Sam Bankman-Fried Fooled the Crypto World and Maybe Even Himself
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Before the world began to grasp the truth about Sam Bankman-Fried, an inkling of doom began to spread through his convoluted crypto empire.
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? Bankman-Fried, current and former employees say, seemed to have disappeared. Then, without explanation, a department nearly missed October payroll. Something was wrong. Just how wrong is only now becoming blazingly clear. On Friday, after one of the most harrowin...