It’s Sam Bankman-Fried’s time in the spotlight. The FTX and Alameda Ventures golden boy put both of his companies in a winning position and seems to be carrying the spoils away. The recent Forbes piece about secretly insolvent exchanges puts it best, “Like J.P. Morgan during the stock market panic and crash of 1907, Bankman-Fried is taking advantage of the crypto chaos to expand his empire.” Rumors about his involvement in engineering the crash appear to be greatly exaggerated. NewsBTC reported on FTX’s bailout of BlockFi and Alameda bailing Voyager. In the first article, we summarized the congested macro situation: “Over the last few weeks, the crypto market has been trending down. The contagion effect of the Terra/ Luna extinction event rocked every company out there, most of all those who offered yield on cryptocurrency deposits like BlockFi and Celsius and hedge funds like Three Arrows Capital. These companies’ problems and possible liquidation of assets, in turn, sent the crypto market into even more turmoil.” In the Fobes piece, speaking about BlockFi and Voyager’s bailouts, they paint a similar situation with a crucial difference. Here, Bankman-Fried is performing a sacrifice: “Between FTX and his quantitative trading firm Alameda, he provided the companies with $750 million in credit lines. There is no guarantee that Bankman-Fried will recoup his investment. “You know, we’re willing to do a somewhat bad deal here...
