DARK SECRETS: 44 - The Real Truth

‘It just kinda went crazy’: FTX’s lavish spending highlights lack of controls

Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto group showered employees with perks before collapsing into bankruptcy

Financial Times · Nov 30, 2022

FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried says he has just $100,000 in his bank account after running a company that was once worth $32 billion

“Am I allowed to say a negative number?”

Fortune · Nov 30, 2022

Exclusive: Sam Bankman-Fried says he's down to $100,000

The former CEO tells Axios about what helped lead to FTX's collapse.

Axios · Nov 29, 2022

As FTX burned, lawmakers said to be dithering over regulator

WASHINGTON — Congress opted to tread water on legislation that would clarify the agency in charge of the cryptocurrency industry, leaving lawmakers now without a regulator to blame for missing the signs of the FTX collapse this month and facing deep skepticism about some proposals.

Tribune News Service · Nov 29, 2022

In 2020 Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted about a VC ‘horror story.’ Now that investor reveals what he saw at Alameda Research—and why he walked

Alexander Pack said he and his Dragonfly team met with Alameda executives, including Bankman-Fried, more than a dozen times over a five-to-six-month period from 2018 to 2019.

Fortune · Nov 29, 2022

As FTX burned, lawmakers said to be dithering over regulator - Roll Call

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried’s prominence on Capitol Hill is said to have tainted bills deemed too favorable to the cryptocurrency industry.

Roll Call · Nov 29, 2022

A founder’s guide to early startup fundraising in 2023

What founders should expect from the VC funding environment, and what to do about it.

Fortune · Nov 29, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried: Crypto’s Wolf of Wall Street

City Voices: Crypto still has a great future despite recent scandals

Evening Standard · Nov 29, 2022

Beto O’Rourke returned $1 million check from FTX’s Sam Bankman-Fried

O’Rourke’s campaign said they gave the money back before the company’s scandals became widely public, because they were taken aback by such a large unsolicited donation.

The Texas Tribune · Nov 29, 2022

Digital exchange Bitfront closes for business as crypto winter bites

The California based company stopped new customer sign ups at 5am today

Evening Standard · Nov 29, 2022