If an apocalypse struck Earth, Sam Bankman-Fried – the billionaire tech entrepreneur behind the United States’ most explosive cryptocurrency scandal – wasn’t ready to die.
Like any responsible doomsday prepper, the now-convicted FTX founder hatched a survival plan. According to a memo between his brother and an FTX executive, Bankman-Fried planned to buy the Pacific island nation of Nauru and build a bunker that he could retreat to if a cataclysmic event wiped out at least half of the global population. Never mind, of course, that Nauru – a sovereign country – was never actually up for sale.
