Crypto Confidential

Winning and Losing Millions in the New Frontier of Finance

De: Nathaniel Eliason

Narrado por: Nathaniel Eliason

THE WILD INSIDE STORY OF CRYPTO'S GET-RICH-QUICK UNDERBELLY

Nat Eliason had six months to make as much money as possible before his first child was born. So, he turned to where countless others did in 2021: Crypto.

Within a year, he'd made millions writing code holding hundreds of millions of dollars of other people's money. He'd been hacked. He'd sold a picture of a monkey for two hundred grand. He'd become an influencer, speaking at conferences, and writing a weekly newsletter to tens of thousands of fans. Best of all, Nat had amassed a small fortune. But how much of this money was even real? And how many times can someone double down before they eventually lose everything?

Crypto Confidential is Nat's unfiltered insider's account of the hyperactive, hyper-speculative, hyper-addictive, nearly unregulated, completely insane world being built on the blockchain. A behind-the-scenes exposé of the bull runs and breakdowns, revealing exactly how the crypto-sausage gets made. A story of getting rich, going broke, scamming and getting scammed—and how we can all be more educated participants during the inevitable next bull run.

©2024 Nathaniel Eliason (P)2024 Penguin Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“A riveting insider’s account of the cryptocurrency casino. It’s funny, honest, and moving in equal measure—a true triumph for a book about bits and bytes.” —Jimmy Soni, author of The Founders

“A great look from the trenches to understand the good and bad of cryptocurrency from the inside out.” —Reid Hoffman, entrepreneur (PayPal, LinkedIn), partner at Greylock, and host of Masters of Scale

“The crypto industry has no shortage of scandal, and yet the allure of its potential persists for many. Nat Eliason’s book is a riveting, personal account of what happens when you get sucked in—for good and bad. I couldn’t put it down.” —Zoë Schiffer, managing editor of Platformer, author of Extremely Hardcore

Engaging story I finished in a day

Extremely well written. Brought me back to last cycle’s mania. Wonderful way to learn about crypto, and also great insight into what Nat learned from the experience. Highly recommend!

Couldn't put it down!

Loved the personal experience, exciting story and interesting to learn more about the crypto market.

You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll wish for another bull run

As a normie who mostly watched the crypto craze from the outside (and maybe provided a little charitable exit liquidity for other investors) it was thrilling to get to ride the wave from Nat’s perspective. I didn't get this book to learn about crypto but I learned a ton and the narrative kept me on the edge of my seat the whole time. More than once I found my blood pressure rising and my palms getting sweaty as I got sucked into the storyline. I will definitely be recommending this to a all my friends who had brushes with crypto.

An amazing and very insightful listen

A great gateway and very insightful listen about the crypto space, I never finished a book so fast before.

What a book!

This book is such a fun story and recap of the crypto markets over the past couple of years. I couldn’t put it down. What a great story!

An insider look of a crypto project during the 2021 bullrun in crypto

I've been following Nat for a while because I loved his blog and book reviews. I was surprised to learn how much he had changed his career focusing solely on crypto. Now we have the full story of what was going on. This book is fun, Iistened to it in one sitting.

I think Nat was honest in all of the things he chose to share about his crazy time as a crypto builder and investor: the technology exists and it's pretty cool, but human nature makes this industry look like all for show and it's made just to make money in a greater fool theory kind of way, the products are never real, hence the reason they work until they don't.

Will Nat become a multimillionaire this new crypto bullrun? He has the capital and knowledge to do so.

Good outline of bitcoin

It was fun to listen to the story of how a programmer got into bitcoin. It gives an understanding of this difficult concept from several angles and explains some of the ways a lot of money can be made and also some of the ways it cans be lost.

Now I know

I knew nothing about Cyrpto until I read this book. My worst fear about Crypto is now confirmed. How Dangerous it is. Great book, fascinating stuff.

Entertaining Story

Entertaining story that tells the tale of crypto degeneracy from the perspective of a developer.

Great Personal Account

Heard about this on the Made You Think podcast. It made me feel like I was back in 2021 making stupid money on Bitcoin. Also made me very happy that I got out when I did. I remember that constant anxiety very well.