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Crypto

Sam Bankman-Fried
Eriq Gardner • April 1, 2024

S.B.F.’s Appeal Chances & The New Crypto Frontiers

News and notes on the quarter-century sentencing heard round the world, plus the legal and regulatory jiu-jitsu of a new breed of finance frontiersmen.
Theodore Schleifer • January 2, 2024
S.B.F.’s $3 Billion Complexifier
Since his conviction, Sam Bankman-Fried’s multi-hundred-million-dollar bet on Anthropic, the effective altruist-aligned A.I. company, has looked increasingly prescient.
Sam Bankman-Fried’s prescient investment in Anthropic—now worth multiple billions—might help make his defrauded FTX investors whole. How will this impact his parents? His narrative? Or even his sentencing?
William D. Cohan • October 18, 2023
The Mooch’s Remembrance of S.B.F.’s Past
“I’m looking at an overmedicated young man“ said The Mooch. “It’s almost Shakespearean.”
Candid reflections on the past, present, and future of the former crypto boy king, from a brief, one-time wingman.
Caroline Ellison’s testimony and cross-examination were two of the most jaw-dropping moments of the trial.
Theodore Schleifer • October 13, 2023
Caroline in My Mind
In the trial of S.B.F., the defense set out to blame Caroline Ellison, Sam’s former colleague-turned-paramour-turned-cooperating witness. Was this cross-examination really the best he could do?
Ryan Salame always stood out as the linen-and-loafered bro among the Math Camp crowd that surrounded S.B.F.
Theodore Schleifer • September 12, 2023
Inside the Fall of S.B.F.’s Big Cool Buddy
The backstory to the yearlong back-and-forth between prosecutors and Ryan Salame, the Berkshires restaurateur and Republican mega-donor who fought the feds for as long as he could—before folding.
William D. Cohan • June 11, 2023
Zaslav’s ‘Martian’ Mission
Notes on the inside conversation percolating through the Teterboro crowd: WBD’s Sisyphean debt boulder and Gensler’s crypto holy war. Plus, a totally fitting Trump story for the ages.
Theodore Schleifer • May 9, 2023
S.B.F.’s Jack and Jackie
Ryan Salame and Michelle Bond were the wedding cake-top couple in the S.B.F. orbit: the good-looking, charismatic, uber-ambitious, highly socialized D.C. creatures among the bean bag crowd. Will Salame flip on S.B.F. just like the rest of them?
Superlawyer David Boies’ latest target is Mark Cuban, who announced a sponsorship deal in October 2021 that made Voyager the official crypto partner of the Dallas Mavericks.
Eriq Gardner • January 30, 2023
Mark Cuban’s Crypto Garbage & Boies v. Brady
David Boies opens up about his novel legal stratagem to sue the bejesus out of Tom Brady, Gisele, and Larry David over FTX’s collapse—and why he’s coming for Mark Cuban next.
Elon Musk
Baratunde Thurston • December 22, 2022
Have We Reached Peak Elon?
Holiday predictions from across Silicon Valley, on the passing of Twitter, a new low for web3, Meta vs. Apple, and the true dawn of A.I.
Sam Bankman-Fried
Theodore Schleifer • December 13, 2022
Keeping Up with the Bankman-Frieds
At the core of the S.B.F. dilemma is the brainy academic milieu in which he came of age: a place where effective altruism was discussed at the dinner table, shape-shifting was au naturel, and the pursuit of an ethical life undergirded it all.