In Brief
Posted:
7:35 AM PST · February 25, 2025
As disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried serves the early days of his 25-year prison sentence, the crypto wunderkind-turned-criminal made his first public post on X in over two years.
Bankman-Fried’s thread on X responds to Elon Musk’s recent ultimatum to federal employees: respond to his email with five bullet points of recent accomplishments, or resign. Musk seems to have been merely trolling millions of government employees, but SBF broke his public silence to comment on the messy situation.
“I have a lot of sympathy for gov’t employees: I, too, have not checked my email for the past few (hundred) days,” he wrote on X. “And I can confirm that being unemployed is a lot less relaxing than it looks.”
In the 10-post thread, the former FTX CEO said that firing people is hard, and sometimes people get fired for reasons beyond their own control.
Why did SBF break his silence now? Why was he so desperate to share a lukewarm take on how HR is complicated?
Though SBF’s motives are unclear, FTX’s token, FTT, spiked 30% after his post.
It is not clear how SBF posted on X from prison, as inmates generally cannot access social media. However, some prisoners will write articles, posts, or other content from inside the prison system, which they can share with friends and family on the outside, who then post the content via the inmate’s personal accounts.
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