Sam Bankman-Fried is a specific People coordinate in the Bitcoin knowledge graph. In practical terms, it identifies the subject described here: FTX founder convicted of fraud; his case is a defining warning that a custodial crypto company's liabilities are not the Bitcoin protocol. This definition is narrower than promotional usage and should be read together with the implementation, date and evidence attached to the entry.
FTX founder convicted of fraud; his case is a defining warning that a custodial crypto company's liabilities are not the Bitcoin protocol. The linked coordinates show the person's projects, ideas, disputes and historical effects.
Primary or authoritative records make these details checkable: Sam Bankman-Fried founded FTX and Alameda Research; a federal jury convicted him on seven fraud and conspiracy counts and the court sentenced him in March 2024 to 25 years in prison with forfeiture exceeding 11 billion dollars. They should be verified before using the coordinate in analysis.
The practical limit is: the criminal judgment concerns identified conduct and defendants, not proof that every exchange or crypto asset is fraudulent; appeals, bankruptcy recoveries and customer distributions are separate proceedings requiring current dockets. A definition, office, chart pattern or published claim is not by itself a prediction or Bitcoin consensus rule.
For the clearest picture, read this entry together with Custodial Exchange, Counterparty risk, Proof of reserves, Bitcoin. The reverse links also lead from The Cryptopians.