Sam Bankman-Fried Is a Terrible Client

Sam Bankman-Fried Is a Terrible Client

In the weeks after Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange began to crumble last November, he chose to ignore the most basic piece of legal advice: Say nothing, or risk incriminating yourself. He took media interviews. He appeared on podcasts. He tweeted incessantly....
Confusion Spirals in Crypto as the US Cracks Down

Confusion Spirals in Crypto as the US Cracks Down

The US Securities and Exchange Commission is on the warpath—and crypto is in its crosshairs. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal reported that the agency intends to sue crypto firm Paxos for issuing BUSD, a stablecoin developed in partnership with...
The Fallout of the FTX Collapse

The Fallout of the FTX Collapse

Aaron Kaplan, a securities attorney and co-CEO of trading platform Prometheum, says that although the final outcome for FTX and its customers is not yet crystal clear, there is precedent in scenarios such as this for people never to recover their funds. Unfortunately,...
What the Hell Happened to FTX?

What the Hell Happened to FTX?

CZ has denied that he deliberately created a liquidity crisis at FTX—”I spend my energy building, not fighting,” he tweeted on November 7—but Tim Mangnall, whose company Capital Block has consulted for both Binance and FTX, says this was a “shrewd” business manoeuvre...