ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Acclaimed author Michael Lewis discusses his time with Sam Bankman-Fried and why he thinks both high finance and Effective Altruism shaped the 'Crypto King's' worldview, ultimately landing him in jail. Plus, we hear about the people fighting terrorism, cave-ins and brain-eating amoeba from Michael's new book 'Who Is Government?'.
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TRANSCRIPT 🔗
Speaker 1: Pushkin. On the tenth of November twenty twenty two, Sam Bankwin Freed tweeted that he had eft UP. As we explored in our last episode, that was something of an understatement. FTX, the digital currency exchange platform where individuals could trade cryptocurrencies and store their funds for safekeeping, imploded when it emerged that Sam bankmin Freed had been diverting funds into his crypto hedge fund Alamedia Research fraud. Yes, but as an effective altruist, he was doing i…
