https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23471446/ftx-collapse-crypto-bankruptcy-sam-bankman-fried-downfall > He was one of the crypto industry’s biggest stars. Now his crypto exchange, FTX, has filed for bankruptcy. > Sam Bankman-Fried — better known as SBF — is facing a reckoning over the collapse of FTX, the crypto exchange he ran. In a matter of days, his empire exploded in a rather spectacular fashion.