Sam Bankman-Fried Whisperer Tiffany Fong Spills Some Tea - Ep. 574

Tiffany Fong has had an unusual route to crypto fame. After losing most of her life savings in the Celsius bankruptcy, she began posting on KZread about her experiences and eventually received some leaked documents, which she shared with The New York Times and on her channel. The leaks gave her some visibility, and that’s when Sam Bankman-Fried began following her on Twitter.
Fong unexpectedly managed to carve out a relationship with the one-time crypto mogul, and after he was arrested last November, she chatted often and even met with him while he was under house arrest. From there, she became known for posting details of her conversations with Bankman-Fried and documents he shared with her, and went on to attend every day of his trial in person and do videos on them.
On this episode of Unchained, Fong shares why she thinks SBF opened up to her, whether she ever had a romantic relationship with him, her unpleasant encounter with Sam Bankman-Fried’s mother at the trial, why she doesn’t really consider herself a crypto influencer, and what her plans are now that the trial is over.
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Show highlights:
🔹what Tiffany did before getting into crypto
🔹how Tiffany lost most of her life savings in the Celsius bankruptcy and 🔹how that jumpstarted her journey into the content creation space
🔹how she got in touch with Sam Bankman-Fried and got him to speak with her after FTX’s collapse
🔹the conversations Tiffany had with SBF during his house arrest
🔹Tiffany's response to the rumors about a romantic relationship with SBF
🔹how Tiffany reacted to the DOJ reaching out to her for information before the SBF trial
🔹why she decided to go to the courtroom every day during the SBF trial
🔹Tiffany’s unpleasant encounter with SBF's mom, Barbara Fried
🔹how Tiffany feels about crypto, and why she doesn’t consider herself a "crypto influencer"
🔹what Tiffany’s career plans are now that the SBF trial is over
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Time Stamps:
00:00 Intro
01:44 Tiffany's story before getting into crypto
04:16 How Tiffany started leaking Celsius documents
07:32 Tiffany's connection with SBF
24:12 The DOJ reaches out to Tiffany
27:47 The SBF trial
38:09 Is crypto dumb?
41:06 Tiffany's future career plans
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  • @TiffanyFong
    @TiffanyFong7 ай бұрын

    Aw thanks for having me on Laura!! It was fun chatting ❤

  • @Royboy1785

    @Royboy1785

    7 ай бұрын

    Tiff-you got labeled Crypto Content Creator! Love Laura and you. Want to see you, Laura and Carly get together for Celsius trial

  • @artmaltman

    @artmaltman

    7 ай бұрын

    What a charming interview! Tiffany and Laura did the best job reporting on SBF.

  • @LauraShin

    @LauraShin

    7 ай бұрын

    Thanks for coming on the show, Tiffany! 😍

  • @user-ib6zc3jc9q

    @user-ib6zc3jc9q

    7 ай бұрын

    @@LauraShin what does justin bieber have to do with this

  • @ZenzeraBellaAnna

    @ZenzeraBellaAnna

    7 ай бұрын

    I love the title: “SBF Whisperer.” It’s clever 😊

  • @noitall5707
    @noitall57077 ай бұрын

    A formidable reporting team. They put the lame stream media to shame.

  • @agentzero4281
    @agentzero42817 ай бұрын

    it seems moral, kind hearted journalists are a rarity these days. really nice to see two collaborating here.

  • @sophiewanlin8612
    @sophiewanlin86127 ай бұрын

    I happened to discover Tiffany when the trial began. I believe she has a great career ahead of her as a journalist.

  • @1ntrcnnctr608

    @1ntrcnnctr608

    7 ай бұрын

    it says "CRYPTO CONTENT CREATOR" (a "job" or algorithm feeding occupation that AI agents pbbly easily can take over). whats the difference btwn "CONTENT CREATOR" & "KZreadR"? when is one officially a journalist n recognized as such? hard to say in the "attention economy" innit...quality decreasing w almost every upload it seems.

