Since Hayes’ days as a banker he’s lived a thousand lives. He founded the first bitcoin derivatives exchange in 2014, became crypto’s first African American billionaire, lost vast portions of his wealth and made it back in at least two crypto crashes, “ran the stops” on his users (allegedly, to trade against them), traveled the world speaking on crypto’s conference circuit, once claimed on stage to have bribed a Seychelles financial regulator “with a coconut,” ran the stops some more, was accused of facilitating money laundering by U.S. federal regulators, refused to cooperate with investigators, went on the lam, stepped down as BitMEX CEO, surrendered to authorities in Hawaii, went to jail, went to prison, was put under house arrest and has now – somehow, inexplicably – rebuilt his reputation as a crypto sage by writing multi-thousand-word ຂໍ້ຄວາມ blog.
Source: https://www.coindesk.com/consensus-magazine/2022/12/05/arthur-hayes-most-influential-2022/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines