Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, likes to talk. He likes to talk to the media. He likes to talk on social media. And he likes to talk to attorneys, even while on trial for seven counts of fraud.
On Friday, in a widely anticipated appearance on the witness stand, the former crypto mogul finally gave his version of FTX’s sudden collapse—and it was a mouthful. In the weekend interlude before Bankman-Fried takes to the stand on Monday to finish his direct testimony, Fortune dug into the court transcripts to quantify how much "word salad" he produced.
