{"id":62430,"date":"2022-06-03T15:52:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T12:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=62430"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:02:20","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T15:02:20","slug":"ftx-ceo-signs-up-to-buffett-gates-philanthropic-pledge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/ftx-ceo-signs-up-to-buffett-gates-philanthropic-pledge\/","title":{"rendered":"FTX CEO signs up to Buffett\u2013Gates philanthropic pledge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has joined The Giving Pledge, the philanthropic campaign launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.<\/p>\n<figure class=\\\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\\\">\n<div class=\\\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\\\">\\n<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\\\"twitter-tweet\\\" data-width=\\\"500\\\" data-dnt=\\\"true\\\">\n<p lang=\\\"en\\\" dir=\\\"ltr\\\">I&#8217;m excited and honored to sign the Giving Pledge: <a href=\\\"https:\/\/t.co\/9Z6eTdR1a0\\\">https:\/\/t.co\/9Z6eTdR1a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SBF (@SBF_FTX) <a href=\\\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SBF_FTX\/status\/1532072177415372801?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\\\">June 1, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\\\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\\\" charset=\\\"utf-8\\\"><\/script>\\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The Giving Pledge is widely regarded as a public commitment by the world&#8217;s wealthy individuals and families to give the majority of their wealth to charity. Donations can be made either during the giver&#8217;s lifetime or after death.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>The FTX chief said he believed it was his duty to do everything possible to improve the world in the long run.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong took the Giving Pledge.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in May, Sam Bankman-Fried <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/ftx-chief-sam-bankman-fried-named-to-times-2022-100-most-influential-people-list\">entered the TIME 100 list of the most influential people of 2022<\/a> according to Time magazine. He also ranked first among crypto-industry figures listed in <a href=\"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/news\/forbes-names-400-richest-us-billionaires-among-them-seven-cryptocurrency-industry-figures\">Forbes&#8217; 400 richest Americans<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\\n\\n<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news in our <a href=\\\"\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\\\" target=\\\"\u201c_blank\u201d\\\" rel=\\\"\u201cnofollow\u201d noopener\\\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried has joined The Giving Pledge, the philanthropic campaign launched by Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[306,1403],"class_list":["post-62430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-charity","tag-sam-bankman-fried"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"11","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62432,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62430\/revisions\/62432"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/u1f987.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}