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CZ: Binance fully exited FTX in July 2021, 18 months before collapse
“The deal was finalized and the transfer was done in July, 20, 21. And this is like a full year and a half before they had issues.”
Sacks: SBF lobbied regulators to ban Binance while licensing FTX
“SPF was trying to get Binance and competitors like that banned while SPF would be one of the sole people to get the license.”
CZ: Binance became the top crypto exchange within five months of launch
“Five months after we started and we're kind of, we were number one exchange already.”
CZ: Forbes put Changpeng Zhao on its cover 7-8 months after Binance launched
“That came in early about six, seven, seven, eight months in, Forbes put me on the cover.”
CZ: BNB token ICO launched at 10 cents before dropping to 6 cents
“So BNB ICO at like about 10 cents. It dropped to like zero point zero dropped to six cents.”
Friedberg: FTX left up a video of SBF quantitative trading on Binance
“For some reason FTX has left up all of their videos on YouTube from three years ago called quantitative trading seven and a half thousand cell wall of Bitcoin on Binance. It's a 17 and a half minute YouTube video of SBF trading arbitrage across markets.”