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Revision as of 01:33, 15 December 2022
FTX was a crypto exchange (the second largest exchange, behind Binance) run by Sam Bankman-Fried✡ (SBF), a Jewish-American League of Legends player living in the Bahamas. Founded in 2019, it managed to scam investors out of billions of dollars; before suddenly filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 11, 2022. With a really rapid collapse happening almost overnight, detectives started to investigate the real cause of the bankruptcy.
Spoiler alert: it was fraud.
The Collapse
SBF Gets Arrested
About a month after the collapse, the American government ordered John Ray III (FTX's new CEO post-bankruptcy) and Sam to testify about the fall of FTX. Soon after, Bahamian authorities arrested Sam; who is currently being extradited to the US in order to testify.
If Sam is found guilty, he could be facing 115 years in prison; which is effectively a life sentence, just like Bernie Madoff's.