Sam Bankman-Fried told a fellow inmate he plans to launch his own coin upon release, according to a New York Magazine profile published Wednesday drawing on months of phone calls and an in-person prison visit.
Life At Lompoc: Pickleball, Pixel Dungeon, and a Vegan Cookbook
Bankman-Fried, 34, now lives at FCI Lompoc in California after transferring from Terminal Island this spring, roughly 30 pounds lighter and tanned from daily pickleball.
He has played the mobile game Shattered Pixel Dungeon approximately 6,000 times, written a tongue-in-cheek Vegan Prison Cookbook, and spent months serializing a prison memoir called Manfred, distributed to a small email list through the prison’s CorrLinks system.
Beyond the games and writing, his daily routine revolves around CorrLinks terminals where he drafts X posts for his father to publish on his behalf, works on legal motions, and maintains outside …
