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One of the World’s Poorest Countries Put Its Faith in Crypto – Why?
The Central African Republic heralded its status as the only country in Africa to adopt Bitcoin as legal currency, but 8 months later, many questions remain about what's really going on.
I Quit My Job to Work in Crypto, Then the Market Crashed
Over the past two years, some true believers jumped to build the ‘decentralized web’ while prices boomed. Where are they now?
The Inside Story of Europe’s Weirdest Crypto Mining Boom
Crypto was meant to set the world free from the old worlds of centralised banks and strongman politics, but in a small and often neglected corner of Europe, a Bitcoin mining boom showed how historic forces are difficult to shake off.
‘A House of Cards on a Foundation of Deception:’ SEC Charges SBF With Defrauding Investors
Bankman-Fried has officially been charged with fraud in the wake of his crypto-empire's sudden collapse.
Sam Bankman-Fried Arrested Immediately After Saying He Wouldn't Be Arrested
The disgraced FTX founder was arrested on unspecified charges a month after the sudden collapse of his crypto empire.
Facebook Asks Lawmakers Not to Regulate Crypto Too Harshly Just Because of All the Fraud
The company claims lawmakers should let the NFT-powered metaverse flourish because it will somehow add $3 trillion to global GDP by 2031.
Here's All the Lawsuits Against FTX So Far
Five lawsuits have been filed in the month since FTX's spectacular collapse and allege vast conspiracies to mislead and defraud customers.
Sam Bankman-Fried Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This
At the The New York Times' Dealbook conference, the former FTX CEO said he just wanted figure out what happened.
Crypto Lender BlockFi Files for Bankruptcy As FTX-Fueled Contagion Spreads
The company called the decision “difficult but but necessary” following the sudden collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried's firm FTX.
OK, WTF Is 'Longtermism', the Tech Elite Ideology That Led to the FTX Collapse?
Longtermism and effective altruism are shaky moral frameworks with giant blindspots that have proven useful for cynics, opportunists, and plutocrats.
How SBF Created the New Playbook for Manipulating Washington, D.C.
Disgraced FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried bent Washington to his will using “every mechanism available,” with sophistication and speed. “He played D.C. like a fiddle.”
FTX Founder Deepfake Offers Refund to Victims in Verified Twitter Account Scam
A fake digital Sam Bankman-Fried used a Twitter blue account to trick followers into enrolling in a fake crypto giveaway.