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FTX lobbyist tried to buy Pacific island of Nauru to create a new superspecies

Posted By Peter Coyne | 2023-07-28 04:20:44

Sam Bankman-Fried’s younger brother, who was a top lobbyist for failed crypto exchange FTX, considered purchasing the island nation of Nauru in the Pacific to create a fortified apocalypse bunker state.

  • Nauru, with a population of about 12,000, is a little over 2,100 miles away from Brisbane, Australia.

Bankman-Fried was looking at buying Nauru in the “event where 50%-99.99% of people die” to protect his philanthropic allies and create a genetically enhanced human species.

  • In addition to serving as a haven in case of apocalypse, “probably there are other things it’s useful to do with a sovereign country, too,” according to a memo between the younger Bankman-Fried and the philanthropic advisor, which was noted in the suit.

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