Crypto on trial: the downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried
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The Guardian
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2023
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, the Speckler. |
| 0:09.0 | Today, the spectacular crash of crypto's biggest star. You in a nice, comfy seat, with your hands behind your head, taking in the views, |
| 0:28.0 | instead of taking on the road, maybe even taking a nap. |
| 0:31.9 | That's the bliss of getting where you need to go without |
| 0:35.1 | worrying about driving. Book your train journey via avantiawestcoast.co. |
| 0:40.4 | UK and we'll take you there. Avanti West Coast, feel good travel. At his |
| 0:55.0 | peak, |
| 0:58.0 | richest person in the world under 30. |
| 1:01.0 | His cryptocurrency business was worth $32 billion. He lived in a pet house in |
| 1:07.0 | the Bahamas with all of his colleagues who also happened to be his best friends. |
| 1:11.2 | And he did it all in cargo shorts and in desperate need of a |
| 1:14.6 | haircut and even that some people said was just evidence he was a genius. In |
| 1:21.1 | Washington he was wind and dined by Republicans and Democrats, some of who just wanted his money, |
| 1:27.0 | but they also wanted his advice on how to regulate the booming but baffling world of cryptocurrency. |
| 1:34.1 | And then a year ago, almost to the day, |
| 1:37.3 | the music stopped. |
| 1:39.3 | Breaking news overnight. |
| 1:40.7 | FDX founder, Sam Baking Freight, |
| 1:42.1 | rested in the Bahamas, set to face a judge this morning. |
| 1:46.2 | Bankman-freed's business went into free fall, and his friends became witnesses for the prosecution. |
| 1:52.3 | Last week in a court in Manhattan, jurors took just four hours to decide |
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