  • @satisflo4240

    @satisflo4240

    7 ай бұрын

    100%

  • @CryptoCoast2Coast

    @CryptoCoast2Coast

    7 ай бұрын

    @1ntrcnnctr608 Fong isn't a journalist, she's an influencer SBF thought was hot. Let's call a spade a spade

  • @ronstalzer7669

    @ronstalzer7669

    7 ай бұрын

    no one discovered her. we were psyopped with her

  • @cj_3565
    @cj_35657 ай бұрын

    I've enjoyed your coverage of the SBF trial and Tiffany's coverage of the trial -- far more than the mainstream media reporting. Thank you!

  • @nath1774
    @nath17747 ай бұрын

    This is the SBF watcher dream team! I cared nothing of crypto and barely knew who SBF was before the trial, but became fascinated by the spectacle. These two provided the best coverage.

  • @josephnathango9000

    @josephnathango9000

    7 ай бұрын

    Carly Reilly was awesome as well, you should check her out if you havent!

  • @jillys3689
    @jillys36897 ай бұрын

    Thank you for having Tiffany on your show. She is sooooo smart, informative, funny and sounds like she is laughing all the time. Love Her!!! 🥰 She gets the news Story out so well.

  • @CryptoCoast2Coast

    @CryptoCoast2Coast

    7 ай бұрын

    🤡🦟

  • @theapproachableinvestor
    @theapproachableinvestor7 ай бұрын

    I have a feeling Tiffany might just "accidentally" become the President of United States without trying. Like her refreshing care free personality.

  • @br9377
    @br93777 ай бұрын

    My two favourite content creators from the trial!! ❤

  • @rustybot4279
    @rustybot42797 ай бұрын

    Was looking forward to this interview. U both rock.

  • @bryantagas
    @bryantagas7 ай бұрын

    Thanks for doing this interview, Laura. I followed you both during SBF trial and, while your story is well known, Tiff’s story was a bit of a mystery, at least to me. Well,no more.

  • @meme64561
    @meme645617 ай бұрын

    Great collaboration! Thank you for doing the interview !

  • @riverjune3499
    @riverjune34997 ай бұрын

    So great! Thank you and it is my first time I just realised, after watching years of crypto content, that I see two woman talking about this kind of crypto and the crypto world. Authentic and without ego and male stuff. What a relief.. Thanks ladies!

  • @diggee172

    @diggee172

    7 ай бұрын

    You are right. I like the fact that they are low key unlike the guys. I don’t like to see Tiffany vaping though. She makes me nervous with that alt I don’t know her I don’t want her to get sick.

  • @riverjune3499

    @riverjune3499

    7 ай бұрын

    Yes, for sure. But what I like is her honesty about mental health issues. She seems very real and a bit nervous, but that's okay. Hope she will finds peace of mind and body. But that's a journey for all of us. @@diggee172

  • @LadyCatherine538
    @LadyCatherine5387 ай бұрын

    Wonderful to see you two having a chat. A treat to be sure. Thank you both.

  • @Gadulaksinjan
    @Gadulaksinjan7 ай бұрын

    You both did a great job covering SBF trial. Must have been exhausting and exhilarating at the same time.

  • @christophersheen9562
    @christophersheen95627 ай бұрын

    Considering how instrumental TF has been in one of the biggest financial stories in recent times, she's still a lot humbler than most would be about it. That's to her credit and a lot of why people listen to what she has to say, like it or not. Honest and refreshing are two words that come to mind.

  • @STEV3.147
    @STEV3.1477 ай бұрын

    What I’m anxious to hear about is the psychoanalysis of SBF parents. What were they thinking? I don’t know who’s parenting was worse SBF or Adelson‘s. I think Tiffany can help answer some of the questions about Sam’s view on his upbringing, very interesting.

  • @SY-ok2dq

    @SY-ok2dq

    6 ай бұрын

    I'm getting the sense that the mother Barbara Fried runs that house, with SBF and his father keeping quiet and trying not to upset her. SBF's non-confrontational behavior suggests to me that it has developed in response to his mother's much louder, dominant personality.

  • @Royboy1785
    @Royboy17857 ай бұрын

    ❤this Laura, great interview. Want to see you and Tiff and Carly at the Celsius trial.

