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Oops. Sam Bankman-Fried's implosion took down Democrats' second-biggest donor with it as the party gears up to regulate crypto
Fewer names have been bigger in cryptocurrencies this year than Sam Bankman-Fried, CEO of crypto exchange FTX. So when it became clear this week that the curly-haired billionaire and his exchange faced a liquidity crunch, he was no longer a billionaire, and his exchange likely wasn't solvent, it cast a shadow over the entire crypto space and sent digital currencies plummeting.
It cast a shadow in Washington, D.C., too.
The 30-year-old Bankman-Fried has been a major force in Democratic politics, ranking as the party's second-biggest individual donor in the 2021–2022 election cycle, according to Open Secrets, with donations totaling $39.8 million. That ranks only behind George Soros (about $128 million) but ahead of many other big names, including Michael Bloomberg ($28.3 million). What's more, he had promised to spend far more on Democrats moving forward, predicting in May that he'd fund "north of $100 million" and had a "soft ceiling" of $1 billion for the 2024 elections.
https://fortune.com/2022/11/10/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-joe-biden-democratic-party-second-biggest-donor/