(background supplement:Burn the family business! SBF parents ‘suspended for this semester,’ no longer teaching at Stanford in 2023 ）
addCryptocurrency exchange Binance (Binance) CEO Changpeng Zhao (CZ) posted on Twitter today, saying that after Binance withdrew from the ranks of FTX investors a year and a half ago, former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF) once Crazy, not only targeted multiple Binance team members for verbal attacks, but also sent threatening messages in the group “Do your best to make Binance pay the price”, CZ said that he still keeps these messages on file.
CZ then mentioned that SBF used “investment” to buy high-level people, wooing media, lawmakers, and TV personalities such as Kevin O’Leary to attack Binance:
He used this network to manipulate public opinion and attack me and others in the industry. My lineage (of Chinese descent) is the focus of these attacks and Kevin O’Leary has shown SBF’s intention to continue these attacks in the media and may repeat them at next week’s Senate hearing.
7/ Shortly after that Sam began “investing” in friends in high places – from media, to policymakers, to celebrities (like Kevin). And he used that network to manipulate public opinion, including attacking me and others in the industry.
— CZ ???? Binance (@cz_binance) December 9, 2022
According to the New York TimesreportOn November 10th, in the encryption industry communication group that SBF joined together, CZ sent a message to reprimand SBF for using Alameda to destroy the stability of USDT anchoring. At that time, SBF denied attacking USDT in the group to make it decoupled. CZ Response only: “My sincere advice is, stop what you’re doing and put on your suit and go back to DC and start explaining the doubts”
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