Is Ben Delo a “disgraced crypto billionaire”? From Jess Riedel’s description, it wasn’t obvious to me whether the thing BitMEX got fined for was something seriously evil, versus something closer to “overlooked a garden-variety regulation and had to go pay a fine, as large businesses often do”.
(Conflict-of-interest notice: I work for MIRI, which received money from Open Phil in 2020 that came in part from Ben Delo.)
Is Ben Delo a “disgraced crypto billionaire”? From Jess Riedel’s description, it wasn’t obvious to me whether the thing BitMEX got fined for was something seriously evil, versus something closer to “overlooked a garden-variety regulation and had to go pay a fine, as large businesses often do”.
(Conflict-of-interest notice: I work for MIRI, which received money from Open Phil in 2020 that came in part from Ben Delo.)