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. Download the FTX App. The day I landed, Friday, November 11, the signs on the airport walls were still cheerily pitching crypto—even though at four
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