巴哈马的拿骚-山姆·班克曼-弗里德，四面楚歌的前首席执行官加密货币巨头FTX和贸易公司阿拉米达研究，告诉美国广播公司新闻，他最终负责这两家公司的垮台，但否认他知道“有任何不当使用客户资金。”
“我真的，非常希望我承担了更多的责任，去了解正在发生的事情的细节，”他说。“我应该在这件事的顶端，我感到非常，非常糟糕和遗憾，我没有，”他说。“很多人受伤了。这是我的责任。”
Sam Bankman-Fried during an interview with George Stephanopoulos.
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自从他的加密货币帝国的两家公司本月申请破产以来，班克曼-弗里德接受了乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯和美国广播公司新闻的首次网络采访。他谈到了自崩溃以来一直流传的谣言，并讨论了他不确定的前进道路。采访在巴哈马的拿骚岛进行，那里是FTX的总部所在地。
请看周四乔治·斯特凡诺普洛斯在“早安美国”节目中对萨姆·班克曼-弗里德的完整采访
在竞争对手加密货币交易所宣布退出收购计划后，FTX于11月申请破产保护。此前有报道称，FTX用存款支付阿拉米达研究公司的债权人，据报道，阿拉米达研究公司前首席执行官卡罗琳·埃里森在11月初的一次电话会议上提出了这一主张。Bankman-Fried表示，他不知道这是真的，但他表示，Alameda在FTX有大量头寸，这些头寸“一年前被过度抵押”他还部分归咎于“对这一地位构成相当大威胁”的市场崩溃以及管理不善。
埃里森没有立即回应ABC新闻的置评请求。
“我没能找到一个人来管理这种风险，管理这种头寸，管理这种账户。班克曼-弗里德说，我未能进行适当的监督，这导致了FTX的崩溃。
在采访中，班克曼-弗里德还否认他目睹FTX员工使用任何非法药物，他说，关于他和埃里森处于多角恋关系的报道是假的，他和埃里森的浪漫关系只持续了6个月。“当我在这里的时候，我和一些一夫一妻制的夫妇住在一起，他们中的一些人在他们在这里的时间里结婚了。我不知道FTX有任何一夫多妻关系。”
30岁的班克曼-弗里德说，他目前只有一张提款卡，银行账户里有10万美元，这与他成为公众焦点的大约200亿美元的净资产大相径庭。他最终将FTX的崩溃归咎于他在风险管理方面的挣扎。
“有些事情可能是大错特错的，而我根本没有努力去做。比如，我没有花任何时间或精力试图管理FTX的风险，这显然是个错误，”他说。“如果我每天花一个小时思考FTX的风险管理，我认为这不会发生。对此我感觉不太好。”
今天，班克曼-弗里德说，他的重点是通过监管和法律程序工作，并“努力专注于我能做些什么来提供帮助。”他说，未来他希望能够说他“补偿了所有受伤的人。”
他补充道，“说到底，发生什么不是我说了算。世界将会对我进行审判。”
FTX crypto collapse: Ex-CEO Sam Bankman-Fried denies 'improper use' of customer funds
NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS --Sam Bankman-Fried, the embattled former CEO ofcryptocurrency giant FTXand trading firm Alameda Research, told ABC News he was ultimately responsible for the downfall of both companies, but denied that he knew "that there was any improper use of customer funds."
"I really, deeply wish that I had taken a lot more responsibility for understanding what the details were of what was going on," he said. "I should have been on top of this, and I feel really, really bad and regretful that I wasn't," he said. "A lot of people got hurt. And that's on me."
Bankman-Fried spoke to George Stephanopoulos and ABC News for his first network interview since both companies in his cryptocurrency empire filed for bankruptcy this month. He addressed rumors that have swirled since the collapse and discussed his uncertain path forward. The interview took place in the Bahamas island of Nassau where FTX was headquartered.
Watch George Stephanopoulos' full interview with Sam Bankman-Fried on "Good Morning America" on Thursday
FTX filed for bankruptcy protection in November after a rival cryptocurrency exchange announced it was backing out of a plan to acquire it. The filing follows reports that FTX used deposits to pay Alameda Research creditors, a claim reportedly made by former Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison during a call in early November. Bankman-Fried said he was not aware that was true but said Alameda had a large position open on FTX that was "overcollateralized a year ago." He also partially blamed a market collapse that "threatened that position quite a bit" as well as mismanagement.
Ellison did not immediately respond to ABC News' requests for comment.
"I failed to have someone in place who was managing that risk, who was managing that position, managing that account. I failed to have proper oversight" that led to the crash of FTX, Bankman-Fried said.
In the interview, Bankman-Fried also denied he witnessed any illegal drug use by FTX employees, and he said reports that he and Ellison were in a polyamorous relationship are false and his romantic relationship with Ellison lasted only six months. "I lived with a bunch of monogamous couples when I was here, some of whom got married over the course of their time here. I don't know of any polyamorous relationships within FTX."
Bankman-Fried, 30, said he currently owns just one ATM card and has $100,000 in his bank account, a drastic reversal from the estimated $20 billion net worth that thrust him into the spotlight. He ultimately blamed the collapse of FTX on his struggle with risk management.
"There is something maybe even deeply wrong there, which was I wasn't even trying. Like, I wasn't spending any time or effort trying to manage risk on FTX and that that was obviously a mistake," he said. "If I had been spending an hour a day thinking about risk management on FTX, I don't think that would have happened. And I don't feel good about that."
Today, Bankman-Fried said his focus is on working through the regulatory and legal processes and "trying to focus on what I can do going forward to be helpful." In the future he said he hopes he will be able to say he "made it up to everyone who got hurt."
He added, "At the end of the day, it's not my call what happens. And the world will judge me as it will."
