All right, I'm going to send it to the deal book conference now.

You see Andrew Ross Sorkin walking on the stage

for his conversation with Sam Bankman Freed,

and we're going to listen in.

Thank you, everybody.

And thank you for staying for the entire day

so that we can do what I think may be one of the most important

interviews we will do today.

In the span of about one week, Sam Bankman Freed went from a billionaire, the white night of the

crypto world and running one of the largest exchanges to what some people think has become a wanted man.

FTX was once valued at $32 billion.

It's now effectively worthless in bankruptcy.

We're going to talk about that and whether investors will ever get money back.

There are multiple billions owed to creditors and big questions. In the wake of the

collapse, Bitcoin fell to its lowest price in two years and on Monday Block Vie which had been bailed out by FTX filed for bankruptcy.

The rapid fall of this empire has left so many questions about crypto, about the

the future of it and whether it can be trusted again.

Sam Bankmanfree joins us right now live from the Bahamas.

Sam, I want to thank you for joining us this afternoon.

I appreciate your willingness to have this conversation.

As I said at the outset of today, there are a lot of questions that need to be asked and also need to be answered.

As you know, a lot of people have been hurt, genuinely hurt. And my hope is that over the time we have

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