Where to begin? In a decade of covering crypto, I've seen a lot of strange spectacles but nothing quite like Sam Bankman-Fried's interview at the New York Times Dealbook Summit—a 45-minute display of delusion and sociopathy in which the disgraced FTX founder whined, wheedled, and did everything but acknowledge his responsibility for the financial crime of the year.
To his credit, host Andrew Ross Sorkin had done his homework and pulled no punches about Bankman-Fried's misdeeds. He pointed out how SBF's decision to raid customer accounts to plug holes in his hedge fund was akin to a bank teller using customer deposits to do some speculation on the side. Just because the teller intended to repay the money didn't make that decision less of a crime.
