The rise and catastrophic fall of Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX was the defining scandal of the 2022 cycle — a custody failure dressed as a liquidity crisis. The panel had warned about exactly this: not your keys, not your coins.
Across the years
Mentions per year in the show transcripts.
The episodes that covered it most
Ranked by how heavily each episode engaged the topic.
METHOD — Counts are keyword/theme matches across the show transcripts (WCN + Mad Bitcoins + TBG).
The written synthesis is grounded in Bitcoin's public history and the show's coverage.