I was only gone for a week or so. By the time I returned, Ramnik, along with pretty much the entire corporate org chart, had fled the island. Some meaningful percentage of the company’s fleet of cars had been abandoned, keys still inside them, in the Bahamas airport lot. It made for a bizarre scene: panicked employees of FTX and Alameda Research struggling to escape against an incoming tide of oblivious tourists in flip-flops and floral shirts. As they passed one another in the terminal, giant airport video screens flashed the message over their heads: Get Free Crypto Anytime, Anywhere.
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