I often joke that crypto moves in dog years.

That events that might take seven years to unfold in any other industry can happen in

just one.

In a few years, FTX won from a little known startup in Hong Kong to one of the biggest crypto

exchanges in the world.

And Sandbingman Fried became the face of the industry.

But in a few short months, everything fell apart.

It all started in the summer of 2022.

Well, it may be summer in the real world, but online it's a crypto winter.

Cryptocurrencies continue to slide and Terra has completely imploded.

Does it make sense to buy Bitcoin now or is digital currency dead?

Crypto markets were a mess.

Coins were plummeting, and they were dragging crypto companies into bankruptcy.

The whole industry just seemed to be coming apart.

But at the time, Bankman Fried appeared immune to the turmoil.

His hedge fund, Alameda Research, seemed unaffected.

And FTX was a pillar of stability, topping up struggling crypto companies with loans

and buyouts.

To a lot of people, it looked like Bankman Fried was saving crypto.

A lot of people called you the savior of crypto, the patron saint of crypto.

And I'm wondering if you agree with any of those names?

In the end, I think that there weren't very many people who were really going to be positioned

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