Unpublished Tweets Show Sam Bankman-Fried Had Plans to Shutter Alameda in 2022

Fear, uncertainty, and doubt around Alameda Research’s relationship with his FTX cryptocurrency exchange caused Sam Bankman-Fried to consider shuttering the trading platform in 2022, according to an unpublished tweet thread revealed in his trial on Monday . “Going forward, Alameda will continue to not do nefarious trading activity on FTX, because it won’t do any trades on FTX. Or anywhere else,” said Bankman-Fried in the unpublished posts. “Alameda Research is dead. Long live FTX.” Concerns around the relationship of Bankman-Fried’s companies were too great to justify Alameda’s existence, according to...