Despite the fallout from SBF's political donations, crypto super PAC Fairshake raised $203M, more than others, like runner-up Koch Industries, which raised $26M
I've always wondered when the tech industry which makes so much money and has so much to lose from poor regulation would start lobbying at scale. … X: Alex Sammon / @alex_sammon : Something truly insa...
Sources: Apple spent $5M on the film rights for Michael Lewis' book about Sam Bankman-Fried; at least eight Hollywood projects on SBF are in the works so far
Peter Kiefer / The Ankler :
A look at Anthony Scaramucci's SkyBridge, which went from $9.2B assets in 2015 to $1.8B in 2022, and the FTX deal for a 30% stake in SkyBridge in September 2022
and snowballed beginning in 2018 after Scaramucci, back from Washington, hired a friend from Harvard Law School who's been behind the money-losing push into crypto. https://www.bloomberg.com/... @prof...
Inside FTX's final hours, described by employees, chat logs, and Sam Bankman-Fried: panic selling assets, trying to raise funds, SBF's silence, and bankruptcy
In January, I walked up the front steps of a single-storey, grey-shingled house in a neighbourhood on the fringe of Stanford University.
A look at Modulo Capital, a mysterious multi-strategy hedge fund founded in 2022 and based in Albany in The Bahamas, which received $400M from Alameda Research
Tracy Wang / CoinDesk : Tweets: @smtuffy , @hsakatrades , @founderannie , @fxmacro , @mattwalshinbos , @0x_tracy , @jcoviedo6 , @hsakatrades , and @smtuffy Tweets: Sean Tuffy / @smtuffy : SBF launder...
An attempt to understand how much real-world money was lost by SBF and FTX, a key question for the SEC, suggests only a fraction of crypto's peak $3T value
Paul J. Davies / Bloomberg :
A spreadsheet SBF used in November lists nearly 500 alleged VC investments by Alameda, including in Circle, Genesis, Sky Mavis, Paxos, StarkWare, and Anchorage
A spreadsheet SBF used in November claims nearly 500 alleged VC investments by Alameda, including in Circle, Genesis, Sky Mavis, Paxos, StarkWare, and Anchorage
A look inside Sam and Caroline's grab-bag of crypto, etc. — As well as running a crypto exchange that didn't exchange crypto …
A look at how FTX cultivated ties with wealthy Hong Kong families, many of whom invested, and Alameda-owned Genesis Block helped FTX access cash and clients
Financial Times : Tweets: @kadhim , @nikasgari , and @airevthingtrnsp Tweets: @kadhim : Incredible photo of Sam Bankman-Fried, Caroline Ellison and Gary Wang at Bankman-Fried's 29th birthday last yea...