'Ninth circle of hell' is reserved for SBF for his betrayal: Scaramucci

SkyBridge Capital managing spouse Anthony Scaramucci has opened up astir the “betrayal” helium felt implicit the actions of FTX laminitis Sam Bankman-Fried, who helium said helium erstwhile considered a “friend.”

Speaking astatine Casper Lab’s Blockchain Hub lawsuit successful Davos, Switzerland connected Jan. 16, Scaramucci emphasized that successful the aftermath of the FTX debacle, helium felt “betrayed” by Bankman-Fried fixed that helium had a adjacent relationship with some him and his family.

“I person to archer you that the betrayal and the fraud, its atrocious connected a batch of antithetic levels, it surely wounded maine reputationally, but i’m conscionable talking astir the visceral narration with somebody,” helium said, adding that:

“If anybody present has work Dante Alighieri’s Inferno, you cognize what the ninth ellipse of Hell is reserved for [...] It’s for the betrayal of a person who lives with the devil—the ninth ellipse of hellhole connected the frozen lake.”

Anthony Scaramucci speaking Casper Lab’s Blockchain Hub: YouTube

Explaining his narration with Bankman-Fried successful further detail, Scaramucci yet admitted that helium stake connected idiosyncratic helium trusted and “got it wrong.”

“I’m a precocious illustration idiosyncratic truthful my mistakes get wildly magnified, [that’s] wholly good but I'm not gonna halt the risk-taking,” helium said, adding: "I thought Sam was the Mark Zuckerberg of crypto, I did not deliberation helium was the Bernie Madoff of crypto."

However, the SkyBridge laminitis has not been deterred by the full ordeal, arsenic helium emphasized that helium has made a vocation disconnected of taking risks, and arsenic specified he’ll “probably marque that mistake again.”

Similarly, Scaramucci’s religion successful crypto successful has not been shaken either, arsenic helium stressed that FTX’s bankruptcy had thing to bash with the underlying worth proposition of the technology.

"That's wherefore we person blockchain and crypto, due to the fact that we're trying to make a decentralized concern wherever we don't person to similar oregon spot each other. [...] We tin transact with each different successful a mode wherever the exertion fundamentally sanctifies."

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As Scaramucci mentioned to CNBC connected Jan. 13, SkyBridge is presently moving connected buying backmost a 30% stake of the institution it sold to FTX for an undisclosed interest backmost successful September.

Notably the woody took spot conscionable 2 months earlier FTX filed for bankruptcy. Scarmucci stated that aft each the ineligible details are sorted, the bargain backmost could spell done earlier the 2nd fractional of this year.

Once that bargain backmost goes through, Scarmucci volition inactive person immoderate escaped ties to FTX via an concern helium made into a crypto company founded by erstwhile FTX US president Brett Harrison. He confirmed the determination to Bloomberg via email this week.

At this latest Blockchain Hub event, Scaramucci outlined that it's important to backmost and enactment friends similar Harrison who are having a pugnacious clip owed to his affiliation with FTX.

Harrison has of people distanced himself from the antics of SBF and his interior circle, and notably stepped down from the steadfast successful September.