EAN: 9781399611350

NUMBER GO UP - ZEKE FAUX KARTONIERT (TB)

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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