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How did Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX fail and what does the firm’s fate tell us about cryptocurrencies?

Mounting evidence shows VC firms ignored major warning signs and failed to take basic risk-mitigation steps.

When market investors suffer losses — or get taken for a ride — they’re often eligible for a tax write-off to soften the blow. Users of the bankrupt crypto exchange FTX won’t be so lucky.

When the Miami Heat announced in March 2021 that the team had sold naming rights for its arena to FTX, the response from sports fans was a resounding: Who?

Changpeng Zhao, who suspects FTX of leaking information that endangered his children, had set in motion the events that sank FTX last week and wiped out all of his rival's wealth.

If FTX's blowup is anything like Enron's, that means big changes are on the horizon for the systems that enabled the crypto company's rise and fall.

The crypto exchange FTX, once valued at $26 billion, was operating without a real board. Its downfall could lead to renewed pressure for private companies to have independent directors.

Out of nowhere, 30-year-old Sam Bankman-Fried became a billionaire mover and shaker in the world of cryptocurrency. Careful to make friends of powerful Democrats and media columnists alike, he threw money around the halls of Congress — and everywhere else he went — while threatening to disrupt Chicago’s financial futures…

Crypto exchange FTX was valued at more than $30 billion just weeks ago. Now it's in bankruptcy proceedings

The man appointed to administer the collapsed crypto exchange in chapter 11 bankruptcy, who oversaw the clean-up after Enron's collapse, says he has never seen "such a complete failure of corporate controls".

If FTX customers retain control of their digital assets, then those funds need to be returned—not put through bankruptcy.