Sam Bankman-Fried


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Bitcoin Falls to $17K Level on FTX Contagion Fears

"Sam Bankman-Fried was very much the Jamie Dimon of crypto," says Defiance ETFs CEO Sylvia Jablonski. "When you see a major player on what feels like the verge of collapse ... it destroys the confidence of investors," she adds, explaining bitcoin (BTC)'s fall to $17,000 following the news of a potential Binance-FTX merger.

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Rep. Jim Himes Reacts to FTX Fallout

Newly re-elected Congressman Jim Himes reacts to the possible Binance takeover of FTX, given Sam Bankman-Fried's role as a large donor in this election cycle. "He spent a lot of time on Capitol Hill in a really important role ... educating the Congress," Himes says of Bankman-Fried. Plus, Himes compares the FTX fallout to the "ultimate meltdown" of the internet in the early 2000s.

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Sam Bankman-Fried’s Crypto Exchange FTX Agrees to Sell Itself to Rival Binance

Binance agreed to buy rival cryptocurrency exchange FTX, a stunning outcome that followed days of speculation – spurred by a CoinDesk article on Nov. 2 – that FTX and corporate sibling Alameda Research faced a liquidity crisis. CoinDesk Deputy Managing Editor Tracy Wang discusses the state of the FTX-Binance deal and the potential ripple effects.

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Why Did FTX Pause Withdrawals if It Wasn't Trading Customer Funds?

The exchange's own terms of service dictate customer balances shouldn't have moved. So what really happened?

FTX co-founder and CEO Sam Bankman-Fried says he's willing to lose money to help the crypto industry. (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Binance Is Strongly Leaning Toward Scrapping FTX Rescue Takeover After First Glance at Books: Source

Backing out would be one more stunning development in the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto empire.

Sam Bankman-Fried vs. CZ (CoinDesk)

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Binance CEO Zhao Says Planned FTX Acquisition Is Not a 'Win for Us'

Zhao also noted in a Wednesday memo to staff that Binance had stopped selling its holdings of FTX's tokens given the ongoing due diligence for the deal.

Binance CEO and founder Changpeng Zhao (Antonio Masiello/Getty Images)

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Sam Bankman-Fried ya no es billonario tras perder US$14.600M de la noche a la mañana

El CEO de FTX perdió aproximadamente US$14.600 millones, casi el 94% de su riqueza total, según el Índice de Multimillonarios de Bloomberg.

Former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried (Jesse Hamilton/CoinDesk)

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Stablecoin Heavyweights Circle and Tether Distance Themselves From FTX, Alameda

FTX was one of the investors in Circle's financing round of $440 million last year.

Director de Estrategia de Circle, Dante Disparte (izquierda), y director ejecutivo, Jeremy Allaire. (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)

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NFL Legend Tom Brady Caught in FTX Fallout, Risks Losing Complete Strategic Investment

A tarnished record after coming out of retirement, a divorce and now a wipeout of the strategic investment in FTX. It has been a rough year for the seven-time Super Bowl champion.

Sam Bankman-Fried and Tom Brady at Crypto Bahamas conference in Nassau in April 2022 (Danny Nelson/CoinDesk)