HONG KONG -- In 2021, one of Hong Kong's richest people -- indeed, the world's richest person under 30 years old -- is not an old-money-family heir but a U.S. native who built his fortune in the cutting-edge world of cryptocurrency.
Sam Bankman-Fried is worth $8.7 billion, according to Forbes. But that number could get "a lot bigger" depending on the outcome of a fundraising round that he says will sharply increase the valuation of FTX, the Hong-Kong based crypto derivative exchange he founded in 2019.
