Let me take you back to long, long ago in crypto history: March 2022.
Everyone was nuts over Sam Bankman-Fried, boy wonder. The billionaire with the unruly mop of hair. The young genius who would play videogames while giving interviews, then power lunch with Washington senators wearing cargo shorts.
Every crypto media outlet worshiped and adored Sam Bankman-Fried, and fought eagerly to get exclusive interviews with him. Even the traditional media was enamored with the self-made crypto wunderkind.
Today, these same media outlets call him a crook, a scammer, and a Ponzi-schemer. They call him Sam Bankless-Fraud. They celebrate that he was sent to (literally) arat-infested prison.
It is hard to remember a more dizzying fall from grace. Even Icarus is like, “Damn, bro, that’s too close to the sun.”
I have a much more charitable view of what happened with SBF, and here's why I encourage you to put yourself in his shoes.
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