Michael Lewis has made a literary career finding jump-off-the-page characters, and using them to help tell complicated stories. And what could be more complicated than explaining cryptocurrency? Lewis gained all-hours access to Sam Bankman-Fried, known for a time, as the J.P. Morgan of crypto. His sector as ungoverned as his hair, Bankman-Fried was worth more than $20 billion before he turned 30…an unlikely celebrity, his life braided finance, politics, sports and pop culture. Then the empire crumbled and today, Bankman-Fried sits in jail on various federal charges and faces potential sentences of more than 100 years. Lewis, though, didn’t panic-sell. He simply went where the story took him. His latest book, “Going Infinite” comes out Tuesday…. which is also the opening day in the trial of Sam Bankman-Fried.
Source: Sam Bankman-Fried, FTX at center of new Michael Lewis book “Going Infinite” | 60 Minutes – CBS News
