In crypto, it’s exactly the opposite, Bankman-Fried pointed out during our conversation. Exchanges are the biggest, the deepest-pocketed and among the most influential crypto firms operating today. In part, that’s because bitcoin and ethereum aren’t firms. In part, it’s because of crypto’s immaturity: speculating on the speculative activity of others is the only use case that’s really been proven; it’s turtles, all the way down, as the old theological joke goes.