Just my guess, but no jail time. However, we don't even know exactly what happened yet either so who knows.

Together with his former girlfriend Caroline of Alameda, I am hoping that Sam Bankman Fried will be punished with frying chicken in the jail where he will be landing on after years of litigation...just like what happened to Elizabeth Holmes another scammer to the tune of billions of dollars duped from people whom we assumed should know better. Same scenario...hopefully same results. I know that he had been a big donor to many politicians but if the government is serious in regulating this industry then cases should be build against the man and he should be spending time in jail. We don't need Sam or anybody taking the same path for the crypto industry. Sam is now synonymous with collapse and certainly should never be allowed to do business with cryptocurrency.

there are legal means of a business, taking in funds from customers. and not giving the customers anything in return

however busniesses need to have met a legal threshold of having to make customers aware that there is a risk of losing all their deposits and that when they are putting money/asset into something they are handing all ownerchip, possession and control of that money/asset over to ownership by the business

thus anything after the deposit is no longer anything to do with customers, and customers have no redress/option/involvement/chance of recouperation

there is also the charade buddy system of links to political entities. EG scam bankman frauds family know someone who know someone in the CFTC and SEC and also in both the trump and biden camps(should future elections shift party and this bankrupts drama stretch out beyond 2024)

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with both that said.
its not CFTC or SEC that will hammer SBF(if its an option) its the FATF(financial action task force) that will do the hammering

also those friends of friends in SEC/CFTC may want to distance themselves by actually getting involved to find/give evidence to help prosecute him as their way of saying their job/integrity mean more then loyalty to friends in their personal lives

all in all. it can swing both ways legally and lawfully. only time can tell.

we all want to see scam bankman fraud in prison. but when it comes to business law of contracts etc. certain deals can be done to make sure a brand gets destroyed without punishing the human that made the brand

Maybe he will only be jailed for 1 or 2 years, we all know who is behind SBF and of course, that is the reason why SBF is still enjoying his life today.
but can jail time restore the market to normal and return FTX investors' losses? of course it won't change the situation, everything has happened and we have to accept it.


This is his 32nd speech. he says nothing matters except doing his best for all FTX customers. But, what is the best for now, and what developments has SBF made for its customers? are the customers getting their profits back, or are they just trash at FTX? LOL.

Do you remember Dokwon? and now he is still sunbathing on some luxurious beach with investor's money. Then there is no reason because SBF will go to jail, cryptocurrency has no government protection, when we participate in investment, we will be responsible for our own decision.

Nothing will happen if that guy is kept behind the bars and I highly doubt there will be any law suit against him. All they will justify that it's due to lack of security, lack of planning and bla bla stuff in front of the court and get out immediately with a bail. Anyways Senator will get paid huge $$ so he might easily get away with this.

If so, then Elon should be behind the bars, may be other billionaires too who are playing the fishy games in the name of decentralization in the crypto space. Sadly, it is also beneficial for common user however it's curse when it comes to the jurisdiction because there are simply no control no regulations.

Hopefully we will get the justice someway other. Because one might go in jail and another will stand up and start the work.

If in case they will be compensated especially those top 50 creditors, it will be long time as lawsuit and hearings would take a great deal of time.
However, this current crypto-exchange failure shows that it can really influence the movement in the market.
This may not be long, but right now, we are seeing its immediate effect on bitcoin's price.
For believers, this is a very nice opportunity to collect more satoshis. It is now how crypto users are reacting on this recent fallout.
But I don't think SBF will go to jail very soon, because this will be a long duration of discussion and hearings, possibly, the authorities may ask him to pay those stakeholders affected.

Do you believe that sending someone to jail will cause market movements to switch? It makes no real difference who he is, and he formed so much drama. Already, it has had a massive negative impact on the crypto market; if Sam Bankman-Friedgo is put in jail, the situation will worsen. It will not be good for the overall crypto industry. There is nothing wrong with Bitcoin, but the situation has ended up causing people to panic.

I disagree.  It would be good for the situation if SBF is put in jail. Why?  Because it gave an example for those who think they can play with crypto and scam people because it is hardly regulated by the government.  Somehow scammer will have a second thought to establish company that will scam people.  In short, there will be less people like SBF that makes fool of their investors.