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Fast forward to March 8, 2023. The Fed had been raising rates like a sledgehammer. SVB’s bond portfolio—bought when rates were zero—was now worth 20% less than face value. The leak reveals a panicked 2:00 AM internal memo: "We need to sell $21 billion in available-for-sale securities. We will take a $1.8 billion loss. Do not tell the VCs yet."
By 6:00 AM on March 9, CEO Greg Becker was on a call. He told investors, "We have ample liquidity. Don't panic." site%3apastebin.com+silicon+valley+bank
By 10:00 AM, the FDIC arrived to seize the bank. The Pastebin post ends with a single line of code from a terminated engineer: system.out.println("Game over. SVB has $0.00 left."); Fast forward to March 8, 2023
And somewhere on a hard drive, svb_bloodbait.txt remains the perfect tombstone for the first bank killed by a group chat. The leak reveals a panicked 2:00 AM internal
At 9:15 AM, he logged off.
The Group Chat That Broke the Bank