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A World Where SBF Planned To Go To Prison All Along

The Supervillain Who Stole the Last Altseason

3 min readOct 31, 2025

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Abruptober lived up to its name.

Markets froze, the government shut down, and the “everything rally” turned into a waiting room. We’ve entered November not with fireworks — but with déjà vu. The ETFs are still coming, the Fed is still pretending, and everyone’s still refreshing the same charts, hoping a green candle will save the year.

And yet, somewhere behind the walls of a federal prison, the man who ended the last bull run might be sleeping better than any of us.

The Plot Twist

What if this was the plan all along?

What if the Supervillain of Crypto — Sam Bankman-Fried — didn’t just collapse under the weight of FTX… but chose to?

It’s been nearly three years since the fall, and a year into his sentence. And somehow, SBF is still the last person to have experienced a real Altseason. The final, unhinged mania of late 2021 wasn’t ours. It was his.

He didn’t just time the top — he was the top.

The last Degen standing before the curtain fell.

“He didn’t go to prison because he lost. He went because he finished the game.”

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Chip Mahoney
Chip Mahoney

Written by Chip Mahoney

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