• Sam Bankman-Fried told the New York Times that he's getting some sleep despite FTX's implosion. 
  • Bankman-Fried saw 94% of his wealth evaporate and faces multiple probes for allegedly mishandling customer funds. 
  • "It could be worse," Bankman-Fried told the New York Times.  

Last week, Sam Bankman-Fried saw 94% of his wealth evaporate in the span of a few hours, but the disgraced former darling of the crypto world has apparently not lost any shut-eye over the collapse of his empire. 

"You would've thought that I'd be getting no sleep right now, and instead, I'm getting some," Bankman-Fried said in an interview with the New York Times on Monday. 

Bankman-Fried, whose company FTX was considered one of the most reliable cryptocurrency exchanges, filed for bankruptcy last Friday after the company unsuccessfully searched for an investor to bail it out of a liquidity crisis caused by investors flooding to pull money out of their accounts. 

Bankman-Fried and other FTX executives are facing several investigations in the US and the Bahamas for allegedly improperly using billions of dollars of FTX customer money to fund Bankman-Fried's trading firm, Alameda Research.

"It could be worse," Bankman-Fried told the New York Times.  

FTX did not immediately respond to comment for this story. 

Bankman-Fried famously covets his sleep. Many profiles of the former richest man under 30 noted that he kept a beanbag in his office to take power naps between meetings. 

Bloomberg reported that Bankman-Fried would occasionally delay important meetings in favor of a nap. 

 

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