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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
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99,00 Kč |
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529,00 Kč |
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529,00 Kč |
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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. Combines sharp analysis, intrepid reporting and punchy writing ― Wall Street Journal
Boisterous and masterfully written . . . Faux's cast of misfits and con artists never fails to entertain ― Washington Post
An excoriating attack on crypto and all who sail in her . . . It's enough to drive the observer slightly nuts. You can find that energy in Faux's funny, furious book -- John Lanchester ― LRB
Offers a shrewdly sceptical view of crypto where [Michael Lewis's] Going Infinite is stubbornly credulous ― New York Times
An appalled, Wolfe-ian look at the barely concealed cynicism and grift that fuelled and continue to fuel cryptocurrency's vast speculative bubble . . . No one comes out of this well, from Tony Blair and Bill Clinton cosying up to Bankman-Fried to an endless parade of celebrities shilling for crypto . . . Recount[s] the end of an era ― Spectator
Faux demonstrates his incisive grasp of the story with the very first words of his prologue . . . In telling his story, Faux has one major advantage over [Michael] Lewis: almost from the start, he had crypto's number ― LA Times
Funny, enraging, racy and profound. We were waiting for the first great crypto book and Zeke Faux has written it -- Oliver Bullough, author ― Butler to the World
The superior guide to understanding the FTX debacle and Bankman-Fried himself . . . This is the strength of Number Go Up: it doesn't pretend there's something inside, just beyond our reach. Instead, Faux explores how flimsy the whole crypto industry really is ― Wired
Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto -- Bethany McLean, bestselling co-author ― The Smartest Guys in the Room
Laugh-out-loud funny . . . An often hilarious courtside view of the recent mania - and a useful reminder to blockchain evangelists about the many, many sleazy characters who inhabit their realm. Well worth a read -- Jeff John Roberts ― Fortune
This often funny, often tragic analysis of the rise and fall of cryptocurrencies and their champions shows human vanity and weakness at their most destructive . . . It is hard to think of any book or film with a cast as odious, as indifferent to the consequences of their shakedowns, as arrogant, or as voracious as the hustlers launching one ICO 'opportunity' after another . . . This well-written, pacey book is difficult to put down because you wonder how the swizz of the previous chapter might be surpassed - as it nearly always is ― Irish Examiner About the Author Zeke Faux is an investigative reporter for Bloomberg Businessweek and Bloomberg News in New York. He's a winner of the Gerald Loeb award for explanatory business journalism and the American Bar Association's Silver Gavel award, and a finalist for a National Magazine Award. Faux lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and their three children.
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