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Number Go Up

Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall

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Number Go Up

Auteur(s): Zeke Faux
Narrateur(s): Dan Bittner
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 The “rollicking” (The Economist), “masterfully written” (The Washington Post) account of the crypto delusion, and how Sam Bankman-Fried and a cast of fellow nerds and hustlers turned useless virtual coins into trillions of dollars—hailed by Ezra Klein in The New York Times as one of the “Books That Explain Where We Are”

FINALIST: the Edgar Award (Fact Crime), the Macavity Award (Nonfiction), the Porchlight Business Book Award, the SABEW Best in Business Book Award

A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times DealBook, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Financial Times, The Globe and Mail, Irish Examiner, Morningstar, The Verge, Wired

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—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—with a dash of FOMO—would morph into a two-year, globe-spanning quest to understand the wizards behind the world’s new financial machinery. Faux’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.

Faux follows the trail to a luxury resort in the Bahamas, where SBF boldly declares that he will use his crypto fortune to save the world. Faux talks his way onto the yacht of a former child actor turned crypto impresario and gains access to “ApeFest,” an elite party headlined by Snoop Dogg, by purchasing a $20,000 image of a cartoon monkey. In El Salvador, Faux learns what happens when a country wagers its treasury on Bitcoin, and in the Philippines, he stumbles upon a Pokémon knockoff mobile game touted by boosters as a cure for poverty. And in an astonishing development, a spam text leads Faux to Cambodia, where he uncovers a crypto-powered human-trafficking ring.

When the bubble suddenly bursts in 2022, Faux brings readers inside SBF’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. Criminalité d'entreprise Escrocs, canulars et tromperies True Crime Crime Cryptomonnaie Du contenu qui fait réfléchir Célébrité Entreprise
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Great title. Love the depth of exploration here. The author is obviously well-connected in that space. 

Love this exploration

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Probably a former crypto investor I guess. Anyway, truly captivating, I went in with what I thought was some knowledge of the crypto collapse as I'd followed it on youtube for years but Zeke Faux makes a personal connection and seems closer and thus more insightful to the scene, which is a rollercoaster of absurd, hilarious, and downright dark and disturbing. Highly recommend.

Amazing Listen, I Don't Understand the 1 Star

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Having listened to both number go up and going infinite, I love the former so much more in its thorough research. It took not just hard work but also tremendous bravery to do the reporting that the author did. The story is well written and the audio version is well narrated. Highly recommend!

A masterpiece investigative reporting well narrated

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I've never been able to really understand crypto, but this book breaks it down so well. the narration is incredible; sassy and pissed off. maybe that's how I learn best when someone is perpetually annoyed. I had a blast listening to it, will probably listen again, and I have recommended it to many people.

very interesting lesson

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This was a hell of a book and a great summary of the last several years in the crypto world

A wild trip

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