TV series on Sam Bankman-Fried and crypto firm FTX heads to Netflix | Television
Netflix is getting into the cryptocurrency business, with a limited series produced by the Obamas on the rise and fall of crypto exchange FTX and its disgraced founder, Sam Bankman-Fried.
The Altruists, from Barack and Michelle Obama’s Higher Ground Productions, will focus on the eccentric entrepreneur and his business – and sometimes personal – partner Caroline Ellison.
The show will feature “two hyper-smart, ambitious young idealists who tried to remake the global financial system in the blink of an eye – and then seduced, coaxed, and teased each other into stealing $8 billion”, according to the official logline.
Northern Irish actor Anthony Boyle will play Bankman-Fried, with US actor Julia Garner signed to play Ellison.
