LAGOS/BANGKOK - Days before his FTX cryptocurrency exchange collapsed, co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried tweeted "Hello, West Africa!" - his latest nod to a region where a growing number of kitchen table investors had put their faith, and savings, in FTX. On a Facebook group for crypto users in Singapore, Alfred Lee posted: "Shifted my six-figure portfolio from Binance to FTX. The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) said it could not protect local users from the FTX collapse, as it had not given FTX a licence, and that the exchange had operated offshore. In Ghana, where authorities have not commented on the FTX collapse, 21-year-old content creator Elisha Owusu Akyaw, who often posts about crypto on Twitter and TikTok, said he had $200 on FTX when it collapsed.
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