Who Is Sam Bankman-Fried, The Fallen Wunderkind of Cryptocurrency?

He was the face of cryptocurrency, and a young one at that — a media darling seemingly destined to unite the sector.

But the stunning rise of Sam Bankman-Fried and his FTX platform would be matched by an equally spectacular fall, after it was revealed that billions of dollars of clients’ funds had been moved and spent without their consent.

A federal jury in New York has convicted Bankman-Fried of leading the fraudulent scheme, for which 31-year-old former tycoon now faces the possibility of spending the rest of his life behind bars.