Sam Bankman-Fried was found guilty, and the crypto business might never get better.
This industry has been permanently damaged by Sam Bankman-Fried, who has added to the idea that it is like the Wild West and customers have no protection. The crypto world will have to work hard for years to fix its image, if it ever does. A jury only needed four hours to decide that Sam Bankman-Fried, the former "crypto king," was guilty of theft. The 31-year-old man was found guilty of stealing billions of dollars from FTX users. Before it crashed last year, FTX was the second-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. At least 80,000 FTX users in the UK are still out of pocket while the new management of the company tries to figure out where the money went. During the trial, three executives close to Bankman-Fried gave evidence. These executives knew how the doomed company was run from personal experience. His on-and-off girlfriend Caroline Ellison, CEO of sister trading firm Alameda Research, which helped bring down FTX, said it was a "relief" when the busin...