SBF Prison Experiment: Second instance appeal rejected, hope of amnesty application slim, still insisting on innocence and seeking release from prison BlockBeats news, on June 17th, according to in-depth reports from New York magazine, FTX founder SBF (SBF) is currently detained at Lombok Federal Prison in California and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud and conspiracy in March 2024. On June 12th of this year, the US Second Circuit Court of Appeals rejected its formal appeal, further reducing its legal remedies; In the same month, SBF officially submitted a presidential pardon application, and according to Polymarket data, its probability of being pardoned before 2027 is about 14%. At the level of the release movement, SBF's parents have hired two Republican lobbyists to lobby the Trump administration. Her mother Barbara Reed continues to post articles on Substack to plead for her innocence, and anonymous websites such as freesbf.org and multiple X accounts are also campaigning for her. However, earlier this year, Trump made it clear that he "does not plan" to pardon SBF, and well-known Republican pro crypto lawmaker Cynthia Ramis publicly expressed opposition, indicating that his political prospects are not optimistic. It is worth comparing that CZ, who was also convicted of money laundering, has been granted amnesty by Trump, partly because its trading platform provides support for the Trump family's crypto project World Liberty Financial. The SBF in prison maintained a large amount of writing and legal activities: serializing the prison memoir "Manfred", writing "Where did the money go" documents attempting to prove FTX's ability to pay at the time, and submitting new trial motions on its own behalf (which have been rejected). He insists that the loss of approximately $8 billion in customer funds was due to unintentional accounting errors rather than deliberate fraud, and points out that FTX bankruptcy proceedings have so far repaid over $10 billion to victims. At the same time, he actively showed goodwill towards Trump, using his father to operate the X account to post pro Republican content and accepting an interview with Tucker Carlson, for which he was temporarily imprisoned. In terms of prison life, SBF lost about 30 pounds, adhered to a pure vegetarian diet, played about 6000 rounds of pixel dungeon games every day, taught chess classes, became obsessed with pickleball, and refused to join any racial "team" and chose independence. According to his former cellmate's description, he helped multiple cellmates prepare legal documents and gained a good impression among them, being hailed as a "counterintuitive and peaceful person". The biggest fear of SBF is not serving a long sentence, but training their brain to only search for Oreo neurons during the long sentence, which means losing their ability to think and influence the external world. [Original link]