Once SBF Had A Net Worth Of $100 Billion

In an interview with Bloomberg, FTX’s Former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried said that if you mark everything to market, at one point his net worth got to $100 billion.

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Many of them consisted of tokens that SBF and his friends had spun up themselves like FTT, Serum, and Maps.

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SBF claims he could have taken out a good amount of money from his holdings. But he didn't do it.

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In his recent interview, SBF revealed the direct personal effects of the FTX implosion.

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Former CEO said that he is left with only one working credit card and $100,000 in the bank account.

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He in his interview with ABC News said that he “did not know that there was any improper use of customer funds” at his company.

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Before the crash, FTX was the world's largest cryptocurrency trading platform and was valued at $32 billion earlier this year.

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