Why the World Fell for FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried

Back in April I paid $12 to “attend” a virtual event with 30-year-old crypto billionaire Sam Bankman-Fried. Around 45 other people registered for the Zoom, which was hosted by Manny Yekutiel, a San Francisco-based Democratic organizer and owner of the eponymous civic venue Manny’s

Yekutiel is an affable but astute questioner, who sat against a hot-pink sequin backdrop and pressed SBF (as he’s known) on crypto applications and regulation, concepts of liberty and freedom, and the potentially destructive means that might serve the endgame of effective altruism. SBF, who dialed in from a darkened Washington, DC, hotel room, seemed pleased with his own

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