I suspect that this limit was just the Max value of whatever number format they were using was. The chances of it not really being 65536 are fairly low. Its just too coincidental.
So people are guessing what the number is from, I will guess too. I never really worked at ftx you guys. It's a work of parody etc.<p><pre><code> > be me
> new employee at ftx bahamas office
> sbf is busy in dc doing effective altruism
> polycule ppl just got text from him
> tfw not in polycule
> sbf got a text from caroline
> we have to double alameda's credit line again
> guess that's my job now
> open excel spreadsheet
> they are planning to convert it to python soon
> find "borrow" column
> dozens of accounts have millions of dollars of credit
> find the alameda borrow entry
> feels goodman.jpg
> 32678000000e-3
> wtf is that
> it's 32678000000 mils divided by a thousand
> a mil is a tenth of a cent, it's finance jargon used by exchanges
> the e-3 at the end is scientific notation to divide by a thousand
> $32,678,000
> they've been doubling it by hand while high on stimulants
> last time they mixed up the 6 and 7
> bigbraintime.png
> i can just put parentheses around it and multiply by two
> leave it like that in the excel cell
> 32678000000e-3
> (32678000000-3)*2
> sbf texted again he says we solved caroline's problem
> success.png
> $65,355,999,994</code></pre>
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