Gideon Lewis-Kraus writes about the FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried, who has been convicted of fraud and who faces up to a hundred and ten years in prison.
Line infractions aside, the mood was convivial. Mainstream reporters mixed collegially with more domain-specific veterans from CoinDesk and Blockworks and with a diverse spectrum of crypto enthusiasts, including Tiffany Fong, a YouTuber who had scored one of the first post-collapse interviews with Bankman-Fried, and a large, fit, tattooed cigar-smoker who went by the name Taco.
This coalesced with another issue: If she was so disturbed by what was going on, why didn’t she quit much earlier? After all, her co-C.E.O. at Alameda, Sam Trabucco, had bolted for good in August. Her asymmetrical relationship with Bankman-Fried presumably played some role; as the host of “The CPR Show,” which covers N.F.T.s and crypto, told me the next morning in line, “If I’d been in love with my boss when I was twenty-five and he’d asked me to murder somebody, I probably would have.
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