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Product Identifiers
PublisherCrown Publishing Group, T.H.E.
ISBN-100593443810
ISBN-139780593443811
eBay Product ID (ePID)20060623460
Product Key Features
Book TitleNumber Go Up : inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2023
TopicHoaxes & Deceptions, White Collar Crime
IllustratorYes
GenreTrue Crime
AuthorZeke Faux
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-034006
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"This book is ludicrously compelling. I, quite literally, couldn't put it down--and I don't even care about crypto." --Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Age of Ambition "This book is what happens when the funniest financial journalist in America takes on the funniest story in modern finance. The results are as darkly hilarious as you could hope for." --Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist "Riveting, scary, funny, unbelievable . . . If you want a front-row seat to one of the greatest business stories of all time, you should read Number Go Up now." --A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler "Business journalists are not usually lauded for their bravery, but it takes guts to gaze into the abyss of late-stage capitalism, never mind parachute directly into it. [ Number Go Up ] is a kind of hero's journey. . . . Riveting." --Jessica Pressler, special correspondent at Vanity Fair , producer of Inventing Anna "Both a serious financial investigation and an incredibly entertaining romp . . . Zeke Faux seems to be the only one asking the uncomfortable questions." --Sarah Frier, Financial Times /McKinsey award-winning author of No Filter "The definitive book about crypto and the only one you'll want to read." --Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian "I loved Number Go Up , Zeke Faux's clever, vivid, propulsive, terrifying, and often hilarious account of the cryptocurrency bubble." --Ed Caesar, author of The Moth and the Mountain " Number Go Up is an instant classic." --Kit Chellel, co-author of Dead in the Water "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto." --Bethany McLean, bestselling co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room "Hilarious . . . a dizzying safari of the surreal." --Joshua Green, bestselling author of Devil's Bargain "Funny, enraging, racy, and profound . . . We were waiting for the first great crypto book, and Zeke Faux has written it." --Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland, "Zeke Faux's Number Go Up does what should be impossible--it combines meticulous reporting with irresistible storytelling. The book reveals what was arguably the most brazen financial con of the twenty-first century and does so without getting mired in abstraction or hype. It is the definitive book about crypto and the only one you'll want to read." --Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian " Number Go Up is a dizzying safari of the surreal, hilarious, can't-make-it-up insanity of the crypto boom. Racing across the globe from the Bahamas to Italy to Cambodia, Zeke Faux takes readers behind the velvet rope and onto the megayachts and multimillion-dollar tropical compounds of the billionaire crypto schemers, hustlers, and evangelists who may all be headed to prison--but are having a riotously good time turning the financial world upside down." --Joshua Green, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Devil's Bargain, "This book is ludicrously compelling. I, quite literally, couldn't put it down--and I don't even care about crypto." --Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Age of Ambition "This book is what happens when the funniest financial journalist in America takes on the funniest story in modern finance. The results are as darkly hilarious as you could hope for." --Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist "Riveting, scary, funny, unbelievable . . . If you want a front-row seat to one of the greatest business stories of all time, you should read Number Go Up now." --A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler "Business journalists are not usually lauded for their bravery, but it takes guts to gaze into the abyss of late-stage capitalism, never mind parachute directly into it. [ Number Go Up ] is a kind of hero's journey. . . . Riveting." --Jessica Pressler, special correspondent at Vanity Fair , producer of Inventing Anna "Both a serious financial investigation and an incredibly entertaining romp . . . Zeke Faux seems to be the only one asking the uncomfortable questions." --Sara Frier, Financial Times /McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award-winning author of No Filter "The definitive book about crypto and the only one you'll want to read." --Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian " Number Go Up is an instant classic." --Kit Chellel, co-author of Dead in the Water "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto." --Bethany McLean, bestselling co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room "Hilarious . . . a dizzying safari of the surreal." --Joshua Green, bestselling author of Devil's Bargain "Funny, enraging, racy, and profound . . . We were waiting for the first great crypto book, and Zeke Faux has written it." --Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland, "Combines sharp analysis, intrepid reporting, and punchy writing." -- Wall Street Journal "A clearly written narrative of the high and low points of the recent crypto boom and bust. He has a wry eye for details." -- Financial Times "Convincing . . . entertaining . . . incisive." --Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times "Boisterous, masterfully written . . . Faux's cast of misfits and con artists never fails to entertain." -- James Ledbetter, The Washington Post " Number Go Up offers a shrewdly skeptical view of crypto." --Jen Szalai, The New York Times "A rollicking . . . examination of crypto's underbelly." -- The Economist "Not only a breath of fresh air but quite possibly the best book ever written about the cryptocurrency industry." -- Protos "Laugh-out-loud funny . . . well worth a read." -- Fortune "A riveting, character-driven narrative . . . through a blistering, vividly rendered hellscape populated by corporate lawyers, drug lords, terrorists and former child actors." --Jessica Pressler, contributing editor, New York