Number Go Up

Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

De: Zeke Faux

Narrado por: Dan Bittner

BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR WIRED | LA TIMES | FINANCIAL TIMES | WASHINGTON POST | GLOBE AND MAIL

USED IN EVIDENCE IN THE TRIAL OF SAM BANKMAN-FRIED

In 2021, cryptocurrency goes mainstream. Giant investment funds are buying it. Politicians endorse it. TV ads hail it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knows how it works - who cares when everyone is getting rich? But financial crime reporter Zeke Faux cares: even in fraud, there are standards.

In the Bahamas, schlubby billionaire wunderkind Sam Bankman-Fried tells him how he will use his fortune to save the world. In Cambodia, a spam text unearths a horrifying slavery ring fuelled by crypto. Faux buys a $20,000 cartoon of a mutant ape to gain access to a festival headlined by Snoop Dogg, and talks his way onto the yacht of a riddling crypto founder/former child actor (The Mighty Ducks, 1992) who was among the first to see the power of imaginary treasure. In search of an elusive cash reserve at the foundation of the whole system, the incredulous Faux finds himself crossing three continents, as well as the boundaries of law, taste and economic rationality. Shocking and uproarious, Number Go Up is the essential chronicle of a $3 trillion delusion, the greatest bubble in history.

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©2023 Zeke Faux (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited

Reseñas de la Crítica

Funny, enraging, racy and profound. We were waiting for the first great crypto book and Zeke Faux has written it (Oliver Bullough, author)

Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto (Bethany McLean, bestselling co-author)

Both a serious financial investigation and incredibly entertaining ... Faux seems to be the only one asking uncomfortable questions (Sara Frier, FT/McKinsey award-winning author)

Excellent

A great dive into the crypto world. As someone who has been working in the crypto gaming space, I found this super insightful and gave a lot more context to projects that I thought I knew about, but really only from the surface. Would recommend anyone who's in the crypto world to overcome their FUD and give this a listen to help paint more of a picture of this developing space.

Real life detective thriller

Cross reference the book with current events make this doubly fascinating. The slavery that crypto has enabled is heart wrenching.