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That is part of it. The Sequoia piece[0] describes what kicked off Alameda Research: after a tumultuous hard fork, there used to be a discrepancy between the price of Bitcoin in JPY at a Japanese exchange, and that in a US exchange. So he opened a Japanese account, bought a bitcoin in the US for a low price, and sold it in Japan for a high price.

To be clear, it is described by SBF. I haven’t verified historical prices to confirm it. The journalist that wrote this article probably hasn’t either.

[0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20221110141739/https://www.sequo...



He claims to have been wiring $25m a day from a BoA branch to banks in rural Japan. Total horseshit.




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