For sure. Crypto people hate Sam.

A lot of crypto people knew he was unscrupulous and opposed him before FTX blew up. There were a lot of signs he was a bad person and the effective altruism thing was B.S.

But, pretty much nobody in crypto expected him to be the wholesale incompetent fraud he ended up being. We thought he was a bad guy, not a blood-chillingly evil moron.

It's nice to see the NYT shift to offer some reasonable coverage on Sam. One of the NYT reporters, David Yaffe-Bellany, is a good friend of Sam, spoke with him regularly even after he was apprehended, and routinely provided rose-colored puff pieces throughout his fall.