SBF in Prison: Daily Medication for Depression, Plans to Launch New Token After Release

Huo Xing Cai Jing reports, according to a long-form article in New York Magazine, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (34) is currently serving his sentence at the federal prison in Lompoc, California, where he takes Adderall and Emsam daily for clinical depression and ADHD. SBF continues writing a serialized memoir titled “Manfred,” which he sends via the prison mail system to a small group of friends and family. He refuses to eat in the cafeteria due to his vegan lifestyle, purchases ingredients from the commissary to prepare his own meals, and has compiled a “vegan prison cookbook.” SBF spent approximately $135 on a prison tablet and has played the same game about 6,000 times. According to fellow inmate David Bunevacz, SBF has said he will need $50 million to $100 million in startup capital upon release to launch a business, adding that he will “issue his own new token, and everyone will rush to buy it”—though Bunevacz added, “He might be joking.” SBF formally submitted a presidential pardon application on June 8; his appeal was denied on June 12. On Polymarket, the probability of him receiving a pardon is currently around 14%.