It’s a bit mind blowing that anyone who met Sam Bankman-Fried didn’t quickly come to the conclusion that he was a drug-addled kid who thought he was smarter than everyone else. He basically comes across like that on camera and in interviews, so I can’t imagine what it’s like to meet him in person or over a direct video call. The information coming out that he was hopped up on amphetamines, Parkinson’s disease drugs (!), sleeping pills, and various other drugs basically 24/7 is alarming, and it’s crazy that no-one was sounding the bells on this alone, much less the fraud and trading boondoggles. It’s hilarious to think of all these powerful people speaking with a drug addict, much less as if he was a crypto messiah.
Maybe these organizations, the government, politicians, and corporations should be less focused on raising money at all costs. How many SBF, Madoff, Epstein, etc. do we need for these people to learn this?