SBF tweeted from prison? The crypto world is getting lively again.

This guy was sentenced to 25 years in prison last November, and suddenly tweeted last week expressing sympathy for unemployed government employees—his account was updated for the first time in 2 years. As a result, FTT surged by 40%, and SBF-related meme coins followed suit with a sharp rise.

The question arises: The Federal Bureau of Prisons in the United States clearly prohibits inmates from carrying mobile phones, so how was it sent?

There are several possibilities:

**Account Custody**: Authorize family or team members to send on your behalf before going to prison. Silk Road founder Ross did this too—by using handwritten notes to have family members retweet.

**Prison Management Loophole**: SBF is now at California FCI Mendota (a low-security prison) with only 931 inmates. The conditions are more lenient compared to the Brooklyn Detention Center where he was previously held. The key is that FTX was a major donor to the Democratic Party, and both of SBF's parents are university professors – this status may have truly become a "special treatment" bargaining chip. In 2023, American prisons seized 24,000 smuggled phones throughout the year, averaging 67 phones per federal prison per month – there are plenty of channels in the black market.

**Dark Irony**: What the crypto world fears the most is this kind of thing. A person convicted of fraud can still influence the market even while in prison. If this is really achieved by leveraging power relationships to get a phone, then it becomes even more surreal – the dream of decentralization ultimately falls victim to the power and money of reality.