Bitcoin Evangelist Mooch Accused of Holding Clients’ Cash Captive

As a researcher with experience in the cryptocurrency industry, I find the situation at Skybridge Capital concerning. Anothony Scaramucci’s decision to block clients from leaving the fund raises red flags, especially given his past history of failing to redeem shares. This is not an isolated incident – in March 2022 and 2023, SkyBridge refused to satisfy all redemption requests from its clients.


According to a Bloomberg report published on Thursday, Skybridge Capital, the hedge fund specializing in cryptocurrencies led by American financier Anthony Scaramucci, has prevented its clients from withdrawing their funds.

The holders of approximately 70% of the fund’s outstanding shares have asked for their investments to be redeemed following substantial profits. However, Scaramucci is only intending to honor redemption requests equivalent to 7% of the shares at this time. Despite this, Scaramucci maintains that his decision aligns with the provisions outlined in the fund’s prospectus.

The American financier has faced criticism before for not honoring redemption requests for his shares.

For the first time in March 2022, SkyBridge failed to honor all the withdrawal requests made by its clients.

In 2023, many of Scaramucci’s clients sought to withdraw their investments from his fund due to negative publicity resulting from his collaboration with Sam Bankman-Fred, the FTX CEO.

As a researcher studying the cryptocurrency market trends, I’ve observed that the company’s early investments in cryptocurrencies during 2021 were fruitful. However, their misfortune came when they took a position against the collapsed FTX exchange. In retrospect of events, Scaramucci announced a deal to sell a significant portion, amounting to 30% of the fund, to FTX in September.

In March 2023, it would only let clients withdraw 7.5% of the shares. 

Optimistic Bitcoin predictions 

Based on the report from U.Today, I predicted that Bitcoin could reach a price of $750,000 by the end of this decade as early as 2023.

I’ve analyzed his past predictions and found that a few of them didn’t pan out as expected. For example, I previously projected that Bitcoin’s value could hit $100,000 by the close of 2021.

As a financial analyst looking back at 2018, I recall a prominent Wall Street figure making a bold prediction that SkyBridge would manage an impressive $20 billion in assets within five years. Fast forward to the end of 2023, however, and the reality tells a different story: The firm’s assets under management stood at a mere $2 billion.

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2024-07-11 20:08