What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future - Sam Bankman-Fraud
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4.6 • 636 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty on seven charges of wire fraud, conspiracy and money laundering and is facing a 110-year sentence.
Cryptocurrency, itself, has lost an ambassador, a lot of value, and quite a bit of credibility.
Guest: Nitish Pahwa, associate business and tech writer covering the trial for Slate.
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| 0:00.0 | I made you think you was real. |
| 0:02.0 | My name is Caden Sinclair. |
| 0:04.0 | Some people call us American royalty. |
| 0:06.0 | We were Liars. |
| 0:08.0 | A new series on Prime Video. |
| 0:10.0 | We were happy. We wanted for nothing. |
| 0:12.0 | Based on the best-selling novel. |
| 0:15.0 | Something terrible happened last summer, |
| 0:17.0 | and I have no memory of what or who hurt me. |
| 0:20.0 | No one in my family will tell me. |
| 0:22.7 | When you're left for dead, you want answers. |
| 0:25.2 | We were liars. |
| 0:26.3 | New series, watch now, only on Prime Video. |
| 0:34.2 | My slate colleague, Natishpawa, was in the courtroom when the verdict came down that Sam Bankman-Fried was guilty. |
| 0:41.3 | It was truly so silent, so tense. It was packed fully. A lot of us in the benches directly behind SBF and the council and the assistant U.S. |
| 0:58.5 | attorneys, a lot of other observers off to the side, including his parents. |
| 1:03.4 | But everyone was just staring straight ahead, just waiting for the moments when the jury four women would confirm on the counts. |
| 1:15.6 | And wow, the judge had told this beforehand, you know, don't react, you know, no Russian toward doors, |
| 1:23.6 | no like, you know, acting out of line or anything. And, you know, everyone, to |
| 1:29.2 | their credit, did exactly that. But you could definitely get the sense that everyone was, like, |
| 1:36.8 | reacting, head swiveling, like, oh, my God. Could you see him or could you see his parents? |
| 1:49.6 | We could not see him personally. |
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