Selfless Do-Gooder on the Front, Greedy Lawless Entrepreneur on the Back – This Is the Story of Sam Bankman-Fried’s Downfall.

Never has a large fortune vanished as quickly as his. 16 billion dollars gone in 3 days.

Nov 19, 2022

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Tuesday, November 8, 2022, Sam Bankman-Fried had $16 billion. On Friday, November 11, 2022, this young lord of cryptocurrencies had nothing left. His firm FTX is bankrupt. Never has a large fortune vanished so quickly. Never has a financial collapse looked so much like a modernized version of Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde, haunted by the ghosts of Enron an…

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