President of El Salvador says FTX is the opposite of Bitcoin’

El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele took to Twitter to proclaim the Bitcoin protocol as the opposite of FTX and likened FTX to a Ponzi scheme in the wake of the exchange’s collapse on Nov. 14. Bukele, a staunch promoter and believer of Bitcoin, said the flagship crypto was designed to prevent Ponzi schemes, bank runs. The Bitcoin blockchain is an open-source protocol, upon which any transaction can be verified by the public, as opposed to a Ponzi scheme, where investment funds are shrouded in secrecy. Examples cited by the President include Enron’s abuse of accounting practices to inflate the company’s revenues and conceal debt in its subsidiaries in 2021, American fraudster Bernie Madoff’s $64.8 billion Ponzi scheme in 2019.