How a scoop by a crypto news minnow led to the fall of FTX

How a scoop by a crypto news minnow led to the fall of FTX

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https://www.siliconvalley.com/2022/11/24/how-a-scoop-by-a-crypto-news-minnow-led-to-the-fall-of-ftx/

The staggering level of apparent deception staged by former crypto king Sam Bankman-Fried wasn’t uncovered by government investigators or a major powerhouse financial news organization, such as The Wall Street Journal.

Instead, the public’s first glimpse of the alleged wrongdoing by Bankman-Fried — known to insiders as SBF — came earlier this month from a small news site unknown to much of the public that has spent years chronicling the turbulent and murky world of crypto: CoinDesk.