  • @2smoulder
    @2smoulder7 ай бұрын

    Tiff is very likeable and relatable, whilst also imparting a different perspective on whatever subject she is reporting on. Her backstory to SBF has been the best around. Tiff also really says what she means, which is rare from most mainstream journo's these days and her personal story regarding crypto losses are real. Plus she's cute...🤟

  • @danieller1979
    @danieller19797 ай бұрын

    Good Luck Tiffany! Being in limbo is rough. Sending you peace, positivity, amd good energy!

  • @nunyabizness573
    @nunyabizness5737 ай бұрын

    Its my guess his motive for talking to Tiffany was because he wanted information about Celsius. He didn't want any competitors, including Binance and Celcius.

  • @josephhuman7390
    @josephhuman73907 ай бұрын

    Look at Miss Tiffany, first on Matt's show now on unchained , Can't wait till her and Carly do a deep dive on the SBF trial and the aftermath.

  • @fyt54321
    @fyt543217 ай бұрын

    Tiff hit the big time. :-)

  • @newhorizon4066
    @newhorizon40667 ай бұрын

    Sbf is like a modern-day version of Scheherazade (of "Arabian Nights" aka "One thousand and one Nights,") who had to weave another tale just to live another day. When he went on his pre=trial apology tour we got a fair idea of how Sbf would carry himself on the witness stand. What we didn't see was the real-life effect of the word salads that he no doubt would be re-gurgitating there, in court. Facing the prosecutors and the judge, without the court camera we can only imagine it would be like scenes of self-flagellation, or to fans of Hammer films, that of a vampire splashing holy water onto himself. Exchange of ideas among regular folks evolve around the central pillar of truth. Thus conversation with a pathological liar is essentially a trip to nowhere, since there's no there there.

  • @syntekz317
    @syntekz3177 ай бұрын

    I'm not into crypto but this has been fascinating to follow since SBF started talking on those live Twitter Spaces. Car crash.

  • @smellbag
    @smellbag7 ай бұрын

    2 wonderful ladies talking sense and dollars - hard to beat.

  • @rhodaborrocks1654
    @rhodaborrocks16547 ай бұрын

    I'm thinking Tiffany Bankman-Fried-Fong.

  • @johnta17
    @johnta177 ай бұрын

    Imagine having your whole career tethered to a convicted criminal. Almost time to move on.

  • @CryptoCoast2Coast
    @CryptoCoast2Coast7 ай бұрын

    Cmon Laura, Fong's 15 minutes is up.

  • @88MetalMania

    @88MetalMania

    7 ай бұрын

    facts

  • @newhorizon4066

    @newhorizon4066

    7 ай бұрын

    She just couldn't help it... I figure for every (Sam) Enzer, Laura's got to give us a (Tiffany) Fong. Fair - enough - trade.

  • @bitcoinbeavis7742
    @bitcoinbeavis77427 ай бұрын

    Ok how far away are we from a Tiffany Fong themed crypto token?

  • @kenshowatanabe550
    @kenshowatanabe5507 ай бұрын

    ayo my 2 favorite crypto folks

  • @RogueQuant
    @RogueQuant7 ай бұрын

    Tiff is the GOAT

  • @noitall5707
    @noitall57077 ай бұрын

    I think it’s fair to assume LS’s book on FTX will be the gold standard. She’s definitely a pro.

  • @SeedsofJoy
    @SeedsofJoy7 ай бұрын

    tiffany such a vape addict cant even stop herself from vaping during the interview 😅

  • @CryptoCoast2Coast

    @CryptoCoast2Coast

    7 ай бұрын

    Influencer being an influencer, it's crazy people are calling her a journalist

  • @rcaliente05
    @rcaliente057 ай бұрын

    SBF is the best thing that ever happened to Tiffany Fong. A perfect match made in heaven. lol.

  • @warrenpeece1726
    @warrenpeece17267 ай бұрын

    Love this show! Makes me want to buy crypto! To diversify from my junk bond portfolio.

  • @_FightForYourFreedom_
    @_FightForYourFreedom_7 ай бұрын

    Tiffany, you as well hang out with Shkreli see where it goes - he's certainly a lot more charming and attractive than SBF :-)

  • @Marcus.Aurelius.31337
    @Marcus.Aurelius.313377 ай бұрын

    Look at this way 86 billion is alot of money when he gets out he can have a chopper pick him up outside the prison gates and be taken directly to his mega yacht

  • @luisfelipesauvalle5807
    @luisfelipesauvalle58077 ай бұрын

    I dreamt SBF was being sent to prison in Talca, Chile

  • @royed31
    @royed317 ай бұрын

    I feel sorry for SBF for the friends he thinks he had ......Fong was not one at all........he was smitten with her and she knew this and used it and abused it . That is why his parents disliked her so much .

