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Sam Bankman-Fried Personally Collected $300,000,000 After Raising Funds for Bankrupt FTX Last Year: Report

The disgraced founder of FTX reportedly personally took in hundreds of millions of dollars last year after a funding round…

November 20, 2022

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Says Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Clearly’ Lied to FTX Users, Investors and Employees

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is unveiling more details about the call he had with Sam Bankman-Fried as the FTX founder…

November 20, 2022

Crypto Analytics Platform Nansen Finds FTX May Have Colluded With Alameda Since the Exchange’s Inception

Crypto analytics firm Nansen is turning to on-chain data to take a deeper look at the relationship between embattled crypto…

November 18, 2022

New FTX CEO Says the Collapsed Exchange’s Top Leaders Were ‘Potentially Compromised Individuals’

The new chief executive of bankrupt crypto exchange FTX says that the platform’s leadership was made up of “potentially compromised…

November 17, 2022

‘And so He Won’: SBF Dishes on Changpeng Zhao, Bankruptcy and Regulators in Candid DM Exchange With Vox Reporter

Disgraced FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried is speaking his mind following the crash of his crypto empire in a direct message…

November 17, 2022

Former Kraken CEO Jesse Powell Says Mainstream Media Complicit in FTX ‘Ponzi’

Former Kraken chief executive Jesse Powell thinks the mainstream media shares some of the blame for the FTX fiasco that…

November 16, 2022

FTX Meltdown Is Crypto Industry’s Version of Enron Implosion, According to Former US Treasury Secretary

Former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers thinks the recent meltdown of crypto derivatives exchange FTX is a lot like the…

November 15, 2022

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong Says Sam Bankman-Fried Probably Committed Fraud, Warns of More FTX Contagion

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong is weighing in on the collapse of crypto exchange FTX, saying that the firm's CEO Sam…

November 14, 2022

Elon Musk Confirms Encounter With FTX, Says Sam Bankman-Fried ‘Set Off My BS Detector’

Tech billionaire and new Twitter CEO Elon Musk says he turned down a meeting with Sam Bankman-Fried earlier this year…

November 12, 2022

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao Lists Five Classic Red Flags in Crypto Projects Amid FTX Collapse

Binance CEO Changpeng Zhao is warning people after FTX’s collapse to avoid crypto projects that are displaying five key red…

November 12, 2022