Let's move on from FTX’s collapse and get back to the basics
Sam Bankman-Fried’s degeneracy brought some turbulence to the market. Now it’s time to get back to the basics of transforming finance. Pundits are calling the collapse of the FTX exchange the end of cryptocurrency and venture capitalism related to it. But it’s not. Some of them anointed Sam “SBF” Bankman-Fried “The King of Crypto” — and then summarily killed the king. But, in reality, crypto never had a king. The end of FTX may mark the end of Americans using unregulated exchanges, and it certainly is the end of exchange-native tokens, but crypto itself hasn’t changed one bit.In reality,....
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