Hey, it's Aaron.
This week we have interviews with winners of this year's George Polk Award for Journalism.
It's something we've been doing for the last few years at Longform Podcast.
This interview is with Nick Baker and Tracy Wong from CoinDesk.
Along with the reporter Ian Allison, they wrote about the exchange FTX, maybe a little backstory is helpful here,
a balance sheet for Alameda Research, which was the hedge fund within FTX was leaked to CoinDesk.
Their reporting said in motion a huge domino role that resulted in Sam Bankman freed being charged with bunch of crimes.
So here they are, Nick Baker and Tracy Wong from CoinDesk.
Very nice to have you on the Longform Podcast, Tracy Wong and Nick Baker of CoinDesk.
Hello.
Hi, Aaron.
Thanks for having us.
So I was excited to do this interview because it's a topic that I feel
like it ranks as my personal number one new story of the year,
which was the implosion of the crypto exchange FTX last year.
Maybe you could take me briefly through where this story started for both of you.
Sure.
So this was I think the first week of November, and our colleague Ian Allison, who is a superstar reporter,
was able to source a copy of Alameda's balance sheet and Alameda's this hedge fund entity that was very closely related to FTX,
the exchange.