Bibliograph

Number go up, inside crypto's wild rise and staggering fall, Zeke Faux

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Number go up, inside crypto's wild rise and staggering fall, Zeke Faux

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 247-267) and index

Illustrations

mapsillustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Number go up

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1396083228

Responsibility statement

Zeke Faux

Sub title

inside crypto's wild rise and staggering fall

Summary

"In 2021 cryptocurrency went mainstream. Giant investment funds were buying it, celebrities like Tom Brady endorsed it, and TV ads hailed it as the future of money. Hardly anyone knew how it worked<U+2014>but why bother with the particulars when everyone was making a fortune from Dogecoin, Shiba Inu, or some other bizarrely named “digital asset”? As he observed this frenzy, investigative reporter Zeke Faux had a nagging question: Was it all just a confidence game of epic proportions? What started as curiosity would morph into a two-year, globe-spanning quest to understand the wizards behind the world<U+2019>s new financial machinery. Faux<U+2019>s investigation would lead him to a schlubby, frizzy-haired twenty-nine-year-old named Sam Bankman-Fried (SBF for short) and a host of other crypto scammers, utopians, and overnight billionaires. When the bubble suddenly bursts in 2022, Faux brings readers inside SBF<U+2019>s penthouse as the fallen crypto king faces his imminent arrest. Fueled by the absurd details and authoritative reporting that earned Zeke Faux the accolade “our great poet of crime” (Money Stuff columnist Matt Levine), Number Go Up is the essential chronicle, by turns harrowing and uproarious, of a $3 trillion financial delusion"--, adapted from Amazon.com

Table Of Contents

Prologue -- "I am freaking Nostradamus!" -- Number go up technology -- Doula for creation -- The plastic surgeon -- Getting hilariously rich -- Cat and mouse tricks -- "A thin crust of ice" -- The name's Chalopin. Jean Chalopin. -- Crypto pirates -- Imagine a Robin Hood thing -- "Let's get weird" -- "Click, click, click, make money, make money" -- Play to earn -- Ponzinomics -- All my apes gone -- It's the community, bro -- Blorps and fleezels -- Pig butchering -- "We have freedom" -- No acceptamos bitcoin -- Honey is better -- Assets are not fine -- Inside the orchid -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

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Inside crypto's wild rise and staggering fall

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