Jumat, 03 November 2023

'Crypto king' Sam Bankman-Fried faces jail after fraud conviction - The Times

Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in December after his firm FTX went bankrupt
Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested in December after his firm FTX went bankrupt
ED JONES/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

During his dizzying rise to fame and sudden fortune as a cryptocurrency tycoon, Sam Bankman-Fried looked at the world and his prospects in terms of probabilities and positive “expected value” — a term from the trading floor.

His ex-girlfriend Caroline Ellison described him as a man who would risk $10 million on a coin toss, if there was a chance of winning a little more than that. And he “would be happy to flip a coin, if it came up tails and the world was destroyed, as long as if it came up heads the world would be like more than twice as good.”

Last night, after a month-long trial, he found himself convicted of a $10 billion fraud and incarcerated in a Brooklyn jail,

Adblock test (Why?)


https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiXWh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRoZXRpbWVzLmNvLnVrL2FydGljbGUvZnR4LWZvdW5kZXItc2FtLWJhbmttYW4tZnJpZWQtY29udmljdGVkLW9mLWZyYXVkLXdkazAyY2JmN9IBAA?oc=5

2023-11-03 07:00:00Z
2586953660

Tidak ada komentar:

Posting Komentar