The SBF story could inspire directors to produce a movie called “King of Crypto,” Saylor said.
MicroStrategy CEO and prominent bitcoin bull Michael Saylor compared FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried to the famous Jordan Belfort, also known as “The Wolf of Wall Street.”
In his opinion, SBF “used stolen money” and cooperated with corrupt regulators to maintain its business.
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Bitcoin evangelist Michael Saylor believes that Bankman-Fried lobbied against “every virtue in the industry,” including bitcoin, using fake finance and bribing certain people.
The MicroStrategy co-founder went further, describing the FTX CEO as “the wolf of Wall Street” of the cryptocurrency industry. Hollywood should focus on him and produce a movie called “King of Cryptocurrency,” Saylor added:
“I think this [cryptocurrency] crash accelerates regulatory intervention. In fact, in a sense, SBF is like the Jordan Belfort of the cryptocurrency era. Instead of ‘The Wolf of Wall Street,’ they will make a movie called ‘The King of Cryptocurrencies.’”
Jordan Belfort, aka “The Wolf of Wall Street,” is a former trader who pleaded guilty to crimes related to stock market manipulation at the turn of the last century. His crimes led to a two-year prison sentence, and after his release, he began to travel the world working as a motivational speaker.
Belfort received additional popularity in 2013 when Leonardo DiCaprio starred as the “Wolf of Wall Street” in the Martin Scorsese-directed film of the same name.
The cryptocurrency community is yet to see how the situation around Sam Bankman-Fried evolves.
SBF in the spotlight
The crash of the US cryptocurrency exchange FTX created a mountain of negativity toward its former CEO.
The world’s richest man, Elon Musk, was one of the critics, saying he didn’t come away with a good opinion of SBF after they discussed the Twitter deal a few weeks ago:
“I have a lot of people saying they have big money that they want to invest in the Twitter deal, and I talked to him for a half hour, and I know my shit meter was in the red. I was like, this guy is crap – that was my impression.”
Kraken’s former CEO, Jesse Powell, also criticized Bankman-Fried, saying the bank signed multimillion-dollar sports deals just to feed his ego. SBF also bought political favors and donated significant funds to the Democratic Party in order to appear as a “media darling,” Powell added.
