SBF: How The FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy
- 9h 53m 36s
- Brady Dale
- Gildan Media
- 2023
A first-hand look at the extraordinary collapse of FTX, Alameda Research, and Sam Bankman-Fried
In SBF: How the FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy, accomplished crypto reporter Brady Dale presents an engrossing take on the spectacular and sudden implosion of FTX, Alameda Research, and their associated companies, as well as the criminal indictments of Sam Bankman-Fried and several of his associates. In the book, you'll go beyond the salacious details and tawdry gossip to grasp the real lessons to be learned from one of the most dramatic corporate failures in living memory.
The author explores: the often-confusing world of cryptocurrency and decentralized finance, offering a deep understanding of both industries; the history of Sam Bankman-Fried, what smart money players had to say about him in 2019 and 2020, and why many decentralized finance professionals considered him a "pirate" even before FTX and Alameda blew up; and what the aggressive lobbying campaigns waged by FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried reveal about the latter's motives and goals. An extraordinary account of almost unimaginable wealth, greed, and hubris, SBF is a can't-miss account of a fascinating corporate tragedy that continues to unfold to this very day.
About the Author
BRADY DALE is an experienced cryptocurrency reporter for Axios. He has covered the industry since 2015, including the initial coin offering boom of 2017, the growth of the decentralized finance sector starting in 2020, and the NFT boom of 2021. He is a co-writer of the Axios Crypto newsletter.
In this Audiobook
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Prologue
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Chapter 1 - I Want to Believe
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Chapter 2 - The Third Turn: CZ
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Chapter 3 - The Second Turn: Unstablecoin
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Chapter 4 - The First Turn: The Miami Conceit
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Chapter 5 - A Portrait of Sam
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Chapter 6 - Crypto
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Chapter 7 - The Asia Trade
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Chapter 8 - Early Alameda
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Chapter 9 - The ICO Era
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Chapter 10 - Crypto Winter
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Chapter 11 - The Exchange Business
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Chapter 12 - Select Heists
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Chapter 13 - Market Making
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Chapter 14 - Beginning FTX
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Chapter 15 - For That, This (FTT)
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Chapter 16 - Uniswap and Decentralized Exchanges
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Chapter 17 - DeFi One Billion
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Chapter 18 - Rationalist Line of Thinking
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Chapter 19 - Black Thursday
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Chapter 20 - Liquidity Mining
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Chapter 21 - DAO Is the Way
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Chapter 22 - The Vampire and the Unicorn
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Chapter 23 - The Fuckup and the Savior
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Chapter 24 - DeFi Summer
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Chapter 25 - CREAM Finance
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Chapter 26 - Solana
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Chapter 27 - Market Cap
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Chapter 28 - Sam Coins
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Chapter 29 - Effective Altruism
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Chapter 30 - Reef Finance
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Chapter 31 - Celebrity
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Chapter 32 - Crypto Bahamas
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Chapter 33 - Cult of Sam
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Chapter 34 - Looks Fucking Good
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Chapter 35 - Savior Complex
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Chapter 36 - Politics
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Chapter 37 - House of Representatives
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Chapter 38 - Senate
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Chapter 39 - About Securities
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Chapter 40 - Departures
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Chapter 41 - Mango Markets
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Chapter 42 - Nine Days in November
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Chapter 43 - Alameda and the ftt Shuffle
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Chapter 44 - New Boss, First Day
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Chapter 45 - A Flood of Pure SBF
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Chapter 46 - Arrest
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Conclusion
