Título: Number Go Up: Inside Crypto's Wild Rise and Staggering Fall
Autor: Zeke Faux
Sinopse: 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.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Number Go Up: Inside Crypto’s Wild Rise and Staggering Fall”, de Zeke Faux, publicado pela editora Crown Currency, em 2024 e com 320 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Crown Currency
Páginas: 320
Ano: 2024-10-01
Edição:
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 0593443837
ISBN13: 9780593443835
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Crown Currency exploram temas ligados a finanças pessoais, poder no ambiente profissional e transformações econômicas, com uma abordagem que combina relatos pessoais, análises críticas e orientações práticas. A experiência de leitura costuma mesclar narrativas de superação e memórias com reflexões sobre sistemas financeiros globais e estratégias de carreira, criando um clima que varia entre o inspirador e o didático. O catálogo apresenta obras que tratam tanto de questões individuais, como autoconhecimento e gestão de dinheiro, quanto de debates amplos sobre mercados, tecnologia e cultura empresarial. Há títulos que adotam um tom mais direto e tático, enquanto outros se aprofundam em análises históricas e críticas sociais, oferecendo contrastes que enriquecem a seleção editorial.
