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# Exclusive: SBF secretly funded crypto news site The Block and its CEO's Bahamas apartment
- URL: https://werd.io/exclusive-sbf-secretly-funded-crypto-news-site-the-block-and/
- Published: 2022-12-10T04:15:55.000Z
- Updated: 2022-12-10T04:15:55.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: #Import 2025-06-13 09:22

“The Block, a media company that says it covers crypto news independently, has been secretly funded for over a year with money funneled to The Block's CEO from the disgraced Sam Bankman-Fried's cryptocurrency trading firm, sources told Axios.” Real question: how much of the crypto ecosystem was it funding? [#Crypto](https://werd.io/tag/Crypto)

\[[Link](https://www.axios.com/2022/12/09/bankman-fried-funded-crypto-news-site-block)\]