Who is Sam Bankman-Fried, the former ‘King of Crypto’ found guilty of fraud?


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Sam Bankman-Fried, also known by the initials SBF, has tumbled from crypto king to convicted fraudster. The founder of the FTX cryptocurrency exchange has just been found guilty of defrauding customers of his cryptocurrency exchange out of billions of dollars. A Manhattan jury convicted him on all seven counts after a month-long trial. FTX collapsed last November, shocking financial markets and wiping out the crypto tycoon's estimated $26bn (£21bn) fortune. But how did the 31-year-old go from such astronomic financial heights to facing the prospect of spending the remainder of his life in prison? His early life Bankman-Fried grew up...