Sam Bankman-Fried, the fallen wunderkind of cryptocurrency

Before it all came crashing down, at his peak this native Californian amassed a fortune estimated to be worth US$26bil (RM121.94bil). 'Save for Mark Zuckerberg, no one in history has ever gotten so rich so young,' read a headline in Forbes, which put Bankman-Fried on its cover in October 2021. — Reuters

NEW YORK: He was the face of cryptocurrency, and a young one at that - a media darling seemingly destined to unite the sector.

But Sam Bankman-Fried's stunning rise to prominence and wealth would be matched by his spectacular fall, and with it that of his platform FTX.