Hopium
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be Sam Trabucco
- math prodigy
- wins school competitions and joins Mathcamp
- meets SBF there in 2010
- both nerds obsessed with probabilities
- studies math and CS at MIT
- plays poker with Bitcoin from the 2014 MIT experiment
- triples it and gets hooked on trading
- after college joins Susquehanna
- International Group as a quant trader
learns risk, poker strategy, and market psychology
- 2017: quits, trades crypto full time
- dinner with SBF → joins Alameda Research as one of the first hires
starts running arbitrage bots and high-leverage strategies
- 2021: becomes co-CEO of Alameda with Caroline Ellison
- builds DeFi yield systems and aggressive trading algorithms
- doesn’t care about “effective altruism,”
- November 2021: approves $150M bribe to Chinese officials to unlock $1B frozen on OKX and Huobi
- jokes about it later in a Signal chat
the same year buys two luxury apartments, a house in Maine, and a $2.5M yacht called “Soak My Deck”
- total haul around $60M in personal payouts
- August 2022: suddenly resigns as co-CEO
- tweets that he’s “tired” and wants to enjoy life
- three months later FTX collapses
everyone goes to prison except him
- November 2024: quietly settles with FTX estate
- gives back $81.2M in assets, the yacht, the houses, and creditor claims
- no criminal charges, no trial, no press
- disappears completely
- Today: probably living by the sea
the man who co-ran Alameda and walked away free


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£32,000 a year. Graduate job. What it actually comes to:
Gross: £2,667 a month.
Income tax: £324
National insurance: £225
Student loan Plan 2: £35
Pension (4% auto-enrol): £107
Take home: £1,976.
Rent in any UK city worth living in: £1,200.
Council tax, gas, electric, water, internet: £420.
Train or petrol to get to work: £250.
Bills alone eat £1,870 of it. Leaves you £106 a month for food, clothes, socialising and any kind of life.
This is what a 'good graduate job' looks like in 2026 after 3 years at uni and £50K of student debt. How did we let them sell this to us?
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A thought experiment...
Trump insiders made about $85m today, and roughly $3.9b so far in total, from open market insider trading (on his tweets etc.)
$3.9b divided by $14t in index funds gives you 0.03%. So basically, they stole $30 for every $100,000 anyone holds in stocks.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales
BREAKING: Just 20 minutes before Trump's announcement that the Strait of Hormuz was open, massive trades hit the market. Investors sold a combined 7,990 lots of Brent crude futures, a $760 million bet that oil would go down. These orders were much larger than anything else at the time. The traders made huge gains. Unusual.
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if you already realized that cortisol is a main driver of depression you won’t skip breakfast, eating carbs in the morning is the easiest and most effective way to lower cortisol
Nicholas Fabiano, MD@NTFabiano
Skipping breakfast is associated with an increased odds of depression.
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that’s exactly what low carbing will get you
Night Sky Today@NightSkyToday
Just In 🚨: A Man was Discovered with almost 90% of his brain mass missing, while leading an almost normal life.
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@MercuriusFilius BAT = 1 + BALL
BAT + BALL = 2.5
BAT = 2.5 - BALL
1+ BALL = 2.5 - BALL
2 BALL = 1.5
BALL = 0.75
So BAT = 1.75
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