It wasn’t long after Ian Allison’s FTX killshot last year that the desire for the crypto community to “move on” from the downfall of its exchange and its leader, Sam Bankman-Fried, first emerged.

Last night’s not-really-surprising, all-counts guilty verdict magnified this hope. Take a spin around Crypto Twitter, er, Crypto X, and you’ll see plenty of comments of this kind.

This hope — to put FTX and Bankman-Fried firmly in the rear-view mirror — is understandable. Let’s put the past in the past and start building again, the thinking goes. It’s an attractive notion — who wouldn’t want to do all they can to inoculate themselves from the public relations disaster…

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