His rising technique protection is definitely intelligent in concept, and aligns with a few of the different messaging that SBF has been making because the spectacular collapse of FTX final November. The 31-year-old fallen crypto king has been presenting himself as younger and hapless, too callow to have orchestrated any nice evil. As he tells it, he was merely out of his depth, a creature molded by older, extra skilled collaborators – like his attorneys at Fenwick & West, a mid-sized agency specializing in advising tech startups.