It's a holiday in the US, an opportunity to look back on one of our popular episodes. It was recorded with <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/AQ0VXvE12t0/joe-weisenthal">Joe Weisenthal</a> from the Bloomberg Odd Lots <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/oddlots-podcast">podcast</a> shortly after FTX declared <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-11/ftx-com-goes-bankrupt-in-stunning-reversal-for-crypto-exchange">bankruptcy</a> and Sam Bankman-Fried was arrested. We talked to Joe about “the box." Back in April 2022, long before Sam-Bankman Fried was tweeting threads about the collapse of his FTX empire, he joined the Odd Lots podcast and talked about this "box" - his metaphor for describing the crypto practice of “yield farming." SBF's description at the time raised many an eyebrow because it seemed too good to be true. Enjoy! Subscribe to the Bloomberg Crypto Newsletter at <a href="https://bloom.bg/cryptonewsletter">https://bloom.bg/cryptonewsletter</a> See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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