I was shocked when I first learned how a hot mess like Sam Bankman-Fried got away with convincing so many seemingly smart people – big money managers, venture capitalists and all those celebrity ambassadors – that he was such a little investment genius, they should hand over a lot of money for him to play …
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FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is expected to be in custody now, in regards to Brian Armstrong. The Coinbase CEO said this week that it was “baffling to me that he’s not already in custody.” “The DOJ or someone should be able to do this – based on their public statements, I think there is a …
Nerdy crypto entrepreneurs who spent big in Miami nightclubs, flooding customers with cash as they ordered ‘bathtubs of champagne’ and sang along with rappers like 50 Cent, have gone quiet, owners said of South Florida locations. The sudden collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX and the plummeting value of digital coins has Miami nightclub owners dreaming …
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The chief ‘regulatory officer’ of fallen crypto exchange FTX was embroiled in a notorious online poker cheating scandal more than a decade ago – and was filmed helping the perpetrators of the fraud , according to reports. Dan Friedberg – an attorney who was FTX’s chief regulatory officer in the months leading up to its …
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It may be a little too soon to lump Sam Bankman-Fried into the same boat as infamous fraudster Bernie Madoff — or maybe not. The full post-mortem of his epic meltdown from crypto prodigy and billionaire to broke crypto villain extraordinaire won’t be ready for some time. Prosecutors for the US Attorney for the Southern …
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FTX’s in-house performance coach claimed on Tuesday that the doomed crypto firm’s Bahamian headquarters was a “rather tame place” – despite rampant speculation about its executives’ sex lives and alleged substance use. Online gossip alleging the group lived in a “polycule” — or polyamorous relationship web — exploded after CoinDesk reported that the leaders “are, …
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The New York Times has come under fire for an article it published about Sam Bankman-Fried, with critics calling it a puff on the accused crypto fraudster. The Times widely quoted Bankman-Fried for an article whose title reads: “How Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire fell apart”. The article describes Bankman-Fried as “SBF,” noting that he spoke …
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The shocking implosion of crypto exchange FTX has become an embarrassment to a who’s who among the global elite, with some issuing mea culpas – and others seemingly scrambling to hide their ties to its disgraced 30-year-old founder, Sam Bankman-Fried. Web archive sites show that the World Economic Forum – whose glitzy shindig in Davos, …
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