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- Ryan Salame was sentenced to 7½ years in prison for his role in the collapse of FTX.
- Awaiting prison, he's posting on X about Trump and crypto regulation — and sparring with critics.
- Salame alleges a key witness in Sam Bankman-Fried's trial lied on the witness stand.
In May, Ryan Salame was sentenced to 7½ years in prison for his role in Sam Bankman-Fried's multi-billion-dollar cryptocurrency fraud.
As he awaits the start of his sentence, Salame is using his remaining weeks of freedom to post non-stop.
The former FTX executive has returned to social media and reentered the public discourse, weighing in on politics and crypto policy, and joking about his future in prison.