Later in the morning, the writer Michael Lewis took the stage to interview Bankman-Fried and a crypto venture capitalist. I’d grown up reading his books, like Liar’s Poker and The Big Short, and I was excited to hear what the guy who taught me how Wall Street blew up the world economy with collateralized debt obligations thought about crypto. Bankman-Fried was going to be the subject of his next book, I’d heard. Lewis looked like a prep school headmaster, wearing a blue blazer with peak lapels and a white button-down with blue accents, his floppy hair parted perfectly to the side. And as he
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