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Nov 2023
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The sad story of Sam Bankman-Fried | Lea...

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After making a fortune trading cryptocurrencies, Sam Bankman-Fried started an exchange called FTX. That, he promised, would be the safest place to trade crypto assets. But just a few years after he started it, it all collapsed. Here is part one of the story.

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