Flippening - For Cryptocurrency Investors (bitcoin, Ethereum, And Cryptoasset Investing)

Welcome to part 1 of this series on crypto derivatives trading. I’m joined by Sam Bankman-Fried, the CEO of FTX, one of the fastest-growing crypto derivatives exchanges. FTX launched in April of 2019, and at the time of this recording, does around $100 million dollars in daily volume. Sam is also CEO of Alameda Research, a quantitative trading firm that provides liquidity to crypto markets worldwide. Alameda manages over $100 million in digital assets and trades $600 million to $1.5 billion dollars per day across thousands of products. They are responsible for approximately 5% of all (legitimate) crypto exchange volume. This conversation is broken up into 7 chapters: - Chapter 1: Quantitative trading - Chapter 2: The relationship between Alameda Research and FTX - Chapter 3: The current state of crypto derivatives trading - Chapter 4: The similarities and differences between leveraged volume and spot market volume - Chapter 5: The current state of FTX - Chapter 6: Growth hacking and b