Justice was served, although the prison term imposed could have been longer (many predicted this). SBF’s lawyers can still appeal this court decision (25 years), which will most likely happen. How will the FTX's injured clients react if the lawyers manage to reduce their sentences by several years?

Will this precedent serve as a lesson for scammers? Most likely, not much, because in the cryptoindustry there are opportunities to hit a very big jackpot and at first glance it seemed that SBF would be able to avoid punishment. There is little that can scare away scammers from the pursuit of big and easy money.

I don't think that those two things are connected as SBF has been kicked out of FTX and bascially has nothing to do with it anymore.


Those who lost money in FTX will probably get portion of it back, but not everything. Probably something similar to what happened in Celsius case, but on a smaller scale.


Problem is that he will probably serve half of that amount, in a minimum security prison.

BD seems to be a couple of hours behind WO, and there they not only announced the news first, but also expressed it in poetic form. I honestly doubted that that scumbag would get a long-term sentence, although 25 years seems like a long time to some, keep in mind that little Bankman will probably be out for a maximum of 15-16 years if not sooner.

Justice was served appropriately and the victims of the treacherous act of Sam Bankman Fried be appropriately compensated with the siezed assets as the case may be. His act were very devastating as many lost huge amount of money as a result of his carelessness. Sentencing him should not just stop there, victims should also have their own say too.

I heard he was asked to pay some certain amount of money as well. Does that go in for the compensation or bail or what? I really need clarification on it because that amount of money mentioned could go a long way to see through the affected victims.

He should be thankful for the American judicial system, 25 years is a slap on the wrist. He'll be out before you know it and start living his life. In countries like Turkey and South Korea, he'd have rot behind bars all the days of his life. Where I think they got it right is the payment of $11 billion dollars in forfeiture to the US government. From what I understand, he's not worth up to the said amount, and if he gets out of prison, he'll have to be paying the money until he clears it, which is very unlikely.

People were calling for a more severe sentencing, that he should be handed 50 years, but I guess that we'll have to accept the 25 years imprisonment that's handed to him, for a scammer without conscience, it's people like him that makes other people to label the crypto industry as a den of scams and hacks. I hope that his sentencing will restore some level of trust in the crypto space, that it's criminals can be caught and prosecuted, and I hope that his sentencing will send a message to other scammers that the law will always catch up with them.

Sam Bankman Fried should go to jail for a lifetime and should not accept appeal. It should, because other platform owners should learn they won't just skip with user funds. It's very unfair when we trade on an exchange and suddenly everything is gone. I am lucky I haven't used FTX; otherwise, I would have had to suffer like other users. After that story, it's become very hard to trust any centralised exchanges for storing funds there. However, this would be a lesson for platform owners and users as well. 

Going with that victim card, he and his gang seem to have an idea on how to at least lessen it and getaway with it. But even though, they're not able to get out of it completely and a lot of years have been given to them and we can see that justice is moving for the victims.

When SBF was still on the position, he used to give donations to political parties to influence them and it seem to worked that early for him. But this time, as the sentence is served to him, they can no longer used that influence and he's going to serve jail time.

I am not a victim of FTX, so for me, 25 years is an appropriate sentence. It is enough to scare scammers, and it is not too heavy for Sam's future. It is a pity that Sam is a talented person, at least in terms of communication for the crypto market. I hope that while in prison, Sam will still be able to contribute to the development of the market in the role of a consultant for crypto projects or assist the police in investigating fraud cases in the crypto market.

I guess those who are secretly backing him up turned the 100 years around to 25years, believe it, they fought to turn down the sentencing to 25, its all they can do.

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Sam has human blood on his head already, because few people took their life when they lost everything, I am sure that he will be dealt with not only in this earth but also in thr afterlife, I do hope that this strikes fear in the mind of others like him.

I have read a lot of comments om here, scam is a scam but no one is really free of sin, many people on here can or could have taken advantage of other people too, we are all sinners, and everyone deserves to ask for forgiveness.

I hope Sam has a change of heart and turns into a new leave, even if we acquire everything, it ends here on earth, we are not going to take them to heaven, Richy isn't something worth going the extra mile for, do the right thing and never trample on your fellow humans to get to any level, its not worth it.