Sam Bankman-Fried comes clean on regulation, ethics

• Only a few weeks ago, he was the crypto billionaire known for appearing before Congress and asking for sensible regulation of his industry.

Details: When asked if the stuff he said about regulations was "pretty much just PR," Bankman-Fried replied, "yeah just PR."

• "f*ck regulators," he said.

Between the lines: Bankman-Fried was one of the world's foremost effective altruists — dedicated to the proposition that the most ethical way to live was to make billions of dollars and give them away philanthropically.

• Now, asked about his previous stance, he replied: "man, all the dumb shit I said. It's not true, not really." He agreed with Piper that his "ethics stuff" was "mostly a front."
• It's a "dumb game we woke westerners play where we say all the right shibboleths and so everyone likes us," he said.

Go Deeper: Read the whole interview at Vox.