專家稱班克曼-弗里德和父母是妄想

I’ve been thinking about this second question for a while. It occurred to me again in the last few days as the Bankman-Fried clan made clear they think he should get off lightly because, well, he didn’t really do anything wrong. In their telling, one of the largest financial frauds in U.S. history occurred because Sam got in a little over his head but the judge should go easy on him because he’s kind of an odd guy and, thanks to a bounce back in the crypto markets, no one really got hurt.

我思考第二個問題有一段時間了。在過去的幾天裡，當班克曼-弗里德家族明確表示他們認為他應該從輕處罰時，我再次想到了這一點，因為，嗯，他並沒有真正做錯任何事。在他們的敘述中，美國歷史上最大的金融詐欺案之一發生了，因為山姆的行為有點超出了他的能力範圍，但法官應該對他從寬處理，因為他是一個奇怪的人，而且由於加密貨幣市場的反彈，沒有人真正受傷。

This last part is nonsense of course. Plenty of people got hurt by Bankman-Fried’s massive fraud—just ask the investors who Bankman-Fried ripped off for billions, the FTX customers who won’t get the full value of their crypto, or the nonprofits that had been promised grants but never got them because the whole thing was a Ponzi scheme. As for the stranger features of Bankman-Fried’s personality, he himself has admitted that his apparent eccentricity was cultivated to further his con game.

這最後一部分當然是廢話。許多人都因Bankman-Fried 的大規模欺詐行為而受到傷害——只需問問那些被Bankman-Fried 詐騙了數十億美元的投資者、那些無法獲得其加密貨幣全部價值的FTX 客戶、或者那些曾承諾提供資助但從未兌現的非營利組織得到他們是因為整件事是一個龐氏騙局。至於班克曼-弗里德性格中的奇怪特徵，他本人也承認，他明顯的古怪性格是為了進一步推進他的騙局而培養的。

This brings us back to my original question of how Bankman-Fried and his parents can be so stupid. Instead of owning up to the very bad things he did, they have grasped at excuse after excuse. You don’t need to be a law professor or a genius to know why this is a bad idea. Anyone who has watched TV knows that, when you do bad things like fraud, the best thing to do is express remorse, and tell the judge you will change your ways. In fact, Fortune Crypto has an op-ed to this effect today from someone who did time for a $3 million fraud charge. But for some reason, Bankman-Fried seems to believe different rules apply to him. We saw this when, prior to his trial, he leaked his ex-girlfriend’s diary to the media and got his bail revoked for witness tampering. What did he think would happen? What does he think is going to happen after he’s failed to express real remorse prior to his sentencing? He still doesn’t get it.

這讓我們回到了我最初的問題：班克曼·弗里德和他的父母怎麼會如此愚蠢。他們沒有承認他所做的非常糟糕的事情，而是抓住一個又一個的藉口。你不需要成為法學教授或天才才能知道為什麼這是一個壞主意。看過電視的人都知道，當你做了欺詐之類的壞事時，最好的做法就是表示悔恨，並告訴法官你會改變自己的做法。事實上，《Fortune Crypto》今天發表了一篇專欄文章，作者是一位因 300 萬美元詐欺指控而服刑的人。但出於某種原因，班克曼-弗里德似乎認為不同的規則適用於他。當他在受審前向媒體洩露前女友的日記並因篡改證人而被撤銷保釋時，我們就看到了這一點。他認為會發生什麼事？如果他在宣判前未能表達真正的悔意，他認為會發生什麼事？他還是不明白。

We should know Bankman-Fried’s fate by this afternoon—my colleagues Leo and Niamh will be at the courthouse and have a report. As for how much time he will serve, prosecutors are asking for 40 to 50 years while Bankman-Fried’s lawyers are asking for a laughable 6.5 years or less. Meanwhile, since this is crypto, there is a token-based prediction market where most bets range from 20 to 50 years. Put me down for 30 years.

今天下午我們應該知道班克曼-弗里德的命運——我的同事利奧和尼亞姆將在法院接到報告。至於他將服刑多久，檢察官要求服刑 40 至 50 年，而班克曼-弗里德的律師則要求服刑 6.5 年或更短，這很可笑。同時，由於這是加密貨幣，因此存在一個基於代幣的預測市場，大多數賭注範圍為 20 到 50 年。讓我失望了30年。

Jeff John Roberts
jeff.roberts@fortune.com
@jeffjohnroberts

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DECENTRALIZED NEWS

A judge refused to dismiss the SEC's claims against Coinbase, rejecting the exchange's fair notice claims and invocation of the major questions doctrine. (Fortune)

去中心化新聞法官拒絕駁回 SEC 對 Coinbase 的索賠，駁回了交易所的公平通知索賠並援引重大問題原則。 （財富）

Marc Andreessen, Galaxy Digital, and others invested $75 million in a new fund that bets on consumer crypto applications—the latest sign of a crypto VC resurgence. (Bloomberg)

馬克安德森 (Marc Andreessen)、Galaxy Digital 等人向一隻新基金投資了 7,500 萬美元，該基金押注於消費者加密應用——這是加密風險投資復甦的最新跡象。 （彭博）

British Columbia filed an "unexplained wealth order" to seize gold bars, cash, and watches from a safety deposit box belonging to the cofounder of the scam exchange Quadriga. (CBC)

不列顛哥倫比亞省提交了一份“不明財富令”，從詐騙交易所 Quadriga 聯合創始人的保險箱中沒收金條、現金和手錶。 （加拿大廣播公司）

Some FTX creditors are grousing that the bankrupt firm's caretakers never followed through on plans to reboot the exchange despite spending millions on the idea. (WSJ)

一些 FTX 債權人抱怨說，這家破產公司的管理人從未執行重啟交易所的計劃，儘管在這個想法上花費了數百萬美元。 （華爾街日報）

The new BlackRock fund that gives investors blockchain tokens representing investments in cash and T-bills has pulled in $240 million since its debut last week. (Bloomberg)

新的貝萊德基金為投資者提供代表現金和國庫券投資的區塊鏈代幣，自上週推出以來已吸收 2.4 億美元資金。 （彭博）

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Best of luck, Sam:

此刻的迷因祝你好運，山姆：