How This Fake Genius Ran The GREATEST Crypto Fraud. (Documentary)

Sam Bankman-Fried was a billionaire crypto genius running the world's largest Crypto Exchange: FTX. In November 2022, in only a few weeks, his $32 BILLION crypto empire (FTX) collapsed unexpectedly, leading to a disastrous impact in the crypto industry. In this video, we will uncover the story of one of the most significant financial frauds in history.

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Disclaimer:
The structure of the opening of this video is indeed inspired by James Jani. James is a legend in investigative niche and he has always been an inspiration to me. I was inspried by his beliefs in doing investigative content, his knowledge in storytelling and post-production.
But this video documents my own investigative journey, which is completely different to his investigative journey in his FTX documentary. I have my own point of views, and I paid a lot of time and effort from research to think through how to tell the story to post production. (literally 10 MONTHS to get this video out🥲)
By no means I have the intention to copy and paste sb's vid to my channel, that's awful.

00:00 Prologue
02:20 The Unicorn
09:00 The Thrive
13:30 The Hot Money
16:15 The Risky Business
19:30 The Ponzi
24:05 The Political Donation
26:43 The Underground Chaos
28:26 The Skeptics
31:25 The Hidden Financials
33:00 The Truth
35:59 The Sell Off
38:25 The Collapse
39:22 The Pathological Liar
41:03 The Worried Future
44:40 Thank you

[martinlee]

If u r interested in the BTS of this vid, I posted some Editing Breakdown in my Instagram, feel free to check it out🤫
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[MundMoriginal]

Oh no, celebrities who got paid to promote a product weren't a reliable source of financial advice... what has the world come to?

[PhilHowe]

Parking a Toyota outside your $30m penthouse is so relatable.

[martinlee]

In the midst of producing this video, I almost burnt out...
Not only because it's my first time working on documentary, especially this "LONG" documentary, but I also just thought that I couldn't create what I initially visualised. But I finished this vid anyway at the end in 10 MONTHS😭
I think the best part of making this video is that I knew which areas can I improve, so that I can come back stronger with the next video. 💪
I will improve video by video, and I really believed that I could create the highest-quality documentary content to my audience. 🌳
STAY TUNED!

[mikedawolf]

I noticed in a lot of reports they call him a kid, but he’s 31

[mAdcaTzma]

What is this. A small youtuber producing this kind of quality video. I just found a diamond in a rough! Subscribed!

[raytaylor]

his parents were in on it too. I hope they get pulled into this case as well. they deserve it .

[kiki]

Didn't fools once upon a time said that Bernie Madiff a "genius"? Nobody questioned how FAST this man became a billionaire?

[chrsmcfrln]

It wasn’t a crypto fraud. That term implies they were manipulating cryptocurrency valuations. It was a regular fraud, and regular theft.

[lilyofthevalley]

Here’s how I feel about crypto: if the people endorsing it are being paid in actual money (which they always are), then it’s a scam.

[blackadder]

"What makes him so rich?"
He stole his customers' funds.

[PungiFungi]

The fact that so many people fell for this weirdo's physical appearance tell a lot more about them and their mindset and outlook on the world than SBF.

[Rachopin]

Whenever someone starts talking about "changing the world", I automatically side eye them at this point

[anniede]

I'm just amazed at some of these "investors". The guy at @21:56 literally crying how he put his life savings into Luna and now it was gone. I'm guessing he never heard of diversifying investments to help protect himself against getting completely wiped out?

Awesome video, BTW! Thank you for investing so much time in making such a professional and detailed documentary on the subject.

[kevinreynolds]

I want to see a video about those who warned us in time to get our money out and what we can do to identify cases like this in the future.

[forbesy]

If he's the nicest person in crypto it doesn't set the bar very high for the others

[kwakernaak]

How is he a genius? He’s detained and on trial and going to jail likely for the rest of his life. He is merely a fool who fooled more fools.

[gordons-alive]

SBF has a minor in mathematics and a degree in physics. I find it hard to believe he didn't see the flaw in his box that you keep putting money into on into infinity.

[jayyou]

The guy sitting in the car at the end, calling out those investing their momey in that fake internet money bs, is harsh...but he's right🤷🏽‍♂️

[imnotanalien]

Look who surrounded this ‘genius’ starting with his parents and his girlfriends parents….it gives you some hints of what the story is about.