Number Go Up

Laugh-out-loud funny . . . An often hilarious courtside view of the recent mania - and a useful reminder to blockchain evangelists about the many, many sleazy characters who inhabit their realm. Well worth a read -- Jeff John Roberts * Fortune * Funny, enraging, racy and profound. We were waiting for the first great crypto book and Zeke Faux has written it -- Oliver Bullough, author * Butler to the World * Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand the mass delusion that was crypto -- Bethany McLean, bestselling co-author * The Smartest Guys in the Room * Not only a breath of fresh air but quite possibly the best book ever written about the cryptocurrency industry -- Cas Piancey * Protos * Both a serious financial investigation and incredibly entertaining ... Faux seems to be the only one asking uncomfortable questions -- Sarah Frier, FT/McKinsey award-winning author * No Filter * Ludicrously compelling. I, quite literally, couldn't put it down - and I don't even care about crypto. Zeke Faux writes about this world with such clarity, humor, and perspective that the portrait captures something even larger: a moment in time that we can't afford not to understand -- Evan Osnos, author * Joe Biden: American Dreamer * A dizzying safari of the surreal ... Zeke Faux takes readers behind the velvet rope and onto the mega yachts 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 -- Joshua Green, #1 NYT bestselling author * The Devil’s Bargain * 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 * Inventing Anna * The funniest financial journalist in America takes on the funniest story in modern finance -- Matt Levine, author of Businessweek’s Money Stuff An instant classic: Liar's Poker for the era of digital monkey tokens -- Kit Chellel, co-author * Dead in the Water * The definitive book about crypto and the only one you'll want to read -- Max Chafkin, author * The Contrarian *