his is definitely one of those GET YOUR COINS OFF OF EXCHANGES moments. The widespread damage might take weeks to fully be known and as Sam himself said, a lot of these exchanges may be insolvent already...
We've been saying get your money out of other people's hands for a long time, but it seems people get lazy when it comes to exchanging their money. They assume because it's a massive company, that they won't get burnt, even though history has proven otherwise. I've literally learned in business that companies can practically do whatever they want. The amount of times a company has fallen through, and we haven't been paid is actually devastating, especially to smaller companies. It's the same here, some people will be punished for the wrong doing's they've done, and if any ill play has been found, but ultimately Ftx should've stopped trading years ago. They would've seen this coming, and they still accepted money, and allowed users to deposit, and store money on their exchange.
Technically, users storing money on their exchange has a wallet isn't their money, and warnings should've been given. Obviously, you can argue that it's their money as they own the private keys, but I won't get into that right now. I never understand why these companies don't have people with a little bit of morals, that would warn customers before they burn everything down to the ground, and basically the customers get hurt the most, not the people behind the exchange. The people behind the exchange either go to prison for wrongdoing's or they line their pockets over the years, and they'll probably go on some other business venture after this.
It's a pretty sick world we live in if you think about it, as rarely there's repercussions for everyone involved, and usually just public big players.