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Michael Burry Says Crypto Audits Are ‘Essentially Meaningless’
Investor immortalized in The Big Short compares examining companies like FTX and Binance to credit-default swaps before the financial crisis.
Michael Burry
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The investor who foresaw the housing market crash in 2008 is skeptical about today’s crypto audits.
Michael Burry — played by Christian Bale in The Big Short movie — said in a tweet on Friday that examinations of digital asset holdings in firms like Binance Holdings Ltd. and FTX are “essentially meaningless,” because auditors are learning on the job, much like they were in 2005 with credit-default swaps.