Chauncey Gardiner

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Sam Bankman-Fried.

Named after the character Chance the Gardener, in Hal Ashby’s 1979 film Being There in which Chance, a mentally-challenged, sheltered gardener who has never left his house (Peter Sellers), accidentally becomes an trusted advisor to a powerful tycoon and a powerful insider in Washington politics, and impliedly president.

It turns out that crypto-guru SBF was similarly challenged. Who knew.

See also

• FTX
• Crypto asset
• The dog in the night-time
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