
How The Altruists expands Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto saga into a dysfunctional love story
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In November 2022, everyone watched Sam Bankman-Fried’s $32 billion cryptocurrency empire collapse at a dizzying speed. Glued to the FTX news at the time was The Imitation Game ‘s Oscar-winning writer Graham Moore, who tells The A.V. Club that it felt like the world’s biggest story because a “so-called white knight of the finance world was being revealed as a potential fraud.” Bankman-Fried was, in fact, convicted of wire fraud, conspiracy, and money laundering in…
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