I greatly enjoyed that Molly White piece, her writing on the cryptocurrency world in general is well worth reading. It's almost surprising to see such clear and readable code for doing fraud---you'd expect something more obfuscated than an "infinite money" flag.
On the topic of Sam Bankman-Fried, the linked tweet in
https://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2023/10/08/underestimating-shakespeare-and-real-numbers/ to me exemplifies the nonsense within the over-quantification that comes in "rationalist" spaces. It's utterly alien to me that the fact that it's unlikely that Shakespeare is literally the greatest writer that has and will ever be is taken as a reason to dismiss his works. As the article itself suggests, I don't think we can assign a real number to "literary greatness," and even if we could there's still plenty of reason to read works not by the Empirical Greatest Writer of All Time.