SBF Arrested + 2023 Predictions + Your Questions Answered

<p>The year of the “mini-Musk” chief executive, the end of homework as we know it, a crackdown on TikTok and other predictions for 2023.</p><p>Also, Sam Bankman-Fried’s arrest and answers to our listener questions.</p><p><strong>On today’s episode:</strong></p><ul><li><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/by/david-yaffe-bellany" target="_blank">David Yaffe-Bellany</a>, a cryptocurrency and financial technology reporter for The New York Times.</li></ul><p><strong>Additional reading:</strong></p><ul><li>Bankman-Fried, the former chief executive of FTX, was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/business/bankman-fried-denied-bail.html" target="_blank">arrested and denied bail by a judge</a> in the Bahamas. Prosecutors accused him of engaging in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/business/ftx-sam-bankman-fried-fraud-charges.html" target="_blank">widespread fraud</a>.</li><li>John J. Ray III, the new chief executive of FTX, described an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/13/technology/ftx-crypto-hearing.html" target="_blank">“unprecedented” lack of record keeping</a> at the company.</li><li>Scientists used a quantum computer to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/30/science/physics-wormhole-quantum-computer.html" target="_blank">simulate a pair of black holes</a>.</li></ul>