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Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall by Zeke Faux

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challenging dark informative fast-paced

4.75

Frustrating and terrifying to learn this is how so much money is controlled. I feel like the author does a great job keeping the subject engaging and explaining financial and computer terms consicesly and clearly. But I am taking off a quarter star because he does not really explain the significance of any of the memes that come up-- and *a lot* of memes come up. I could still understand what was being discussed, because I'm online a bit too much, but if I gave the book to someone who isn't, I feel like the book would be hard to follow and some of the depth of how much these people treat massive sums of money (life changing amount of money, to the average reader) as trivial, is lost if you don't understand the memes mentioned. Also, I worry that it makes this book understandable for only a short period of time- 20 years from now, readers will have to comb through this book with many tabs of know your meme open. Maybe as it ages as glossary could be helpful? It sounds ridiculous, but I do feel like this investigation and commentary on cryptocurrency is worth preserving, and providing context to future readers is part of that.

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dark funny informative fast-paced

4.0

A very satisfying read if, like me, you've been sceptical of and irritated by the cryptocurrency boom from the very beginning. Working in Faux's favour as narrator are the access and travel budget he had to investigate these stories over the years as a writer for Bloomberg, his own scepticism (balanced by a willingness to experiment just a little), and the humility with which he admits he missed some clues to which way the crypto chips would finally fall.

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