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Crypto collapse: FTX’s fall is one piece of a long, cold, contagious crypto winter

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Sam Bankman-Fried wanted to buy Snapchat.

That’s one of the things mentioned during the ongoing testimony of former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison against her terrible ex-boyfriend, as well as the idea SBF sought to have regulators “crack down on Binance,” the competing crypto exchange that sparked the run that took FTX down.

You can expect more updates from Wednesday’s events in the Sam Bankman-Fried / FTX fraud trial to come later today.

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