Cryptocurrencies
Sam Bankman-Fried Fooled the Crypto World and Maybe Even Himself
- FTX co-founder’s openness belied deep issues within empire
- Once worth $26 billion, he quit as CEO after bankruptcy filing
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Before the world began to grasp the truth about Sam Bankman-Fried -- before the panic, the investigations and, at last, the brutal collapse -- an inkling of doom began to spread through his convoluted crypto empire.
All across FTX, the exchange that had transformed his mere initials into a symbol of a new kind of wealth and power, one question came up again and again: Where is SBF?