Bitboy Crypto bloggers and Gabriel Haynes launch search for FTX founder in Bahamas

Cryptocurrency bloggers Ben Армстронг «href="https://noworries.media/biography/brajan-armstrong/» data-bio-id="3684">Armstrong, known on YouTube as Bitboy Crypto, and Gabriel Haynes have launched a search for the infamous founder of the FTX exchange, Сем Бенкман-Фрід" href="https://noworries.media/biography/sem-benkman-frid/" data-bio-id="3697">Sam Bankman-Fried. The bloggers are working separately, but both hope to talk to Freed about the FTX bankruptcy and market crash.

Throwback to when the security guard escorted us out. Brian was pretty cool tbh.

Sam, Barb, and Joe are the ones who made him to it.

Sam I’ll come back if you put me on the guest list. pic.twitter.com/13OqNOBSwq

— Bitboy Crypto (@Bitboy_Crypto) November 27, 2022

Bitboy Crypto shared the first results of its investigation on Twitter, posting a video from the resort, where it said Fried and his family might be. However, the blogger did not manage to meet the former FTX CEO, only a security guard who asked him to leave the private property. Later, Armstrong visited the residence, which he said belonged to SBF's parents, but Ben did not meet the crypto fraudster there either.

We are here at One Cable Beach investigating Barbara Fried and Joe Bankman’s real estate portfolio pic.twitter.com/7I9lcYZe66

— Bitboy Crypto (@Bitboy_Crypto) November 27, 2022

As for another YouTuber Gabriel Haynes, who also hopes to talk to Bankman-Fried, he managed to raise $ 10,000 in donations from users through the Juicebox crowdfunding platform to pay for a flight to the Bahamas for himself and his family. Haynes spoke to Decrypt journalists and said that he is currently «on his way to the island.» «I want to create fun content that people will enjoy. Many people lost money because of SBF, they write to me that they feel much better after watching my videos about FTX and the events surrounding the collapse ,» the blogger motivated his visit to the Bahamas.

Due to the large-scale FTX crash that affected the entire cryptocurrency market, the risk of SBF’s extradition to the United States, and his search for him, Bankman-Fried was increasingly compared to the infamous До Квон" href="https://noworries.media/biography/do-kvon/" data-bio-id="3665">Do Kwon. The founder of Terraform Labs is wanted not only by Interpol but also by defrauded investors. For a long time, it was believed that Do Kwon was hiding in Singapore, and at the end of October it was found that he had moved to Dubai (where Benkman-Fried also wanted to escape).

As for the FTX founder, his maximum sentence is 20 years, according to the anonymous lawyer, and the article under which Benkman-Fried could be charged includes fraud using electronic means of communication. If the Department of Justice files criminal charges, the agency will be forced to issue an arrest warrant for all FTX top executives involved in any illegal actions. This will lead to their location and potential extradition.