2 years
I like that @elonmusk only follows 112 people
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The speed and quality of the team across all of FTX is wild! I’m learning about amazing things we’re doing on twitter! @SBF_FTX 👏
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Absolute honor working for this man, one of the most caring / humble / genuine people I've ever met. (yes it is bonus season as well)
@FortuneMagazine
FORTUNE
2 years
Sam Bankman-Fried’s alias, @SBF_FTX , is nothing like the stereotypical “crypto bros.” Still, he is now the de facto leader of the crypto community. 🧐 So who exactly is he? @Fortune500 🧵
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2 years
Beware of people with capital letters after their names trying to suck the fun out of everything!
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they need a feature on your phone called the "4am scroll" where anything read during that time without a reply is just left marked unread
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