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Alamy; the Atlantic Sam Bankman-Fried Got What He Wanted
The now-arrested crypto king had long said he wanted Washington to wise up about the industry. That’s finally happening.
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Getty / The Atlantic Crypto Was Always Smoke and Mirrors
The fall of FTX shocked everyone. Except this guy.
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Lam Yik / Bloomberg / Getty; Fotosearch / … Sam Bankman-Fried, Crypto-Republican?
He was lauded for his major donations to Democrats, but now he says he was secretly giving to Republicans in roughly equal measure.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic; Getty How to Decarbonize Crypto
The sins of FTX aren’t the only problem the crypto world needs to pay for.
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Sarah Silbiger / Bloomberg / Getty Here Come the Crypto Hypocrites
Don’t believe anyone who says the FTX crash was the regulators’ fault.
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Getty; The Atlantic My Crypto Confession
Sam Bankman-Fried was a member of two cults: one I have criticized, and one I belong to.
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Jeenah Moon / Bloomberg / Getty Sam Bankman-Fried Is Going Down Posting
The disgraced crypto titan has nothing left to say. That isn’t stopping him.
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Getty; The Atlantic Effective Altruism Committed the Sin It Was Supposed to Correct
The swift downfall of Sam Bankman-Fried brings unnecessary suspicion on a valuable form of philanthropy.
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Getty; The Atlantic Why Everything in Tech Seems to Be Collapsing at Once
The industry is having a midlife crisis.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The Crypto Meltdown Could Have Been So Much Worse
By putting off demands from cryptocurrency entrepreneurs and Wall Street, Washington protected the financial system.
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Ting Shen / Bloomberg / Getty You Can Forget About Crypto Now
The industry’s latest meltdown is not like all the rest.
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Erik Carter / The Atlantic The Battle for the Soul of the Web
Long before the NFT boom or the Web3 backlash, an unglamorous movement was under way. Where does it stand now?
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Tyler Comrie / The Atlantic; Getty Crypto’s Core Values Are Running Headfirst Into Reality
The cat’s out of the bag on crypto regulations, forcing some companies to choose between their principles and their profits.
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Getty; The Atlantic Happy Tax Season, Crypto Bros
For everyone who bet big on last year’s NFT boom, Uncle Sam’s bill is coming due.
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Irene Suosalo Beware the FOMO Bullies of Technology
Are we living through a replay of the ’90s, when most people just didn’t get “this internet thing”?
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The Atlantic The Atlantic Daily: People Really, Really Hate the Future of the Internet
Will the big promises of Web3 and crypto ever come to fruition? Or will it all turn out to be a fever dream?
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Irene Suosalo The Internet Is Just Investment Banking Now
The internet has always financialized our lives. Web3 just makes that explicit.
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Irene Suosalo The Crypto Backlash Is Booming
Web3 is making some people very rich. It’s making other people very angry.
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Irene Suosalo Celebrities and NFTs Are a Match Made in Hell
Somehow, star endorsements have found a new low.
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Soomin Jung K-pop Fans Have a New Nemesis
Young, progressive listeners are making a stink about carbon-torching NFTs. But will greener versions be enough to get them on board?
