I don't think the main focus should be if SBF goes to jail or not, I think there are probably many other players who should be held accountable too. At the end of the day, FTx as a company stole billions from people who had considered them as a trustworthy institution. If people go to jail, everyone involved should.
Personally I am still in awe that this has even happened.
I did not know some US politicians are so corrupt and shameless until they tried to incriminate CZ Binance for the FTX scam. There's going to be a tough prosecution. I hope justice will prevail
I do not think anyone, even CZ, is innocent in the whole situation. I find it very hard to believe that CZ and Bankman did not collude closely enough for CZ to be aware of what was going on. At the end of the day, CZ benefits very much from FTX collapsing. Binance now has a major footing within the US thanks to FTX collapse. In a macro view, this has even further effects/ramifications outside the confines of crypto, Binance and FTX.
I won't explain any further.
It is true that CZ has an impact on FTX crashes, but the main cause is SBF. If FTX does not have trouble before, then even if CZ attacks more, they will not crash. Like what Binance is going through, they are surrounded by many Fuds, but if they are transparent and do business properly, they will never follow in the footsteps of FTX.
Binance doesn't need to benefit from the fall of FTX because they are essentially the top exchange and bigger than any of the competitors in the market, including Coinbase, a veteran exchange in the market that debuted before binance.
The FUD attacks on binance are probably propagated by binance themselves, as they obviously have the reserves, and the fud campaign validates their reserves in a very public way.
That is a theory anyway. Otherwise, there is a lot of naivety in what you say. Firstly, SBF was not the only one responsible for FTX's demise, there were many many people involved. CZ and SBF collaborated in many ways. CZ is not innocent. Secondly, you are saying that Binance is not positively effected by the fall of FTX? Especially if it means that Binance takes FTX's position in the US and on top of that, majority of its customers, being the biggest alternative to FTX? That opinion is very flawed.
The collapse of FTX benefits Binance in every way possible. Binance gains more power in every way, customers, revenue, profit and political footing in arguably the largest consumer country in the globe.
It's naive, even wrong, to say that Binance is not very positively effected by the collapse of FTX.