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Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by FabHK on Thursday March 28, 2024 @01:45PM (#39854990)
> Lewis gave SBF all the rope he needed to hang himself with, and that was all he needed to do.

Very nicely put.

Book recommendations: Faux Number go up is beautifully reported, in particular on the many scam and trafficking victims, the culture (Bored Ape parties), some of the players (eg SBF, the Tether people, etc.), and the underlying anarcho-capitalist mindset.

On the impact on the underprivileged (that the "check your financial privilege" and "banking the unbanked" predatory inclusion crypto crowd purports to care so much for), the green-washing of Bitcoin, the crypto philanthropy "bad samaritans", Metaverse and Web3, check Peter Howson's Let Them Eat Crypto.

Ben McKenzie and Jacob Silverman's Easy Money is another non-technical examination of fraud in crypto, El Salvador, and the severe consequences for victims.

Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by Breza on Friday March 29, 2024 @08:49AM (#39863438)
Great recommendations! I've read all three of those books and they're terrific in different ways and all worth reading.
Re:Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison by bigboy12 on Friday March 29, 2024 @09:56AM (#39864154)
Everyone is a cocky MF until they get caught.