  • @jillys3689

    @jillys3689

    7 ай бұрын

    I feel this is mostly Sam's parents fault. If you learn about the way they raised him, you might not be impressed with them. They are NOT normal parents.

  • @ernestgreen1952

    @ernestgreen1952

    7 ай бұрын

    Talking of use and abuse, what about the 8B SBF used and abused?

  • @KaiserSoze212
    @KaiserSoze2127 ай бұрын

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @stuartturok138
    @stuartturok1387 ай бұрын

    The 2 crypto goats together amazing job to both 😊😊😊

  • @wayneketaru6408
    @wayneketaru64087 ай бұрын

    Jeez, Laura must have finally run out of experts to interview. I have been watching Unchained Crypto for God knows how long but this interview must be at the lowest point of this channel...

  • @LauraShin

    @LauraShin

    7 ай бұрын

    I always do a more lighthearted show the day after Thanksgiving. Last year it was Gabriel Haines and the year before that it was Maren Altman.

  • @newhorizon4066

    @newhorizon4066

    7 ай бұрын

    Me too. I was half-surprised, half-NOT surprised that this chat would happen. Come to think of it, the lure of the celebrity cult is hard to resist, though knowing that it's pure fluff... (btw it's okay to dish up some fluff now and then, as long as you don't serve it Re-Hashed!)

  • @Youtube_ban_me
    @Youtube_ban_me6 ай бұрын

    Laura so jealous of Tiffanys youth lmao

  • @Liltheo626
    @Liltheo6267 ай бұрын

    Crypto dominance. Not crypto Defiances 😊

  • @NappyWayz
    @NappyWayz7 ай бұрын

    1:37 What’s that is like diss, not calling her a journalist?😮😅

  • @LauraShin

    @LauraShin

    7 ай бұрын

    This is the title she gave herself.

  • @NappyWayz

    @NappyWayz

    7 ай бұрын

    @@LauraShin I was low-key trolling, Laura. oof 🥵 I love your work.

  • @anneminer4421
    @anneminer44217 ай бұрын

    I feel stunned listening to Tiffany Fong laughing and giggling over helping destroy SBF's life. I can't believe she does not feel shame at her betrayal of him.There is a good reason for journalistic ethics. This is tragic and she played a role in accelarating the destruction. I realize that SMF was responsible for not knowing better. But anyone could see that he was not the most nuanced intepreter of other people. So she at some level knew that he was a naive participant in these conversations. This 'innocent' sweet girl persona is a trap for others. Hope other learn not to trust her.

  • @beerkegaard

    @beerkegaard

    7 ай бұрын

    Lol SBF wanted to smash. He's a creep.

  • @justkaz7104
    @justkaz71047 ай бұрын

    58

  • @akilolostreet2424
    @akilolostreet24247 ай бұрын

    Tiffany, you giggled and rejoiced when he was convicted. You are Not his friend 😅

  • @TiffanyFong

    @TiffanyFong

    7 ай бұрын

    i literally cried in that video what are you talking about lmao🤣 i’ve also addressed this i tend to laugh when bad things happen - i laughed and cracked jokes in my very first video video talking about losing 200K to celsius and my breakup that’s just how i react to things

  • @ernestgreen1952

    @ernestgreen1952

    7 ай бұрын

    No need to apologize for being yourself. I didn't feel it was inappropriate at all. @@TiffanyFong

  • @Youtube_ban_me
    @Youtube_ban_me6 ай бұрын

    tiffany a industry plant

  • @nick-nj2gt
    @nick-nj2gt7 ай бұрын

    SBF's motivation to talk to her was to get some ass. TBF's motivation was to get some followers.. by any means.

