Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried Breaks the Internet with Shocking Tweets from Prison!

The tweets seemed to reference Elon Musk's recent call for federal employees to report their work activities or face resignation.

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who is currently serving a 25-year prison sentence, has taken to Twitter—or at least someone is—to air his thoughts on unemployment and government employees.

The tweets, which are being posted from an account that appears to belong to Bankman-Fried, began on Monday evening. They reference Elon Musk's recent call for federal employees to report their work activities or face resignation.

"I have a lot of sympathy for government employees: I, too, have not checked my email for the past few (hundred) days," reads the first tweet in a thread. "And I can confirm that being unemployed is a lot less relaxing than it looks."

The tweets, which are written in Bankman-Fried's characteristic rambling style, go on to discuss the challenges of unemployment and the difficulties that companies face in planning their workforce needs.

"Many companies have trouble planning their workforce, which leads to people being hired for roles that, later on, don't exist anymore. This leads to layoffs, even if the workers themselves did nothing 'wrong' (sometimes companies grow too fast and hire more people than they can usefully manage, which later forces them to cut staff)," reads one tweet.

The tweets also touch on Musk's efforts to reduce the federal workforce, which have met with resistance from some agencies.

"Musk told non-responsive federal employees to consider themselves fired, some agencies are pushing back, while others are telling their staff to comply. A strange twist!" reads one tweet.

It is unclear who is posting the tweets on Bankman-Fried's behalf, as he does not have direct access to social media or email in prison. However, he can communicate through Corrlinks, a system that allows U.S. prisoners to send messages.

The tweets have quickly garnered attention, and even though Sam Bankman-Fried's remarks had nothing to do with FTX, they are causing a brief spike in the price of FTT, the token linked to the failed exchange.

FTT jumped from $1.55 to $2.07 shortly after his comments but didn’t hold the gains for long. Within 30 minutes, the token dropped back to around $1.70.

Despite this brief surge, FTT remains down over 96% from its all-time high of $85, which it reached before FTX collapsed in November 2022.