专家称班克曼-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.

我思考第二个问题有一段时间了。在过去的几天里，当班克曼-弗里德家族明确表示他们认为他应该从轻处罚时，我再次想到了这一点，因为，嗯，他并没有真正做错任何事。在他们的讲述中，美国历史上最大的金融欺诈案之一发生了，因为山姆的行为有点超出了他的能力范围，但法官应该对他从宽处理，因为他是一个奇怪的人，而且由于加密货币市场的反弹，没有人真正受伤。

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.

这最后一部分当然是废话。很多人都因 Bankman-Fried 的大规模欺诈行为而受到伤害——只需问问那些被 Bankman-Fried 诈骗了数十亿美元的投资者、那些无法获得其加密货币全部价值的 FTX 客户、或者那些承诺提供资助但从未兑现的非营利组织就可以了。得到他们是因为整件事是一个庞氏骗局。至于班克曼-弗里德性格中的奇怪特征，他本人也承认，他明显的古怪性格是为了进一步推进他的骗局而培养的。

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.

这让我们回到了我最初的问题：班克曼·弗里德和他的父母怎么会如此愚蠢。他们没有承认他所做的非常糟糕的事情，而是抓住一个又一个的借口。你不需要成为法学教授或天才才能知道为什么这是一个坏主意。看过电视的人都知道，当你做了欺诈之类的坏事时，最好的做法就是表示悔恨，并告诉法官你会改变自己的做法。事实上，《Fortune Crypto》今天发表了一篇专栏文章，作者是一位因 300 万美元欺诈指控而服刑的人。但出于某种原因，班克曼-弗里德似乎认为不同的规则适用于他。当他在受审前向媒体泄露前女友的日记并因篡改证人而被撤销保释时，我们就看到了这一点。他认为会发生什么？如果他在宣判前未能表达真正的悔意，他认为会发生什么？他还是不明白。

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.

今天下午我们应该知道班克曼-弗里德的命运——我的同事利奥和尼亚姆将在法院接到报告。至于他将服刑多久，检察官要求服刑 40 至 50 年，而班克曼-弗里德的律师则要求服刑 6.5 年或更短，这可笑。同时，由于这是加密货币，因此存在一个基于代币的预测市场，大多数赌注范围为 20 到 50 年。让我失望了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)

去中心化新闻法官拒绝驳回 SEC 对 Coinbase 的索赔，驳回了交易所的公平通知索赔并援引重大问题原则。 （财富）

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)

马克·安德森 (Marc Andreessen)、Galaxy Digital 等人向一只新基金投资了 7500 万美元，该基金押注于消费者加密应用——这是加密风险投资复苏的最新迹象。 （彭博社）

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)

不列颠哥伦比亚省提交了一份“不明财富令”，从诈骗交易所 Quadriga 联合创始人的保险箱中没收金条、现金和手表。 （加拿大广播公司）

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 债权人抱怨说，这家破产公司的管理人从未执行重启交易所的计划，尽管在这个想法上花费了数百万美元。 （华尔街日报）

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)

新的贝莱德基金为投资者提供代表现金和国库券投资的区块链代币，自上周推出以来已吸纳 2.4 亿美元资金。 （彭博社）

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Best of luck, Sam:

此刻的模因祝你好运，山姆：