Top cryptocurrency exchange on verge of collapse

The World

The FTX cryptocurrency exchange has just announced bankruptcy, and its CEO, Sam Bankman-Fried, has resigned. The World’s host Carol Hills talks to Ben Pimentel, a reporter at Protocol, about what happened and what the bankruptcy might mean for cryptocurrency at large.

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