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by ftxbro 1247 days ago
So people are guessing what the number is from, I will guess too. I never really worked at ftx you guys. It's a work of parody etc.

  > be me
  > new employee at ftx bahamas office
  > sbf is busy in dc doing effective altruism
  > polycule ppl just got text from him
  > tfw not in polycule
  > sbf got a text from caroline
  > we have to double alameda's credit line again
  > guess that's my job now
  > open excel spreadsheet
  > they are planning to convert it to python soon
  > find "borrow" column
  > dozens of accounts have millions of dollars of credit
  > find the alameda borrow entry
  > feels goodman.jpg
  > 32678000000e-3
  > wtf is that
  > it's 32678000000 mils divided by a thousand
  > a mil is a tenth of a cent, it's finance jargon used by exchanges
  > the e-3 at the end is scientific notation to divide by a thousand
  > $32,678,000
  > they've been doubling it by hand while high on stimulants
  > last time they mixed up the 6 and 7
  > bigbraintime.png
  > i can just put parentheses around it and multiply by two
  > leave it like that in the excel cell
  > 32678000000e-3
  > (32678000000-3)*2
  > sbf texted again he says we solved caroline's problem
  > success.png
  > $65,355,999,994