{"id":155280,"date":"2023-01-12T16:24:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/sam-bankman-fried-launches-substack-i-didnt-steal-funds-and-i-certainly-didnt-stash-billions-away"},"modified":"2023-01-12T16:24:11","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T22:24:11","slug":"sam-bankman-fried-launches-substack-i-didnt-steal-funds-and-i-certainly-didnt-stash-billions-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/sam-bankman-fried-launches-substack-i-didnt-steal-funds-and-i-certainly-didnt-stash-billions-away","title":{"rendered":"Sam Bankman-Fried launches Substack: \u2018I didn\u2019t steal funds, and I certainly didn\u2019t stash billions away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/sam-bankman-fried-launches-substack-i-didnt-steal-funds-and-i-certainly-didnt-stash-billions-away2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried launched his own Substack newsletter today, in a very unusual move for someone who was recently arrested and is facing eight counts of U.S. criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>In a post titled \u201cFTX Pre-Mortem Overview,\u201d Bankman-Fried maintains his innocence surrounding the collapse and bankruptcy of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange he founded in 2019 that went on to raise $2 billion in funding and achieve a valuation of a staggering $32 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried launched his own Substack newsletter today, in a very unusual move for someone who was recently arrested and is facing eight counts of U.S. criminal charges. In a post titled \u201cFTX Pre-Mortem Overview,\u201d Bankman-Fried maintains his innocence surrounding the collapse and bankruptcy of FTX, a cryptocurrency exchange he [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1761],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cryptocurrencies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}