Sam Bankman-Fried
Sam Bankman-Fried is the American cryptocurrency entrepreneur who founded the FTX exchange and collapsed it in 2022 through fraud.
Once celebrated as a billionaire wunderkind and political donor, he became a symbol of crypto's excesses after his conviction for stealing billions in customer funds.
Often abbreviated SBF: The SBF trial dominated financial news for months.
- FTXFailed crypto trading platform
- cryptoDigital currency system
- crypto exchangeDigital asset trading platform
- fraudIntentional criminal trickery
- wire fraudCrime via electronic communication
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