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I guess they didn't knowingly invite scammers, they just provided the regulatory and banking environment to enable scammers and profited from it.


Bahamas is one of the large international center. So politics are well aware of what is crypto.

The politicians in Bahamas cannot even remotely consider that crypto is a scam because it would open the possibility that they get charged by whoever is a victim (e.g. in the US).

They will put the blame on FTX and that they are victim, but the problem is not only FTX, it's crypto and greed.


Oh, sure, I mean, a significant part of the Bahamas' economy is based on tax evasion, sidestepping financial regulations, and creating out-of-reach entities for large-scale scams. They know it, their customers know, everyone else knows it. But neither they nor their customers can say so, because that's the name of the game.


"provided the regulatory and banking environment to enable scammers" sounds like "knowingly invite scammers" to me.




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