  • @SY-ok2dq

    @SY-ok2dq

    6 ай бұрын

    Nah, SBF was under house arrest, in the same house with his mother - who seems to rule the roost and who did not like Tiffany. Barbara Fried was around, and SBF would not have dreamed of causing a scene with his mother by trying to get it on with Tiffany. SBF had all the opportunities in the world to date a string of very attractive women, models and so on. Read up about the "yacht girls" and that whole scene. There are plenty of struggling small-time models, wannabe Instagram girls etc. who hang out in the scene, working as "yacht girls" or hanging around these wealthy men in the hopes of landing the jackpot and becoming a wife, or even just a girlfriend, mistress, with a lavish lifestyle paid for by the men they can hook. Even quite well-known and successful models like Miranda Kerr was willing to "spend time" on the yachts of thr uber wealthy - she got caught up in the legal scandal around Malaysian scammer and embezzler Jho Low, whom everyone thought was this fabulously wealthy financier, in charge of a huge government development fund, with close connections to the Malaysian royal family. He had a production company that was involved in big films like I think, "Wolf of Wall Street", which is how he got chummy with Leonardo DiCaprio. Low gifted things like Andy Warhol paintings and lavish jewellery to DiCaprio and Kerr. Because those gifts were paid for with money Low embezzled from the Malaysian government, DiCaprio and Kerr had to return those gifts, which was covered in the news. Low gave Kerr a clear grand piano made of, I think, plexiglass, worth a lot of money. But Kerr did not have to return it as it had been installed in her home before she had some renovations and extensions built, which made it extremely difficult to remove the piano (and extremely expensive to remove, as it would require rebuilding part of her home, so the government gave up as they'd have had to foot the bill). Kerr kept her relationship with Low quite secret but it became public knowledge when the press covered the Low scandal and the government trying to reclaim those gifts. Anyway Kerr went on to marry the very wealthy founder of Snapchat, after he sold to Facebook. So believe me, SBF could have had any number of beautiful women. But he chose Caroline Ellison. SBF was quite tight with that small inner circle of FTX and Alameda executives. They were his friends and they were all living together in the same mansion. SBF didn't really spend much time outside that circle as far as socializing - only for business.

  • @benjaminhaase6670
    @benjaminhaase66707 ай бұрын

    The poor MIT educated fraudster.

  • @___-mw3no
    @___-mw3no7 ай бұрын

    Just move on already, it's been a year. 0 news, 0 insights, 0 depth, 0 expertise. Get a job before it's too late.

  • @DominikCzajka
    @DominikCzajka7 ай бұрын

    This was a brutal watch. Started to fast forward, skip, watch at @2x, but couldn't take it and completely abandoned by minute 32. If you were able to make it past this point and any actual insight was provided, I'd like to know. 🙏

  • @newhorizon4066

    @newhorizon4066

    7 ай бұрын

    I made it past the whole show by skipping it altogether. The name of the guest coupled with the term "whisperer" gave me all the insight that I needed to give this podcast a pass. Btw browsing the comments section, you can see that people somehow confounded celebrity fluff with real news, or for x' sake, "journalism!"

  • @rof8200
    @rof82007 ай бұрын

    Dear Tiffany, I pray you seek God's wisdom. 🙏

  • @darkcrypto2715
    @darkcrypto27157 ай бұрын

    "Friends" LOL

  • @Doors_of_janua
    @Doors_of_janua7 ай бұрын

    Tiffany threw her ‘friend’ under the bus… this woman is for the streets

  • @88MetalMania

    @88MetalMania

    7 ай бұрын

    real

  • @TiffanyFong

    @TiffanyFong

    7 ай бұрын

    lol what thing did i do that “threw SBF under the bus” other than interview him? LOL i always carefully removed anything he has EVER said was off the record or even prefaced with “I wouldn’t say this publicly” and lawyered up and refused when the DOJ asked for my off the record information 😂 so please point out where exactly I’ve thrown Sam under the bus? Sam giving public interviews was HIS decision & if you think HIS CHOICES & statements hurt him, it’s funny you’d blame that on me🤣

  • @ernestgreen1952

    @ernestgreen1952

    7 ай бұрын

    Did TF defraud investors out of 8B? Whom exactly did she hurt? SBF is the Prince of defrauding and manipulation. How many counts of SEC and investor fraud has TF been found guilty of. I'll give you a hint, it's 0.

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