SBF and his parents seemed to be quite biased in a democratic direction... Though Trump seems such an attention whore that he could pardon that SBF dweeb merely for the shock value.

I wasn't treating the Ulbricht pardon as a bad thing. I was making the exact opposite point.

I don't think his pardon was as much an act of altruism on Trump's part as it was an act of expediency, trying to buy votes  in the libertarian/Bitcoin sectors. If SBF and his family had donated to the Republicans instead of the Democrats, he probably would have been pardoned in the first group just like those other scumbags, the Proud Boys.

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What if his business model was global firework shows the whole time?  

"Yep, it's like the 4th of July, but with more explosions and way less independence

Yeah, but instead of 'ooh' and 'aah,' the crowd just screams 'WTF' and watches their stocks explode too."

"True, but at least his fireworks come with a Twitter meltdown and a cult following.

Paul Singer, who runs Elliott, has long been an enemy of crypto. “To tell me that something that’s constructed as a computer program, where you engage in some process of sitting there in front of your computer and after a period of time and the expenditure of a bunch of electricity a message appears on your screen that you have created something, that’s ridiculous. It’s nothing. Gold is not nothing, gold is something, you’ll hurt your teeth if you bite a gold coin,” Singer said in an interview in 2021.