Hacker Trends › “ftx” trend
“Ftx” was mentioned 8,243 times on Hacker News between 2016 and 2026, peaking in Oct 2022 with 3,062 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “ftx” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
FTX first appears in 2016, around the exchange’s founding, and totals 8,243 lifetime mentions. The curve spikes in October 2022 with 3,062 mentions — most of its lifetime volume — as the exchange collapsed.
The top stories trace the implosion in sequence: Binance’s proposed acquisition and its withdrawal, FTX tapping customer accounts for risky bets, mysterious $600M+ outflows, the U.S. bankruptcy filing, and analysis of its balance sheet. Discussion concentrated almost entirely around late 2022.
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