Bankman-Fried’s FTX Trashed in Miami as Crypto Diehards Party On

At a dazzling new hotspot in the center of Miami’s crypto scene, the remains of Sam Bankman-Fried’s collapsed empire are stuffed in trash bags.

Hundreds of FTX Miami T-shirts. A framed FTX-branded Heat jersey. A poster signed by chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen in an FTX-sponsored tournament. Navy FTX bean bags, evoking where the now-bankrupt exchange’s whiz kid claims he slept.

All those unwelcome reminders of Bankman-Fried were hurried into the storage room of the Solana Embassy in Wynwood just weeks after its October debut as a store and education space for the Solana blockchain, which counted SBF as a …