Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, speaks during an interview on an episode of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022. Crypto exchange FTX US is expanding its no-fee stock trading service to all US users, including non-crypto investors, in a move to expand its customer base and increase assets under custody.
Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and chief executive officer of FTX Cryptocurrency Derivatives Exchange, speaks during an interview on an episode of Bloomberg Wealth with David Rubenstein in New York, US, on Wednesday, Aug 17, 2022. Crypto exchange FTX US is expanding its no-fee stock trading service to all US users, including non-crypto investors, in a move to expand its customer base and increase assets under custody.

Niall Ferguson: FTX kept your crypto in a crypt not a vault

The rise and fall of Sam Bankman-Fried is a tale of the way we live now — tweeting, not reading.
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By Niall Ferguson

(Bloomberg Opinion) — Sam Bankman-Fried doesn't read books. As he explained in a profile on Sequoia Capital's website (which will be an assigned text in journalism courses for the rest of time), "I would never read a book." "I'm very skeptical of books," he said. "I don't want to say no book is ever worth reading, but I actually do believe something pretty close to that."

This error is not irremediable, because Bankman-Fried, founder of the now-defunct crypto exchange FTX, is likely soon to have a lot of time for reading.  

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