SBF TRIAL Podcast: Inside the Courtroom With CoinDesk
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CoinDesk
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🗓️ 10 November 2023
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
CoinDesk's SBF Trial Newsletter team shares their unique insights from inside the court room and exclusive behind-the-scenes anecdotes from their coverage of Sam Bankman-Fried's criminal trial.
Credits: Nikhilesh De, Managing Editor, Policy and Regulation, CoinDesk
Sam Kessler, Deputy Managing Editor, Technology, CoinDesk
Elizabeth Napolitano, Reporter, Policy and Regulation CoinDesk
Danny Nelson, Managing Editor, Data & Tokens, CoinDesk
Marc Hochstein, Executive Editor, CoinDesk
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome, everybody. Very special event planned. We have the trial team from CoinDess that covered the entirety of the SBF FTX, well, just SBF trial here today to give us a look inside the courtroom over the last, what, two weeks, last month, |
| 0:22.9 | wild. I'm very excited about this. I'd like to invite Mark up, who's going to be our moderator. |
| 0:27.5 | We'll have Q&A at the end. I'll turn it over to Mark who's going to run the entire show. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome, welcome. Thank you guys for joining us. |
| 0:42.4 | Thank you, Thomas. Thank you all for coming. Good evening. So as Thomas mentioned, |
| 0:48.2 | we are going to be talking about covering the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried. Just as a reminder, |
| 0:59.1 | folks, Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. He faces many years in prison, very likely. |
| 1:03.7 | We'll get into the specifics of that, I'm sure. Before my colleagues introduced themselves, |
| 1:09.6 | I do want to say that you guys should feel free to raise your hands early and often. If you have questions, we want this to be, |
| 1:11.2 | this should be an interactive discussion. So please raise your hands anytime and I will come |
| 1:17.2 | over with the mic. So to start, the man who planned and led the coverage, Nick, introduce |
| 1:23.4 | yourself. Hey, everyone. My name is Nick. I'm an editor with CoinDesk. And yeah, this was |
| 1:29.1 | an interesting month. We had a whole plan coverage plan for covering this trial that this team of |
| 1:34.1 | folks here and Mark and one of our other colleagues, Nick Baker in Chicago, executed to perfection. |
| 1:39.1 | So glad to be here. Liz, introduce yourself. Hi, I'm Liz Napolitano. I'm on Nick's team on the policy regulations team at CoinDesk, and I cover Crypto. |
| 1:48.5 | Sam? |
| 1:49.2 | Hi, I'm Sam Kassler. |
| 1:50.5 | I'm Deputy Managing Editor of Tech and Protocols at CoinDesk, but they let me report on the trial. |
| 1:55.7 | So I did, and it was a really cool experience. |
| 1:58.8 | Hi, I'm Danny Nelson. I cover data and tokens at CoinDesk, and I had the pleasure of being |
| 2:03.8 | on the trial team, too. As you can see, we very carefully rehearsed all of our lines tonight. |
| 2:08.6 | Yes. To kick it off, Nick, talk about just what life was like in the courthouse during the month |
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