“Paul Atkins, Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Securities and Exchange Commission, once blamed an unusual suspect for the collapse of Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX crypto exchange: The U.S. government itself,” Bloomberg reports.
Said Atkins, on a podcast last year: “The collapse of FTX was this international debacle that happened because, I think, the U.S. didn’t make our rules accommodating to this new technology.”
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