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Number Go Up by Zeke Faux — WisdomDeck honest review
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Number Go Up

by Zeke Faux

A Bloomberg reporter chases the crypto boom from Tether to FTX to pig-butchering scams in Cambodia. Funny, skeptical and damning; the best account of the 2021 to 2022 mania.

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you want to understand what crypto's boom actually was.

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you are a believer and do not want the counter-case.

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Three things you will actually use

  1. Follow the collateral.
  2. Mania has a human cost far from the traders.
  3. Skepticism is cheap insurance.

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Read the chapters on Tether.

Our verdict

The mania, skeptically.

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