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Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday by Manhattan Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan. A jury found Bankman-Fried guilty of one of the largest white-collar crimes in history roughly five months ago. The 32-year-old could be in jail until he’s 57.
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While multi-billion dollar disasters like FTX might lead you to believe that the cryptocurrency industry is dead or dying, the
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