magazine "This book is ludicrously compelling. I, quite literally, couldn't put it down--and I don't even care about crypto." --Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Age of Ambition "This book is what happens when the funniest financial journalist in America takes on the funniest story in modern finance. The results are as darkly hilarious as you could hope for." --Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist "Riveting, scary, funny, unbelievable . . . If you want a front-row seat to one of the greatest business stories of all time, you should read Number Go Up now." --A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler "Both a serious financial investigation and an incredibly entertaining romp . . . Zeke Faux seems to be the only one asking the uncomfortable questions." --Sarah Frier, Financial Times /McKinsey award-winning author of No Filter "The definitive book about crypto and the only one you'll want to read." --Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian "I loved Number Go Up , Zeke Faux's clever, vivid, propulsive, terrifying, and often hilarious account of the cryptocurrency bubble." --Ed Caesar, author of The Moth and the Mountain " Number Go Up is an instant classic." --Kit Chellel, co-author of Dead in the Water "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto." --Bethany McLean, bestselling co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room "Hilarious . . . a dizzying safari of the surreal." --Joshua Green, bestselling author of Devil's Bargain "Funny, enraging, racy, and profound . . . We were waiting for the first great crypto book, and Zeke Faux has written it." --Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland, "Convincing . . . entertaining . . . incisive." --Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times "Boisterous, masterfully written . . . Faux's cast of misfits and con artists never fails to entertain." -- James Ledbetter, The Washington Post " Number Go Up offers a shrewdly skeptical view of crypto." --Jen Szalai, The New York Times "A rollicking . . . examination of crypto's underbelly." -- The Economist "Not only a breath of fresh air but quite possibly the best book ever written about the cryptocurrency industry." -- Protos "Laugh-out-loud funny . . . well worth a read." -- Fortune "A riveting, character-driven narrative . . . through a blistering, vividly rendered hellscape populated by corporate lawyers, drug lords, terrorists and former child actors." --Jessica Pressler, contributing editor, New York magazine "This book is ludicrously compelling. I, quite literally, couldn't put it down--and I don't even care about crypto." --Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Age of Ambition "This book is what happens when the funniest financial journalist in America takes on the funniest story in modern finance. The results are as darkly hilarious as you could hope for." --Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist "Riveting, scary, funny, unbelievable . . . If you want a front-row seat to one of the greatest business stories of all time, you should read Number Go Up now." --A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler "Both a serious financial investigation and an incredibly entertaining romp . . . Zeke Faux seems to be the only one asking the uncomfortable questions." --Sarah Frier, Financial Times /McKinsey award-winning author of No Filter "The definitive book about crypto and the only one you'll want to read." --Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian "I loved Number Go Up , Zeke Faux's clever, vivid, propulsive, terrifying, and often hilarious account of the cryptocurrency bubble." --Ed Caesar, author of The Moth and the Mountain " Number Go Up is an instant classic." --Kit Chellel, co-author of Dead in the Water "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto." --Bethany McLean, bestselling co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room "Hilarious . . . a dizzying safari of the surreal." --Joshua Green, bestselling author of Devil's Bargain "Funny, enraging, racy, and profound . . . We were waiting for the first great crypto book, and Zeke Faux has written it." --Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland, "This book is ludicrously compelling. I, quite literally, couldn't put it down--and I don't even care about crypto." --Evan Osnos, National Book Award-winning author of Age of Ambition "This book is what happens when the funniest financial journalist in America takes on the funniest story in modern finance. The results are as darkly hilarious as you could hope for." --Matt Levine, Money Stuff columnist "Riveting, scary, funny, unbelievable . . . If you want a front-row seat to one of the greatest business stories of all time, you should read Number Go Up now." --A.J. Jacobs, bestselling author of The Puzzler "Business journalists are not usually lauded for their bravery, but it takes guts to gaze into the abyss of late-stage capitalism, never mind parachute directly into it. [ Number Go Up ] is a kind of hero's journey. . . . Riveting." --Jessica Pressler, special correspondent at Vanity Fair , producer of Inventing Anna "Both a serious financial investigation and an incredibly entertaining romp . . . Zeke Faux seems to be the only one asking the uncomfortable questions." --Sarah Frier, Financial Times /McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award-winning author of No Filter "The definitive book about crypto and the only one you'll want to read." --Max Chafkin, author of The Contrarian " Number Go Up is an instant classic." --Kit Chellel, co-author of Dead in the Water "Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto." --Bethany McLean, bestselling co-author of The Smartest Guys in the Room "Hilarious . . . a dizzying safari of the surreal." --Joshua Green, bestselling author of Devil's Bargain "Funny, enraging, racy, and profound . . . We were waiting for the first great crypto book, and Zeke Faux has written it." --Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland
Dewey Decimal332.4
SynopsisThe "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), t he 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., 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), t he Macavity Award (Nonfiction), t he 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.
LC Classification NumberHG1710.3.F38 2023
