FTX's Troubles: From Emoji Expenses to Lost Money and Cybersecurity Failures.

Internal communications from now-bankrupt cryptocurrency exchange FTX reveal that its leadership had difficulty understanding its own positions and recordkeeping, making it nearly impossible to comply with normal financial controls. FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried saw this as a sign of success, describing the company as "hilariously beyond any threshold of any auditor being able to even get partially through an audit." However, the lack of proper recordkeeping ultimately led to FTX's failure, highlighting the importance of financial controls in the cryptocurrency industry.