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FTX being corrupt doesn't automatically mean banks are not corrupt. Just 14 years ago, the actions of banks brought most of the world to the precipice of financial collapse. FTX and Alameda depositors will lose their money. During the GFC, almost everyone lost their money.


>FTX being corrupt doesn't automatically mean banks are not corrupt.

That's not what OP said. OP highlighted the fact that a lot of the crypto space lambasts the traditional banking system as being wholly corrupt, despite a lot of the crypto space itself being equally corrupted in the same ways.

Edit: "People who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones", basically.




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