SBF (eBook)

How The FTX Bankruptcy Unwound Crypto's Very Bad Good Guy

Brady Dale (Autor)

eBook Download: PDF

2023 | 1. Auflage
352 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-394-19608-1 (ISBN)

Infos

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 What the aggressive lobbying campaigns waged by FTX and Sam Bankman-Fried reveal about the latter s motives and goalsAn 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

Prologue ix

Timeline xv

Chapter 1 I Want to Believe 1

Chapter 2 The Third Turn: CZ 5

Chapter 3 The Second Turn: Unstablecoin 11

Chapter 4 The First Turn: The Miami Conceit 19

Part I Acquire 23

Chapter 5 A Portrait of Sam 25

Chapter 6 Crypto 33

Chapter 7 The Asia Trade 41

Chapter 8 Early Alameda 49

Chapter 9 The ICO Era 55

Chapter 10 Crypto Winter 61

Chapter 11 The Exchange Business 67

Chapter 12 Select Heists 73

Chapter 13 Market Making 79

Chapter 14 Beginning FTX 87

Chapter 15 For that, this (FTT) 95

Chapter 16 Uniswap and Decentralized Exchanges 103

Chapter 17 DeFi One Billion 109

Chapter 18 Rationalist Line of Thinking 115

Chapter 19 Black Thursday 121

Chapter 20 Liquidity Mining 127

Chapter 21 DAO Is the Way 135

Chapter 22 The Vampire and the Unicorn 139

Chapter 23 The Fuckup and the Savior 147

Chapter 24 DeFi Summer 157

Chapter 25 CREAM Finance 161

Chapter 26 Solana 167

Chapter 27 Market Cap 173

Chapter 28 Sam Coins 177

Chapter 29 Effective Altruism 183

Chapter 30 Reef Finance 189

Part II Star Power 195

Chapter 31 Celebrity 197

Chapter 32 Crypto Bahamas 205

Chapter 33 Cult of Sam 213

Chapter 34 Looks Fucking Good 219

Chapter 35 Savior Complex 227

Chapter 36 Politics 235

Chapter 37 House of Representatives 241

Chapter 38 Senate 249

Chapter 39 About Securities 255

Chapter 40 Departures 261

Part III Infamy 265

Chapter 41 Mango Markets 267

Chapter 42 Nine Days in November 273

Chapter 43 Alameda and the ftt Shuffle 285

Chapter 44 New Boss, First Day 293

Chapter 45 A Flood of Pure SBF 299

Chapter 46 Arrest 305

Conclusion 313

Index 321

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.5.2023
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Wirtschaftsrecht
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Finanzierung
• Schlagworte: Finance & Investments • Finanz- u. Anlagewesen • Investments & Securities • Kapitalanlage • Kapitalanlagen u. Wertpapiere
• ISBN-10: 1-394-19608-3 / 1394196083
• ISBN-13: 978-1-394-19608-1 / 9781394196081